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Desperate to catch up in a hurry, the Big Red rarely strayed from its four-receiver set in the second half. Cornell quarterback Ricky Rahne made 53 throws in the game, completing 31 passes to 14 different receivers. But the Big Red struggled to sustain any drive deep into Harvard territory due to the solid play of the Harvard secondary, anchored by senior Willie Alford, who finished with nine tackles...
...Thus his proactive interventions on AIDS, debt relief to the developing world, and global warming. But even as he champions the developing world's most pressing causes, he manages to sustain a huge fan base among the politicians and moguls of the industrialized world. His AIDS initiative is typical: He plans to involve government, business, the treatment community and sufferers in a consultative fashion...
...Plenty has happened since the birth of the U.N. to mock that hope. But that has not deterred Kofi Annan from making it his life's work to revive and sustain it in the face of the pervasive cynicism that pervades his world. People have been beatified for less...
Court records filed by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office last week said the prosecution decided not to pursue the case because “sufficient evidence does not exist to allow the Commonwealth to sustain its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt...
Only the wealthy and the eccentric can afford the kind of opiate that produces illusions of a Godless universe. You must either have enough money or power to create your own personal universe and sustain notions of your personal sovereignty within it, or be so out of touch with the world as to believe you really are an existential island. It took an event like September 11th to break through our illusions of control and get us realize that this crazy world is in control, just not our own. When we get knocked off our vaulted thrones of security...