Word: defeatism
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...tend to bend whichever way the wind from Beijing is blowing. And, these days, it is blowing in Tsang's favor. Though he is facing a challenger from the city's democratic camp-lawyer and lawmaker Alan Leong-Tsang already commands 641 nominations from the Election Committee, and will defeat Leong handily in the ballot, which takes place on March...
...glorious successes and humiliating defeats: American frigates beat British ships; Detroit fell to the enemy. The crisis came in 1814, when Napoleon's defeat freed British resources for a final push in the U.S. The British tried, and failed, to take Lake Champlain in upstate New York. They burned Washington but were stopped outside Baltimore (a battle that inspired The Star-Spangled Banner), and they prepared to attack New Orleans...
Succumbing to the Golden Knights in the opening game of the ECAC quarterfinal conference last Friday, the Harvard men’s hockey team suffered a 3-0 loss to Clarkson at Cheel Arena in Potsdam, N.Y., paving the way for its ultimate 2-0 defeat in the series. “For the most part, we outplayed them,” senior Kevin Du said. “But they’re a very good team, and we gave them too many opportunities, and they capitalized on them.” Entering the match with intensity, the Crimson...
...double to right, and rallied in the third, coming up with six runs on four hits.Pledger, Krysiak, Brown, Murphy, and freshman Melissa Schellberg all earned RBIs in the third.New Mexico scored again in the fourth and sixth innings, but it was not enough to come back and defeat Harvard.“New Mexico State was a good hitting team, and we kept them off balance,” Allard said. “We had a great offensive day. We did a better job of moving runners and getting key hits.”UNLV 1, HARVARD...
With a last-minute loss to St. Lawrence, a late two-goal lead blown in a draw with New Hampshire, and a triple-overtime defeat at Boston College (BC) in the Beanpot semifinals already on its resume, the Crimson capped its campaign of agonizing results with a marathon defeat at the hands of the top-seeded Badgers...