Word: selfishness
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...inner-city 24-year-old who is tired of seeing the adulation of selfish and materialistic athletes and musicians, I am grateful that TIME has underscored the real qualities that make a person a hero. Displaying love and empathy for the victims of severe misfortune, those caring people put the true value of the human spirit in the limelight. Your issue on Global Health and altruistic heroes forced me to ask, What kind of man am I if I do not help make this world better...
...John's first wife Vivien (Ginnifer Goodwin) - ?a wonderful lady? who ?went through a lot of hell with him,? in the recollection of Cash's buddy and fellow Country Music Hall of Famer George Jones - is reduced to a small-minded sort with selfish middle-class dreams. ?My mom was basically a nonentity in the entire film except for the mad little psycho who hated his career,? Vivien and John's daughter Kathy Cash told AP this week. ?That's not true. She loved his career and was proud of him until he started taking drugs and stopped coming home...
...album, as well as the best G-Unit song since “Hate It Or Love It.” But the majority of the album never rises above mediocrity. The simply evil “I Don’t Know, Officer” is too selfish (and too long) to qualify as an anti-snitching anthem. 50 Cent, Prodigy (the third best rapper in New York in 1995, who’s fallen off harder than Humpty Dumpty), and a barely trying Mase sound less like they’re protecting their hood from cops and more...
...young people do care about politics,” said IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen, who moderated the event. The survey found that only 41 percent of college students approve of the job President Bush is doing, and 70 percent of respondents said that they felt elected officials acted on selfish motivations. But students embraced political avenues of change, with 91 percent saying that “running for office is an honorable thing to do.” Perhaps most surprisingly, the survey found that turnout among people aged 18 to 24 was higher for the 2004 elections than...
...stairs of India’s apartment building. Max’s relationship with Boonyi is a non-too-subtle allegory of the clash between Eastern and Western values, and although he is clearly a foil to Shalimar, he emerges as a tragic hero. We hate him for his selfish womanizing, but admire him for being “the Resistance hero, the philosopher prince, the billionaire power-broker, the maker of the world!” The novel powerfully integrates life and history, rendering the ways in which people react to times of crisis, sometimes fighting to preserve...