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...best teams in any sport usually manage to strike that delicate balance between young, unproven talent and tested veterans who provide the squad’s backbone and channel the collective effort in the direction it must go in order to yield success...
Depending on how high the bar is set, the Michigan policies might or might not be upheld. For instance, the Court could establish a test requiring that an admissions policy be highly individualized and flexible, and then proceed to strike down the current undergraduate policy at Michigan, reasoning that a point system which applies a fixed number of points for race is not flexible enough. Or the Court could impose a time requirement so that policies have a fixed duration. As a practical matter, the Court could, by establishing difficult or unreachable standards for narrow tailoring, sound a death knell...
Brunnig, himself, has proven to give Harvard another force on the hill. Standing at 6’7-and with the rare ability to pitch with both arms, Brunnig will be sure to strike fear into the hearts of Ivy League batters, despite his first-year status...
...think by the time Matt Brunnig finishes his four year career here, he’ll be a well-known New England name,” Walsh says. “He’s got a nasty slider, and he’s a strike thrower. His size is deceiving, and with innings his velocity, 85-plus with either arm, will climb...
...emerged as the personification of Arab nationalism after surviving the Israeli-British-French attack in the Suez Crisis of 1956. But his empty threats led to the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel seized huge chunks of Syrian, Jordanian as well as Egyptian territory in a lightning strike...