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...very proud of my country,” said Jonathan K. Tam ’10, another Torontonian. “It symbolizes home to me... the sense of belonging, the sense that I want to go back after I graduate...
...doesn’t like to talk about [the Olympics] much,” Brian said, “but we always tell him that we’re really proud of him for just being a great dad, and not being one of those dads who boasts about it and tells everybody...
...seem very proud of your arrests in the book. How many times have you been arrested? I was arrested five times this year by the same police officer. So I think that's got me close to 50 or over. It's hard to remember them all anymore...
...fully aware that American hubris and misjudgment - lots of both - have gotten us into the mess we're in. Yet at the same time, I must honestly say I'm proud of America's global achievements. Behind U.S. global expansion was an ideal of a world based on free enterprise, mutual prosperity and open societies. It was that ideal that brought my Holocaust-survivor grandparents through Ellis Island in 1949 in the hopes of rebuilding their lives and finding better opportunities for their 3-year-old daughter - my mother. These ideals have too often been trampled by greed or myopic...
...After 34 years, he left Oxy in 2005. Lucantonio, 61, is proud of what he has been able to afford in retirement. He and his wife bought a cabin in New York's hilly Southern Tier. "It's even got ceramic tile in the kitchen," he says. He would like to spend more time there, but like many other former Occidental employees we talked to, he's had to unretire into a new job. He is a real estate agent...