Word: selfishnesses
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...Republican Congress is unlikely to bail Clinton out. But TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says that although the White House will rue the decision for selfish reasons, the Secret Service is genuinely worried about future presidents ducking out of agents' earshot -- and into danger. "They sincerely think the next assassination of a president will be on Ken Starr's hands," he says. For that reason, an appeal to the Supreme Court seems likely -- and that of course would be fine with the White House; that court is on break until October...
...parent from working-class Worcester. Spreading the burden through the state, says Randolph school-board member Laura Soares, whose town can now afford to build a new elementary school after a 30-year wait, "is the moral thing to do." And, the receivers contend, the wealthy are not only selfish but arrogant. "They're not used to losing debates," says state senator Cheryl Rivers, an architect...
...loves gay men (most especially her dead brother) with the desperation and security of caring for someone who can never accept her and thus never reject her. She thinks of herself, of course, as the one normal person. "You have a death wish," she tells Bill. "That's so selfish. I have one too, but I direct it toward others." Lucia could be just comedy's favorite device, the useful fool, but Kudrow makes her funny and sympathetic. Her body language is eloquent--she walks like a constipated stork when her arms and tight lips aren't folded in disapproval...
...College's failure to commit to leading rather than following on the crucial matter of financial aid embodies every negative stereotype that those outside of Harvard associate with our fair University. It is arrogant, selfish and snide. The University coddles its funds, running capital campaigns to build extra squash courts while throwing its students (even the squash players) into ungodly debt...
...tend to be forgiving. Other people feel [students are] conservative and selfish, and we don't care about anything beyond our world," said Sergio J. Campos '00, a member of RAZA, a Mexican/Latino-American student group which supported the boycott, in a recent interview. "But you have a lot of students here who recognize a lot more than people think...