Word: selfless
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...While there are endless examples of selfless and modest students across this campus, an underlying feeling of entitlement reigns quietly supreme. As I worked with the College Events Board and First Year Social Committee to plan events throughout this year, I was surprised to find that many students, unaffiliated with social programming, were armed and ready with detailed post-mortem lists about how each and every event should have been...
...She’s one of those rare kids with tremendous talent who is truly selfless,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “She was a great captain and leader...
...Huck finally does make it into the World Series, where, at last, he commits what may be the first selfless act of his life, but before we get there, a lot of poker gets played and that's the movie's other great strength. Poker, obviously and uniquely, is a game of skill and luck - its drama consisting of talent mobilizing its strengths to minimize the workings of mischance. Wisely, I think Hanson (also the director of LA Confidential and 8 Mile) focuses on the game, which is the thing to which all his characters, except Billie, have utterly surrendered...
...only caution: teach all of the Bible. We wouldn't sample bits and pieces of Macbeth, Jane Eyre, 1984 or Catch-22 in a literature class; we would expect students to read an entire work. Just so with the Bible. My enthusiasm for this proposal is not entirely selfless. I subscribe to the position espoused by the great Isaac Asimov: "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived...
...TIME: Given your British background, does Beijing trust you? TSANG: I am the Chief Executive. I am the person appointed by the central government. I am the only constitutional link between the central government and the people of Hong Kong. I trust [Beijing] for being selfless in running Hong Kong. And I do not think that feeling is one-directional...