Word: oneself
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Some Japanese still choose a traditional form of release: the violence done to oneself. Japan's suicide rate, about 15 per 100,000, is higher than that of the U.S., though lower than those of most North or East European countries. Suicide in Japan was long surrounded by a romantic and aesthetic aura that arose from the samurai tradition. Now it seems an especially unhappy and unheroic spectacle. A group called the Japan Association for the Prevention of Parent-Child Suicide has been established to try to discourage such tragedies. Some 400 occur every year. In recent weeks...
...think correctly that the associations one forms in graduate school with senior people in one's field are critical to one's development as a scholar. As in any other kind of endeavour--and perhaps more than in most--"mentors" are crucial to the growth of the sense of oneself as a scholar. Yet a number of male Faculty members have told me recently that they intend henceforth to be much more careful in showing personal interest in women students. Invitations to coffee may become much rarer for women students It what I hear bears any relation to reality...
Oarsmen don't even see the end of the race--they're facing the other way, detached from the action they create themselves. In the last 50 meters of an even race it boils down to faith. Faith in the cox, faith in oneself to endure, and, yes, faith in the coaching...
...story of triumph, but as the foundation for the non-violent direct action civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr., the story of Gandhi was legitimately hailed as the most socially pertinent and meaningful non-documentary motion picture to emerge this year. What better way to pat oneself on the back than liberally to reward one's most socially responsible product? But in recognizing itself as a morally sound group, do the pundits, and beautiful people of the Academy appoint themselves as society's dictators of true intellectual value? Does Richard Attenborough, who reportedly devoted more than...
...always easy, of course, to tell oneself that "everyone" is doing what one secretly wants to do. It is easy to say that this is what the smart people are doing, the winners, the people who know how to beat the system. Easy but wrong. People who lie and cheat on their taxes are neither smart nor winners; they are simply cheats and liars. In the end, the money that they steal is not being stolen from a faceless government; it is being stolen from their honest neighbors who as a result must pay not only their own taxes...