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...Mount Brushmore of Presidents--Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton--with magnificent hair. What we need is a tonsorial memorial to those giants--Ike, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion--of the World War II era, that one brief and very shining moment in history when baldness was tantamount to greatness...
...team.” Considering the depth of the Crimson attack, which features Akpan (11 goals, seven assists) and junior Mike Fucito (Eight goals, five assists), Nyamekye’s attributes are maximized best at the backline. Even so, Kwaku’s contributions at forward have been tantamount to the production of the team’s other strikers, making him an integral part of the Crimson offense. He will likely be called on more and more as the season progresses. Boasting a shooting percentage of .250—tied for second on the team with freshman Alex Chi?...
...Dick Cheney argued that techniques like simulated drowning didn't amount to torture. And last August, after the New Yorker reported the latest in a string of private memos sent to the U.S. government by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) asserting that U.S. interrogation techniques were "tantamount to torture", President Bush said curtly, "We don't torture...
...scrawny, white, and heavily tattooed “Mr. Cool Ice,” there is a simpler reason. They don’t want to appear pathetic. And at least among those who know what Craigslist is, admitting posting or responding to an ad on Craigslist is tantamount to branding yourself as a failure at life...
...that the fact that most students apply to multiple schools—the average Harvard pre-med student applies to 18—and it becomes immediately clear that the whole process is tantamount to highway robbery...