Word: loserness
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Meanwhile, other forum topics include “before the hell begins” (“Is it true that doing dorm crew makes you a loser? I heard that somewhere”), “Intellectual Debate” (“First of all, the plural of jedi is jedi”), and “must-have’s for dorm rooms” (“i’m going to princeton?...
...after his father's friends worried that it could hurt the family's reputation. But Sawiris boasts: "I throw the best parties in town. It's a passion for me to see people happy." Still, people who know him well say he can be moody, and is a sore loser. "Those who get him on a rare good day love him," says a family friend. "Those unlucky to get him on a bad day hate him." If Sawiris can pull off the Wind deal, he might look forward to having a few more good days...
...kiss not a smile/ Just open the door and let me lie down for a while," and the quixotic lover of All the Way Home, whose modest flirtation at last call amounts to "Maybe your first choice he's gone," suffer from near fatal cases of beautiful loser-itis. When Springsteen shifts into reportage, his details--the way turtles eat the skin from the corpse's eyes on Matamoros Banks, a prostitute's price for sex on Reno--can seem like overcompensation for his romantic indulgences...
...lottery tickets and discovered he had won $1,000. How bitter he was when he learned that none of the money would be his to enjoy. All of his winnings were confiscated by the state to go toward payment of a $2,100 child-support debt. Moaned the winner-loser: "I don't mind seeing my debts reduced, but I would have rather made the decision myself...
...people watch? Maybe to cringe, learn or revel with the occasional winner, whose businesses have included tailor-made clothes for women, beanbag-like hammocks, and mushrooms. Just as in real VC handshakes, deals can unravel during postshow due diligence. There's a Clay Aiken effect too. Like the Idol loser who flourished, Dragon rejects have found cash elsewhere. Dragons' Den looks ripe for the U.S., venture capital's home. Sony is talking with a U.S. network, rumored to be Discovery. --By Mark Halper