Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...festival has acquired political undertones as an assertion of both Latino cultural pride and grievances...
...codes, PIN codes, tracking numbers and confirmation codes: we live in a sea of irrational numbers. The artist formerly known as Prince now goes by a cryptic glyph, and the most famous shoe company on the planet advertises itself with a swoosh. And even as we pride ourselves on our exfoliating identities, our names seem ever more beside the point. The handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese, for example, was perhaps most significant as the disappearance of a culture of zany hybrids--Sir Run Run Shaw, Philemon Choi and Freedom Leung--into one where there are 4,000 Zheng...
...nothing happened except I won the bet with my sister and I have my pride...
...tell me if those who are planning on a protest have lived in China for 20 years, have learned the history of China, every kingdom, every revolution, every reform all through these 5,000 years. Tell me if they have seen the pride and humiliation of this nation, the strivings of her people in finding a path they can follow. And tell me if they have been to China, seen the leaders making every attempt to maintain this huge country with a billion difficulties...
...other day at Stanford, a tall Hispanic boy and a small, autistic Cambodian boy walked Apache Rose through the halls together. The students had nothing in common but a leash to this dog, yet a visitor could sense their mutual pride--the older child in befriending a member of the Stanford family he might never have known about, the younger child in facing his fear and discovering the joys of companionship. Apache Rose, not unlike middle school, is a bridge...