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...mentioned George Bush in a game of word association for political insiders just six weeks ago, the responses would have been devastating: loser, wimp, preppie, lapdog. Mention the Vice President now, and the chorus would be loud and clear: Republican nominee for President...
...five years, aiming to use the company as the foundation for a global natural- resources empire. His decision to sell was poignant evidence of the changing fortunes wrought by last October's stock-market crash, in which Holmes a Court's empire was perhaps the world's single largest loser...
...biggest winner of all may prove to be what are known as wholesale politics. The biggest loser--the personal politics that held sway in Iowa and New Hampshire, where candidates often criscrossed the same small towns. Super Tuesday, as Robin Toner of the New York Times notes, is as much "the K-2 campaign" as the people's forum. K-2 is the satellite that makes it possible for Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D.Mo.) to answer questions from North Carolina and Wyoming from a hotel suite in Kansas City...
Alex Konolvachik rebounded from a quarterfinal pin to snag a fifth-place finish in the 190-lb. class. Konovalchik rose up through the loser's bracket in the double elimination tournament...
Poker players rejoice when they detect a fish -- a cheerful, tireless, well- funded loser -- radiating stupidity from across the green felt. Poker, of course, is a low pastime, whereas investment counseling, stockbroking and commodities trading are honorable professions. Still, suggests amateur Investor John Rothchild in this wry and funny confession, the professional gents and ladies of the financial markets are by no means reluctant to gnaw underachieving seafood when it presents itself...