Word: trumping
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...weapons as a matter of survival because the U.S. had built and used them to decisively tip the balance in a conventional conflict. France, Britain and later China acquired them because they sought strategic independence from the U.S. and the Soviets respectively. Israel built nukes as the ultimate strategic trump card in the face of the numerical strength of surrounding Arab armies; India pursued them because its prime strategic rival was not Pakistan, but nuclear-armed China; but Pakistan pursued them because its arch-enemy is nuclear-armed India...
Even after the tip-in by junior center Brian Cusworth and his layup on the next possession to give Harvard a 54-50 lead with a minute to go, it was still just a matter of time. History would step in and trump the Crimson’s chances...
...etiquette? Sure she can, says NBC, which has created a spin-off of its reality series The Apprentice for felon and lifestyle expert MARTHA STEWART. Shares of Stewart's empire, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, rose after the announcement that she would be the host of a program modeled on Donald Trump's original, with its engrossing contestant backbiting and obvious product plugs. Stewart's "own sensibilities and creativity" will dictate the tone of the new show, says NBC. Casting calls are already under way to choose who will compete for a $250,000 job under Stewart. That's right. People...
...course, the road to the lower division of the Ivy League standings, which Harvard knows all too well, is paved with the best of game plans. But if the Crimson can trump history and take down the two giants this weekend, the first-time fans packed into Lavietes will realize, along with the rest of the Ivy League, that Harvard basketball is ready to be acknowledged...
...discourages teaching, but the sorry fact remains that undergraduates here don’t seem to value it as a possible profession. Maybe it’s because teaching isn’t sexy. It doesn’t conjure up images of cigar-smoking business meetings or the Trump Towers. It certainly doesn’t make you think about the piles of cash won from your last brilliantly-litigated court case. Rather, it might conjure up images of that tenth grade English teacher who subsisted on chalk dust and notebook paper. Or perhaps a principal so frazzled that...