Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential race has come to resemble a marathon encounter session: long periods of tedium punctuated by embarrassing personal disclosures. The latest revelation came last week when Kitty Dukakis, 50, the seemingly self- assured wife of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, publicly enrolled in the Betty Ford school of political candor. Her secret: 26 years of mild amphetamine dependency that ended in 1982 after she secretly entered a drug- rehabilitation clinic in Minnesota...
...argues that participation in community service programs will allow students to develop values emphasizing self-sacrifice and helping those less fortunate instead of the self-centered morality that prevails today. A latter day program of good works, if you will. But how do you ensure that a majority, not to mention all of Harvard's undergraduates, will enroll in community service programs? Many won't have the time and many won't have the interest. And if ethical instruction is as important as both Bennett and Bok bill it, how can the University allow a single undergraduate to miss...
...discipline administered by students themselves, and a more democratic from of governance at Harvard can be the answer. Whatever the answer is, it is evident that the ethical instruction at the majority of today's colleges and universities are lacking and have produced many students who are coldly self-centered and lost in today's world. More needs to be done. It is hard to believe that what is billed as the greatest system of higher education in the world cannot do better...
Much has been made about the enigma of North. But that is in large part because this earnest, magnetic, often generous man has been his own best mythologizer, telling reporters and acquaintances stories about himself that bent the truth. Blissfully free of self-doubt, he could be a victim of self- delusion. At the National Security Council, he exaggerated his closeness to the President. In running the contra supply network and the arms-for-hostages swap, he seemed to shuttle between fantasy and reality, as he devised the most bizarre schemes to reach his goals. He spoke often of duty...
...succeed," but "most courteous" and "nicest looking." He is remembered by some as being perpetually well-groomed, even fastidious, never going anywhere without a comb in his pocket. "When Larry walked into the room, you knew it," recalls Thomas Gibbons, his former English teacher. "He had an air of self- confidence...