Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disease, an innocent victim and an ordinary mom who becomes a wily fighter for her child's life. The film also has Meryl Streep, the most honored actress of her generation, in her first TV movie in 20 years. In the recent Marvin's Room, Streep played the selfish mother of a troubled child. But ...first do no harm" is better--less because of its heroine than because of its collective villain: the doctors to whom we entrust our lives...
...school for higher Jewish education) in Israel that I attended for a year. One rabbi there explained to me once how it was wrong to borrow someone's pen and paper without asking permission. He said that someone who takes something without asking first is committing an act of selfishness. This rabbi told us that our job in life was to be considerate, not selfish. He told us that deep belief in the Torah means being kind to other people...
...members, would allow a lesser degree of individual control. But to hear the howls of protest from union leaders, the seniors lobby and many Democratic lawmakers, you might think the pro-market council members had proposed to hand the keys to the Treasury over to a group of particularly selfish and spendthrift adolescents...
...Harvard report rightly suggests we are just too selfish and ambitious to handle an honor code. The Harvard community could not uphold an honor code because a significant number of its members are incapable of putting honor before "success." A good number of Harvard students have weak moral convictions; honor is a hollow word in their vocabularies and consequently they cannot be trusted to act honorably on their...
...first teacher of every child is its mother. An educated, informed, visionary mother will raise a child like herself. But an imprisoned, uneducated and frustrated mother will raise a myopic, selfish and materialistic child. Misunderstanding and misinterpretation of Islamic law are contributing factors to the backwardness and downfall of Muslim civilization. It is never too late to correct the course. M. AMIR ALI, Managing Director Institute of Islamic Information and Education Chicago...