Word: defeating
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...perimeter play was strong enough to defeat host Santa Clara. Senior shooting guard Mike Beam knocked down six three-pointers and led Harvard with 20 points. Clemente added three treys and finished with 12 points. Beam and Clemente were the only Crimson players to score in double figures in the Harvard victory...
...roil of combat; gifted with superhuman size and godlike strength; and, perhaps most important, confronted with the brutal and inescapable vulnerability that all great athletes must face--the daily threat that an inferior force might vanquish them. Athletic heroism attains the heights of glory through its very proximity to defeat. And it dramatizes the worth of workaday values we want our kids and our neighbors' kids to absorb: diligent attention to practice and homework, concentration, persistence, equanimity, teamwork...
...killed by lightning. In addition, you can't use a child's own cord blood to cure him. If he had a genetic condition, you'd be giving him back his old disorder. If he had cancer, you'd be giving him the same immune system that failed to defeat the cancer in the first place...
Defensive match-up problems and rebounding woes aside, last night's embarrassing defeat pointed to a troubling lack of cohesion and effectiveness at the offensive...
...necessary in order for UN inspectors to be able to do their jobs, this may mean the end of ground-based reconaissance. In the end, the decision to launch missile strikes on Iraq is another big win for Saddam Hussein. "The strikes are tantamount to an acknowledgment of defeat from the U.S.," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. UNSCOM's on-the-ground effort at arms control through inspection is now over. A more violent -- and less effective -- era of containing Saddam is now under...