Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, Harvard did defeat two strong crews from Wisconsin and Northeastern...
...Crimson offensively for the weekend. Harvard's offense was erratic for four out of the five games, averaging 2.25 runs in them. An 8-0 win in the finals against Cornell was the exception; since that was the Big Red's first loss of the tournament, Harvard had to defeat Cornell once more...
...Harvard, the most disappointing facet of the defeat was that the offense had just shown what it could do in the previous game, with eight runs over five innings. The potential was there, but the product wasn...
Garry Kasparov's loss need not concern us. He went home $400,000 richer, and he will be back to play again, probably be in better form than he was this time. Deep Blue's victory is not our defeat. It should simply challenge us to reaffirm the importance of human creativity in our lives. As the technological revolution continues and as all of us leave here to fight its battles, we would do best not to lose sight of our most impressive and powerful asset: the human spirit...
...also woke up to a Labour majority of such a size--419 seats--that it should prove easy to push through Tony Blair's program of giving power to Scottish and Welsh assemblies and kicking the hereditary peers out of the House of Lords. It is the biggest Tory defeat in 165 years: half the government have lost their seats, the party is virtually leaderless, the succession is wide open, and the only Tory politician who is looking calm, secure and confident is Margaret Thatcher, who campaigned loyally for John Major but privately forecast his catastrophic defeat. She will again...