Word: selfishnesses
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...high art, but it's much more substantial than, say, "Hit me, baby, one more time." On the standout Simple Kind of Life, Stefani mulls the crossroads of womanhood: "I always thought I'd be a mom/Sometimes I wish for a mistake/The longer that I wait the more selfish that I get." She does bittersweet very well. Return of Saturn may not sell 15 million copies, but it proves No Doubt has much more than just 15 minutes...
...play sports and have even mildly suspect grades: Commit early or check out the two-hand touch league at the local Y near campus! People have these horrendously flawed, preconceived notions of places based on nothing at all. And they get held to it--because colleges are being selfish. In this day of extreme selectivity at big name schools, colleges want insurance that admitting one student over someone else won't hurt their yield and drop them in those asinine U.S. News and World Report rankings...
...their own foreign policy," says Rogow. The U.S. Supreme Court may decide the issue this month when it rules on Massachusetts' commercial ban against Burma's dictatorship. Meanwhile, some younger Cuban Americans, like dance instructor Omar Caraballo, are increasingly critical of Miami's policy. "It's selfish not to let me experience my cultural roots in my own city," says Caraballo, 24. The question is whether the federal courts will get in step...
...childless colleagues who cover for them. In short, Burkett's parents behave like a bunch of badly brought-up brats. Childless adults, as she represents them, are mature, sensible--and exquisitely patient. Therein lies the chief weakness of this provocative book: a bifurcation of the human race into the selfish and the selfless, the latter being those without children. The dichotomy is so sharp as to undermine Burkett's argument that pervasive pro-family policies in government and industry unfairly profit parents at the expense of the childless...
...fact is, final clubs are selfish. They have the opportunity to contribute positively to Harvard society, yet they squander it because of an uneasy suspicion that exclusivity is the only thing that makes them desirable. Secretly, members of secret societies have inferiority complexes...