Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need any new suits for the rest of my life," Bush claims, surveying his high-tech closet, which holds about 25 dark ensembles from his White House days. He polishes his own shoes and cowboy boots, taking pride in a collection of special creams and pastes and an electric buffer, which he brandishes like a weapon. He knows all the kitchen gadgets, cleans up the dishes, measures his vodka martinis by eye. Barbara's passion is a special wrapping room with ribbon and paper holders for the endless stream of birthdays that confront them. The walls and tables...
...conspires to separate Hispanics in the U.S. Many Mexicans, for instance, still feel more culturally significant than other Hispanics because of their strong literary and scholarly tradition, and unique mix of Indian and Spanish culture. Cubans and Puerto Ricans are no different in their sense of specialness. While this pride in one's uniqueness is undoubtedly useful in unifying to reach difficult and specific national goals, it can also lead to classism, racism, and chauvinism...
Sadly, this bigotry produced of pride does exist in almost every nationally varied Hispanic group. And, in fact, it is only since I have been at Harvard, where I have been exposed to such a varied group of Latinos, that I have experienced that type of strong discrimination...
This was risky territory for a public figure: if pride is bad, then one doesn't dare seem proud of being good. Both Bill and Hillary came to Washington promising an end to politics as usual, a rebirth of responsibility, a Politics of Meaning derived from the Golden Rule. Such a specific claim to moral authority can hardly withstand charges of tax chiseling and corner cutting by Hillary and those closest to her. "Can a President credibly advance an ethic of national service," asked Clinton's nemesis on the Hill, Congressman Jim Leach, "if his own model...
...smiles with pride, half-embarassed, half-arrogant, and for a second I see the 19-year-old inside the fine, Italian-cut, grown-up clothes: "I had two secretaries working for me, actually... I even had a driver." I decide I like Holta Vrioni...