Word: defeated
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...beer funnel race to see if the younger, more precious Adams would win the right to go tailgate with the Yale wrestling team. Adams lost the race to his sister and, so, lost his sister to the wrestling team. After regaining consciousness, the elder Adams simply shrugged off the defeat. “She goes to an all girls Catholic school,” says Adams, “I never had a chance in hell of taking her.” No, it seems that would require the entire Yale University wrestling squad...
...mention the honor of being YM readers’ favorite “real boy.”Hedrick’s feeling the heat. He’s checked out his fellow contestants and he thinks he’s got them sussed out. He can definitely defeat Taji, a 14-year-old “adventurous yet attitude-free skateboarder” who favors Lucky Charms. But Trevor, 17, an “incredibly down-to-earth” mountain biker who appears topless in the December issue, should prove stiff competition...
...uncritical recitation of Soviet sources,” he wrote in his subsequent eight-page report, “whereas his efforts at ‘analysis’ are very effective renditions of the Stalinist leadership’s self-understanding of their murderous and progressive project to defeat the backwardness of Slavic, Asiatic peasant Russia...
After 302 years of being second-best, Yalies should be used to taking what Harvard gives them—cooperatively and without complaint. But just hours before their resounding defeat at last weekend’s Game, it seems a few sons of New Haven decided to set-up a backup plan. They didn’t, of course, scramble to conjure a new gridiron strategy; nor, for that matter, did they try do anything that might have legitimately helped their skimpy chances against Harvard’s inexorable might...
...presidential election is another defeat for public campaign financing. But in the face of the Republican fund-raising machine, which is fueled in large part by donors with pockets much deeper than the $2,000 cap on individual contributions, there is no other choice but to maximize Democratic spending ability. For the moment, Dean and Kerry are right to raise and spend as much as they can. Democrats can’t suspend their full-force pursuit of the White House in the name of public financing, even if it is a respectable and worthy ideal...