Word: defeatism
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...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...
...Plain Speaking Joe Klein's column on John Kerry's reluctance to make statements that are controversial or negative, heeding the advice of his political consultants, was right on target [Aug. 30]. Kerry is headed for defeat because he seems to be a politician who test-markets his every utterance, whereas President George W. Bush, love him or hate him, comes across as a man who means what he says and doesn't stick his finger in the air checking to see which way the wind is blowing before he speaks. Nicky Billou Toronto...
...real test of winner’s confidence is when you lose. That’s the time to avoid panic, resist the temptation to neglect the foundations (skipping sections, avoiding friends) and definitely not get dragged down by defeat. Setbacks offer a choice point: whether to slip into self-defeating behavior, or to instead firm up the cornerstones of confidence—a sense of personal responsibility, respect for others, the desire to do something to make a difference...
Nittany Lions’ forward Tiffany Weimer beat her defender and tallied a goal in the 81st minute to hand Harvard its second consecutive one-goal defeat to start the season...
...constraints. The day before an attack by al-Qaeda militants on a compound in Khobar in late May that killed 22 people, the imam at the mosque in Medina dismissed terrorism as a "summer cloud" before ending with a typical rant against the Jews: "O vanquisher of the infidels, defeat them, shake them up, destroy them!" The failure of the Saudis to rein in such elements could prove disastrous were the clerics ever to decide to incite their followers to rise up against the regime--which bin Laden has called for. The determination of Islamic militants to topple the Saudi...