Word: defeatism
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...grassroots effort to end investments in companies operating in Apartheid-era South Africa. In 2002, students again petitioned university administrators to divest from companies with business ties to Israel for its apparent violations of international law. Today, Harvard students have a unique opportunity to do something that will help defeat terrorism: urge Harvard University’s endowment to divest from companies that operate in terrorist-sponsoring states...
Coming off the heels of an unnerving 2-0 loss to No. 20 Maine and a 3-1 defeat to No. 6 Connecticut, the No. 18 Harvard field hockey team could sense another heartbreaker as soon as the second half began against Brown on Saturday afternoon...
...forget everything that went wrong. The Bears gave every team in the league a blueprint of how to attack the Harvard defense. Unless the Crimson addresses what went askew on Saturday, this may not be the last time that Harvard is forced to come back from the verge of defeat...
...Crimson (5-3, 1-0 Ivy) tallied its first win in Ivy League play with a 3-1 defeat of the host Big Green in the tournament’s opening match...
...those options that can please half the voters or, at least, five out of nine Supreme Court Justices. That rankles our American souls. We should be satisfied! We should be catered to! We specifically asked for the vinaigrette on the side! And so the losers grow more aggrieved in defeat and the winners less generous in victory. What is it, after all, that most aggravates Democrats about President Bush? That he campaigned as a centrist but led from the right; he lost the popular vote but governed as though he had won in a landslide. And why shouldn...