Word: self-interest
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...LEAD in the polls in large, perhaps insurmountable, and in that respect Mondale's performance may have been to no avail. But, to paraphrase his own words, it is better to lose a campaign based on the issues of compassion and fairness rather than win one by appealing to self-interest. And now, there's a glimmer of hope that Mondale could even win on the right way-or, at least, swing a few congressional seats in trying...
Perhaps it was the honeymoon atmosphere, or perhaps, as one senior Israeli official said, it was simply "enlightened self-interest." Whatever the reason, Israel's freshly installed unity government got down to business quickly. At its first Cabinet meeting last week, the coalition of Labor and Likud, the country's two major political groups, decided to cut this year's $23 billion budget by $1 billion and devalue the shekel by 9%. That latter move, which dropped the currency's value from 354 shekels to the U.S. dollar to 397, was meant to stop...
...authorial opinion on what happiness is and how happiness relates to social justice and individual behavior would involve taking a political stance, and herein, evidently, lies the problem. Mailer's sexuality places him with the liberals; however, his bravado, his sentimentality, and his creed of suspicious-but-generous self-interest put him firmly with the social conservatives. Mailer is in many ways a typical American, and so perhaps America can take part of the responsibility for his confusion: on the other hand. America is in confusion in part because people as influential as Mailer are no help to them...
...rhetoric at the convention, there was little mention of sacrifice. Ferraro at one point echoed John Kennedy by saying, "The issue is not what America can do for women, but what women can do for America." But she was talking about passage of the Equal Rights Amendment - again, self-interest, not sacrifice...
...loser, say China's leftists, is all too often idealism. Tolerance, they believe, is encouraging decadence; capitalist practices and perks, they suspect, are tempting Chinese citizens to abandon the Maoist values of struggle, self-sacrifice and subservience to party in favor of such Western vices as self-interest, elitism and cynical moral pragmatism. Last year a Shanghai newspaper printed what it took to be the inspiring story of Zhang Hua, a medical student who lost his life while trying to save a drowning peasant. More than 1,600 readers wrote to the paper, many of them indignant...