Word: regain
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...could get into that starting role and throw strikes and win some games for us, holy cow, would that be a big difference.”Right now, it doesn’t look like Cole will be stepping into the starting spot quite yet. First he must regain his eye for the strike zone, a task on which Cole and new pitching coach Aaron Landes have been working.“For [Cole], it’s about throwing strikes,” senior starter Shawn Haviland says. “When he does, he?...
...People will come in and you can always tell when they have finished their thesis because they will announce it when they return the books.” But even after the theses are handed in and the books are returned, some students find it difficult to regain a sense of normalcy. “Afterwards, I couldn’t even take a nap,” said Kozak, who wrote her thesis on the role of women in the reformed Communist Party in East Germany. “I was so tired and overcaffeinated.” Diane...
...Chechen Parliament Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov blurted out last week that "Abkhazia has long been a part of Russia's Southern Federal District." Recently, Russia tacitly deployed units of its Chechen Vostok battalion in Abkhazia to beef up its force there as a deterrent against any Georgian move to regain the territory...
...things go badly wrong in an important member country. The downside is that the giant sucking sound when the Annan deal was signed was Kenya's sovereignty being flushed into the global diplomatic ether. As a Kenyan, I worry that it could take a long time for us to regain our confidence in our ability to manage our own affairs without robbing ourselves silly, turning on each other along ethnic lines, and practicing a politics of brinkmanship. For our leaders, we can only hope that the humbling experience of international intervention will prove instructive as well...
...Alexa Weingarden qualifying in sabre. Columbia, St. John, Notre Dame, and Ohio State all qualified the maximum 12 fencers, with reigning national champions Penn State falling one behind at 11. With fewer fencers than five other squads heading into the competition, it will be incredibly difficult for Harvard to regain its championship glory of 2005. In last year’s competition the Crimson finished sixth, with four women and three men notching All-America honors, including then-senior Tim Hagamen who took first in sabre for Harvard’s fourth gold medal in school history...