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...always tough when you lose a doubles point,” Ermakov explained. “But in a sense it makes us a little bit hungrier out there in the singles. [The coaches] always give us the same message, that it’s a wake-up call.” Although senior Ermakov and senior Ashwin Kumar took first doubles 8-2, senior Dan Nguyen and sophomore Mike Hayes dropped their match 8-6, as did the all-freshman team of Aba Omodele Lucien and Alexei Chijoff-Evans. Despite this disappointment, Nguyen and Kumar responded with authority, dispatching...
...Florida Democrats insist that the moves by their state and Michigan should have indicated to the DNC that the rules were antiquated and flawed, and therefore required some flexibility. "I detest this ruling," says U.S. Representative Robert Wexler, Barack Obama's Florida campaign director. "This should have been a wake-up call to the party that the primary system needs to be more representative and democratic...
...LINING Boeing's loss of the aerial-tanker contract to a partly foreign rival may show that defense spending is about more than hometown pork for U.S. companies. Critics say Boeing approached the contract bid with a sense of entitlement; in a global market, this may be a needed wake-up call...
...Paradigm Hotel Rwanda (2004) The 1994 genocide serves as a wake-up call to the West, with Rwanda as a bleak symbol of ignored injustices everywhere...
...that it is not playing by "the old rules" of politics. That can often include neglecting to establish and enforce the kind of strict rules for conduct and communications that more practiced, buttoned-down campaigns provide. In that respect, the recent troubles of Goolsbee and Power should be a wake-up call to Obama...