Word: selfishnesses
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...quadruple back-flip dunks with his eyes closed. But the man had never won it all until his Chicago Bulls captured the N.B.A. crown in a clinic of Jordan aerobics and cagey teamwork against the Los Angeles Lakers. Now will all those who scorned him as a great but selfish showman -- a one-man Harlem Globetrotters -- please shut...
...quit both booze (gradually, all by himself) and coke (cold turkey, all by himself), but unlike many of today's celebrity recoverers, Williams has not succumbed to just-say-no zealotry. While he knows cocaine is "a totally selfish drug" and a dead end, he's also unafraid to recall the fun. "It was always around. 'Robin, want to do some blow? Want to do some blow in a back room with some very famous people?' 'Oh, yeah...
Beauty and the Beast, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, is more imposing, close to seamless. Its animators' pens are wands; their movement enchants. Enchantment is at the heart of the story too. A selfish prince (voiced by Robby Benson) lives under the curse of a righteous witch: that he be a beast, confined to his castle, until he can love and be loved. Pretty Belle (Paige O'Hara) will be his cure -- if she can shake off her revulsion at % being his prisoner and shiver out of the clutches of Gaston (Richard White), a way-too-handsome galoot...
...PAST DECADE, this deceptively sensible and reasonable, if not selfish disposition has been elevated to the level of ideology, to a starting point for decisions about state and society. Largely untested and unchallenged, this individualism has been to the '80s what JFK's call to "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can d do your country"was to the '60s. His idea has simply been turned on its head, and has been done so for two equally potent, yet flawed reasons...
...bitter truth is that American schools have become a reflection of the nation itself: divided by race, class and aspiration -- and all too often animated by no higher calling than the selfish preservation of the status quo. A decade of educational reforms has produced incremental results, laudable but limited. Against this bleak landscape, Choice might -- just might -- be worth the gamble as a way to radically transform the nation's schools in time to help educate today's children...