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...Harvard women's volleyball team learned quickly this weekend that it does not like the taste of defeat...
...worthy people are destined for defeat, what does that make of the winners? This question hums throughout Vidal's historical series, particularly as it applies to the biggest winners, U.S. Presidents. Burr casts both Jefferson and George Washington in a harsh light. Lincoln portrays its protagonist as almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power; Empire makes merry with the boisterously ambitious Theodore Roosevelt. Vidal's fiction strives mightily to transform the faces on the Mount Rushmore monument into rubble and scree...
Fortunately for the English, a dearth of new talent just means a greater opportunity to do more Shakespeare. And despite the slight air of defeat in the idea of facing the new millennium with a string of 400 year old plays, it's hard to complain when there are so many worthy productions of the Bard. Leading the pack is the National Theater's new production of Hamlet, starring the incomparable Simon Russell Beale. Bringing a sensitivity and compassion to the title role beyond that found in almost all other stagings in memory, Beale has clearly solidified his position...
...trial," of course, was primarily a propaganda stunt designed to distract Serb voters ahead of Sunday's election, in which polls indicate they plan to deliver Milosevic a humiliating defeat at the ballot box. Still, nobody's under any illusions that the outcome of the actual vote will prevent Milosevic from declaring victory within hours of the polls' closing and, with the backing of his army, daring anyone to disagree. But the Clinton-Blair "trial" may have a more sinister intention than simply cocking a snook at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague. Now that Clinton, Albright, Blair...
Bruised, battered and frustrated, the losing team inevitably searches for someone to blame in the face of an unexpected defeat. To place the onus on one's own shortcomings is to lose face; to credit the other team for a better performance is to admit inferiority. The most foolproof tact is to, instead, blame the referee--for a bad call on a particularly key play, for consistently favoring the other team or for simply being, as school kids are apt to whine in gym class, "not fair...