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...force. Think of the strength it would have required, in the winter months of 2003, to hold our troops ready outside Iraq until we were dead certain that Saddam had weapons capabilities that threatened our nation. And think of the strength it would have taken to pull the troops back once Hans Blix’s UN inspection team confirmed that a combination of inspections and the threat of force had succeeded in disarming Iraq without a shot being fired. How’s that for a steady hand in times of terror? The point is not to ignore threats...
Pounding opponents Lindsay Williams and Meaghan Colville with their groundstrokes, the tandem stood on the verge of swinging the momentum squarely in Harvard’s favor. Threatening to pull within a game, Wang raced to retrieve a ball sent back to the right corner along the baseline...
...Wang said, “but shots are completely unpredictable. I had to be sprinting for balls, and this one crucial point I completely went for one. I went all out for it and it hurt so much I was going to cry. They wanted to pull me out of doubles, but I wanted to play...
...Meanwhile, Jim Padilla, 57, the Detroit native in charge of the company's Americas division, is taking the role of COO and much of the credit for Ford's $6 billion swing into profitability over the past two years. Padilla's push for quality helped the firm pull ahead of Volkswagen and Nissan in the latest J.D. Power & Associates survey. But Ford has to get a lot better to remain competitive. It still trails DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, not to mention the industry average, in the Power quality rankings. Padilla, who was also named chairman of automotive operations, needs...
...idea is to just keep everything very straight forward,” Kang said. “It was against Navy in particular when things slowed down in the last half of the race. [We’ve got to] not to try to pull any tricks out of the bag or anything...