Word: self-respect
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...pound, 14-inch trophy called the Beanpot. Boston bragging rights. Most Valuable Player (Captain Ted Drury). Team confidence and self-respect. A boost in national rankings. That, and so much more, is Harvard's after last night's 4-2 upset of the Terriers, who had eaten up Harvard and the 'Pot's beans for three years...
...know anything but opposition. My only memories of Jimmy Carter are restricted to the hostage crisis. How do you show support for an elected official while still keeping your self-respect as a cynical Harvard liberal? Are we not allowed to make "didn't inhale" jokes? Do we stuff adultery and censorship in the same closet the Democrats put Jesse Jackson? No more hooting at spin control efforts? Some underemployed lawyer needs to write How to Win and Feel Good About It: A Guide for Democrats Under...
...rule of law. Now postcolonial Africa is defined as being on "the margins" of that universe. But, says Babacar N'Diaye, the president of the African Development Bank, "even if marginalization is true, it is not my concern. What I have to do is to create my self-respect. To create my self-respect is to put my house in order. There is a tremendous venue for intra-African trade we have not developed. We can cut our military expenditures and develop health and education. I don't like the word marginalization because Africans are using it to make demands...
...does a woman maintain self-respect and be involved with a man?" one person writes...
...Oregonian is sensitive to the feelings of those in our society who are rightly offended today by names and nicknames that came into being when a majority in this country was insensitive to minority concerns," explains Oregonian editor William A. Hilliard. Such stereotypes "damage the dignity and self-respect of many people in our society." He hinted that the paper would not rule out the possibility that other team nicknames could be added to the banned list...