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Self-esteem can also be an educational boomerang. Friends of mine who teach today's college students are constantly complaining about the high self-esteem of their students. When the kids have been told from Day One that they can do no wrong, when every grade in high school is assessed so as to make the kid feel good rather than to give an accurate measure of his work, the student can develop self-worth dangerously unrelated to the objective truth. He can then get deeply offended when he's told he is getting a C grade in college...
...continues to mine two inexhaustible resources: the DC Comics library and the young male appetite for hot superheroines. The Huntress (Batman and Catwoman's daughter), wheelchair-bound Oracle and psychic Dinah fight crime while looking slick and zinging the requisite self-conscious jokes ("Is your spider-sense tingling?" one Bird needles another). But flat performances and stock comic-book story lines keep Birds grounded...
...encounter with God.” Pentecostals pray out loud in spiritual languages they do not understand, but believe are given to them by God. This is called “speaking in tongues.” To the uninitiated, this display is perplexing. A Dutch friend of mine, Jonathan, turned to me and whispered, “Are they all mentally retarded or deranged?” But after their prayer time, it was clear to both Jonathan and me that they were thoughtful, intelligent and welcoming people. Pentecostal believers reject notions of strict tradition and earthly spiritual authority...
Andrew M. Fichte ’05 procured his DHAs the illicit way. “I stole them from a friend of mine who played baseball,” he says. “I was so much cooler than him, I deserved it much more than he did.” In light of that view, it is somewhat surprising that modesty lies behind Andrew’s DHAppreciation. “I don’t like to wear clothes that have Harvard blatantly written all over them,” he says...
...nine civilians killed when suspected militants attacked a passenger bus in Kathua. In the following days, at least 22 more people were killed in separate incidents across the disputed territory. The dead included seven members of India's Border Security Force, whose jeep was blown up by a land mine. The election is scheduled to end on Oct. 8. PHILIPPINES Abu Sayyaf Strikes Security patrols were stepped up in the southern Philippines after a nail bomb killed an American soldier and two Filipinos. The blast, outside a bar near a Philippine army base in the city of Zamboanga, injured...