Word: strengthing
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...here at a school and competing for a team, you’re doing something other than for yourself.” It was a transition Pangilinan executed masterfully. By her senior year, she was co-captain of the Crimson along with teammate Lindsay Hart. “Her strength is leading in terms of what she does in the water and what she does behind the scenes,” Head Coach Stephanie Morawski said. “She can inspire people vocally, and she can also do it in the pool.” Leading by example...
...direction. Something rare is happening in America where young people are not merely looking to one person to initiate change, but more and more they are looking at one another as change agents who have a mutual responsibility to make this world a better place. The strength of the Obama movement among young people even has ripple effects among their parents. Two examples are of influential women, Caroline Kennedy and Senator Claire McCaskill, who have spoken about the enthusiasm of their children as the motivating factor that caused them to get behind Senator Obama?...
...left their mark with 86 team points.IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPSHarvard and Princeton pulled away from the rest of the field early, and by the end of the first day of competition there was a 200-point gap separating the second place Crimson from the rest of the pack.Harvard showed its strength in the freestyle relays, bookending the weekend with victories in the 200- and 400-yard events. Freshmen Katy Hinkle, Ali Slack, and Laura Murray, along with senior anchor Amanda Slaight, set school records in both events and made the “B” cut for the NCAA championships.The...
Senator Clinton’s widely acknowledged strength in this year’s Democratic debates makes her dizzying fall in the polls somewhat puzzling. The juxtaposition of her consistently strong performance in the policy realm with her patchwork poor performance at the voting booth begs a fundamental question: If not mastery of policy, just what criteria do Americans use to pick their president? Does it boil down to raw identity politics? Or, even worse, is Hillary-hatred based on factors as (literally) cosmetic as her brow and laugh? Are we truly to choose a commander in chief based...
...Israeli air strike being carted into an ambulance, she shouted, "Keep hitting them with rockets. Take revenge for our children." Military sources say that after the initial thrust, the cabinet is now deciding whether to pull back or go into Gaza much harder and deeper, with division-strength troop numbers, to crush Hamas' organization and leadership. This is likely to be postponed until after the U.S. Secretary of State returns home, probably empty-handed, from her talks with Olmert and Abbas...