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...Colin [played] a top-four player in college, maybe three,” Bajwa said. “He hasn’t had matches like that, so in some ways it looked critical, but on the other hand, it was a good thing him getting these tougher matches...Getting this match and having to push a lot more than 3-1, 3-0 is in some ways a blessing in disguise for him to be ready for Yale’s match and leading the team...
...series of similar actions doesn't necessarily represent a coherent policy. Several instances of the Chinese government acting "tougher" could just be discrete events. Rather than read too much into the intensity of recent rhetoric about Clinton's speech and the arms deal, we should watch to see whether, in the coming weeks, China goes along with or tries to block American efforts to put pressure on Iran...
...couldn’t be more pleased with some guys,” co-captain Louis Caputo said. “But in other matches we need to be a little mentally tougher. These guys are our size, our age, and we shouldn’t be getting manhandled...
...year-old Jessica Lunsford by a convicted sex offender. The state had already been the first to enact residency rules for convicted predators, barring them in 1995 from living within 1,000 feet of schools, playgrounds and other children's sites. Municipalities, with questionable authority, then adopted even tougher ordinances - there are 156 of them so far. Miami Beach, for example, bars offenders from living within 2,500 feet of all school-bus stops, effectively precluding them from living anywhere in the city. (See the top 10 crime stories...
Ironically, it was one of residency restrictions' fiercest proponents who helped push the softer Miami-Dade law through the county commission. Ron Book, a powerful Florida lobbyist, began his crusade for tougher residency laws after discovering that his daughter was molested by a nanny for years. Now, realizing that homelessness makes offenders potentially more dangerous, Book has shifted his campaign to the kind of child-safety, no-loitering zones that are built into the Miami-Dade measure. "Child-safety zones [should] have been a critical component of what we did [before]," says Book. "We just didn't think of them...