Word: upholding
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Lead team to victory. Check. Score a career-high number of goals. Check. Uphold the family lacrosse dynasty. Check. All in a day’s work for Harvard men’s lacrosse standout, freshman Jeff Cohen...
Have you seen those dudes in Ratatat? They've got some nice hair. And by nice, we mean stringy and greasy. But it's understandable: they've got an alternative image to uphold, after...
...Renowned golf psychologist Bob Rotella teaches Harrington how not to think, encouraging him to play "unconscious, out-of-his-mind golf." Such clarity is muddled by technical tinkering on the practice tee, so Rotella places a limit on practice during big tournaments. It's an abstention Harrington struggles to uphold. "I'm getting better but if I'm let loose I'll just practice all day," he says...
...Chin considers whether he can craft a compromise with his fellow justices that would both uphold Prop 8 - and therefore the right of the people to amend the state constitution - and assert the right of gay people to be treated equally, he may find that the folks who cling hardest to marriage are gay couples. After all, what was the most sweeping part of the May 2008 decision Ming and his colleagues issued that granted gays the right to marry? It was the idea that the word marriage is so strong that denying it to gay couples violates the most...
...courage, and said that it was “profoundly unfair” that her colon cancer diagnosis—which occurred in 2007—came so soon. But Cardullo-Tavilla said she and her siblings, who have assumed responsibility of the store, will continue to uphold Cardullo’s spirit and traditions—especially broadcasting Red Sox games in the TV screen in the store’s front window. “Instead of my father sitting outside watching the games it will be myself and my son in his place...