Word: reclaiming
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Normally the Crimson’s failure to win any of the high-value relay events would have sunk attempts to reclaim the league title, but Roy’s sweep on the boards negated Princeton’s advantage in that category and allowed Harvard to emerge victorious...
Over the past few years, the University has tried to reclaim the land for varied development projects—a scrapped art museum, and now different incarnations of graduate student housing—to the ire of local residents, who want Harvard to donate the land as a park, or preserve Mahoney?...
...Finally, the Democrats need to reclaim education. Bush successfully neutralized the Dems? traditional strength on the issue in 2000 by making improving schools a pillar of his compassionate conservatism. He quickly pushed the No Child Left Behind Act through Congress, but two years later, the states are furious about the law. Their beef? It imposes huge new testing requirements, and yet the President has not appropriated enough money to pay for it. States have to shell out an estimated $35 billion out of their own pockets. The resulting squeeze has forced 20 states to cut k-12 education programs. Schools...
...storm "lifted gables and roofs from buildings, tore trees from the ground and drove human beings before it like living torches." The absence of any body of literature discussing the Allied bombings, Sebald thought, was evidence of the timidity of German art. But books like Crabwalk have begun to reclaim an important part of the German experience...
...believes that this is the moment for the American Left to reclaim its country. But, Gitlin says, in order to reclaim America, the Left must first rescue it from administration officials like Ari Fleischer, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld...