Word: reassert
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Harvard’s hopes of earning a seventh-straight NCAA tournament berth suffered a serious blow with a 3-2 defeat against Yale on Saturday, but the Crimson (6-5-1, 2-1-1 Ivy) can still reassert itself against three nationally-ranked opponents in its last four games. Tomorrow’s 7:30 p.m. game at No. 15 Princeton (12-0, 5-0) will be the first grand stage for redemption...
...school bullies all polled high on the self-esteem charts. And you can see why. If you think you're God's gift, you're particularly offended if other people don't treat you that way. So you lash out or commit crimes or cut ethical corners to reassert your pre-eminence. After all, who are your moral inferiors to suggest that you could be doing something, er, wrong? What do they know...
...called for institutional review boards (IRBs), which approve and oversee clinical research at hospitals and medical schools, and others involved in medical studies to “reassert the critical role of ethical standards...
Married life also took her to New York City, where her husband was studying to be a doctor and where she began to reassert her the leadership she had once employed to plan the neighborhood plays...
Chou argues that straight white men, forced into the cultural shadows by the late 20th-century obsession with diversity, are finally able to reassert their identities by reading Maxim and watching programs like Comedy Central’s “The Man Show.” “They can overthrow political correctness and politeness and be proud of being a man again,” she says. But some Maxim readers disagree, arguing that there is nothing new going on here. “Man has always been about looking at hot chicks and power tools...