Word: strived
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...concepts in social psych is self-presentation—the way we present ourselves to the world around us. A person’s self-presentation is often complicated as they strive to ingratiate ourselves with others, get ahead in their careers and generally climb the ladder as is expected. People adjust their self-presentation to their environment—here at Harvard, where everyone is clawing to get ahead all the time, people can have particularly diverse and incongruent selves. Call me crazy (my roommate does it all the time), but I think that the pressure we experience...
Most would not dispute the rude reputation of the ’74 and ’75 boats, and none would say they were anything but smooth. Harvard tacked unofficial national championships on to undefeated seasons in both years, building a legend that future crews would strive to mirror...
Rather than helping these women heal after an experience that has caused them such grief, abortion rights advocates strive to make the procedure easier to access. In proclaiming that a woman’s choice to have an abortion is a matter for her and her doctor to decide, they ignore that if the woman visits a clinic where abortions are performed, the doctor clearly has a financial interest in her choice: if she chooses to carry, he makes no money, but if she aborts, the clinic earns hundreds or thousands of dollars. Joy Davis, a former abortion provider...
...they visited. The European view of President Bush as a gun-slinging cowboy running roughshod over the international community was a convenient extension of that same stereotype. Now, of course, it is more important than ever that Americans disprove that perception of themselves. And Harvard students should, of course, strive to be in the vanguard of that offensive...
...intangible features of a successful college experience are not readily quantified no matter how many factors are ostensibly ‘weighed’ by the rankings’ authors. The lesson that The Atlantic Monthly wisely hits home is that when reading any college ranking, prospective students must strive to understand for themselves the characteristics that make each college unique when deciding which is the best fit for their needs...