Word: self-interest
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...that Harvard is doing anything but acting in its own rational self-interest. It is revealing that when Harvard workers are living in poverty, the institution’s social consciousness lies dormant, but it suddenly perks up when the decision of whether to allocate funds for an ROTC program arises. I would hope that now, in the wake of a national crisis and on the eve of a battle like none before, Harvard would examine its role in the broader spectrum of national interest and consider not only the unfair treatment of gays, but also the national need...
...Muslims who support the right of Israel to exist, the punishment of the Iraqi people and the recent hard-line Israeli tactics are immoral and insupportable. Other foreign policies too are creating more enemies than friends for the superpower. Tyrants and undemocratic governments have been backed for reasons of self-interest with no regard for the people of these places. Globalization is seen by millions as yet another system that enriches the privileged and entraps the powerless. This is not simple envy but genuine outrage about inequality...
...while a writer may be willing to do just that, it is a strategy that most often simply doesn’t work,” she writes. That is because of the self-aggrandizing, whining and self-pity that often cloud the story that needs to be told. “The unsurrogated narrator has the monumental task of transforming low-level self-interest into the kind of detached empathy required of a piece of writing that is to be of value to the disinterested reader...
...Pakistan's role in the helping the Taliban to power was based in large part on self-interest. Afghanistan descended into chaos once the superpowers lost interest in 1989 - the Soviets withdrew as a prelude amid the collapse of their empire, and the U.S. stayed out of the ongoing battle of the mujahedeen to unseat Moscow's puppet government. By 1992, the Afghan warriors President Reagan had heralded as the "moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers" were each others' throats in a bloody civil war that had killed many thousands of Afghans and showed no signs of ending. Pakistan helped...
...case of Yeltsin, Washington has a deep desire to see Fox succeed - and a strong self-interest in doing what it can to help him. President Bush is prepared to go to bat for the rights of Mexican truckers to ride U.S. highways, and to press Congress to abandon the annual ritual of certifying Mexico as a drug war ally, which the Mexicans find insulting. But the faltering U.S. economy is making life difficult for Fox, as last year's roaring 7 percent growth rate gives way to this year's stagnation, and Mexico sheds jobs instead of creating desperately...