Word: defeatism
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...G.A.M. is still a serious threat. Nasrudin, a 31-year-old marine captain who is Acehnese, is the military administrator for the region around Juli, a village in Biruen, one of the province's most dangerous battlegrounds. He acknowledges that the rebels in his area have proved tough to defeat: "We've managed to push them into the mountains temporarily, but they're still out there. You take the military away, and the whole place would be fully back in their control in an hour." Meanwhile, the impact of the past year is eerily evident on the streets of Juli...
...success of the Congress Party resulted from people voting against the economic policies of the then government. Many Indians, however, are bent on portraying the victory as a defeat of Hindu nationalism. Just as Americans are being called enemies of Islam, the majority Hindus of India are said to be intolerant of the minority Muslims, despite much evidence to the contrary. Some in the Congress Party have been exploiting the Muslim vote by spreading the canard of Hindu intolerance. It may sound unbelievable, but apart from a small lunatic fringe, most Hindus raise their voices against discrimination toward Muslims. Rajendra...
...culture for more than a decade, voters chose a President who was nearly 70 when he took office, a kind of living time capsule of the American Century, born before the phrase world war had been introduced, a child when the Russian Revolution gave birth to the empire whose defeat he would accomplish as President. Somehow it took America's oldest President to make the country feel young again, its mission not yet completed, its glory days ahead...
...hands of Gerald Ford, who did not represent right-thinking conservatism. It was almost unheard of to challenge an incumbent President from one's own party, but in 1976 Reagan took the risk, losing at the convention, 1,187 delegates to 1,070. When Ford went down to defeat, Reagan was well positioned to claim the right to be the next challenger to President Jimmy Carter...
After Princeton tied the game at 42 with just 23 seconds remaining, it appeared that Harvard would have one last chance to defeat the Ivy-leading Tigers on the road in regulation. Sophomore forward Matt Stehle promptly inbounded the ball to sophomore guard Michael Beal...