Word: selfishness
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...Osamas of this world, and those attracted to him, merely attempt to attach themselves to larger causes for the simple and selfish purpose of tearing others down. And as parasites, they must ultimately die or submit to more powerful, legitimate forces. The U.S. is not arrogant; it simply chooses good. It stands for justice and freedom. Those ideals cannot be destroyed by any man, power or principality. America had no choice but to rise up and destroy the malicious and illegitimate power of the Taliban. The sort of hatred practiced by bin Laden will be eliminated. M. SMITH-YEAGER Marietta...
...impeachment; essentially the political class turned against the people and excoriated them at every opportunity for not going along with the notion that Clinton had to go. The American people were said to be interested in nothing but the Dow Jones, which was saying they were selfish, they were stupid, they were irresponsible. You saw the idea of secular democracy itself put up for grabs that year, which was pretty startling...
Dozens of volunteers, including farmers, real estate agents and computer execs, join him on missions at their own expense. "My motive is selfish; I feel so good doing this," explains Paula Moran, an airline passenger-services agent in Boston. "I meet the most generous people up here and the most grateful ones down there...
Without giving too much of the ending away, I can say that Together manages to stay touching, while steering clear of heartwarming predictability; the film condemns no one, not the selfish Lena, not Rolf, Elisabeth’s alcoholic husband; not even Frederick’s supremely bourgeois mother. The film tells a story about real people, stumbling through life, and the movie knows what the characters eventually learn: that one cannot be happy living behind the rigid walls of idealism. It is to the film’s credit that it never tells us how things should...
Perhaps Harvard students are not hypocrites and are not selfish. Perhaps different responses would have been elicited by different questions, or by the same questions in a new order. But such is the nature of polling, and we can only evaluate the results that were obtained and hope that they do not truly represent the feelings of undergraduates nationwide...