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This comes after Pippen told ESPN that Barkley was "fat" and "selfish." Considering Barkley had a better year than Pippen, what does that make Scottie? How about "lazy" and "a quitter" and "a whiner" and, most of all, "overrated" and "overpaid...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLee-ve It! | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

Lewis and Clark, Einstein, Galileo, Edison and test pilots are risk takers, as are BASE jumpers and other devotees of extreme sports. But there is a crucial difference. Society gets no benefit from the latter group, who are solely concerned with selfish gratification. GILBERT STORK Englewood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1999 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...fact is, this stale groove is just a pose of countercultural shallowness -- mistaking selfish cruelty for an authentic rebellion within the soul. Lester isn't tuning in or dropping out; he's just turning the reins over to his inner selfish teenager. It's a shame, really, that for all its gorgeousness and thoughtfulness, there isn't more underneath American Beauty. After all, as the promotional tagline insists, this is a movie that invites "look[ing] closer." It should, by all accounts, be remarkably subtle. For a time as I watched (from somewhat farther away), I agreed -- snowed...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Name of the Rose | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...selfish chomp with scalpel precision, the neighborhood shark had bitten off our one keeper trout from the gills down. Irritated, my father offered the rest of our tiny fish to our new portly friend, seeing as how our haul could no longer make a meal...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Father, Son and the Firechicken | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

...initially was going to dump the ball to Troy," said Wilford of his scramble. "But then I got selfish and [Jones] made a great block...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Personnel Produce Instant Big-Play Offense | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

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