Word: self-interest
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...Jean-Pierre Gumprich Retournac, France Condi Under Pressure Your story portrayed rice as a very intelligent person with a gift for communicating [Aug. 15]. Unfortunately, such highly qualified people often have their head in the clouds. They formulate theories for solving complicated problems, and sometimes they are influenced by self-interest or the need to follow the boss's line. That appears to be the case with Rice. I understand that decisions are not made without lots of in-depth study and that Rice is not alone when a policy is hammered out and implemented. But the basic premises...
...Eugenics has transformed from the pubic enterprise it had been during the first half of the century to a private enterprise controlled by the self-interest of parents...
...conveying the data even to prestigious people. The law on restricted-access data has nothing to do with prestige, so the quotation is misleading. Consider the reporter’s harping on race and gender bias. When asked why Rothstein was so critical of me, I suggested self-interest and ideological bias. The Crimson reporter, who was intent on race and gender bias, inverted my emphasis, entirely omitted self-interest, and suggested that “bias” (rather my substantive reply) was my response to Rothstein’s claims. Consider the fact that I asked Rothstein...
Both those results can be explained in part by self-interest. But De Waal has also observed behavior that can be seen only as empathetic. When a male loses a fight and sits on the floor screaming, the other chimps will comfort it. "They come over to these distressed individuals and embrace them and kiss them and groom them, and try to calm them down," De Waal says. True, there's an implied benefit for the comforters--the hope that others will do the same for them if they end up in that situation--but that's a level...
...Lincolns of the A.L.P. are no mere Civil War re-enactors. They approach their work with a mixture of sacerdotal adoration, historical rigor and commercial self-interest (some impersonate Lincoln for a living, and virtually all charge several hundred dollars per gig to portray him at parades, nursing homes and museums). For the best Lincolns, bringing him to life means hours of prep; those docents in Maryland may not ask you back if you can't perform a speech Lincoln gave in the state. And then there are the costuming challenges--carefully shaving your upper lip, coloring the gray from...