Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alas, pride goeth before the fall. Thinner and wiser, we present these moral lessons for you edification...
...have six outstanding defensemen," Harvard Head Coach Ronn game. "But it's not just the defense either--we really take pride in our team defense, and obviously our forwards have to help...
...public school multicultural courses in a growing number of U.S. cities and espoused in black-studies departments on some college campuses. The ideas represent the views of extremists within the Afrocentric movement, which is intended to acquaint U.S. blacks with their long-ignored African heritage and raise their pride and self-esteem. While approving of the legitimate aims of Afrocentrism, many educators, both black and white, are concerned that its excesses will subvert the very goals it seeks to accomplish...
Journalists rightly pride themselves on their objectivity, but in special cases personal involvement can be deeply gratifying. Just ask TIME correspondent Ann Blackman. As a member of our Moscow bureau in 1987, Blackman was struck by the plight of a family of Jewish refuseniks she met. Her daughter Leila and Vera Zieman became friends. Yuri and Tanya Zieman, who had % been trying vainly to emigrate to the U.S., led a lonely life of outcasts. "We spent countless hours at their kitchen table," Blackman says, "sipping tea and learning firsthand how difficult Soviet life was for average people...
...reasonable people, but you had better refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of China because we are a people with a strong sense of pride. We are ready to conduct a dialogue with you on the question of human rights, but one should not link irrelevant matters with trade...