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5 posts tagged "courage"

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Strength, courage and Notre Dame boxing

Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Śakti, Sāhasa. Strength, Courage.  Every Bengal Bouts practice ends with those two words in Bengali (pronounced “shakti, shahosh”). This tradition was something I looked forward to each day during my time in the club. A call-and-response type breakdown of practice, the resulting echo from some 200 Bengal Bouts members never failed to give me chills. 

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What’s your power word?

Show Some Skin | Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Growing up, we are repeatedly told we can be anything we want to be. We’re told to dream big — the world is ours. Little kids are encouraged to aspire to be astronauts, princesses, the next president. But at some point, in between childhood and emerging adulthood, we are hit with a spheroid of misery,

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To be afraid

Colleen Fischer | Thursday, February 15, 2018

Watching the Olympics, I am amazed at the basic feats of courage that are being performed daily, as athlete after athlete goes off 22-foot ramps or is thrown 10 feet into the air with blades attached to his or her feet. As I watch them, I think about the mental discipline it takes to overcome

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Philosophy and football

April Feng | Thursday, October 8, 2015

“Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.” — Anonymous. When I first came to America two years ago, there were a couple of things about this culture I did not understand, chief among them football. After my “pitiful absence” from the

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Addressing a void of leadership in America

Dan Sehlhorst | Thursday, November 6, 2014

Do you hear the collective nationwide sigh of relief? The midterm elections have passed. After months of analysis, predictions and inexorable campaigns, votes have been cast and the talking heads are deciphering the results and brandishing new prognostications. Although the Republican Party ran away with a sweeping victory, the GOP should be careful not to interpret

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