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...first quarter started with a rampage from Marist as the Red Foxes took a 5-2 lead, with back-to-back goals from Marist senior Rachel Sunday, who was a thorn in the Crimson’s side the entire match...
Unfortunately, that was last year's logic. Gates said on Wednesday that Pentagon officials had bamboozled him with "overly rosy forecasts" that were more thorn than flower. After burrowing into the F-35's cost and schedule, President Obama's Pentagon team - including Bush Administration holdover Gates - recently discovered deep-rooted problems. "Things are more complicated than people imagined they were going to be," Ashton Carter, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer, told reporters earlier this month. "You can't control costs, you can't control schedule if you're being unrealistic about costs and schedule...
...game changer would be victory by Iran's pro-democracy green movement. But Washington has little influence over the fate of the greens and the movement's struggle follows a timetable that is not synchronized with Iran's nuclear trajectory. The opposition remains a thorn in Khamenei's side. But exaggerated expectations of its prospects will put undue pressure on the movement. (See pictures of terror in Tehran...
...students, it opened up...a complexity which they probably were not able to grasp before the trip,” Bechthold said. “The denial is like a thorn in the flesh that is just not going away...
...with any form of community service, making the community happy is not necessarily easy. To explain the social maneuvering involved in DJing a good party, Thorn said, “[Y]ou have to be really conscious of how many people are dancing, who is coming in, and who is leaving. You have to make sure you don’t play too many of the popular songs until there are a good amount of people [on] the dance floor... You really have to learn how to gauge your audience.” This micromanagement amounts to an extended empathy...