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...think she actually thrives on being kind of the underdog,” he said. “When she feels like she’s supposed to win that’s too much pressure...
...seasoned underdog, Saban grew up so poor that his family shared a communal bathroom with streetwalkers in a Tel Aviv apartment building. After stints playing bass in a rock band and promoting concerts, he moved to Paris in 1975. One day he was watching an English-language TV show and realized the theme music might be popular on French radio. He could buy the foreign rights to such tunes for a pittance, he discovered, and by the early '80s, he was licensing entire shows, mostly for kids...
...There’s an underdog mentality that people pass to you coming into a game,” Allard says. “Then you get in there, give them a run for their money or upset them, or do other great things...
...though the absence of President Joseph Kabila and a top rebel leader cast doubt on whether the deal signals a real end to 41/2 years of conflict. Under the agreement, Kabila will remain President of a transitional power-sharing government that will oversee democratic elections planned for 2005. The Underdog Wins Zimbabwe The main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), won two crucial parliamentary by-elections despite evidence of large-scale vote rigging and intimidation by supporters of President Robert Mugabe. His ruling ZANU-PF party is five seats short of the two-thirds parliamentary majority required...
...Everyone—our soldiers included—do not want the world to stop even if they are in action. The old proverb “baseball, mom and apple pie” still applies. Sports are integral to the American spirit—we root for the underdog just as we crave the “rags to riches” life. We love the camaraderie of being a part of something larger than ourselves, of cheering with thousands of others, of feeling the competitive spirit...