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...insanity of the continued occupation of Iraq? By early May, 750 Americans had died. No one is counting the Iraqi dead, the broken homes and devastated families. And all for what? To place a few handpicked American apologists in power? To siphon off Iraq's oil to private, selfish ends? All that the U.S. has brought to Iraq is death and destruction. Ralph Omoregie Lagos...
...insanity of his continued occupation of Iraq? By early May, 750 Americans had died. No one is counting the Iraqi dead, the broken homes and devastated families. And all for what? To place a few handpicked American apologists in power? To siphon off Iraq's oil for private, selfish ends? The principal thing that the U.S. has brought to Iraq is death and destruction. RALPH OMOREGIE Lagos...
...extramarital sex waiting to happen. But the course of hot, forbidden lust never did run smooth, and Perrotta throws in its way, among other things, a recently paroled child molester named Ronnie McGorvey. An evil, curdled mama's boy, Ronnie, in a perverse way, seems to personify the selfish desires and stunted soul of the suburbs. The people we meet in Little Children are bewildered, frozen in shock at the tepidity of the present, even though they have worked their whole lives to get exactly where they...
...alleviating that poverty but on politicking against each other. Last year alone, they collectively spent more than $2 million--equivalent to almost 1% of Haiti's federal budget--on such efforts. The total funneled into these causes since the late-1990s exceeds $10 million. "It seems a selfish waste for both sides to focus their money in this way," says Robert Maguire, Haiti expert at Trinity College in Washington...
...comes across as inexplicable (or truly selfish) that I hate turning down the volume so that everything’s contained and nice. “What’s the point,” one thinks, “of owning a subwoofer just to blow more air?” Maybe while driving your car out in the street you can justify the extra liberty, but not indoors, where the smaller environment renders the whole device excessive. Admittedly, owning equipment that’s made to boost a hedonistic (as opposed to transcendental...