Word: rout
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Hazing itself, which many view as an integral part of the military tradition of breaking down a young Marine in order to build him back up, will be far harder to rout. Fifty-two Marines have been court-martialed, and at least 34 have received nonjudicial punishments for hazing since 1994; every other branch of the military--and many military-training schools--has disciplined personnel for hazing. As Shalikashvili put it last week, "We are always going to try to fix human behavior, but we are not always going to have 100% success." But if the leadership does...
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Okay, it wasn't a rout. But at that point, Harvard owned the game...
...looked for it, was as thick as the exhaust fumes from the ZZ Top motorcycle armada that hung in the poorly-ventilated stadium air. Eleven years ago, in this same Superdome, it was Ditka who coached a charismatic Jim McMahon-led Bears squad to a 46-10 Super Bowl rout over these same Patriots. But the NFL has changed. The little hiking minuteman is gone from the Patriots' helmets. McMahon, sans headband, is now a sideline-pacer for Green Bay. And Ditka, at 57, is five years a TV analyst, a veteran of hip and heart ailments who still...
...week ago, the Patriots played through a heavy fog to rout the Pittsburgh Steelers. In two weeks, they get a chance to snap the AFC's 12-year losing streak in the Super Bowl when they face the Green Bay Packers in New Orleans...