Word: defeatism
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...defeat has further spurred ample speculation in the British press about a leadership challenge to Brown from ambitious Labourites. Any open challenge would likely come first as trial balloons from backbench "stalking horse" candidates, who could never win. But if the bidding were open, more prominent party figures, many of whom now argue passionately for unity behind Brown, could enter the ring. Among the names mentioned are David Milliband, the baby-faced but brilliant Foreign Secretary; Ed Balls, the Education Secretary, who was a key Brown operative in the years of covert internecine war against Tony Blair's camp...
...iconic image of Nazi Germany's defeat is Yevgeny Khaldei's photograph of a young Red Army soldier raising a Soviet flag atop the Reichstag over a smoldering Berlin in May 1945. That photograph is to the war in Europe what Joe Rosenthal's image of the planting of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima is to the war in the Pacific, and its author has been called the Soviet Robert Capa. Had the Red Army war photographer received his due over the years, he might well have become as famous as Capa. Instead, it is only now, posthumously, that...
...varied mountainous terrain in which to train and prepare for war. But Israel and America have few options. They can't isolate Lebanon like the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip, and the last two Israeli invasions of Lebanon were disasters. Like the American-backed government, they may have to admit defeat in Lebanon...
...Official commentators covering the match tried drumming up Russian support for Chelsea on the grounds of it being owned by oligarch Abramovich, which, they suggested would mean it could bring Russia a victory by proxy. But the proxy result was a defeat. Much as connoisseurs enjoyed the often dramatic match, a touch of bitterness lingered. A friend summed it up succinctly: "That's what Abramovich spent a billion dollars on? To buy these blue-clad fumblers? What a waste of our money...
...These rousing displays of fortitude , however, don't necessarily suggest a positive message for women. Clinton's vow, in particular, moved Slate writer Dahlia Lithwick to ask what it means if feminism is "the inability to concede error or defeat - even in light of irrefutable, empirical evidence and in the face of spiraling support and tanking morale...