Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moving on to the master classes in Leverett dining hall. When we got back from Thanksgiving break, they called us over to see the real live Christmas tree they'd decorated, and on Valentine's Day we found collective flowers from them in our common room. In a happily self-deprecating running joke, we invented an imaginary sitcom based on our less-than-TV-star lives, and they began emailing us mock scripts, guest-starring our impenetrably perky, I-Bank-bound prefect...
...know anything about this woman, I would never think to write an opinion piece condemning her as lazy, conniving, undeserving, and fat, because to do so would be an embarrassing display of my ignorance and mean-spiritedness. It's too bad that George Hicks does not have the same self-censoring mechanism...
...leaders said the activity will appeal to students interested in the spiritual side of Taichi, those looking to learn self defense and "those with a more competitive Bruce Lee side," said Brian K. Kim '01, a co-founder of the group...
...requirements a little bit more each year. He used the same strategy to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, which puts money in the pockets of low-income workers, and he championed such modest but helpful measures as the mandated 48-hr. maternity stay in hospitals. This is a self-effacing leadership style; Bradley calls it being "the leader that people didn't know was a leader." But that kind of leadership isn't necessarily presidential. And it isn't clear that Bradley, who had to rely on others to build the coalitions that passed his important bills, would have...
...plot is not black and white; despite his ordeals, Peiyuan is more self-assured, more confident of his Chinese identity. His brother Peiji, the eminent achiever, broadcasts insecurity and a trace of guilt at the good life he has enjoyed. Peiyuan is resigned to China's failings. Peiji has indigestion from Taiwan's success. Tell their family story, and you also start to tell the story of China over the past 50 years, with all its contradictions, betrayals and unburied ghosts. Confucian thought has always seen the family as a model of the state. Obedience to the father...