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...jock!” or “I want to be a Pearl Girl!”? If you can take your lumps, if you can be motivated by the rejections, if you can just find a way to trust yourself, then this place will toughen your spirit. And in one of life’s delicious ironies, Harvard becomes the place to learn uniqueness...
...first move in a multistage plan by Israel's new Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, to teach Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a lesson. But worrying questions began creeping into Israeli discussions again last week: Is Arafat really in control? And if he is, will Israeli strikes only serve to toughen his stance...
...front of the small class, yells, "If you're sloppy in the beginning, it will be sloppy in the end, and all the blame will be with you." Venus freezes. Serena puts down the scissors. For tennis players whose own father rooted against them at matches to toughen them for competition, this is a surprisingly ineffective teaching method...
...drama of sexual interest is a dance, it's a dance with a broomstick, men being the broomstick. They stand there, staring at a woman's chest, while the woman whirls around in circles, making requests and ticking off conditions. Come closer. No, give me space. Commit. Back off. Toughen up. Soften up. Lighten up. Get serious. It's enough to drive a guy to drink, but unfortunately contemporary women no longer find hard-drinking men attractive. This too will change, though...
...helped Bhanwari file an appeal in the Supreme Court--it is still pending--and later quit her job. "I realized I couldn't spend my life writing reports that would simply gather dust," she says. After hearing of Bhanwari's ordeal, Srivastava started lobbying the Rajasthan government to toughen police accountability. She spearheaded a successful drive to ban sexual harassment in the workplace and led a push for a citizen's right to information that has become a national cause...