Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arise, however, an interesting question of motive. The guilt-mongers would have us believe that no matter how beneficial the ends, a self-interested profit motive is morally compromised and somehow socially irresponsible. Quite the opposite. Self-interest is the easiest and most efficient means of coordinating, through Adam Smith's invisible hand, this vast, well-oiled machine that provides for all of us. As a philosophy, this free, consensual give-and-take for mutual benefit should be the only one acceptable to us. Any alternative, either morally or autocratically coercive which dictates who should give and who should take...
...defense of the racial self-segregation that accompanied the previously unrandomized House system, panel member and Eliot House resident Charisa A. Smith '00 recognized the "taxing effect" of being a student of color at Harvard...
...Harvard and its pressures necessitate the presence of a safe place where people feel at home and engaged," she said. In addition, Smith said the friendships formed over lunch in Annenberg end after the first year...
...this--not to mention the film's paranoid take on big, secretive government--is familiar stuff. Nor are the principal characters unknown quantities. Under pressure, Smith's attorney demonstrates the kind of stamina and physical agility that people confined to desk jobs find within themselves only in the movies. His sole ally, Brill, a former government operative who has turned into a rogue counterintelligence specialist, is played by Gene Hackman as a funny, cranky imitation--right down to the horn-rimmed glasses--of the snoop he played so memorably in The Conversation almost 25 years ago. And, as their chief...
...politicians and the government. Unfair tax breaks and subsidies for the rich are an essential by-product of the U.S. economic system. Its handmaidens in the political system put this into practice whenever they can get away with it--and that is most of the time. JACK A. SMITH Highland...