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...THESE RELIGIOUS LEADERS helping besides themselves? Most seem to be selfish theocrats who care only about money and grabbing political power at the expense of those of us who don't see things exactly as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 28, 2005 | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...other dolts and losers, who give her seven consecutive daughters?named Laidi (Brother Coming), Pandi (Brother Anticipated), Niandi (Brother Wanted), and so on. After a coupling with Pastor Malloy, an ineffectual Swedish missionary, she finally produces a son, yellow-haired Jintong (Golden Boy), who is the book's narrator. Selfish and indulgent, Jintong remains breast-fed until well into his teens. "Do you plan to suck until you reduce me to a piece of dry kindling?" asks his exasperated mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Up Half the Sky | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

Kudos to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for donating unwanted fur coats to the homeless [Jan. 24]. I wish I could say I have never worn fur, but I have a rabbit-fur coat hanging in the back of my closet from my more selfish days. I'm going to send it to PETA. I can't bring the animals back, but I can help provide a little warmth to people in desperate need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 2005 | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

...Christmas dinner party at which Gemma and Charlie are seated. The hostess looms to the left, while a man scolds a child at the right, with all the other characters carefully positioned in the space to display a different state of mind. In a brilliantly satiric take on selfish love, Simmonds uses a thought balloon inside a thought balloon as Gemma fondly thinks of her lover fondly thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art Imitates Art | 2/5/2005 | See Source »

...blowing them to pieces? Because the United Nations is, and has been for some time, corrupt. The media should lose their outdated awe for the United Nations and recognize it for what it is: not a utopian world-government but a Byzantine, unaccountable, deeply flawed and all too often selfish bureaucracy...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis, | Title: Where's the Outrage? | 12/21/2004 | See Source »

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