Word: selfishnesses
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...story provided a powerful image of suffering innocence in an unjust world that has lodged in the national psyche to this day. Russians routinely use the excuse that they are innocent victims of forces beyond their control to explain away personal failures. A vague, amorphous "they" is always responsible: selfish relatives, meddlesome neighbors, greedy capitalists, corrupt bureaucrats, the government...
Eisner apparently does not. His cashing in of $197.5 million in personal stock options on Tuesday was one of the most cynical and selfish acts anyone has committed in the presidential transition period. It sent a message of no confidence rippling through the world of finance. Yes, it saved the multi-millionaire $16 million. And yes, he issued a statement about...
...that were filled in included "they'reall selfish and materialistic" and "they're allscience geeks," he says. "It enraged me," Sohnsays...
...cunningly displaced two old ladies from their front-row seats ("Look madam, there's free sex over there"--and off they rushed). But, decadently supine on my purchased seats, I felt it unwise to trust polls and estimates favoring Clinton. In Britain they are usually wildly askew, as the selfish tax-evaders exculpate their vices in regular lying to pollsters. "Oh yes, I believe pensions should go up, foreign aid up, defense down, jobs up. Darling, are we having baked beans or the children for tea?" It was natural to fear that the citizens here should be similarly Janus-faced...
What Greene wrote goes to prove further what all Canadians believe: Americans are as ignorant about Canada as they are selfish about their national pasttime...