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Princeton’s staunch defense—the eighth best in the nation—will keep the game close and give the Tigers a chance to pull out the win. A victory is one thing, but covering the points is another, so take Colgate and the touchdown...
Miers was apparently chosen because of her loyalty to the administration and her nonexistent judicial paper trail, which frees her from a Scalia-esque fiery debate over judicial philosophy during the confirmation process. Perhaps Miers has a well thought out constructionist judicial philosophy; perhaps she is a staunch conservative. This, however, isn’t actually important. The issue is that she was nominated specifically to avoid an ideological argument, which is a sign of how Bush’s conservatism doesn’t have the courage of its convictions...
...implying that it is more important that military recruiters are given on campus resources than it is to support the many humanitarian, medical, and academic efforts that these grants underwrite at Harvard. Remove the politically charged debate surrounding the Solomon Amendment from the equation, and we suspect even staunch Solomon supporters would trade a few extra HLS recruits for better heart disease treatments (just one current project at the Harvard Medical School...
...With a staunch defense and an offense that is much improved over the one which Villanova shut down for over three quarters last year, Penn will put up a very tough fight. The kicking game will be the difference, and Quakers kicker Derek Zoch had an outstanding opening weekend...
...publishing house after the authorities imposed martial law. For years, he made ends meet by fixing cranes and cleaning industrial chimneys. He formally entered politics in 1991, joining a variety of short-lived post-Solidarity parties before co-founding Civic Platform. Once a staunch anticommunist, he has recently cultivated an image as a "moderate, liberal" politician with solid family values. Unlike Kaczynski, he eschews heated anticommunist rhetoric, promising instead to restore "dignity, honor and unselfishness" to Polish political life. And he has thrown himself into the campaign with a vengeance, stumping through the August holidays and dotting the countryside with...