Word: defeat
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...another battle of the titans at The Game in Week 10–were toppled by a pair of league upstarts that refused to be overlooked.The Crimson met its demise at the hands of Brown in Providence by a score of 24-22. Much of Harvard’s defeat was its own doing: four turnovers and a missed extra point generally don’t add up well against any opponent. But the Bears, sick of being beaten down by the Crimson for eight straight years, took full advantage of the Harvard miscues and orchestrated an impressive and symbolic...
...have as many chances as we usually have.” On the back of last night’s disappointing performance, the Crimson looks to rebound in its first Ivy League game against rival Yale. Coach Clark expressed his hope that the manner of the defeat would kick his team into gear heading into Saturday’s matchup. “I don’t think you can have any greater motivation going into our Ivy League season,” Clark said. “We believe we are a team that’s better...
After the bailout bill went down in defeat, most of the legislators who had voted against it sang this refrain: The voters made us do it. Indeed, before Monday's vote, angry constituents overwhelmingly panned the plan championed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The volume of e-mail crashed the House's website. After Wall Street tumbled 778 points, voters are still mad - and now even more confused. Representative Steve LaTourette, a Republican from Ohio, tells it this way: until Monday, the calls and e-mails to his office were 200-to-1 opposed to the bailout. But after...
...move angered the grass roots even more, and they handed Symington a humiliating defeat. Haney won again in 2008, and estimates that after this primary, his faction still has the power in the state GOP structure. "We have a right to speak up if we feel our leaders are abandoning principles; we have a right to say no to our leaders. He's telling us to shut up," says Haney...
...portray himself as a sober statesman willing to halt his campaign to deal with the nation's financial meltdown. Most recently, McCain rolled out an ad calling on a new spirit of bipartisanship and cooperation in the nation's capital only a day after blaming the House of Representatives' defeat of the Administration's bailout bill on Democrats and Obama...