Word: self
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...little closer to kindness. The school's motto, familiar to Christians and Communists alike reads, translated from Latin, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." It doesn't always work, but they try. Backed up by small class sizes as well as a "self-help" system in which the students, under direction of the senior class, are responsible for the care and maintenance of the school's physical plant, the prevailing atmosphere is one of community. While you can get Ad Boarded here for "conduct unbecoming a Harvard student," at my high school...
...destiny and its consequences, that frames both the beauty of a Harvard education and its frustration. We are forever indebted to this institution for fine-tuning our ability to analyze critically and to examine, and yet, it is difficult not to succumb to occasional bouts of heightened consciousness and self-doubt as we analyze and over-analyze our every action. As a smart man named Charles Dickens once wrote, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
...remember feeling a little self-satisfied that I was facing up to having to pay the rent," she says...
...myself have not really changed my position," he says. "I suppose at that point, I was anti the anti-war movement. They were self-indulgent, simple-minded, acting out neurotic stuff in their lives...
...seem to oscillate as a society between times of apathy and self-centered ignorance, and times of hyper energized activism, sometimes bordering on thoughtless" Wood says. "Even with Kosovo in the wings, we're in the more apathetic mode. I wish students were more motivated, concerned...