Word: defeatism
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...Quotes About: "[Fonseka] has to answer to the people. We have a lot of allegations against him. [Sri Lankans] don't want anarchy. They don't want dictatorship. So they rejected Fonseka." - Basil Rajapaksa, younger brother and adviser to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in the aftermath of Fonseka's defeat at the polls on Jan. 28. Rajapaksa hinted at Fonseka's rumored plans to overthrow the government (Indo-Asian News Service...
After Brown, a 12-seed, shocked the fifth-seeded Crimson with a series sweep at Bright Hockey Center in the 2009 ECAC playoffs–and then followed that up with a 4-1 defeat of Harvard on Dec. 1–the Crimson finally got some redemption...
Rookie Chad Eason (125) again wrestled above his weight class, suffering a fall to Bryan Ortenzio in just 38 seconds. Three other Harvard grapplers faced defeat in the same manner, as Penn demonstrated why four of its nine competitors are ranked...
...Despite predictions that the contest would be a close one, Rajapaksa won by a comfortable 1.8 million votes. But Fonseka did not go quietly. He has accused the government of harassment after the defeat and was meeting with opposition political leaders when military police arrived at his house Monday night. Witnesses at the scene told TIME that Fonseka had informed the military that he wanted police to be present when the arrest was made, but despite his protests, he was taken away by military police...
...track standards, Clay wasn’t successful last weekend, but the decathlete’s outlook allows him to be flexible in his definition of the word. When we inevitably come up short at some point in our four years, may we too be so content in defeat...