Word: tougher
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...spite of a Security Council resolution approving a larger, tougher U.N. peacekeeping force, the government of Sudan refuses to allow Blue Helmets on its soil. When the Bush Administration sent its Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs to Sudan's capital, Khartoum, to persuade President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to admit the U.N. force, it was two days before he would even meet with her. Al-Bashir has a rather different plan for solving the problem: just before the Security Council vote, he launched a military offensive aimed at cleansing Darfur once and for all. The U.N. is warning...
...physical defense,” Gilmore said. “They’re a talented team, but I think they did an excellent job of timing their blitzes. And they did a good job of mixing them up.”Next week Harvard faces a tougher test in 2005 Ivy League champion Brown, who will miss graduated running back Nick Hartigan, last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year. The Bears will be ready to avenge their double-overtime loss, their only failure in league play last season. —Staff writer Madeleine...
...haven’t played one,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy said. “But from what we do know, they’re an improved football team [from] over a year ago, and I think the biggest difference is they seem to be playing much tougher defense, both physically and statistically.”The Crusaders have a strong core in their returning players, including senior linebacker Dan Adams, who led the country with 97 solo tackles last year.“Dan is a very good player,” said Holy Cross coach...
...sclerotic political culture. She stays away from the abstract nouns beloved of French intellectuals, and makes a very public point of listening instead to voters' concerns, often sent to her heavily-frequented website called, in sturdily nonideological fashion, Desires for the Future. Cavalierly breaching party doctrine, she advocates a tougher line on delinquents, wants to loosen widely circumvented rules requiring students to attend schools in their neighborhoods, and has even criticized the 35-hour workweek. "She is popular because she's a woman who has a nondoctrinaire stance toward politics," says Stéphane Rozès, director...
...that's a tougher goal than it seems. Just look at the set of new pitching rules that Little League is putting into effect for the 2007 season. After decades of trying to prevent injuries by limiting pitchers to six innings a game--which could result in anywhere from 54 to more than 100 pitches per outing--Little League officials will focus instead on the total number of pitches per game, depending on the pitcher's age. Pitchers 10 and younger will stop after 75 pitches, and those 11 to 12 years of age are limited to 85 pitches...