Word: selfishnesses
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Averaging 18 points, five rebounds and four assists a game, Hill certainly has All-Star talent, but the fans were responding to more than the stat sheet. Basketball has become ever more raucous and ill-mannered in recent years, and the fans want relief from selfish, trash-talking stars like the Phoenix Suns' Charles Barkley, who earlier this season announced that were it not for him, his fellow Suns would be decent players on bad teams...
...becoming increasingly active, joining street patrols, reforming schools and seeking alternative health care. Not every corrective impulse is completely benign. Many Americans have stocked up on guns and walled in their communities. The question that remains is whether America's notion of personal responsibility will prove to be selfish and inward-looking, or expansive and community-minded...
...trouble. Was a television ever broken? I'm not sure, although I know glass shards of some sort were known to find the carpet (even before halftime) during the tense ones. In little time, I became a passionate Notre Dame fan, although my reasons were more defensive and selfish than those of the average Golden Domer, I suppose...
...only do they serve to represent private interests, but they also help enlarge them, turning individuals away from selfish parochialism and toward the public good...
...Young are more individualistic, self-confident and, in a sense, selfish, than their parents," he says. "They love American culture, yet feel let down by America. Above all, they question authority...