Word: setbacks
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With the win over Columbia (3-5, 1-4), the Crimson remains tied with Cornell and Penn atop the Ivy League standings. Yale fell off the pace this weekend with a surprising setback at Brown...
...have the money to run high profile ads; that's a major setback," Hagelin says. "But we have built now the largest, strongest grassroots infrastructure of volunteers and candidates and organizers in the history of third party politics...
Despite the setback, Harvard maintained hope that it could equalize the score in the second half...
...Yugoslavian army. Although the vote, which was boycotted by the territory's Serb minority, was to appoint representatives to local authorities, they represented the first opportunity for Kosovo's Albanians to state their political preferences since the war. And Rugova's victory appears to have been a stunning setback for Hashem Thaci and other former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who had long disparaged Rugova's moderation...
...while he may not have started any of the wars Milosevic fought over the past decade, he remains a passionate advocate of the rights of the Serb minorities in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. The latter territory?s ethnic-Albanian leadership may well regard Kostunica?s election as a setback, since there was no way the international community would force them to accept rule from Belgrade while Milosevic was in power, but now that he?s out they?re more likely to follow the U.N. Security Council resolution on the territory which recognizes Yugoslavian sovereignty over an autonomous Kosovo...