Word: defeatism
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...Harvard is notoriously in touch with everyone to solicit donations. Zou, who studies government, was told at OCS that she could look through a list of alumni but could only contact them for advice and not for job opportunities. She asks, “Doesn’t this defeat the entire purpose of having an alum network?” Perhaps Harvard could ask alumni to offer interesting internship opportunities to current undergraduates...
...result was a disappointing 57-55 defeat for the Crimson (7-10, 2-2 Ivy), the team’s third straight loss decided during the closing seconds of regulation or in overtime...
...Knights did just enough in the fifth game to pull out the victory, edging Harvard 10 kills to nine and handing the Crimson its second two-point final frame defeat in as many contests...
...insurgency continues to grow in size, scale and momentum. Where the Bush administration once dismissed the insurgents as "Baathist bitter-enders" and "foreign terrorists" who would be crushed by the U.S. and its Iraqi allies, it is now more common for U.S. officers to admit they are unlikely to defeat the insurgency any time soon. Henry Kissinger once famously noted that while a counterinsurgency campaign wins only when by eliminating the insurgents, the insurgents win by simply surviving, i.e. by not losing. And by the measure established by Kissinger, Iraq's insurgents may be doing a lot better than their...
...reach out to others and to explain to others why I make the decisions I make.” Dictating our agenda to others has characterized U.S. foreign policy for four years. More of the same will not strengthen ties with the countries we need on our side to defeat terrorism, AIDS and other global threats...