Word: strived
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...exceptional kid? Even if it is, is it worth it to try? Is it better to steer children gently through childhood, letting them make some mistakes and take some scrapes and accept the fact that some of them may not be marked for excellence? Or is it better to strive for a family of superkids, knowing that they are getting the most out of their potential if not out of their youth? Clearly, many parents are caught up in that quest, even if they quietly harbor doubts about its merits. "Parents have, to a large extent, lost confidence in themselves...
...What would also help to defuse the who-needs-whom debate would be a male movement - masculism? - in which all men of non-Taliban persuasion would strive to emulate that half of the race which is typically gentler, kinder, less overbearing. Non-firebreathing feminists would surely support such a campaign, even though nervous good ol' boys among men have already bent New Sensitive Man into a put-down...
...exceptional kid? Even if it is, is it worth it to try? Is it better to steer children gently through childhood, letting them make some mistakes and take some scrapes and accept the fact that some of them may not be marked for excellence? Or is it better to strive for a family of superkids, knowing that they are getting the most out of their potential if not out of their youth? Clearly, many parents are caught up in that quest, even if they quietly harbor doubts about its merits. "Parents have, to a large extent, lost confidence in themselves...
...times because before we know it, the Yard will again be covered in snow. Or maybe we won’t even be living in Cambridge. Sometimes you don’t know how good something is until it’s gone. This spring, let’s strive to defeat that maxim...
...ability to pay. Applicants were told what their "expected family contribution" would be. But in 1990 the U.S. Justice Department charged these colleges with price fixing. The case was settled in 1993 when the colleges agreed to stop swapping financial information about their applicants. Still, they insisted they would strive to confine aid to those who were in need...