Word: defeatism
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...because he felt it had abandoned its Roman Catholic ideals of social justice for a narrower pro-business ideology. Felipe was relatively obscure until 2005, when he upset the P.A.N.'s anointed candidate to win the party's 2006 presidential nomination. He later overcame a double-digit deficit to defeat López Obrador. "Calderón is an up-by-the-bootstraps story and has always gone against the odds," says political analyst Federico Estévez of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. "To a lot of people, that's what Mexico needs at this fragile stage of its democracy...
...quite inhumane.The players abused other players, the players abused the fans, but in the end, it was the Harvard men’s tennis team that took just slightly more abuse, losing 4-3 to Purdue yesterday at the Murr Tennis Center.The defeat came in a match that featured so many heart-thumping rallies that by its conclusion, the fans felt as worn out as the players.The match started out auspiciously for Harvard but proceeded with such riveting swings of momentum that the final turn—in Purdue’s favor—felt almost anticlimactic.That swing came...
...limiting our options to either serving on the front lines or sitting in front of the tube, the president’s deluded view of sacrifice misses all the ways in which our success in Iraq depends on the choices we make back home. If we want to defeat an enemy that gains strength from oil revenue, then we need a more aggressive approach to ending our dependence on petroleum. On the individual level, this means becoming smarter consumers who prioritize fuel efficiency over engine size in buying cars, and who take advantage of public transportation. On the collective level...
...second-seeded O’Connor, who lost a close match to No. 1 seed Jordan Leen of Cornell in the finals, wrestled well in his first EIWA appearance, garnering a win by fall and a major decision on his way to the championship match.The 2-1 defeat to Leen was only O’Connor’s sixth loss in an impressive rookie season, in which he became the winningest freshman in the history of Harvard’s wrestling program. Preston, the No. 3 seed, took third at 133 lb.After winning the first three bouts, he came...
...captain, who scored 30 points in a game twice last season, became the first player in Harvard basketball history to achieve the feat three times.For the Crimson, the victory served to avenge last year’s team, which lost at Newman Arena in the final minute, a crushing defeat that sent the team on to seven more losses in a row. Harvard led by four points with under two minutes to play in that game, but could not complete the job. This year, Housman and Goffredo made sure the Crimson put the Big Red to sleep...