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...despite his California pride, Flores downplayed the importance of origin. “You’re all here for the same reason. At first, people say ‘I’m from here, I’m from here,’ but then everybody kind of groups together,” he said...
...line. Even the families of contestants have to wait for a table upstairs at Bally’s. There’s a smattering of cousins and relations, plus Carol Pellegrino, Gray’s music teacher, who remembers her as a first-grade violin prodigy, and beams with pride at the fact that her pupil won the preliminary talent competition. Everyone cheers when Laurie arrives, still in her pageant makeup, but having traded in her black and white gown for a gray sweatshirt...
...average American doesn’t take even 5,000 steps,” he says with not a small touch of pride as he flips open the pedometer’s case to prove his mileage. With 2,000 steps to a Blackburn mile, it’s clear that this white-haired 67-year-old doctor covers a lot of ground...
...terms of human decency, human rights and economic vitality. Reagan also dramatically retarded the increasing centralization of American government and regulation of business by dropping tax rates and producing an economic and technical boom which lasted until the Clinton tax increases finally snuffed it out. Reagan also restored pride in being an American. Dan C. Lathrop New Mexico...
...America’s Best Colleges 2004,” Harvard does not offer what has become a basic amenity for most college students: cable television. In fact, of the top 15 schools in the nation, according to U.S. News, the University of Chicago (certainly the social pride of the Windy City) is the only other institution that does not offer cable to its students. And Harvard is the only school in the Ivy League that does not include cable in its room and board package...