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Hour-long panels of speakers on women's health issues in politics, women and self-esteem, body images, and weight management continued throughout Saturday afternoon. Harvard peer counseling groups and stores specializing in fitness accessories set up booths in the Radcliffe Dance Studio...
Linda Sanford, co-author of "Women and Self-Esteem", spoke on the ways in which men and women view themselves. She said men are taught to build their identities around things they do well, while women are taught to "gain redemption by struggling and striving to be perfect," she said...
...even to try to unstick the Middle East impasse, Kissinger believes: "It may be better not to get involved than to go there and have things go wrong." Is there no hope? Says Kissinger: "You've got to find some solution which balances the Arab need for self-esteem with Israeli security. I'm not sure it exists...
Whatever Swaggart's ecclesiastical fate, laborers in TV evangelism, who stand to suffer yet more diminution of public esteem, emphasize that his sin does not remotely compare with Bakker's. Says Mark DeMoss, spokesman at PTL after Bakker resigned: "Last year's episode involved a lot of financial wrongdoing directly related to contributions. If Bakker had merely been accused of an affair with Jessica Hahn, he'd still...
Along with their self-absorption, many harbor a sense of worthlessness. "It's hard to build self-esteem if you don't deal with the challenge of getting a job," says George Pillsbury of Boston, scion of the flour family. There is also a feeling of guilt for having been born with money. "That was the worst problem I had," admits Chicagoan Abra Prentice Wilkin, great- granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller. "I didn't earn it." The knowledge can taint even the pleasure of making expensive purchases. The first time Wilkin spent $100 for a pair of shoes...