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Obama's no fool. He may not believe that things like flag pins should matter politically, but he knows the difference between should and does. Since Vietnam, the ability to associate oneself with patriotic symbols has often been the difference between Democrats who win and Democrats who lose. Why couldn't George McGovern buy a white working-class vote in 1972? Partly, as the great campaign chronicler Theodore White noted, because virtually every member of Richard Nixon's Cabinet wore a flag lapel button, and no one in McGovern's entourage did. Michael Dukakis lost in 1988 because as governor...
...poet introduced his work by saying that it will speak for itself but advised the seniors that “ambition is rarely realized without belief in oneself...
...career—you better keep your emotions in check. While this may not seem unique to college journalists—most sports reporters probably develop an affinity for the teams they cover (if it didn’t exist already)—the reigning-in of oneself is even more difficult when the team playing is representing the institution that you yourself are part of.Moreover, this quest for professionalism is further hampered by our close interaction with the subjects that we cover. Like “real” journalists, we develop working relationships with the coaches...
...report cites three areas in which students should develop during their first year—critical skills, relationship to oneself, and relationship to the world beyond self—and seeks to reconcile student concerns with these general goals...
...centrism, but many programs place the volunteer in a level of hierarchical advantage, whether it’s as a teacher for an immigrant seeking citizenship or even as a van driver for helpless children. Volunteering is very often more concerned with bringing others up than with bringing oneself down to earth...