"Alva wins in the end and the message of that victory applies as much to this day as it did then," Gladwell said, his voice rising to a shout.
They're all, in broad and narrow ways, political, and each has a message of hope, of victory snatched from the jaws of defeat.
But, unless they settle upon a single, unforgettable message, that chance of victory will disappear, with everything else, into the great European vortex.
To this day, on significant war anniversaries the Kremlin broadcasts messages of Soviet victory over Germany to its population and the world, just as it still celebrates the Nazi surrender in military parades at Red Square.
His Budget Message was a kind of victory lap for policies reviled by many Republicans and in truth not always welcomed by his fellow Democrats.
The dating of the inscription itself frequently yields a trustworthy chronology of its message: a victory stela records something freshly deserving of celebration; an epitaph implies a recent death.
Those results have been widely shared by Zimbabweans using cellphones and text messaging, making any government claims of victory non-credible even in the far reaches of the nation.
It kept him from another big margin of victory, though the message was clear about his game long before that.
Tweeting from his sickbed in Cuba last month, Mr. Chávez reassured his followers in what has become his most retweeted message of all time: "Onward to victory forever.
