Word: self-respecting
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...remedy the deep-seated unfairness of an institutional structure which gives some people a greater opportunity than others to advance their most fundamental interests. We must recognize that the rules and organizations we create have a profound and pervasive influence on people’s aims, aspirations, and self-respect. Who would argue that there is equality in a society which disproportionately discourages people of a particular race or gender from pursuing their aims and realizing their potential? Equality means respecting diversity by allowing different people to develop and exercise their distinctive skills. We group people together not to stereotype...
...drunk enough to play the game but perhaps a little too drunk to play it well. Though Garner was able to use one hand to unsnap her bra and the other to snap a nice pictorial record for her scrapbook, she lost her digital camera right next to her self-respect somewhere in the beer sodden recesses of the Fox basement. But on the bright side, Garner can now order prints of herself from the Kodak website...
...auspiciously for the Harvard men’s hockey team in its 4-1 loss to No. 2 Boston College in the opening round of the Beanpot Monday night, and the team hit rock-bottom midway through the second period before coming out in the third to salvage its self-respect...
...start auspiciously for the Harvard men’s hockey team in its 4-1 loss to No. 2 Boston College in the opening round of the Beanpot, and the team hit rock-bottom midway through the second period before coming out in the third to salvage its self-respect...
...dead, as were 23 Israelis, but a myth of Jenin's heroism and martyrdom had been created. Just a day after the battle ended, and with only $9,000 from Swedish television, Hassan began 28 days of filming in the camp. What he learned was not about heroism, but self-respect. "Heroism never changed anything," he says. "People in Jenin resisted, and it enabled them to overcome the celebration of victimhood that's common on both sides." Egteyah isn't the first documentary about Jenin - in the Middle East, a battle so mythic was bound to produce...