Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ramos says he has tried throughout his Harvard career to build on this tradition of group bonding, but he fears that many of his fellow students have been too occupied with ego aggrandizement and resume-stuffing to make friends...
...officials speculate that Rudenstine will feel most comfortable with a structure similar to that of Princeton University--where he was once provost. There, the provost works closely with the president and serves as a deputy president or alter ego...
...their parents and the tragic toll of colleagues who have died of AIDS. "Death is the great leveler," says Josh Baran, a former Zen teacher turned publicist. "Your plastic surgeon, lawyer, trainer and agent can't save you. Thus, it has to be confronted. These movies are an ego trip. Hollywood wants to remain forever young, and what better way than to extend yourself into another life...
What better candidate than his newfound shrink? Leo seems to have everything, most especially an ego as massive as Bob's is minuscule. Looks like he ought to have plenty to spare for a destitute patient...
Women athletes are no less susceptible to ego and endorphins than men, though their comebacks tend to be no-bucks, low-publicity events. But Nancy Lieberman Cline, 32, arguably the best woman basketball player ever, is working out several hours a day to make her third Olympic team, and sprint swimmer Jill Sterkel, 29, hopes to make her fifth. Why do it? Says Lieberman Cline: "As world-class athletes, we are treated special. Since the first moment anyone recognized we had an ounce of talent, we've been stroked. We're spoiled...