Word: pride
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...impresario of powerful, conflicting emotions, Farrakhan orchestrates pride and rage, love and hate, raising his revival tent on the twin poles of black self-reliance and white race baiting. If anyone was tempted to forget that, amid all the hopeful talk of healing and atonement--and plenty of moderate blacks who saw in the march a desperately needed chance for spiritual renewal clearly were tempted--Farrakhan made it impossible. In an interview released late last week he repeated some of his favorite calumnies against the Jews--"bloodsuckers," as he called them, who exploit blacks and "were involved in the slave...
Harvard students and faculty alike take great pride in the scenic beauty pervading our campus, knowing how privileged we are to be surrounded by some of the most architecturally interesting and historically monumental of buildings. As upperclassmen stroll through Harvard Yard year after year, we witness with what great care the memorable first-year dorms are restored. I was fortunate to be a first-year in Weld the year following its renovation. It seems that no dorm is merely allowed to wither away for too long without undergoing some restorative treatment...
...Dream" speech on the capital's Mall, Farrakhan is inviting 1 million. And not just any million: 1 million black men, who will gather to listen for five hours to such speakers as Jesse Jackson and Rosa Parks, and to engage in an exercise in equal parts humility and pride. Farrakhan calls the gathering (there will be no actual march) a day of atonement. Participants are to repent for their mistreatment of one another and of black women, for their abandonment of positive family values and their failure to put God first. But the Nation of Islam leader also envisions...
Written in the year before her death, Persuasion is Jane Austen's darkest novel. The plot is similar to those of Emma and Pride and Prejudice. A sensible and intelligent woman overcomes her own character flaws and the interference of her family and friends to marry the only man who is her equal...
...FELT GREAT PRIDE IN SEEING AMERICA'S First Lady, Hillary Clinton, speak to that huge gathering in China. I was proud to be a woman in 1995 and to have such a fine spokeswoman for all women, especially American women. JANET GOULD CHILDRETH Hillsboro, Oregon...