Word: strongly
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...rout of Hartford. It was a great way for the Crimson to bounce back from its disappointing loss to UMass the previous weekend, after beginning the season with two victories over ranked opponents. Cohen scored once in the first half as part of a strong offensive front that kept Hartford at bay. In the second half, Cohen scored first and then kept adding to the Crimson’s growing tally throughout the period, making it impossible for the Hawks to attempt a comeback. The freshman not only scored but also shared, making several passes to teammates and acquiring...
...dynamic and enthusiastic" and who believes "our people are our wealth." Speaking at the launch on Monday, she matched Obama for optimism, but struggled with the rhetoric. "We'll stick it out," she said of Britain's current economic difficulties, "if we have a picture that is so strong we can smell it." Mixed metaphors aside, pollsters shouldn't write her off just yet. In an age when people will pay to vote for aspiring pop stars more readily than they'll travel to the voting booths, the jury on the Jury Team is still...
...11th trip abroad as Pope yet his first to Africa. Almost everyone, including supporters, acknowledges that Benedict's controversial decision in January to lift the excommunication of four bishops from a defiant, ultra-traditionalist faction - including a Holocaust denier - caused unprecedented damage to his leadership of the 1.1 billion-strong Catholic Church. Indeed, in a letter to bishops last week, the Pope both openly admitted to errors in managing the affair and laid blame on some inside the church for undermining...
...find that the folks who cling hardest to marriage are gay couples. After all, what was the most sweeping part of the May 2008 decision Ming and his colleagues issued that granted gays the right to marry? It was the idea that the word marriage is so strong that denying it to gay couples violates the most sacred right enshrined in the state constitution: the right for all people to be treated with dignity and fairness. Just 10 months later, gay couples - whether or not they are among the 18,000 who married in the state before Prop 8 stopped...
...flights waiting on the tarmac for three hours or longer last year. Southwest was given the "My Heavens" award for putting into action a plan to move passengers stuck on the tarmac off the planes and for providing food and water to those stranded. The group takes a strong stand against tarmac delays not just because they inconvenience passengers but also because they compromise safety. "I wonder if heroic Captain Sullenberger and his crew could have performed as they did after hours on the tarmac," says the group's director, Kate Hanni...