Word: hard-luck
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...this year's team was the consummate "hard-luck gang;" it lost a total of eight games all season, and, incredibly, all eight were decided by one goal...
...begin with, Singapore is an offshore republic that tightly limits immigration. Imagine crime-ridden Los Angeles, to which Singapore is sometimes contrasted, with hardly any inflow of the hard-luck, often desperate fortune seekers who flock to big cities. Imagine in the same way Jakarta or Shanghai. Beyond that, Singapore began its life as a British colony designed to serve as a shipping, administrative and financial center. Today it is a highly skilled society without the urban sprawl and rural poverty that afflict larger nations. An analogue might be Manhattan incorporated as a republic between the Battery and 96th Street...
...UCLA, Thongthiraj is helping change that view. She is director of the Asian Pacific Coalition, an umbrella group of 19 ethnic organizations on campus. In promoting cultural awareness and aiding new immigrants, especially hard-luck cases from Indochina, the coalition encourages them to articulate a more assertive political voice and American identity...
...Game itself is set to start at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the capacious Yale Bowl, located in the leafy suburb of Westwood. Despite the traditional hype, however, this year's contest features two hard-luck squads battling it out for bragging rights to second-to-last place in the Ivies...
...BOTTOM LINE: A strong-minded look at a hard-luck life, reserved and truthful in the telling...