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...Student group leaders take pride in their self-sufficiency, and the administration is generally unwilling to interfere in their endeavors. These are both positive qualities of the Harvard experience. Yet there is a happy medium between complete independence and utter control—a medium that has yet to be found. EDITOR'S NOTE: The April 12 magazine cover story "Endangered Harvard Species" contained several errors. First, the article's title incorrectly implied that Diversity and Distinction magazine currently faced financial troubles. In fact, the group has overcome the debts that plagued it seven years ago. Second, the story incorrectly...
...nuclear crisis between Iran and the West, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Monday his country was now capable of industrial scale uranium enrichment. The declaration carried the hallmarks of the president's theatrical, defiant speeches, styled to show off Iran's tough posture and encourage a sense of nationalist pride among ordinary Iranians. "With great pride, I declare that as of today our country has joined the nuclear club of nations," Ahmadinejad said, speaking before a great billboard of the Iranian flag encircled by the symbol for nuclear energy. The next day Iranian newspapers ran tall headlines reading simply "NUCLEAR POWER...
...Pride is one thing; reputation is quite another. The question of whether a new French President will be able to restore France's luster for this generation of exiles is a critical one - for those who have stayed as much as for those who have left. Interest in the campaign is running high in France itself, and many émigrés are following it closely. Jozan, the M.B.A. student in London, believes the stakes are significant. "The question is, do we have another five years' delay or do we take the bull by the horns and confront...
Personal gratification. The evidence that they've made a contribution. These people take great pride in what they do. Everyone I've met who has a dirty job knows that if you removed them from the chain, then the whole thing falls in on itself. You'll see a lot of optimism and cheerfulness. These are happy people...
...says people need to have perspective. "There is disappointment but reactions were fueled by [television] channels building up the team in an unreal fashion," he told the Hindustan Times. "As the players return, we appeal for sanity. No one should be hurt." Not physically, anyway. In terms of national pride, the damage is already done...