Word: selfish
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...wrong--if I were selfish, I would love nothing more than to watch you dazzle the basketball world for another five years. I oohed and aahed yesterday with everybody else while watching your patented no-look-behind-the-back passes and exhilarating 25-point performance...
...Word is best when Barish sticks to specific issues and when he offers actual critiques and solutions. Especially clear is Barish's discussion of the contradictions of Reagan conservatism, which touted "old-time values" while supporting selfish individualism. He also effectively critiques the inability of current liberals to produce an outstanding leader and the meek unwillingness of existing leaders to proclaim support for liberal policies...
...dangerous balance," says Yukio Okamoto, a former Foreign Ministry official who heads his own consulting firm in Tokyo. "The feeling that Japan needs to cooperate with the U.S. still remains strong, but at the same time there is a sense that the U.S. is being selfish and blaming everything on Japan." To a large extent, Japanese who lived through World War II, now in their mid-50s and older, feel indebted to the U.S. People in their 40s tend to be the corporate warriors, who wonder why they are criticized for working so hard. Only Japanese under 40, who grew...
...seem willing to take up their cause. Student involvement in the race for the White House can shift debate back to the issues of greatest concern to those most in need of assistance--even though that shift might be spurred by our own selfish fears...
...quadruple back-flip dunks with his eyes closed. But the man had never won it all until his Chicago Bulls captured the N.B.A. crown in a clinic of Jordan aerobics and cagey teamwork against the Los Angeles Lakers. Now will all those who scorned him as a great but selfish showman -- a one-man Harlem Globetrotters -- please shut...