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...teams looking to improve on a last-place league finish should have such problems. Harvard’s 2000 season, which saw the Crimson win just one game in league play, was short on self-esteem boosts. But when the successes started piling up this year—a 2-1 overtime upset of then-No. 6 San Diego was the biggie—soccer became fun again...
...AUCOIN, 40, celebrity makeup artist and advocate for gay youth, who sought to enhance the individuality of clients like Cher, Cindy Crawford, Courtney Love and Janet Jackson; of complications from a pituitary brain tumor; in Westchester County, N.Y. Through his makeup, he said, he aimed to boost clients' self-esteem...
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More proof of society's double standards on sex: an Indiana University study found that 40% of girls who had low self-esteem in the seventh grade were having sex by the ninth grade, compared with 18% of girls with a stronger ego. It worked just the other way for boys. Half the boys with high self-esteem were sexually active, vs. just 29% of those with low self-confidence...
With its prescriptive fashion tips and underhanded exclusion of anyone who isn’t picture-perfect, mags like Glamour are something of a guilty pleasure. I tell myself that reading them does nothing to my self-esteem; I’m a confident, healthy young woman who has better things to do than measure her waistline or weekend planner by the monthly dos and don’ts page. I find the advice absurd and the trends contradictory from one issue to another. Writing this column has allowed me to scrutinize this harmless habit of mine until...