Word: forfeit
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...meet that saw the Crimson (0-1) win only one match by decision and one by forfeit in a 39-9 loss, Harvard head coach Jay Weiss acknowledged that the team “didn’t look [its] best” in the home opener, but noted the difficulty of going against a top team so early in the season...
...space for abstention. In an election where so much is shared by the three respective campaigns, voters who find all of the candidates for each position uninspiring are left out in the cold with respect to choice: Their only option is not to cast a ballot and to forfeit their right to have a say. In any democratic system, there ought to be a clear difference between an informed abstention and an outright decision to stay away from the polls. The two reflect very different attitudes toward voting and ought to send two very different messages—something...
...suddenly on the morning of the contest, The Game was cancelled. According to an extra edition of the Yale Daily News, 16 football players had come down with gonorrhea contracted from three Yale cheerleaders in a party after the Brown game six weeks earlier. Harvard had won by forfeit...
...We’ll put out a fake Yale Daily News,” Southwick said, “revealing that the entire Yale football team came down with hepatitis and had to forfeit the football game...
Seems ages ago--but it was less than 2 1/2 years--that folks were seriously debating whether The Lord of the Rings or the Harry Potter films would make the more enthralling adaptation of fantasy literature. That competition was over--declared a forfeit, really--as soon as the respective first installments appeared: the Gandalf wizard movie vanquished the Harry wizard movie in thrills and technical splendor, artistry and maturity. But in the values Hollywood understands, worldwide box-office income, the first two films from the J.K. Rowling books outperformed the first two Tolkien films, $1.84 billion to $1.78 billion. Reason...