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BULLETPROOF GLASS AND ARMOR Tinted glass and all-over lightweight Kevlar armor can withstand shots from a .44 magnum...
...wonder really. The Harvard finals system is a mental siege, not a straight-up, honorable open-field battle. At almost ever other institution in the country, students withstand a honorable frontal assault, their #2 pencils glinting in the sunlight and failing with glory as the finals process lets them have it straight away. Treacherous Harvard, on the other hand, will not meet us on the open field. It lies in wait, it cuts our supply lines, and tortures us with anticipation before it storms the castle...
...haphazard and full of leaks, and where skeletons in the closet came out to topple nominees. So Bush picked what he thought were solid Republicans, like Powell, Rumsfeld and O'Neill, - and he even includes Ashcroft in this category - who'd been through vetting processes before and could withstand the grind, and there wouldn't be any surprises. Chavez has proved to be just the sort of surprise he dreads and hates...
...Jonas has been a rock and consistent for us from day one," Mazzoleni said. "He hasn't had many substandard games. We give up about 35 shots a game, but he's been giving us that opportunity to withstand someone's best shot...
...while, it looked like Harvard would withstand the pressure and hold on to its one-goal lead. But with under three minutes left to play, Vermont finally broke through, as Harvard got burned trying to steal time by playing its fourth line late...