Word: selflessness
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...Harpaul. And he is not alone. Krish was a director of CityStep last year and is now one of the Cambridge Student Partnerships directors. Monique volunteers in Project Baby, and Pat is a prefect. With their plates full of theater, a cappella, varsity sports and the Caribbean Club, these selfless seniors have devoted much of their precious study time to helping out in the community...
...Fowler and Pyle are two prickly points on the oldest triangle. Each man truly loves Phuong; it is the one selfless emotion they share. In Greene's world, love revs the heart rate and clouds the vision. So does political idealism. Both feelings can compel sporting chaps to commit indecent acts?like stealing a friend's woman, or conniving in a man's murder?with the justification that the worst thing to do was somehow the only right thing. "Sooner or later," a canny Vietnamese tells Fowler, "one has to take sides if one is to remain human." It sounds...
...recognize that it takes a sort of different breed to come out when it’s Head of the Charles weekend,” he said. “It’s very selfless...
...events. Freinberg forgets that in October of an election year, some of us actually feel compelled to do something about making our academic ideas reality. Ivory tower yapping is fun, but if you want anything actually changed, you’d better hit the campaign trail. Bravo to the selfless members of both clubs who left cozy dorm rooms to spend this weekend tromping door-to-door in New Hampshire, where the balance of power in the Senate may be decided...
...race, he managed to use the word I some 99 times. "I want to live life again," he explained. "I want to notice the passing of the seasons...I even want to notice the aging of my friends and family." It must be a tough life being such a selfless public servant, so busy helping others that you don't even notice that it's fall or that your kids have birthdays. But the Torch was about to put all that behind him. "It is time for me to reclaim my life," he went on. "I have done my duty...