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...Crimson (3-1-1, 3-1-0 ECACHL) fell to Yale (2-4-0, 1-3-0) in a tight game that sparked Harvard to come out Saturday and give one of its best efforts of the young season to defeat Princeton 3-0 at Hobey Baker Rink...

Author: By Abigail M. Baird and Abigail M. Baird, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: W. Hockey Suffers Historic Loss to Bulldogs | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...then ... defeat. Now, with the image of Bush's victory speech seared into Democrats' forebrain, the temptation to abandon all hope is almost overwhelming, especially for those who, right up to the end, refused to entertain the possibility of a second term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2004 Election: Buck Up, Liberals: How to Get Over It | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...consumer-confidence index at election time is above 99, the incumbent's party remains in office; anything lower signals defeat. Since 1968, only Al Gore, who lost in 2000 despite a high consumer-confidence number, had been the exception. But the low October figure of 92.8 didn't hamper Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prediction Watch | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

Having helped defeat his longtime rival, O'Neill says he will go back to private life. His share of the profits from Unfit for Command will be used to aid veterans and military families in need. But beyond that, O'Neill says, "I look forward to again being the Rip Van Winkle of politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2004 Election: Winners & Losers: Nov. 15, 2004 | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...criminal, a flip-flopper, a weak-willed vessel who will say anything to get elected. And much of the time, we even mean it. And then we decide. And then we realize that we are still in a real war, that we still have real enemies to defeat and that the world didn't stop turning and churning while we were campaigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: 2004 Election: Let's Have a Truce | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

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