Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practice. Municipal government has long been regarded as the great back-water of American democracy: a world of political patronage and special-interest jockeying in which policy discussions rarely move beyond synchronizing traffic lights. But a new breed of activist mayors, recently hailed by the New Republic as "the Pride of the Cities," has been turning city halls into hothouses of governmental innovation. They are challenging entrenched interests and butting heads with traditional allies in the pursuit of real reform: overhauling the school system in Chicago, reshaping labor-management relations in Philadelphia and privatizing municipal services all over...
...arguments are of cost effectiveness and the inexorable consolidation that comes with our culture. Still, there is melancholy when a friend moves on. A press is, well, guardian and watchdog and historian, the builder of pride and the maker of dignity and meaning in small places. In the little towns in the heart of our country, somebody usually arrived with a press and some typecases even before the churches and schools were built, certainly before a Civil War cannon was installed in front of the courthouse...
What is left for our poor Mr. Peepers as a symbol of manly pride? The scenes would seem surreal if they weren't already so familiar. An investment banker braves the brutal terrain of Park Avenue in a vehicle built for climbing sand dunes under enemy fire. A claims adjuster clambers aboard a car designed to haul caribou carcasses, so he can pick up his wife's fuchsias at the suburban garden center. Did the old man flip his jeep on Omaha Beach? Then his son will have a Jeep too, to drop off the kids at the multiplex. Vroom...
Three cheers for Yankee ingenuity! I never thought landing on Mars [SPACE, July 14] could launch such brilliant feelings of national pride. Never mind the cost-efficient design, bouncing-ball landing and extraordinary photographs. The real story here is that Americans love a challenge. These young rocket scientists more than met our expectations with their beautiful and simple solutions--which were inexpensive to boot. NASA has reaffirmed my belief that its programs are worthy of my tax dollars. ANDREA L. MILLER Northport...
...November, for example, I watched attentively as the votes of Californians were tallied live on the screen and the fates of the medical marijuana and affirmative action initiatives became known. In March, I rooted like hell (and with Ivy League pride) as Princeton got edged out by Cal in the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. And in April, I paced and cursed as Fargo, the only decent film in a long time to have a shot at dominating Oscar night, was snubbed in nearly every category...