Word: egos
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...successfully into the Harvard community—basically, you enter the email addresses of your desired partners, they get an anonymous message imploring them to do the same, and in the event of a match both parties are notified. At the very least the site must represent a substantial ego boost to those listed as the “Top 5 Most Requested” whenever those statistics are recalculated...
They offered it to me and it fit into my schedule. I also needed to get out of Minnesota for a while. And also, it is sort of an ego trip. I only went to high school and now I have the opportunity to teach at Harvard. Only in America...
Many people inside and outside the game have expressed anger about what's alleged to have happened, but also bewilderment: whether or not any of the players had committed a crime, how could they be so foolish as to put themselves in this mess? "With some young players today, ego is the biggest problem," says Mark Carroll, a former Australian league player who coaches at Manly. "I pull them aside sometimes and say, 'Hey, you're a footballer. You cart around a lump of pigskin. You don't save lives.'" Sexual shenanigans by sportsmen are not, of course, confined...
...straight, "Tony B." is driving a linen-delivery truck while working to become a licensed massage therapist. It sounds like comic relief, and in a way it is, but Tony B., clinging to his modest dream, is also a poignant figure, Tony Soprano's sad-sack but decent alter ego...
...Valkenburgh received an honor award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for this restoration, which blends into the existing landscape and represents the antithesis of the sort of project that trumpets the artist’s own ego...