Word: prided
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...close to three decades, Colin Firth has been a reliable, gently charismatic leading man in the theater (Another Country), in movies (Bridget Jones's Diary) and on TV (as the dreamboat Mr. Darcy in the BBC's 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice). But until now, at 49, he never got that Role of a Lifetime that actors pray for. George, in Tom Ford's adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, is it. The movie brought Firth the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and was bought for U.S. distribution by the Weinstein Company...
...take great pride in the fact that [Kennedy] was a Harvard football player, from the standpoint that obviously he was one of the great legislators of all time,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy says. “The reason we champion Ted Kennedy so much, is that what he accomplished is legendary in the Senate, and who he accomplished it for, I think is just as important...
...should be rejected, such as slavery.“We are responsible for our own fate,” Klarman said, refusing to give the original framers of the Constitution or the Supreme Court credit for the “many things about our political culture we can take pride in,” primarily civil rights protection. “To delude ourselves from thinking otherwise is a mistake, and a potentially dangerous one.”The panel also included Law School professor Mark V. Tushnet ’67, visiting professor to HLS and the Faculty...
...science of fashion being celebrated.”Whereas the romance of Paris or the grit of downtown Manhattan has inspired many a feminine frill or sleek black garment, it is the hardy intellectualism of Boston that informs local designers. “Bostonians really pride themselves on being academic, and it’s such a college town, too,” Calderin says. “[Boston’s] being recognized as a city where you can cut your teeth as a designer... and do really cool things for the sake of doing them...
...after dark, and carjackings and break-ins are common. "Unfortunately, during my tenure, vilification of police became a national pastime," he said at a ceremony marking his departure. "Police work is not a public-relations exercise. You will make many happy and unhappy, but I take pride in what I have done...