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...equal opportunity and those who are for equal outcomes. And the President, though he favors both, inevitably winds up on the side of preferences. He talked about a diverse student body being educational in itself, but that sort of wishful thinking supports the notion that self-esteem is more important than physics. Better to try to achieve equal outcomes from the bottom up. A President can't do much about race relations, but if Clinton got off the affirmative-action barricades and on to programs that ensured equal education opportunities for kids, we might get closer to where Martin Luther...
...television's Unsolved Mysteries focused on three "Diabolic Minds"--those of Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer, it seems, "had a stern father and was unable to establish a healthy relationship to his mother." Auschwitz resulted, you see, from the child Adolf's low self-esteem. A 1981 book published in Germany suggested in all seriousness that when Hitler was a youth, a billy goat took a bite out of his penis. Hence his subsequent career. The famous Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal put it all down to the syphilis he thought Hitler had contracted from...
...their isolation, the boys seemed to suffer an erosion of self-esteem. Partly it was their physical awkwardness: Michael and Kip were small for their age; Mitchell and Luke were pudgy. Furth describes Mitchell as "a sensitive, soft 13-year-old"; in Arkansas, where little boys are taught to be flinty and stoic, softness is a handicap. Luke and Michael were teased about their physical appearance (both were called "gay," the latter in the school paper...
...EFFECT "inspire self-esteem" "promote self-esteem...
After a generation of books and cautionary tales about self-esteem, girls still diet more than they should. A 1995 survey of 1,955 students in Grades 9 to 12 conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 60% of the girls were trying to lose weight, compared with 24% of the boys. More cases of anorexia and bulimia are reported every year, and between 5% and 10% of females 14 and older suffer from such disorders, according to the nonprofit group Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention. "I don't think in local communities and in schools...