Word: loserness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lacrosse team to its first two-game win streak of the season against Denver on Saturday. And he was able to do just that. After battling for the full hour of regulation and two four-minute overtime periods, Cohen sent the Pioneers home an 8-7 loser on a goal with 1:15 left in the third overtime. He came around the left side of the net, diving past two defenders into the crease for the score to end the longest game in Crimson history. “They were shutting me off with the short stick...
Honey, however, is hardly the only example of puritainment out there; there is an entire genre answering some unspoken yearning of viewers to have their TVs whip their decadent couch-potato butts into shape, or at least to watch it happen to someone else. Nanny 911, Supernanny, The Biggest Loser, Celebrity Fit Club, Wife Swap, Cold Turkey--in all of them, someone comes in to impose "tough new rules" on participants who stand in for us in weak-willed lumpy America. Lose weight! Quit smoking! Be a better parent! Millions of Americans gladly, masochistically sit down to be lectured...
...clear loser in this mix is Frist. Having said he'd bring up his own, tough counterpart to the House bill for a vote, the presidential hopeful is now forced to allow consideration of a guest worker program that has all the hallmarks of the amnesty his potential supporters on the right detest. Emerging from the elevator banks in the Dirksen building as the last of the jubilant business lobbyists was leaving and walking slowly down the hall toward a meeting with the rest of the Republican leadership and Senator Specter, Frist admitted the committee vote had altered his plans...
...real loser in the election may well turn out to be Likud?s Netanyahu. A gruff ex-Prime Minister nicknamed Bibi, Netanyahu managed to anger most of his right-wing voters after taking office in 1996 by cutting subsidies for the big families of ultra-Orthodox Jews and by giving away part of Hebron to the Palestinians. This time around, Netanyahu tried to stop Kadima?s surge in the polls by scare-mongering about Palestinian terrorism and hurling personal insults against Olmert, but these tactics backfired. At best, Likud can hope to become a junior partner as part...
...dinner provided an escape from the typical Annenberg social melee. “I don’t necessarily like to do my socializing while I eat,” said DeCoste. “At four you can come and eat by yourself and not feel like a loser.” Munching on Frosted Mini Spooners and a turkey sandwich, Frances M. Tompkins ’09 said it was her first time taking advantage of the extended hours. “I’m happy to have another hour to slip in,” said...