Word: defeat
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...brick quarters destined to be bulldozed and glimpsed the steel-and-glass materialist world that Chinese planners see rising above the rubble. Much of his work is suffused with a melancholy he allows to be dubbed "poetic." It is the picture, in many instances, of a people resigned to defeat...
...sixth-ranked Harvard men’s soccer team suffered its worst defeat of the year last night with a 4-0 loss at No. 17 Connecticut (7-2-3, 5-1-1 Big East). The Crimson (8-2-1, 1-0-1 Ivy) was shut out for just the second time this year, and it was also the first game this season in which it gave up more than one goal...
...pretty overwhelming list. If it's so hard to make a dent in your carbon footprint, is there a risk that people will just throw up their hands? I was worried that the results of my adventure into the heart of the energy crisis would be despair and defeat. In fact, I ended up feeling overwhelmingly optimistic. We figured out 7 trillion different applications for natural gas and petroleum. If we could do that, then we can certainly figure out a way to undo the problem. It was ingenuity that got us into this mess and it's ingenuity that...
...happens now that more of us are onto the placebo/nocebo problem? Will our expectations adjust to reality? Who knows? "The placebo is a trickster," says Ted Kaptchuk, a placebo expert at Harvard Medical School. "We still don't understand how it works." But Kaptchuk says it's possible to defeat placebo benefits and overcome nocebo problems simply by being aware of them. Mind, in other words, over mind...
...although Cornell suffered a crushing defeat to New York rival Colgate, Murphy concedes that Cornell may pose more of a challenge to Harvard than most people think...