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...opponents today, one through six, and as a coach that’s all you can ask for.” To counter the loss of the captains and preserve the players’ energy, the coaches shuffled the doubles partners for both matches—a tactic resulting in five wins out of a possible six. In the perfect response to last weekend’s defeats to No. 47 Kentucky and No. 1 Virginia, a series of stellar performances across the board ensured the Crimson (4-2) regained momentum.HARVARD 6, BOSTON COLLEGE 1 From a Crimson perspective, having...
...cannot believe that a man as fine and decent as McCain would want to become President by the underhanded tactic of accepting the nomination of a party that loves him only for his appeal to the opposition. If McCain were half the principled gentleman he pretends to be, he would drop out now in favor of Rush Limbaugh. Now there's a Republican you can sink your teeth into...
...military in Iraq, for placing additional troops in strategic “hot-spots” as part of the military “surge” last year. “I don’t think that the surge was a strategy, but a tactic,” said Zinni, a former commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command. “All along, I felt that we needed more troops, and the surge has definitely had a positive effect.” He added that combined with the Shiite cease-fire and the Sunni Awakening Movement...
According to the study, the most effective tactic globally has been simply to raise prices. "Increasing taxes is the best way to decrease consumption," Bettcher said, pointing to the direct relationship between a rise in excise tax rates and a fall in cigarette purchases in South Africa between 1990 and 2006. Making tobacco prohibitively expensive, said Bettcher, will decrease consumption, especially among those who can least afford to smoke. Lower income people smoke significantly more than the wealthy, and spend a much higher proportion of their income on tobacco - 20% of the most impoverished households in Mexico spend as much...
...Harvard’s frustration and desperation to get back into the game led it to take extreme measures. Though it is very common for trailing teams to pull its goalie at the end of a game, they don’t usually resort to this tactic with 10 minutes left in the third period. But the Crimson surprised virtually all present on Friday night as Richter skated to the bench for a little over a minute while Harvard’s six-man squad tried to recapture some of the momentum...