Word: defeatism
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...About That Election As a Spanish citizen, I am appalled by the persistent conclusion by some that the terrorists won the Spanish elections [March 29]. The bomb attacks simply set in motion a series of events that added up to defeat for Prime Minister Jos? Mar?a Aznar, beginning with his government's effort to blame the bombings on the Basque terrorists of ETA and to rule out al-Qaeda. This arrogance and cynicism insulted the very essence of democracy by blotting out the truth. If ETA had been responsible for the attacks, Aznar's party would have won, because...
...demonstrations all across Spain told the world that peace and justice will never be beaten by terrorism. It was the Spanish government's failure to provide truthful information about the bombs that gave rise to the greatest confusion. The government's disinformation was a major cause of the defeat of Aznar and his party. First among all the causes that provoked the vote against Aznar, however, was his arrogance in defying the will of his people, who did not want to get involved in the Iraq war. The government must stop underestimating the capacity of its citizens to decide...
...whole team simultaneously. Benjamin likens the experience to “playing against God...I’ve never seen anything like it before.” Benjamin notes that his competitor would envision “long, complicated sequences in seconds” as he proceeded to defeat the entire Harvard team...
Trailing 6-4 in the third period and looking its third straight loss in the face—a defeat that would have definitively ended the Crimson’s chances of postseason play—Harvard put together a furious rally to take a two-goal advantage. The Crimson then fought off Brown’s best efforts to come back in the fourth period. With the win-—its first in Ivy League play—Harvard pulls above the .500 mark on the season...
...Cornell had rallied from the same two-goal deficit on April 10 in their 9-8 overtime defeat of the Crimson, but this time Harvard bore down and refused to let its third chance to knock off a ranked favorite slip away...