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With this defeat, Harvard's season came to an abrupt end, but the players have no reason the hang their heads. Not only did they play their best polo of the year, but they came within a single goal of the top two finishers...
After several hours rest, the Crimson returned to the pool to take on the Maryland Terrapins. On April 10, Harvard lost to Maryland 12-2. This time, the result, although still a defeat, was much closer...
With this defeat, Harvard's season came to an abrupt end, but the players have no reason to hang their heads. Not only did they play their best polo of the year, but they came within a single goal of the top two finishers...
...Iraq, with its tanks and warplanes, was probably the last foe to make that mistake. The death of 18 U.S. Army troops in Somalia in 1993 showed the perils of fighting a primitive foe. Even though some 500 Somalis died in the battle, the fight was seen as a defeat for the U.S., which withdrew shortly thereafter. Milosevic was the first test case following the Gulf War in which an enemy could choose, more or less, to try to engage the U.S. and its allies militarily. Knowing he could never win, he has decided simply to stretch out the campaign...
...have lost the cola wars for good. One line of reasoning is that Coke is simply too big to topple. Coke, for instance, has added 8 billion cases of sales in 10 years, according to CEO Douglas Ivester. Others say that Enrico's deliberate strategy is tantamount to declaring defeat. Says Tom Pirko, president of consulting firm Bevmark: "Pepsi has put its tail between its legs and withdrawn...