Word: defeated
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...whose testimony may be the most important may not be Petraeus, the anticipated star of the show, but the other guy, Crocker, a much admired diplomat who has spent his entire career in the region. If Petraeus has seen some victories, Crocker has known nothing but defeat in his dealings with the failed government of Nouri al-Maliki-dealings that mostly involve trying to get the Shi'ites to treat the Sunnis fairly and stop fighting among themselves. As a result, Crocker may have a better handle on the most important questions facing the U.S. effort in Iraq...
...higher than I've ever seen them," says Lance Hill, executive director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University, an organization founded in 1993 with the mission to counter prejudice and improve race relations. Hill, who is white, led a grass-roots campaign to defeat David Duke, the former Klansman who made it into a runoff in Louisiana's 1991 gubernatorial race; racial tensions in the aftermath of Katrina, Hill says, are even more stark than those that surfaced during that watershed event...
...Still, though Federer has strung together another dominant season, he is not completely unbeatable. The Swiss maestro has lost six matches this year, including yet another defeat to second-ranked Rafael Nadal in the final of the French Open, the only Grand Slam title to elude him. As the U.S. Open gets under way, we offer five perfectly legal ways to take down Roger Federer...
...comfortable as ever delivering his favorite tropes Wednesday. He beamed as he said, "The greatest weapon in the arsenal of democracy is the desire for liberty written into the human heart by our creator." He leaned in for emphasis when he said, "A free Iraq will be a massive defeat for al-Qaeda. It'll be an example that provides hope for millions throughout the Middle East. It'll be a friend of the United States, and it's going to be an important ally in this ideological struggle of the 21st century...
...Vietnam. He has so often emphasized the disastrous ramifications of failure and the potential glories of victory, they no longer hold the same currency with a war-tired public. So, given how low support for the war is, why not add the specter of Vietnam to the costs of defeat? And why not suggest that victory in Iraq could help expunge the indignity of America's loss in Vietnam? Petraeus and Crocker will say what they will regardless of Bush's assertions, so raising the rhetorical stakes in the hopes of bolstering political support ahead of their report...