Word: prided
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...look at the ECAC standings. The Big Red, the Crimson, and Union are tied for third place. With the Dutchmen playing last-place Brown, the loser of tonight's matchup at Lynah may find itself in fifth place and out of a first-round bye. More than just pride is on the line in this rivalry matchup, and since the game won't be televised, your best bet is to settle in with us on this cold, cold Saturday night...
...college girl who disappoints her parents by dropping out of Stanford to the aging neighborhood matriarch who wins $96,000 after buying a lottery ticket. Miranda's songs glide effortlessly between mellow hip-hop, salsa dance numbers and Latin-flavored arias that express the frustrations, dreams and community pride in Miranda's family-friendly world. No pimps or drug dealers on these mean streets; In the Heights is both a hip and an improbably wholesome show, whose moral--like that of Passing Strange--is "There's no place like home...
...become a national sensation, and everyone from first graders to grandparents seem to be crowding into living rooms and showing off their hand-eye coordination on plastic guitars. No longer “just a game,” many “Guitar Hero” players take pride in being better than their friends and make many attempts to add their own flair to their “performance.”When I recently did a YouTube search of “Guitar Hero expert,” I was surprised to find approximately 41,000 video...
...enough to remember cricket's first revolution in 1977, when the Australian TV mogul Kerry Packer secretly enticed most of the world's best players to join his rebel outfit, known as World Series Cricket (WSC). Back then, cricketers were expected to play for little besides national pride and really did get a crummy deal from the establishment - match fees in the hundreds of dollars and no contract money. WSC changed that and, though it split cricket asunder for two years, it is generally now seen as a boon for the game. But as cricket and business writer Gideon Haigh...
...bragging if it's true, as they say in Texas, which is why a moment of unmistakable pride in the speech that Lee Myung Bak, the new President of South Korea, gave at his inauguration on Feb. 25 was forgivable. "In the shortest period of time," Lee said, "this nation achieved both industrialization and democratization." Visiting bustling Seoul a few weeks ago to meet Lee - who was a reformist mayor of the city before he won the presidency - I was struck, as I always am in Korea, by the extraordinary story of a nation that, impoverished and ravaged...