Word: defeated
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...whom were her teammates. At times, she carried the team on her back.“Her calmness really helps us through intense game situations,” says fellow senior Maureen McCaffery, herself a study in clutch cool—her long-range shooting down the stretch helped defeat Dartmouth in March.“She is never frantic, always level, and she makes all of us feel the same calmness when we play with her.”And so the countdown closes in on home tip-off. Not even Holsey knows yet what she has in store...
Those institutions that break the silence and actually show they care about our values, on the contrary, deserve our resounding applause. And the sorry supremacy of monetary values over human values in this university deserves a resounding defeat...
...Felt pretty good.” And then it was perfectly clear. These are the kids I can always count on for solid advice, solicited or otherwise. They are my inspiration and my role models. I’ve laughed with them, cried with them, shared in triumph and defeat. With them I’ve made unforgettable memories and tried to piece together hazier ones; I’ve claimed to have slept with each and all of their respective mothers. They are my family here in Cambridge, and they make Harvard my home...
...second term. In the northeast, where Connecticut and Pennsylvania also went to the Republicans and Maine elected an independent, only Vermont will still have a Democrat in the statehouse come January. And in the Democrat's once solid South, a march to the G.O.P. climaxed with the narrow defeat of Alabama's Democratic Governor James Folsom Jr. by Fob James, a former Democratic Governor who switched parties...
...Days after California voters had handed their governor his biggest political defeat yet by rejecting all four of his ballot initiatives on Nov. 8, Shi Wa Xin Ge was mobbed by the Chinese public on whose minds the verdict of California voters on matters such as tenure for public-school teachers did not weigh heavily. Schwarzenegger's action flicks were among the first Hollywood blockbusters that made it to China courtesy of bootleg videotapes, and the nation rewarded the Austrian-born actor by hosting a week-long Arnold Schwarzenegger Film Festival in 2000-the first and only Chinese event...