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...adjustments and came together as a unit.” HARVARD 8, STANFORD 1 The Crimson delivered a second dominating performance, dropping only the No. 9 position in an 8-1 rout of the Cardinal. The highlight of the match was freshman June Tiong’s 3-1 defeat of the Cardinal’s Lily Lorentzen, who won the individual national championship in her freshman year at Harvard before transferring to Stanford. After losing the opening set, 9-1, Tiong quickly took control, winning the next three games, 9-1, 9-0, 9-0, to claim the victory...
...Near the end of the meeting, Schiffgens tried to explain his use of language to a restive crowd: "Invincible means no more negativity. No more enmity. We want to make Germany invincible so they cannot defeat you!" Lynch, who by this time had availed himself of a translator, then stood up and took the microphone: "You all have a history and Raja Emanuel has triggered some things. I would say, 'Deal with it.' Have it out with Raja Emanuel. But he's a great human being...
...respond constructively to the Yankees’ defeat? How can we avoid the trap of overconfidence and poor starting pitching...
Best of all, we might start to take defeat with a smile and a tip of the cap, humbled but unbowed, without a hail of “Bronx cheers” or chants of “safety school.” For a school supposedly comprised of the world’s greatest, we could all stand to show some class...
...most cultivated Australian ever to serve as Prime Minister. The movement's chief unelected backer was a formidable young merchant banker named Malcolm Turnbull. (Full disclosure obliges me to say that Turnbull is married to my niece Lucy, herself the deputy lord mayor of Sydney.) Despite Keating's defeat in the 1996 elections, Turnbull and his fellow republicans were able to bring the republic issue to a nationwide vote...