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...year as a vocal leader as passionate and confident about winning as legends like Michael Jordan or Larry Bird. After the Spurs lost to the Lakers in last season's playoffs for the second year in a row, Duncan himself admitted that he "should have been a little more selfish" and taken control of more games. This year, he's done that, and the impact has been clear: Duncan isn't the biggest, strongest, or quickest player in the NBA, but now the two-time reigning Most Valuable Player is considered by many to be the flat-out best. "Bill...
...judge’s findings met widespread disgust in Moorestown, where residents sent a flood of letters to their local newspaper denouncing Hornstine as “selfish, unappreciative” and “whiny...
Sorenstam, 32, insists that going up against the boys has nothing to do with blazing a feminist trail in men's sports. It's about one woman, her game and her purely selfish motives. "I would not have gotten all this attention if I were not a good golfer," she says. "This is a way to push myself to another level. This is for myself...
...questionable character are already present among us, why should we lose the right to express moral indignation at an act that, Podolsky admits, “turns [his] stomach?” Is it truly “hypocrisy” to acknowledge that Harvard has some undesirably selfish people, yet simultaneously desire to avoid perpetuating or worsening this state of affairs...
Does Kennedy's medical condition make him a hero? Or does his years' long concealment of such matters as his life-threatening Addison's disease instead reconfirm the streak of selfish recklessness that was equally evident in his sexual risk taking? If the facts of his health had been known in 1960, of course, Kennedy never would have been elected President. This was a man who, three times before Dallas, had been in such dire physical condition that he was given the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. The presidential biographer Richard Reeves has remarked that "in a lifetime...