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Triantafillou's departure, due to her surprising defeat in the Nov. 2 election, was the most emotional of the night...
Many council members have deemed the failure of the referendum a major defeat, after having invested a great deal of time and energy into supporting its passage...
...With the defeat, Harvard dropped below the .500 mark for the first time this season...
...only 2.07 runs a game, farther below the major league average than any other pitcher's record. If that math is too hard, try this: Martinez's 23 wins brought his talent-poor Red Sox to the American League championship, where the ace handed the Yankees their only defeat of the play-offs...
...benefits and protections enjoyed by their heterosexual counterparts. But the ruling is something of a mixed bag for gay-rights advocates. While the state has already approved legal protections to gays' and lesbians' housing, employment and civil rights, TIME writer John Cloud says, "this ruling is more of a defeat than a victory." The court, rather than make what Cloud calls "a truly groundbreaking ruling," stopped short of deciding whether same-sex couples' rights would be established through a formal marriage or a statewide system of domestic partnerships, leaving that decision for the state legislature's 2000 session...