Word: defeatism
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...that we should not fight against terrorism, that we should put our democracy into jeopardy?" KING GYANENDRA, of Nepal, having dismissed the government and declared a state of emergency on Feb. 1, arguing that nations like India and Britain should continue to provide military aid to help him defeat a Maoist insurgency...
...prospects are looking brighter, going 13-0-2 in 2005, winning twice over rival Dartmouth and garnering both ECAC and Ivy titles. Harvard has accomplished this feat only twice before, in 1999 and 2003. One season led to a national championship, the other led to a triple-overtime defeat in the final game...
...spark that could have gotten the Bulldogs, who were trailing by 15 at the time, back in the game became the crushing blow that signaled the team’s defeat...
...vaulted Harvard past Yale in the Ivy League standings for the first time since the two teams met two weeks earlier in New Haven, when the Crimson couldn’t convert on any of its three possessions in the final minute in a one-point defeat...
Grassley gives Bush 90 days to generate support, and moderate G.O.P. Representative Chris Shays of Connecticut says, "I would be surprised to see a bill passed by the House, Senate, and signed by the President in the next two years." Still, the White House is far from conceding defeat on its top legislative priority. "This is the beginning of the process, not the end," says a senior White House official. Bush will continue to travel a couple of days each week to the districts of G.O.P. lawmakers and "persuadable" Democrats. But tactics are getting rougher. Shadegg believes that liberal groups...