Word: darwinian
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Saddam long ago learned how to keep power, no matter what the cost. It wasn't just ferocious ambition that drove him from shepherd to dictator by age 42. His Darwinian outlook took root among the clan machinations of his native Tikrit, during the years when Arab nationalism began to flower. Freud would have had a field day with Saddam's tortured relationships with his family, including, Post says, a suicidal mother who tried to abort him. Saddam's father died before he was born, and after his mother married a man who brutalized Saddam, the illiterate 10-year...
...blocking group lies in student perceptions of competition. Yes, we have to “vanquish every competitor” to get here, but once on a campus full of the most interesting and brilliant students in the country, it’s time to put aside our Darwinian impulses. Blocking should be based on friendship, and nothing else. Those unfortunate enough to find themselves in a blocking group that more closely resembles a political coalition will need to take advantage of House communities and extracurricular interests next year to find more genuine, trustworthy friends...
...deaths of Farley, Radner and John Belushi loom large over the book, and the sense of wartime camaraderie among the big stars of the early 1990s--Farley, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler and David Spade--is often heartwarming. But there's anger in these voices too. Relying on some Darwinian theory of comedy--survival of the funniest--Michaels pits the cast members against one another in a bitter competition for air time, which once drove a shaking Victoria Jackson to stand on a chair and call fellow performers Nora Dunn "a bitch" and Jan Hooks "the devil...
...always had a creative and reflective side which was at first difficult to reconcile with the Darwinian, cutthroat atmosphere of an investment bank,” he says...
...ability to focus intensely and screen out other distractions, for example, is a geeky trait that can be extremely useful to computer programmers. On the other hand, concentration that is too intense--focusing on cracks in the pavement while a taxi is bearing down on you--is clearly, in Darwinian terms, maladaptive...