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...last time the Harvard men’s soccer team played a one-goal game, it was the other team that pounced first, and the Crimson left the field with a bitter taste in its mouth...
...already been beheaded on camera. Bigley appealed directly to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "You are the only person on God's earth who can help me. Please free female prisoners held in Iraqi prisons." Blair refused to bargain with the kidnappers, which made Kenneth's brother Paul bitter. "If my brother dies, his blood is on Blair's hands," he said. "The government say they can't negotiate with terrorists, but that is exactly what they did with the I.R.A." Blair, preparing for a party conference he hoped might allow him to leave Iraq behind, didn't have...
...Cardinal, architect of the lyrical swells of the Canadian Museum of Civilization near Ottawa. It was Cardinal, a Blackfoot, who won the original commission in 1993 to design the American Indian museum, in affiliation with other architects, only to be dismissed from the project five years later in a bitter dispute over deadlines. A number of other firms and consultants were eventually brought in to revise and complete Cardinal's scheme, but in its essential outlines the museum still bears his stamp, which is why, for all the turmoil of the design process, it's a superior addition...
...extremely angry, bitter, upset. I feel cheated. Should I go on? I just feel robbed." SERENA WILLIAMS, after her loss to Jennifer Capriati at the U.S. Open in a match marred by several questionable calls by the chair umpire that went against Williams...
...blazing intelligence and hair-trigger sense of outrage are riveting. In a 1963 appearance on Jonathan Winters' Breakfast Show, Bruce careens manically from Castro's Cuba to W.C. Fields' anti-Semitism to his own fantasy plot for entrapping the judge trying his obscenity case in San Francisco. Yet this bitter, late-stage Bruce is not all that far from the sensitive comic who, in a 1959 radio interview with Studs Terkel, blames (quite seriously) the declining quality of entertainment on bossy office secretaries. Hot or cool, sober or drug-fueled, Bruce obliterated the line between stand-up and self-revelation...