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...with Rittgers benched in favor of backup Dan Shula, Dartmouth’s offense had a distinctly different look, particularly in the second half...
...Green benched its season-long starter in favor of an untested novice, had struggled to run the football through six games, and, most notably of all, had yet to win even once. Harvard features arguably the two most potent weapons in the Ivy League, had until that point scored no fewer than 34 points in any of its contests, and entered play undefeated...
...backed a new military theory that argued that you could fight and win wars with relatively few troops. The old, more cautious doctrine--inherited from the first President Bush and Colin Powell--was always to use overwhelming force for very narrow ends. Bush junked this military conservatism in favor of something far bolder and riskier...
...While most nominees are distinguished and qualified, as many as six have drawn criticism. Now that Buttiglione is gone, national leaders will have to decide how much more recasting the Commission needs. Berlusconi, who is said to favor Foreign Minister Franco Frattini for Italy's slot, doesn't want Buttiglione to be the only casualty. Other possible candidates for replacement include the proposed Energy Commissioner, Hungarian Foreign Minister Lászlo Kovács, whose "professional competence" and "aptitude" were found inadequate by the relevant committee; the proposed Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes of the Netherlands, whose extensive (and, until...
What sets the biography apart from other existing treatments of Cummings’ life is its even treatment of the poet’s many faces. It denies itself the easy route of simplification of the man to an image, positive or negative, in favor of an archival, archaeological construction of a character from its constituent facts...