Word: selfishness
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...time around. Congressmen on both sides of the aisle are polling the folks at home and finding that they remember their spring fling with the "Straight Talk Express," and that the 2000 election only reminded them how much the system can make them wince. And there's always the selfish side - all those rubber-chicken fund-raisers can really wear a lawmaker out, and some of them would actually rather be in Washington making better laws...
...OCCUPATION: Frightening large men, missing free throws BEST PUNCH: Claims Kobe hurts his team by shooting too much: "When people said this was my team, we went 67-15, and we won the whole thing... I don't know why anybody would want to change that, other than for selfish reasons...
...going to miss Bill Clinton. And I don't mean only in a selfish "He was great for late-night comedians" way. I'm going to miss Bill Clinton in that aching, visceral way. I'm going to miss him the way you miss Christmas on a dark February morning...
...that never failed to win support or votes. Then came Ross Perot and the Greenspan-Clinton deficit-reduction plan of 1993, which kicked off an eight-year economic paradise of balanced budgets, high growth and low inflation. Tax cuts, especially tax cuts for people that already had money, were selfish and irresponsible...
...Northeastern University dropout Shawn Fanning--nicknamed "Napster" for the nappy hair under his omnipresent baseball cap--holed up for days without sleep in his uncle's office, tapping out code for a music-swapping program. He didn't realize that the task was too hard, that people were too selfish to share, that big companies would shut him down. By the end of 2000, Napster had upended music's business model, survived a legal threat and found a sponsor in Bertelsmann, the media behemoth. Even if it wasn't supposed to happen this way, music may finally have changed...