Word: strengthing
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...chased him and his followers through the remotest reaches of Waziristan and the Northwest Frontier Province-the same ground where allied troops have spent the past five years searching fruitlessly for bin Laden, and where the remnants of Afghanistan's Taliban fled to lick their wounds and recover their strength. The region was then, as it is today, a powder keg of fractious tribes and fundamentalist firebrands, and Britain's experience with trying to capture Khan mirrors the frustrating hunt for bin Laden...
...great strength of High Tea in Mosul is to reveal that flesh-and-blood world behind the impersonal blur of headlines. O'Donnell, keenly aware of the quotidian reality of life in Iraq, cautions against "knee-jerk anti-Americanism," remarking: "It doesn't do Iraqis any favors. The focus should be on making Iraq a place Iraqis want to live." Today, Pauline and Margaret have both left Mosul. Their stories - of hastily packed suitcases thrown in cars at dawn - are a sad reminder of just how unlivable their former home has become...
...everyone felt it. When English Professor and resident poet Nikki Giovanni delivered her final comments, it was not clear how her assertions of strength and unity were being received. There was a dangerous undercurrent throughout, a feeling that the professor was striking not quite the right note when she said, "We are Virginia Tech." And when she said that there was tragedy everywhere, including when an elephant was killed for its ivory or a child was killed by a rolling boulder it was hard to tell if she'd quite captured what the crowd was searching...
...strength of the bullpen is also bolstered by junior Max Warren and rookie Dan Zailskas, who have come up big in spot starts and relief stints. Warren has not allowed a run in eight innings pitched, while Zailskas posted a solid six-inning effort in a road win against Rhode Island last Tuesday...
...Crimson finished fifth overall, with most schools sending two boats to compete in a single division. Harvard’s A-boat took eighth on the strength of freshman skipper Alex Bick and freshman crew Michelle Konstadt, while the freshman B-boat tandem of skipper Ali Beyer and crew Kate Harris earned 14th place...