Word: self-interest
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...gifts to Africa: first exploitation and then indifference," he said at the World Economic Forum's Africa summit in Cape Town earlier this month. "There is across the world a new awareness of the moral reprehensibility of what we have allowed to happen in Africa." There is also self-interest. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa points out that disease and despair will hurt the rich world by driving illegal immigration and the dissemination of killer germs if left unchecked. "You can't build a fire wall around Africa and expect its problems not to spread," Mkapa said at the meeting...
...bill that would have introduced direct elections to UC committees—a reform we staunchly advocated—was defeated 18-13. We condemned the apparent death of what we consider the UC Reform Commission’s most important proposal, and chastised the UC for the destructive self-interest behind the decision. If council members are unable to put the wellbeing of the council ahead of their own ambitions, the entire process of reform is doomed...
...many within the UC, especially younger members, this vote was about naked self-interest. If all the freshman present at the UC meeting last Sunday had skipped out, an 18-13 vote against the reform would have been tied at 12-12. Since these freshmen supposedly have the most to lose from this reform, the vote tally regrettably comes as no surprise. But shouldn’t UC reps vote in their constituents interests and not in their...
...move bill opponents to change their votes, the UC must submit the question to a student referendum. With enough outreach and publicity, Harvard students can be educated about the pros and cons of this important reform. And with their wisdom behind the vote, untainted by the self-interest in which some UC reps seem to dabble, we expect that this reform will be passed. The current stalled state of this direct elections reform is unacceptable, and either reform-minded UC members or the student body at large must do whatever it takes to effect the change that the council...
Human rights have always been a touchy topic for Soviet leaders, and for Gorbachev more than most. Reagan plans an appeal to Soviet self-interest, arguing that it is abuses of human rights that make the U.S. public most suspicious of Moscow, and most unwilling to conclude agreements. Gorbachev has developed a counterargument that the U.S.S.R. values such "human rights" as full employment and free medical care, which the U.S. ignores. In addition, the Soviet press has lately been playing up such alleged U.S. violations of human rights as the Move bombing in Philadelphia. Sample fulmination: according to Pravda...