Word: selfless
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...treatment of ROTC. In sharp contrast to most other colleges, ROTC is considered an extracurricular activity rather than an academic program here. Furthermore, students participating in ROTC must travel to MIT because there are no ROTC units at Harvard. All of these measures constitute an added burden upon students selfless enough to serve their country...
Ingratitude is fatal to a foreign policy of selflessness. And selfless intervention, unmoored from any conception of national interest, defines Clinton foreign policy. For George Bush, author of our first purely humanitarian intervention, Somalia was an afterthought. For Clinton it is the model. In Somalia he inflated the mission from feeding the starving to nation building, until driven out by public opinion. In Bosnia only last month, a U.N. bureaucrat was able to call in U.S. warplanes to strike at Serbs to avenge French peacekeepers wounded by Serb gunmen bent on fighting Muslims. What this has to do with...
Whereas other Presidents might have viewed such direct involvement as unfair interference with the free market -- or maybe just declasse mercantilism -- Clinton, the putative populist, has turned out to be a natural in the role of salesman. It is not, of course, a selfless role: Administration officials maintain that by boosting U.S. exports, 13 million new American jobs can be created by the year 2000. To drive home the point after the President helped close the Boeing deal, Vice President Al Gore visited a Boeing plant in Seattle to announce the good news to cheering workers there...
...defense was fired up in game one by senior Ann Kennon, who had nine put-outs, and short stop Amy Reinhard, who contributed a selfless three-put-out, eight-assist performance...
...article, his critique of Mother Teresa is reason enough to go hunt this one down at 14 Plympton, because surely Mayo's is the first to find fault with a "future saint." Calling her "Miss Teresa," Mayo derides her selection on the basis of her being "a humble, selfless, obedient woman," saying that we conservatives probably didn't choose her for her true merits--that is, for her devotion to the poor. Never mind that Council member Brian E. Malone noted these characteristics in opposition to the "radical individualism" that feminists support, or that he noted that Mother Teresa...