Word: pride
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...make any of this week's events, don't fret: Harvard Hillel is accepting pre-orders for the "Challah for Haiti," and you can still show your House pride by donating to earthquake relief efforts on the Harvard for Haiti site. Also, several Harvard organizations are sponsoring a drive to sell roses and donate proceeds to Haiti relief. Orders can be placed here...
...colleague Dixon asks Clay about his take on the title, and I eagerly anticipate his answer. Surely someone with so much confidence would show some pride in the distinction. But to my surprise, Clay is unimpressed...
...Zuma, who likes to celebrate his Zulu ancestry by dancing onstage in leopard skins, is unlikely to care what the rest of the world thinks about the fact that he fathered a child out of wedlock - and so far, that unrepentant African pride has won him admirers across South Africa and beyond. The accusation that he is undermining his own AIDS policy is more damaging, though. Zuma already stoked outrage in 2006 when, on trial for rape - a charge of which he was eventually acquitted - he admitted to having unprotected sex with a woman he knew to be HIV positive...
...knowledge of international affairs is sketchy, but he is quite sure of America’s historical preeminence within them. His achievements are few, but his sense of self-importance is vast. He is obsessed with image and public perception—the kind of man who takes pride in signing his emails “Sent from my Verizon Wireless Blackberry,” not because he has one, but because it makes others think he does, giving him an excuse to write shorter correspondence. His is a certain personality type taken to its logical and hilarious extreme...
...Since the movie's earnings fell only 14% from last weekend's - every other returning film in this week's top 10 saw at least twice as big a drop - the Avatar avalanche will continue for another few weeks. The only dents Cameron suffered this week were to his pride: Avatar lost the top awards given out by the directors' and producers' guild to the Iraq-war drama The Hurt Locker, directed by Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow. (See the top 10 movies...