Word: belief
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Harvard is--more than either its structures or its students--an ethos, a belief that success by conventional standards should precede all else. A true synthesis of individual and structure recognizes that the difference between happiness and unhappiness at Harvard is a matter of individual fit, of whether one's personal values match up with those held by Harvard. As we leave Harvard and go our separate ways, we need to remember that Harvard's ethos is only one among many, and that lifelong happiness will only come when each of us finds a place with an ethos...
...could not stray from my simple belief thatjournalists are citizens first and reporterssecond," Simpson wrote in his 1997 book, RightIn The Old Gazoo: A Lifetime of Scrapping With thePress...
...Harvard experience has been about our greatness. I have a strong belief in the inherently higher value of our class over other Harvard classes, past and future. That is to say, we are smarter, cooler and generally better people. That is to say, our class can kick your class's butt...
...that he was preaching the power of faith long before it was cool, at least among Democrats. In his 1992 best-selling environmental book, Gore wrote of "a spiritual crisis in modern civilization that seems to be based on an emptiness at its center" and declared his own "unshakable belief in God as creator and sustainer." But as Gore is learning, it can be tricky--particularly for a Democrat--to bare his soul as part of a campaign roll-out. Which may be why he felt it necessary to summon religion writers to the White House last week and declare...
...belief that music can provide emotional salvation is in short supply in rock 'n' roll these days. Old records by groups like U2 convey the feeling, and so do some recent releases by younger acts like New Radicals. Thankfully, the notion also comes across on the latest CD by the British band Manic Street Preachers. The group offers up big, melodic, cathedral-filling songs that clearly have social and spiritual aspirations beyond just rocking the house: one of the tracks is bluntly titled If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next. A few numbers are a bit limp...