Word: self-respect
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...club's co-Prime Minister, Paul D. Todgham '99, says seeing Americans come to the dinner gives him more Canadian self-respect. "We are by nature interested in the U.S., but to have someone take an interest in Canada is special...
...Shanghai, produced encounters with scores of Chinese obsessed and driven by the desire to improve their lives. Farmers, boat captains, teachers, gangsters, businessmen who work the river and engineers who seek to harness it--all want to share in the new Chinese dream, to become wealthy and regain the self-respect that China lost to colonial powers centuries ago. Political change lags behind, but if few people are ready to defy the one-party system, sneaking admiration for the freedoms Americans enjoy is more widespread than party leaders imagine. In an effort to remove the dead economic hand...
Here's my scenario. The men, out of sheer irrational gallantry, should let the women go first. And the women, out of sheer feminist self-respect, should refuse...
...crime which allows for nonchalance. Whether it happens after a party, on a date or in the middle of the day, each rape is like a little murder, killing off the person who was there before with persistent emotional trauma, grief and hopelessness, as well with a loss of self-respect, hope and pride. It's hard to find focused campus efforts or even discussions whose aim is to eliminate sexual assault. Perhaps too many people still trivialize acquaintance rape as differing from "real" rape. In fact, it is when the victim knows the rapist, as is reportedly the case...
...York City and served as a model of leadership for recognizable civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesse Jackson. Baseball today must not forget Robinson's act. Players like Barry Bonds and Albert Belle should try to act with even half the discipline and self-respect that Robinson displayed throughout his career. It is no coincidence that perhaps baseball's greatest ambassador off the field, Mo Vaughn of the Red Sox, wears #42 in honor of Robinson. What some of today's unappreciative players, black and white, need is the attitude Robinson once displayed...