Word: generousity
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...somebody in a way that might diminish his chance of reproducing? Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that they will help us later. But when you look at what we admire as the most generous manifestations of altruism, they are not based on kin selection or reciprocity. An extreme example might be Oskar Schindler risking his life to save more than a thousand Jews from the gas chambers. That's the opposite of saving his genes. We see less dramatic versions every day. Many...
...eyes of many in Hollywood, Paramount-where Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone publicly blamed Cruise's "inappropriate behavior" for the disappointing box office returns of Mission: Impossible III-is no longer such a place. Under Cruise/Wagner Productions' unusually generous Paramount deal, the studio paid out as much as $10 million a year in overhead and development. When Cruise began jumping on Oprah's furniture in rapture about fianc?e Katie Holmes and finger-wagging about psychiatry on the Today Show, "he was embarrassing the studio," Redstone says in December's Vanity Fair. Not to mention costing Paramount, the outspoken executive estimates...
Preminger, no less a wheeler-dealer than he was a producer-director, persuaded the powers-that-were to let him shoot in the Senate, which no Hollywood film had done before. That was generous of them, and foolish, since the film (and the Allen Drury novel on which it was based) portrays Washington as almost systemically corrupt. The scandal at the heart of the plot: the news that one Senator had a homosexual relationship. Really, now, who would believe that...
...addition to being less generous, businesses are being less paternal too, forcing workers to be more accountable for spending, a practice called consumer-driven health care. One immediate change has been a move away from fixed co-payments for such medical expenses as doctor visits and prescription drugs. That's being supplanted by coinsurance, under which the covered person pays a percentage of the expense. Nearly half of companies will have made the switch by next year. "The idea is to get employees to think before heading to the doctor for a cold," says Columbia University professor of health management...
...Alckmin's problems were twofold: First, Lula convincingly portrayed the former physician as the candidate of the rich, and Alckmin could not shake off the image in the minds of many voters of a button-down bogeyman out to privatize state assets and roll back the generous benefits programs that help many of Brazil's poor survive. Alckmin performed so well in the debates that Lula called their first confrontation the worst night of his political life. But in a country where informality reigns, Alckmin's starched collars and finely cut suits did not ingratiate him with the poor northeasterners...