Word: setbacks
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...Harvard, though, received a serious setback during the week leading up to its first round contest against the Engineers...
...After stretching Ivy League champion Penn to the wire in a 81-76 setback at Lavietes Pavilion, Harvard returned to its home court and broke a 17-game winless streak against last year's league champion, Princeton...
However, the team that sometimes "didn't show up," failed to show up several more times this season. The Crimson's one loss during its initial winning stretch was a 10-9 setback to lowly MIT, a sign of the dismal week to come...
...being above the dirty fray of politics and uninterested in power," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman, who points out that even the rebels who'd challenged her credentials as a prime minister want her to continue as party leader. "That image," adds Rahman, "had suffered a setback recently when she'd helped bring down the BJP government and was then unable to form a new one." In fact, says Rahman, "she's really angry and may agree only to campaign for Congress but not accept nomination for prime minister." That, of course, would allow her to serve...
...hardy perennial has suffered another seasonal setback. Two key Democratic senators, Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad, both of North Dakota, said on Tuesday that they would not back the pre-Memorial Day effort to pass a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning. The two said they would instead support a flag-desecration statute. The move once again puts the amendment in mortal danger, since their votes are essential to achieve the necessary two thirds majority in the Senate, reports TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. Last time a flag amendment came to the Senate floor in 1995, it failed to pass...