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...townspeople take patriotic pride in their remote lives. "I feel very confident in this course," says Haskins. "I like what we're doing for America...
...book for and about the Common Fan is that the Common Fan already knows most of what Leitch has to say. We know that owners like Peter Angelos, who has famously enraged fans by treating the Baltimore Orioles like a business venture rather than a source of city pride, are detrimental to the spirit of professional sports. It is common knowledge that athletes like LeBron are not “just like us” and never will be; they are highly specialized “piano prodigies who can jump,” and as much as we bemoan...
...whether Liza likes it or not,” as Stone puts it—in hopes of instilling that same type of well-rounded mentality that could take Ryabkina down a path similar to her de facto mentor.But last night was all about Vaillancourt, and Stone expressed parental pride when speaking about her star forward.“It’s like watching your own kid,” Stone said. “Sarah and I have a special relationship and I’m filled with pride as if she were my own daughter...
...chances of being “Quadded” (put in one of the three Houses a ways up Garden Street) is testament to this. (The next day of course, they’re all smiles as they’re welcomed to their new home of Pforzheimer House). Pride in your House assignment, one might go so far to say, is downright alien to the academic values to which most Harvard undergraduates ascribe; to have House pride is to take pride in something that was completely and utterly beyond your control...
...Still, the exuberance for House pride transcends Harvard, and it may point to something entirely generational. Just as the housing system to which we all submit was born out of a concern for preserving diversity, undergraduates’ impulse to foster House pride is the product of our diversity-conscious culture. Diversity is ultimately a positive societal goal—there seems to be little doubt about that. Yet it also makes for strange behavior. When people are lumped together with those with whom they may not have much in common, there’s an impulse to find some...