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...name of the game is redemption. Tomorrow, Harvard (5-6-3, 3-3-0 Ivy) faces its staunchest challenge of the year playing on the road at Brown (12-1-0, 5-0-0), who is ranked No. 4 in the ISAA Polls and hopes to cruise into the NCAA Tourney. Expected to win by no one except itself, Harvard finds itself in the role of David trying to slay Goliath. However, it has been done before...
...airwaves, decrying the charges against him of sexual and official misconduct and vowing that his decision to fight on was irrevocable. But then certain lights came on. At 12:30 p.m. Packwood slipped into his second-floor hideaway in the Capitol Building to confer with two of his staunchest defenders, Republican Senators Alan Simpson of Wyoming and John McCain of Arizona. Gently, but persistently, his colleagues delivered a firm message: this has got to end. Twenty minutes into the meeting, majority leader Robert Dole joined the session. Ten minutes more and a deal...
...very best the FBI has." Last week Freeh said Potts was "unable to effectively perform his duties" and reassigned his friend to the FBI's training division in Quantico, Virginia. Many agents felt that Potts was getting a bum rap; they believe he was one of the agency's staunchest defenders of civil rights principles...
Pusey won high praise, even from his staunchest foes, for his support of academic freedom during the McCarthy crusades...
...hollow and meaningless construct if it were employed to guarantee only those opinions which are commonly considered valid. The possibility of alien abduction may be hard to fathom, but it is precisely in this extreme case that Harvard's commitment to freedom of thought needs to be staunchest...