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...happened in the Big Easy was less an act of nature than a man-made disaster. Katrina was not the Big One that the city had long feared; it was a Category 3 storm that mostly missed the city. But through a mixture of shoddy engineering, poor planning and selfish politics, a survivable hurricane was turned into an epic disaster. The storm was not the tragedy--that was an act of nature. The tragedy is how unprepared we were--and how, today, we still have not learned the lessons of Katrina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Returned to New Orleans | 8/3/2007 | See Source »

...women may be Meredith Grey. Grey's Anatomy is far removed from the suburban dysfunction of Weeds or the deadly intrigues of Damages, but it demonstrated that there was a vast audience for a show about a fleshed-out heroine who sleeps with a married man, makes bad and selfish choices and can be downright unlikable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antiheroine Chic | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...other noble things, all in efforts to sanitize their money. Or--let's not be cynical!--in sincere efforts to show gratitude and share the wealth a bit. And then they still end up having to wonder whether every stranger they pass on the street is thinking: What a selfish jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private-Equity Pigs | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...Apparently, Olmert wants to avoid Hamas being seen to gain legitimacy among the Palestinian public by securing prisoner releases, according to this source. To boost Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbbas in his struggle with Hamas, Olmert has vowed to release 250 of Fatah loyalists, a deal criticized by Palestinians as selfish on Abbas' part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Israel's Talks with Hamas | 7/10/2007 | See Source »

...after I won the Wooden award (for being the nation's top college player), it hit me. I did as much as I could do in college individually. As a team, we could have went to the national championship. But making a decision like that, you have to be selfish a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Kevin Durant on NBA Draft Day | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

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