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Being influential doesn't necessarily make you admirable. I wish these people would use their influence in less selfish ways. The businessmen, at least, could reap untold benefits for themselves and their companies by doing so. MICHELLE GARDNER LaGrange, Kentucky...
...monetary value wasn't surprising. Indeed, if the media is "our national nervous system," as Tom Wicker, the former New York Times columnist, wrote in a 1983 article looking back on the Kennedy years, then its anxious effort, in this period when many still consider it good to be selfish and greedy, to escape examining the emotions which the auction made manifest is understandable...
...arrived late to the world of relationships, but he has developed a heart the size of the Ford Foundation. He offers all--affection, unflinching honesty, gifts of fine silverware--to the men he falls for, but his charity is almost always misguided. Blue's lovers are a cold, selfish lot who rebuff his devotion with parting lines like, "Weakness isn't sexy...
Wallace has the nuts-and-bolts romanticism of a crackpot inventor; Gromit, a bookish sort, gets his friend out of wild scrapes when not reading Crime and Punishment (by Fido Dogstoyevsky) or Pluto's Republic or Electronics for Dogs. The typical plot: Wallace will be seized by some selfish idea--flying to the moon for a cheese snack in A Grand Day Out or renting out Gromit's room to a pistol-packin' penguin in The Wrong Trousers or courting a sheep-napping femme fatale in A Close Shave--and Gromit will pitch us a conspiratorial sigh with a mute...
...arranging these plans, Malone said, Truesdell assumed the role of club representative, a duty reserved for the club's president. Truesdell also contradicted the HRC's stance toward the Alliance and acted with selfish intent, said Malone, who is a Crimson editor...