Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order for Harvard to now win the league outright, it will not only have to defeat defending league champion Pennsylvania this week and then Yale on the road, but both Yale and Brown will also have to lose twice, and Cornell once. This scenario appears particularly unlikely considering that Brown's two remaining opponents are Dartmouth and Columbia, two squads that boast a combined record...
...Crimson's weekend was a mix of surprising success and disappointing defeat. Joe Green, co-captain and the team's top player, was seeded No. 7 in the field. After a bye in the first round and an easy 6-1, 6-2 victory over Andre Vanier of St. John's University, Green faltered and lost to unseeded Ahn Ahn Liu of Princeton, who went on to the semifinals...
Other Crimson players who participated in the tournament fared well also. Junior Mike Rich took out No. 9 seed Salil Seshadri of Columbia in three sets in the second round before suffering a 6-3, 6-4 defeat at the hands of Oscar Lopez of the University of Maryland- Baltimore...
That win came after Harvard held on to defeat first-year program Wisconsin (5-4-1, 3-2-1 WCHA) Friday night in Madison...
Chalabi didn't fade away after his defeat in 1996. Instead, he flew to Washington, where, to the outrage of the CIA and State Department, he began cultivating key Republican Senators such as Trent Lott and Jesse Helms, who forced Clinton to sign the Iraq Liberation Act. Chalabi hoped that the legislation would open the spigot on U.S. arms and training so he could field another guerrilla force...