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...virtue of how productive he is as a player, how inspirational he is as a captain and as a defensive playmaker, I think everybody around him…[walks] a little bit taller.”To begin attacking the problem of the league’s staunchest defense, Pizzotti will need to use a mix of young receivers and junior Matt Luft—as well as his height advantage—while keeping the D honest with occasional runs. The duo of junior Ben Jenkins and sophomore Gino Gordon has yet to establish itself against a legitimate league...
...Barack Obama would be a president who will bring real change to this country. He’s even reached across the hallway—without preconditions—to show the video to our eight-year-old sister, Lilah, proving that bipartisan cooperation is possible even between the staunchest of adversaries. Now, she too has a sense of this election’s importance...
...When he began seeking reelection, Ortega realized he needed to make nice with the conservative church hierarchy, so he reconciled with one of his staunchest opponents from the 1980s, the head of the Nicaraguan Catholic Church, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo. Ortega took communion from Obando y Bravo in 2004, and then asked the cardinal to preside over his marriage to Murillo...
...Harvard disagree with the sentiment. Even Harry R. Lewis ’68, former dean of the College and one of Harvard ROTC’s staunchest advocates, argued on this page last year that, “the ban on homosexuals in the military is unwise.” The dispute here is not over Faust’s message, but rather her timing. “If it’s going to be political, I think everyone would be happier having someone else speak,” one Marine midshipman told The Crimson earlier this week...
...contentious debate over whether people have a right to die, the staunchest opponents on either side could usually agree on one point - that the terminally ill ought to be made as comfortable as possible in their final days. But a controversial procedure is now calling into question even that accord...