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Organizers said the event also served as a chance to honor the ancestors and generations whose sacrifices made today's freedoms possible.
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Juneteenth reminds us that freedom in America has often arrived late, unevenly and only after pressure, sacrifice and enforcement.
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Jerry Brown left seminary before becoming a priest but made his Jesuit education central to his political identity — especially his frugality, environmentalism and preference for rehabilitation over incarceration.
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Kacey Musgraves’s twisting catalogue cruises through country, folk, pop, soul, and disco in search of multifaceted frugality.
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Instead, every new Drake project is a buffet of humiliation, mortification, and self-serving delusion.
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Both Bowen and Burrell have teens of their own – three boys and two girls, respectively – and are far too familiar with the typical parent-teen mortification dilemma.
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Just books and plays, and an asceticism associated with the priests Jim would often play.
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Following several years of contemplation and asceticism, Dorje hopes to return to the United States to teach in Minnesota's Buddhist community at the Nyingmapa Taksham Buddhist Center.
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What begins as an effortful act of self-denial gradually becomes an expression of identity.
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At the beginning of her relationship with John, Carolyn’s central problem was that being part of the Kennedy family demanded some level of self-denial.
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But his austerity measures, most significantly the elimination of long-standing fuel subsidies, have exacerbated biting inflation.
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With its joyless austerity, the dish bears almost no resemblance to actual chicken paprikás, which is boisterous and dense and, crucially, should involve a considerable portion of hearty starches to sop it all up.
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Success requires self-discipline, resilience and the ability to stay productive without the structure of a traditional office.
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Some employ chatbots for fun or companionship, but many others use them to support their mental health care—from attempting to self-diagnose conditions to helping with self-discipline.
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In the case of these earrings, restraint was paramount.
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For disabled students already navigating discrimination, bullying, and in some cases dangerous seclusion and restraint practices with fewer advocacy resources than ever, the question of who will investigate and enforce their rights just got a lot murkier.
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