Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tsai's post cited "personal pride and vainness"in HCS members and said that "people who hadsimilar interests and common goals no longer couldwork together...
...pardon the rambling analogy of an economics (and history) concentrator, I liken this phenomenon to a system of credits and debits in which we all try to avoid red ink on the balance sheet of our personal pride...
Minority activists opposed to assimilation have favored unintegrated ethnic studies separate from traditional curricula. Under a mantle of faux-multiculturalism, they advocate curricula dealing with their ethnic and cultural heritages, bolstering their ethnic pride and providing ethnic role models. Sometimes termed "particularistic multiculturalism," these advocates believe "that no common culture is possible or desirable...
Strong efforts by tri-captain John Drosos and senior Zach Cooper, who won the 177-pound and 190-pound weight classes by decision, salvaged Harvard's pride, and even put the Crimson, in a position to win; going into the heavyweight division down 16-12, a pin by sophomore Mike Terpstra could have saved the Crimson from defeat...
...Olympic myth and the wellspring of the Games' enduring appeal. They are like a national patriotic day for the whole world, a day when flags wave and people march and the grim realities of the past and, often, the present, are forgotten in a global surge of pride and unity. The reality has often been less inspiring -- in Hitler's Berlin in 1936, in the Munich beset by Palestinian terrorists in 1972, in the tit-for-tat cold war boycotts of 1980 and 1984, not to mention the myriad smaller moments when political bitterness or personal dishonor or random fate...