Word: selfishness
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...petty, trivial and selfish one-upmanship her lawsuit reflects—particularly the fact that she is asking for money—turns my stomach and makes me wish she’d chosen Princeton...
...selfish note, I’m glad I got to play for her all four years before she retired,” co-captain Katie Shaughnessy said...
Whom, then, will this change help? Only the admissions office, which is acting, it seems, out of a selfish desire to move up a notch or two in meaningless college guides by improving its yield. But that yield is already astronomically high. This move bespeaks that most un-Harvard of qualities: insecurity. If Harvard is afraid that competitors like Yale and Stanford, both of which recently switched from binding to non-binding early admissions policies, will snatch up its best applicants, surely the answer is not to put a further stranglehold on those students. A school with our prestige...
...Basketball Association has 65 foreign-born players and is hoping to expand overseas [BUSINESS, March 17]. The NBA is still a joke and has been for years. People forget that the National Hockey League has had international players in its system for its entire history. Basketball is the most selfish team sport in our society. Until all the thugs and gangsters leave the NBA or learn to behave like adults and not spoiled children, it will continue to be a joke. The NBA should show its games on the Cartoon Network because the sport cannot be taken seriously. ERIC ONKENHOUT...
America, are you still out there? That's the vague, selfish fear we're reluctant to admit out of respect for others' more piercing ones: someday, without warning, we'll hear a silence deeper than the silence we're accustomed to, and we'll know something awful has happened, beyond our reach. --By Walter Kirn