Word: defeated
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...Ironically, it was politics - make that a political setback - that led him to the U.S. Army. When he was 27, he ran for state representative and lost. Following what he calls a crushing defeat, he worked as a waiter. One night at the restaurant he encountered an Arizona politician, whom he refuses to name. "He came up behind me and kind of slapped my back and said, 'Good job, Jonathan,' and he handed me two bucks," Paton says. "I just felt completely humiliated. I went home back to my apartment, and I was just sitting there in my boxer shorts...
...Dark Ages. The referee's decision may seem final, but it is fatally flawed. Football is a great sport, but the professional matches are a disappointment, since the best actors and the luckiest thugs win millions while the likes of Zidane are punished, condemning their teams to unjust defeat. David John Wood Chikushino, Japan
...they were fighting. All of them would have been combat veterans of the 1990s, when Hizballah fought a resistance campaign against the Israeli army occupying south Lebanon. Perhaps most of all, they relied heavily on their Islamic faith, accepting the will of God on matters of life and death, defeat and victory. For these fighters, victory was assured because they had God on their side. But even defeat would have meant their martyrdom in battle, thus an even greater honor...
...famous hubris. On July 17, five days into the Lebanese conflict, Halutz told Knesset members, "With all the technology we have, there is no reason to start sending ground troops in." A month later, he was pushing to send thousands of soldiers as the only way to defeat Hizballah...
...long overdue. The referee's decision may seem final, but it is fatally flawed. Football is a great sport, but the professional matches are a disappointment, since the best actors and the luckiest thugs win millions while the likes of Zidane are punished, condemning their teams to unjust defeat. David John Wood Chikushino, Japan...