Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student interest in Core reform is selfish only to the extent that we desire an institutional framework that will provide us with the best education. Like your Committee, we strongly believe that a delimited liberal arts education is the brand of learning most suited to our great University. But unlike your Committee, we are not bound to any specific system of knowledge categorization by intra-Faculty political allegiances, nor are we afraid to rattle our sabers for fear of internecine Faculty dissension...
...wildcards will be Florida in the NL and Chicago in the AL. I detest the selfish, hypocritical Jerry Reinsdorf, who opposed the labor deal because he said it would drive up salaries too much, but then signed Albert Belle the same week for 11 million a year. So I eagerly anticipate the White Sox's early exit...
...tired, frustrated and resentful pilot, but it will have a pilot. The bond between a nursing mother and her child is stronger than anything I have ever known. I am a former U.S. Air Force captain, and I breast-fed my first son. Other officers may believe Cuevas is "selfish and a disgrace to women in the military," but I think she is demonstrating selflessness and courage. DONNA KRINGLER Midway Park, North Carolina...
...meeting, to be sure, is less than successful. Carol has come for purely selfish reasons: "I want to know about my grade. Is that bad?" John continues speaking for a different selfish reason: to hear himself talk. But is that all he really wants? His off-color language and an attempted pat on the shoulder have convinced Carol by Act Two that she was the victim of sexual manipulation. John, to her mind, has demanded her submission to his specious, inflated academic authority...
Sallie Tisdale, author and contributing editor to Harper's, falls on the whiny side of this divide. No doubt she is well-intentioned, as most of the whiners are, but she comes off as selfish and old-fashioned, like some decaying actress caught backstage. Her argument in the recent Harper's runs smoothly enough: Libraries have gone over to entertainment, peddling videos and Internet access in the hopes of enticing people to use the library. This kind of instrumental programming, such as handicraft classes, social work and lectures, has always failed in the past and will continue...