Word: reassertions
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...hockey team has been ranked No. 1 in the nation since December, receiving the No. 2 seeding in the 2003 NCAA Women’s Frozen Four last night was a change of pace. That result, however, is of little consequence because the Crimson will have every opportunity to reassert itself as the nation’s best team when it matters most—at the end of the season with the national championship...
...shaped the entire site to speak to the traces of the event and to its significance," he says. "But we also want to reassert its vitality." So all around and above, Libeskind offers life rearing up in triumph. Above the hole there's the museum in his signature angular style. On three surrounding sides is an ensemble of towers, including a 70 story office structure with a spire that rises to the patriotic altitude of 1,776 ft.--the world's tallest building. In a gesture that harks back to the ancient solar markers of Egypt and Peru...
...attack. "Terror groups don't like to be upstaged," says Brian Jenkins, a counterterrorism expert at the Rand Corp. "Bin Laden is reminding us that with all the world's attention focused on Iraq, al-Qaeda is still alive and well." And he may have wanted to not only reassert control over his organization but also dominate extremist movements flourishing elsewhere. By highlighting incidents that his organization probably did not mastermind, like the Chechen assault on the Moscow theater, "he's implying that those actions are a part of a campaign over which he presides," says Jenkins...
Harvard’s hopes of earning a seventh-straight NCAA tournament berth suffered a serious blow with a 3-2 defeat against Yale on Saturday, but the Crimson (6-5-1, 2-1-1 Ivy) can still reassert itself against three nationally-ranked opponents in its last four games. Tomorrow’s 7:30 p.m. game at No. 15 Princeton (12-0, 5-0) will be the first grand stage for redemption...
...school bullies all polled high on the self-esteem charts. And you can see why. If you think you're God's gift, you're particularly offended if other people don't treat you that way. So you lash out or commit crimes or cut ethical corners to reassert your pre-eminence. After all, who are your moral inferiors to suggest that you could be doing something, er, wrong? What do they know...