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...Quakers’ Sam Mathews and Brown’s Nick Hartigan—from a year ago. Both of the big play Ivy receivers—Harvard’s Brian Edwards and Penn’s Dan Castles—return as well. From an offensive standpoint, it’s clear that the Ivy League will be vastly improved this season...
From a defensive standpoint, there’s much left to be determined. Key contributors to several Ivy teams have graduated, with Harvard leading the charge, losing five all-Ivy players on defense, including three first-teamers...
...when the Massachusetts court issued its pro-gay-marriage ruling. As the attorney who has to defend the county when it's sued for discrimination, she was keenly aware of the liabilities her jurisdiction could face if a gay couple demanded a license. "I looked at it from that standpoint of, What's gonna happen when the couple sues us because we say no? And I did my research, and I said, 'Gee, we're gonna lose...
...From a military standpoint, the spring offensive was straightforward. Pakistani troops swept into Wazir villages while American soldiers in Afghanistan braced near the border to smash al-Qaeda fighters flushed out by the Pakistani advance?"a hammer and anvil" approach, as one U.S. general confidently called it, that never developed. Judging from the daily communiqu?s by U.S. military spokesmen in Kabul, the enemy was as elusive as ever, emerging only to ambush American patrols. One such attack led to the death of 27-year-old U.S. professional football player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman...
From any moral standpoint, however, if we are to discuss God’s position on abortion, we must also consider that God also surely hates men who rape women and boyfriends who discourage their girlfriends from using condoms, and must disapprove of the mixed messages children get about sex in many communities. Decisions about whether to have an abortion are not made in moral vacuums—rather, they have always taken place within a much broader calculus of moral issues. Central to the belief of pro-choice advocates is the belief that personal decisions about reproductive health...