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There definitely was some pressure on the Harvard running game to perform against the Lions, who have traditionally been weak defending the rush. But the offensive line responded by creating enough holes for the crafty Tyler to slide through...
...Bush said in his June commencement speech at West Point, “A thriving nation will respect the rights of women, because no society can prosper while denying opportunity to half of its citizens.” But America’s commitment to Afghan women is weak at best...
...becomes feasible in situations where the sovereign power is either both hostile to the U.S. and unable to police its own airspace (as was the case in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan), or else where it is unable to enforce its own writ, as in Yemen and one or two other weak states such as Somalia. If U.S. intelligence had discovered al-Harthi hiding out in Pakistan rather than Yemen, it would have been more likely to send rely on the local security forces to roll...
...uncertain, are the networks seeing such rosy times? "It's counterintuitive," admits Tim Spengler, executive vice president at Initiative Media, a media-buying agency that billed more than $10 billion in U.S. advertising last year. Historically, he points out, significant increases in ad spending don't occur until a weak economy has begun to turn around. "What we've seen instead," Spengler says, "are clients saying, 'We need to go for it. We need to support our brands for the long-term viability of those brands,'" regardless of the economy's overall sluggishness...
Unfortunately, ECAC teams have gotten off to a slow start. After last weekend, the league’s record stood at a paltry 9-13-6, with most of those wins coming against weak competition. The league’s finest hour thus far was Vermont’s 1-1 tie at Boston University...