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Ripken would forgive him. The truly heroic aspect of the streak is that he's not doing it for selfish glory; he's doing it for the team. If Ripken gets to No. 2,131, you can be sure he'll play in No. 2,132. And though the demands on his time are already ludicrous, he is willing to put up with them. Says Ripken: "I think the good feeling that is starting to generate about the streak comes from our love of baseball. It's not necessarily about me. It's about statistics and history and the game...
...scheduler take a laissez-faire approach. Each application grabs as much processor time as it needs at the moment. Thus, for cooperative multitasking to work, applications must voluntarily cede control of the system to each other. While this strategy works quite will when applications are good citizens, one selfish application can effectively monopolize the computer...
...makes me realize that feminism isn't a selfish thing," said Wanda Vance, an undergraduate at the University of Georgia. "I'm here with all these women for all those women who can't fight for themselves...
...miserable. She sounds like a fate worse than the Phoenix barbecue. But then again, telling her you can't stand to live with her might trigger severe depression, maybe even a drug and/or alcohol problem, and Sally is already olfactorily famous. On the other hand, you should be selfish. Tell her that you'd rather live with new people next year. If you don't want to tell her the truth, make something up. You could have a rare mental health condition that demands new roommates at irregular intervals. Whatever you do, don't room with someone that makes...
While the play of the Hendersons, Cansecos, and Clemenses can generally be described as selfish, the replacements were selfless...