Word: ego
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Baron Cohen, who will enter his second year hosting an HBO late-night show this summer, usually appears as his alter-ego, “bad boy rapper?...
...that she and her fellow soldiers were ?following orders? by posing in those infamous photos for ?psy-ops? (psychological operations), she touched on a colonial memory. She suggested that all that was done at Abu Ghraib was informed by what Iraqis would find most damaging to their pride and ego. People can forgive what is done out of ignorance, but not what is done out of maliciousness...
Alcock will also have to address the relationship between Harvard and the Smithsonian. Clashes of ego and interest, particularly where hiring is concerned, have tarnished the generally cooperative interactions...
...Asian) should take her places. But it's her sense of humor as much as anything else that will see her through. As the brainy foil to Ben Lee's hippie wildchild in last year's The Rage in Placid Lake, she wisecracked like Doris Day on Benzedrine. Her ego won't get in the way, either. Director Clara Law, who cast Byrne in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), calls her "shy and very humble. She's got this thing about herself, that she doesn't think she's good. She needs a lot of encouragement...
...multiple centuries and continents” by covering “significant moments…in which civilizations interacted in cooperative or competitive ways”—in a semester)? The answer is not too hard to guess when that professor might receive a hefty bonus and/or ego-boost and global brandname as Harvard marketers hawk his course everywhere from eBay to East Podunk College...