Word: repeater
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With memories of a violent altercation the last time these two teams faced off in New Haven, Harvard (4-4-1 overall, 2-1-0 Ivy) travels to Yale to be faced with a must-win situation in its quest to repeat as Ivy League Champions...
Today, The U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt glides stealthily in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of what once was Yugoslavia. Ironically, the motto of the Western powers for most of the Bosnian conflict has been to "Speak hypocritically and thwack yourself with a small twig." Western leaders regularly repeat their mantra of how "Bosnia was a great failure of Western leadership," as if they are speaking of some other Western leaders and that with the admission of guilt all their sins are absolved...
...table around which they gathered was the same and the two men shaking hands were the same, yet the mood was somehow different. Perhaps it was the diminished ardor of a repeat performance. Or maybe it was the spectacle of Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat actually seeming comfortable with each other. Whatever the reason, even the principals seemed to sense that last Thursday's gathering at the White House paled in comparison with the September 1993 ceremony, when the Israelis and the Palestinians stunned the world by signaling their determination to end the hostilities that had divided them...
Nevertheless, Apple is in trouble. For one, the demand for the new Power Macs has proved to be a mixed blessing. Anxious to avoid a repeat of 1993, when supplies of PowerBook laptops exceeded demand, Spindler's staff erred in the other direction, drastically underestimating the demand for the new line and failing to produce enough to meet orders. Apple expected growth for its computers to peak at 23% a year, a few points higher than the industry average for computers; demand growth, however, turned out to be a stunning 35%, says Tim Bajarin, a Silicon Valley computer marketing consultant...
...apart nonetheless. They could not make decisions because they didn't know how they felt about their choices. They couldn't react to warnings or anger in other people. If they made a mistake, like a bad investment, they felt no regret or shame and so were bound to repeat...