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Article: Win Some, Lose Some.
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- Town & Country
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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The victor may get the spoils, but the true rewards go to those who are good sports.
We all have little victories and defeats in our lives, and some big ones too. Rare is the day that we don't add to both our "Win" and "Loss" columns. Obviously we would like the Ws to outweigh the Ls, but our appetite for victory and our aversion to defeat seem to have sharpened in recent years. We don't handle either one very well anymore.
The role models we get from the worlds of entertainment, sports and politics have not been terribly helpful. You'd think that these public individuals, who must deal with winning and losing on a regular basis, would set a ...