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...manipulating information. I suppose I would have felt this less if some distinctly anti-male sentiments didn't frequently creep into the book, affording an almost universally negative impression of men. In many ways, Hite seems overly anxious for the reader to accept that men are continually boorish, selfish, uninspired and non-emotional...
...will it? Can we rely on students' selfish instinct for money grubbing? Maybe students today are more altruistic. Perhaps they will resist the attraction of the high dollar return on Shakespeare and Fine Arts and continue preparing themselves for lives dedicated to those non-monetary goals of Health, Justice, and Corporate Happiness...
...There are other things to do, and it would be rather selfish of me if I remained locked away here," says Britain's Prince Charles, offering some lofty motives for leaving the Royal Navy on Dec. 15 (after five years of service). Now the commanding officer of a 360-ton mine hunter named the H.M.S. Bronington, Charles will quit ruling the waves in six weeks to take charge of preparations for the Silver Jubilee, next year's celebration of Queen Elizabeth's 25th year on the throne. His leave-taking will mark...
...emotions as a South Africa native and his insights as an obviously pragmatic, tough-minded journalist shift back and forth, showing on one hand pain and pessimism and on the other cold condemnation of the cynical pursuit of self-interest among parties on both sides. He sees those selfish pursuits in the Vorster government and among its economic partners abroad, and also among black leaders in the surrounding "front-line" countries who, he suspects, even if black majority rule arrives in Rhodesia, will continue to bend to South African clout...
Students as well, both black and white, may have finally made the selfish and encouraging decision to look after their narrow interests, to get on and get out with a diploma and at least get a respectable job. Or so the comments of Jerome S. Winegar, the former Minnesota-based school administrator who Judge Garrity approved for headmaster at South Boston High last year, seem to indicate. Monday, he says, so many students checked in for the fourth day of classes--300 blacks, and 500 whites--that they had to file up and wait outside the aged building while staff...