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...defensive side of the ball. And his teammates took notice. “I was very impressed at how much he worked on that,” Fucito says, also noting that Akpan’s pressure created chances for teammates.“You have to take pride in everything you do, not just scoring goals,” Akpan says.While it is unlikely that Akpan gets to the next round, Saturday’s announcement still confirms his place among college soccer’s elites.—Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached...
...South African government’s lack of implementation of a “timely and feasible” antiretroviral treatment program between 2000 and 2005, according to a study by Harvard researchers published yesterday in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The study, conducted by Pride Chigwedere, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, and four other researchers from the school, also found that the infection of 35,000 newborns with HIV could have been prevented with widespread use of ARV drugs. In total, the number of “person-years?...
...dominant Sunnis, he says, Shi'ites are eager to claim ownership of "anything or anyone that can show them to be superior." Since Obama is widely popular among Muslims, "assuming that he is Shi'ite and also the most powerful man in the world gives the Shi'ites pride and confidence," Nasr adds...
Harvard University is inextricably associated with its elite reputation—something in which its students typically take pride. Yet in the attempt to keep up with that impressive image, it’s easy to become excessively concerned with how one’s own credentials—laid out in the form of a résumé—measure up. There are clear dangers to such an obsession, and it’s important to ensure that the endless drive to self-promote does not find students plunging to the bottom of a river...
...hard bargaining on the SOFA deal, in which he forced Washington to make a number of key concessions on issues ranging from a firm deadline for withdrawing from Iraq to restrictions on the operations of U.S. troops currently in Iraq, might have been taken as a point of pride among Iraqi nationalists. Instead, at least among the political class, it merely reinforced a perception that Maliki is a new strongman who does things his own way, without consultation. "He could have been more diplomatic with handling this treaty," said Abdel-Bari al-Zebari, the Kurdish lawmaker. "He didn't reach...