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...flag back.”“He wouldn’t want the Harvard crew program to be disrespected in any way,” Downing says.It was examples like this that showed Benkreira’s dedication to his team along with his excellent work ethic and vibrant personality, two traits that his teammates appreciated when naming him this year’s LP.Depending on whom you ask, the acronym, LP, has one of two meanings: the Lightweight Protocol and the Lightweight Persona. These two distinct interpretations fittingly parallel the duality of Benkreira’s post.The...
...fact that they’re identical twins says it all,” Hughes said. “They both are great athletes, they have great work ethic...Come game time I know both are really competitive, I don’t think blood lines will make a difference when those two kids get together...
Smith, 48, grew up dirt poor in the tiny east Texas town of Big Sandy, where his work ethic spoke volumes. In the summers, Smith, a self-described "hick" who turns words like curfew into care-few, picked berries, and tossed 30-lb. bales of hay onto trucks. "I can smell it now," he says, perking up in his Lake Forest, Ill., office, loading faux hay over his shoulder. "We didn't know about lifting weights. Haaaay! That's what you got." The name Lovie he got from his great-aunt Lavana, no doubt requiring him to become a very...
...menace to traditional values. "This is the ideology of liberation from taboos, blocks, burdens and traumas that promises happiness for all. A happiness that never arrives" says Gonzalo Rojas, a law professor, columnist and self-declared supporter of former dictator General Augusto Pinochet. He summarizes the new social ethic as "I demand, the State grants, society accepts, and critics stay away," and he likens it to the "me" generation of the United States in the 1970s. He laments what he sees as the failure of the sustained economic growth promoted by Pinochet's radical economic reforms to produce equivalent moral...
...rise of science and the decline of religion. The most important rationale for tutors to live with students was so that they could aid their spiritual development. When the University lost faith in any agreed principles, it could not justify compelling students to adhere to any fixed ethics. In the name of science, any promulgation of a certain ethic labored under the stigma of what Isaiah Berlin called “the Cartesian condemnation,” attempting to justify all its findings scientifically and severely unable...