Word: defeat
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...volleyball team had a tough weekend in Durham, N.H., where it traveled for the Holly Young Invitational tournament. The Crimson (3-7) faced solid competition in Arizona State, New Hampshire, and Wyoming. Harvard was only able to come away with one victory in the tournament with its 3-1 defeat of New Hampshire...
...country anytime soon. During her seven-nation tour of Africa in August, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Somali President Sheik Sharif Ahmed - a symbolically potent occasion, given that he had once opposed the U.S.-backed Ethiopian troops that invaded Somalia in 2006 to try to defeat the Islamists. The Americans will most likely continue to launch targeted strikes against suspected al-Qaeda militants and keep sending weapons to Ahmed's transitional government, as the U.S. State Department confirmed it did in June. (See TIME's photo essay "The Pirates of Somalia...
Brown will be looking to avenge a 4-1 defeat at home last year. Serving as the Crimson’s Ivy home opener, expect the Bears to bring their best, especially if the Crimson remains undefeated to this point...
...President and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa told the AP. "I can see what kind of policy the Obama Administration is pursuing towards this part of Europe. The way we are being approached needs to change." Aleksander Szczyglo, head of Poland's National Security Office, characterized the change as a "defeat primarily of American long-distance thinking about the situation in this part of Europe...
...Harvard football team is about to deliver a crushing defeat to Columbia in its last home game before Yale...