Word: altruistic
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...these soldiers are fueling a new industry and creating a cult of warnography.A moralist in his own mind, the site’s creator and administrator, Chris Wilson, congratulated himself in an article published last week by the Online Journalism Review (OJR). The OJR profiles Wilson as an interesting altruist; the report describes how, after its launch in 2004, the site became popular with American soldiers who then began “having trouble using their credit cards in Iraq to access the paid pornographic content on the site, so he [Wilson] offered them free access if they could show...
...Chaney ’05), a stripper with a sordid past; her boyfriend Dan (Charles E. Worthington ’06), a charming idealist; Anna (Jordan R. Berkow ’03), a hardened introvert, and her husband Larry (George F. Broadwater ’04), a self-defeating altruist. The four Londoners throughout the play attempt to unravel the mess resulting from their complicated partner swapping...
...faithful: when he has erotic daydreams, he thinks only of Mirabelle. But he does not see that her need is of a greater, higher order than his. Besides, Ray is a man. "His caring is a potion," the book's omniscient narrator tells us, "mixed with one part benevolent altruist and one part chimpanzee penis." Is that unusual? Or, for that matter, wrong? No, Martin says. "But it's a ratio. When you're young, the chimpanzee ratio is 80-20, and when you're older it's supposed...
...TIME: You describe Ray?s caring for Mirabelle as "a potion mixed with one part benevolent altruist and one part chimpanzee penis." Won?t some men always be part chimpanzee penis...
Blair's enthusiasm is shared by altruist Michael Young, Lord Young of Dartington, 84. He opened the School for Social Entrepreneurs in London two years ago and claims it is "for the high-minded and hardheaded." The school requires no academic background, and students' ages range from the 20s to the 70s with the majority of the 40 men and women graduates it has turned out so far in their 40s. It offers eight weeks of seminars to build skills in fund raising, marketing and accounting; students gain practical experience and test their ideas by working on a real project...