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...first key marker on that route would be kick-starting Europe's economic growth, says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform in London. He argues that narrowing Europe's persistent growth gap with the U.S. would provide the pride and the resources to increase Europe's influence. "You have to revive the sense of economic dynamism," he says. "Ultimately, both soft and hard power depend on it." While Europeans remain stingy about increasing defense outlays, European troops have become more readily deployable in trouble spots. If E.U. countries manage to ratify the European constitution over the next...
...Princeton is playing for an Ivy title [because they are not good at football], but plenty [a generous exaggeration] is on the line at Yale Bowl this Saturday in the nationally televised (YES Network, 4 p.m.) [and what percentage of the nation receives YES?] contest. In addition to pride [forever lost after losing to Cornell]…the heated rivalry and the fact that most Old Blue consider the Big Three the only games that really matter [easy to say when you’ve been eliminated from the Ivy title hunt for a good month now], the Elis...
...neighborhood. But no matter what he did, you were crazy about him. Maybe because in times of distress he gave you faith. And that victory sign he always flashed—no matter how unrealistic it was—gave you hope. And more than hope. It gave you pride, that pride that emerges when you still dare to stand up after being hammered and crushed and killed so many times. It rises from the bottom of wounds, pains, failures and defeats. His mistakes hurt you, bad, but after all he did he came back home, looked...
Just winning the Ivy League title—the team’s first since 1991—is a tremendous source of pride...
Wolfe does not thunder in I Am Charlotte Simmons. He allows us to be as shocked or as blasé as we want to be about the anonymous campus couplings he describes. "In my mind, it's just what's there," he says. "I must say, I pride myself on the fact that I don't think anybody can find a political agenda, a moral agenda. I insist that I am objective." Up to a point, that is--he'll bend the truth for the sake of a good line. "I had a groupie at the end deliver what I thought...