Word: self-respecting
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...begins to view North Korea not as a grave threat to world peace, but as what it truly is: an impoverished, paranoid, deeply misguided dictatorship. Interestingly, accepting North Korea as an established nuclear power may not be a bad idea in that it will give the country some self-respect. As for agreement on the tough issue of a nuclear inspection regime, that must await improvement in Washington-Pyongyang relations. But so long as North Korea does not precipitate a crisis by selling or transferring plutonium or nuclear weapons, there will be plenty of time for relationship building. A journey...
...agreement is ridiculous. Should Harvard be able to arbitrarily demand renegotiation of the agreement when it thinks it might get less? We can only imagine the uproar about broken promises and bad faith that would ensue if Harvard cynically tried to renege on a bargain. Cambridge should have enough self-respect to hold itself to a similar standard...
...reasonable caveat. His stump speeches call for more federal dollars for Illinois highways and schools. But he disarms critics by talking early and often about the limits of government. "When you've traveled across the state, what you consistently find is a common set of values: hard work, self-respect, delayed gratification," he says. "We all have to acknowledge that government cannot transmit those values. They come from the bottom...
...could to get power in that way, just kind of getting your piece of the pie any way you could,” she says. “Even if that meant interacting with guys in a way that wasn’t exactly conducive to friendship or self-respect or meaningful relationships...
...crumbled with the failure to find weapons of mass destruction and the increasing hostility of many Iraqis toward their occupiers. But with the revelations of torture and humiliation by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison - and their unhappy echo in tales of abuse by some British soldiers - Britain's self-respect and image in the world is on the line as never before. Or so the argument goes. But the Prime Minister insists he will "remain shoulder to shoulder" with Bush. In a newspaper interview last week, he dismissed "this idea that at the time of maximum difficulty you start...