Word: defeatism
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Hadfield’s second-place finish last night echoed his previous UC defeat. Last year, Hadfield and then-presidential contender Magnus D. Grimeland ’07, snagged a surprise second-place finish, but the momentum was not enough to catapult him to victory in this election...
...much the West can or will do about it. Relations between Moscow and the West have rarely hinged on single, or even systematic, human rights abuses. It was not expedient for the democracies to admit the existence of Stalin's Gulag when the priority was working together to defeat Hitler. It may be no more expedient to focus on human rights issues in Putin's Russia as long as Moscow must be kept as an ally in the war on terror, and persuaded to back sanctions against Iran...
...decided to put one-loss Florida in the title game to play for the right to get blown out by Ohio State in January. It was the Wolverines, as you’ll remember, whose only loss was to that undefeated No. 1 Buckeye squad, a three-point road defeat three weeks ago in Columbus. And the Gators struggled mightily in their conquering of the SEC—the most overrated and over-hyped conference in college football...
...cope with terminology about the war. It’s an issue consistently debated since 2003, as the administration and compliant news agencies had worked together to shape the country’s various perceptions of the conflict. This past week, in the wake of a decisive electoral defeat and the removal of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, the beleaguered president took another blow as a few major news organizations began to shift their description of the conflict to “civil...
...thing that may be predictable is that Chavez will continue to rail against Washington. He proclaimed his victory a defeat for the U.S. and dedicated it to the Cuban people and their ailing leader, Fidel Castro. After years of listening to their leader pounding away at Bush, Chavez supporters appear to believe that Washington is their main enemy. "This is a lesson we're going to give to Bush, because he's interested in our oil reserves," said Luis Jose Moreno, a voter in the poor Caracas neighborhood of Petare, about his conviction that Chavez would...