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...first game, we didn’t play a team game,” Brown said. “To know that had we maybe not made those errors, we would have been closer in that game, definitely gives us confidence??especially because we’re hoping to play Cornell again...
...administrative decision to blur the line between two educational eras, however, seems less like an easygoing brand of understanding and more like a collective vote of “no confidence?? in the much-heralded replacement to the broken Core. What is more, this freedom of choice may banish our new enrollees to bureaucratic quicksand, as a rocky curricular transition will likely leave them with neither substantial course selection nor the guidance to make essential academic decisions...
...Matory has been a vocal crusader for all things right and just at Harvard, from the vote of “no-confidence?? he spearheaded against He Who Must Not Be Named in March 2005, to his Sept. 14 Crimson op-ed accusing the Harvard community—including the Jews on The Crimson who agreed to publish the piece in the first place—of censoring anti-Zionist opinions...
...Kids are kids. If people are going to tell them how good they are, there’s a fine line between confidence??and the fat and happy syndrome, the ‘hey, it’s going to be easy,’” Siedlecki said. “You can’t allow that to happen. And yet, you don’t want to be negative. There’s a fine line...
Nonetheless, the riots proved to be a perfect peg for demographic jeremiads because they seemed to support theocons’ pessimism and fear. Although they love to decry the softness of modern Europe—accusing it of lacking “civilizational confidence??—theocons deny the vitality of Western culture by assuming that Muslims are impervious to the European values (temptations?). Such self-doubt is unjustified: European values (decadent capitalism and post-Enlightenment liberalism) are likely to persist, no matter how demographic changes alter Europeans’ creed or color...