Word: pulling
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That made Harvard among the dozens of hosts Diebold asked to pull the e-mails, citing the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act as grounds for its decision. Harvard, like most of the other servers, complied, forcing Slater to take the information off his site. But even though Slater complied, the Berkman Center supported his position that Diebold’s action was unfounded...
...Hizballah ostensibly rallied in solidarity with Syria, which faces overwhelming pressure from the international community to pull out its security forces. More importantly, perhaps, the event was a warning shot to anyone in the international community considering foreign intervention designed to remake Lebanon or to fill the vacuum that would result from a Syrian departure. Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah may be particularly concerned that the U.S. and France might try to send in an international stabilization force to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which mandates not only Syrian withdrawal, but also the disarming of all militias - an unmistakable...
...hundred dollars"--you have to fight back the image of Jonathan Lipnicki, the kid from Jerry Maguire. But these doubts are pulverized by the book's devastating set pieces, which are of the kind only a genuine talent who knows exactly what he wants to say can pull off. Foer's rendition of the Allied bombing of Dresden, in a flashback involving Oskar's grandfather Thomas, has the punishing, visceral vividness of the battle scenes from The Red Badge of Courage. "Rapid, approaching explosions" sound "like an applauding audience running toward us." After the first wave of bombs, Thomas rushes...
...never wavered on defense, so even when we were struggling on offense we were still ahead,” Princeton coach Joe Scott said. “Then we did some nice things on offense that let us pull away...
...first two games, Harvard grabbed large leads early, only to watch the Highlanders pull within one, 29-28, in the first and draw even at 29 in the second. The Crimson held off the surge in each game to jump out to a 2-0 lead...