Word: defeats
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Saturday's win over the Rams gives the Quakers a two game win streak which includes a 20-10 victory over Bucknell. Penn's lone defeat came on September 26 against Richmond, 34-18--the only game Finn has failed to rush for 100 yards. The Quakers lone Ivy game was a 17-14 victory at the Big Green...
Brillembourg noted that Harvard has laggedbehind other schools in recognizing theinappropriateness of celebrating Columbus Day as adiscovery instead of a defeat...
...There is a big change in the national mood,"he said, referring to recent developments inCalifornia, where minority enrollment plungedafter affirmative action was removed as anadmissions factor at public universities. "[But]thanks to a coalition, [the Riggs amendment] wasdecisively defeated. We're going to defeat itagain.... To think that we could not have leadersto represent the broad sweep of society, to thinkthat we could go on without that, is just making aterrible, terrible mistake. We've got to have morevictories...
...decision was a defeat for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in his fight to ban the November referendum from the ballot...
That ovation, coupled with Nomar's dignified heroics in Game Four this season, showed me that the pain of defeat is only temporary, but grace is timeless, and through it humanity can triumph over history...