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...pasttime. Imagine if at the end of a tied nine inning baseball game, the ump flipped a coin to determine who hits first. If that lucky team scores right away, it wins. It doesn't have to protect its lead by getting the final three outs, and the toss loser doesn't get its chance at "last licks...
...hundred billion last week, didn't we? It's just ridiculous. And now General Motors. They said we're going to give them $25 billion to retool. Retool what? They'll run through that money so fast they'll be back wanting more. We can't keep every loser alive...
...would never be national high school champion. I blinked, and once again felt old. The way Chris told the story of his high school years, it sounded like the plot of “She’s All That.” He had metamorphosed from the loser who carried the Constitution of the United States in his chest pocket to senior year Homecoming King. Why wouldn’t he think he could win the White House? “THAT GUY?...
...Harvard and Yale? Let’s bring back the tradition that stood for so many years. The archives suggest that the Crimson-Daily News game was even televised for a number of years. I’m not talking about recreating some friendly game where the loser says “Oh well, at least we don’t live in Cambridge.” I’m talking about bragging rights for a full year. At this point we’re just over two weeks and counting from what is the pinnacle of the Ancient...
...never had any in the first place. He ran not so much on any creed as on the belief that everything was broken, that the very system that produces candidates and frames issues and decides who loses and who wins in public life does little more than make a loser out of the American people. We need to start over, he argued, speak gently, listen carefully, find solutions, keep our word. It was precisely because he was an outsider with a thin résumé and few cronies or scars or grudges that he could sell himself...