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...Wandering Minstrel I," Shuman has won us over. Siemens's Ko-Ko is thoroughly annoying and amusing; more effective as a comedian than a singer. He's at his best when he seems to let himself go--as, for instance, when he cuts into a gleeful dance of selfish celebration during "Here's a Howdy-Do." And Erik E. Amblad '98, when he enters in Act II, is unstintingly and unnervingly unflappable as the cheerful, well-intentioned and despotic Mikado of Japan...
...squeezed his way into lecture late, or the girl who groaned behind him in the lunch line as he carefully selected individual strands of spaghetti, or the student he interrupted to make a comment in class. Yet to each of those people, he has just defined himself as inconsiderate, selfish and irritating. And if he interrupts the same student again, or if the same person lands behind him twice during his little spaghetti ritual, then he is branded as obnoxious, rude and "annoying...
...transforming their music and motivation into addressing a local issue, the Bosstones have readily contributed to Safe and Sound, an organized response by Boston musicians to the Brookline Clinic murders a few years back. Although Gittleman feels releasing the Safe and Sound benefit album last year was "a selfish thing to do, at the time, the shootings rocked the city and [the record] was a way to feel better about the situation." It raised money and awareness and represented the intimacy of the Boston music community. The first performance of the Hometown Throwdown this year will benefit Safe and Sound...
...apparently view their would-be saviors as manipulative "puppeteers", reports the New York Times. Editorials in several South Korean newspapers have been calling the conditions attached to the aid "disconcerting," with one noting that, "It is not wise for our friendly relations to use such a crisis situation for selfish benefit...
...Sprewell is known as selfish and as a problem child, an extreme example of today's high-on-salary, low-on-character NBA player (he makes $7.7 million annually), and the team has repeatedly tried, without success, to deal...