Word: self-interest
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...doses of medicine and people-to- people exchanges. The two Presidents spent most of their time discussing how best to stabilize and begin mending the crippled Russian economy, largely through transfusions from the U.S. and other developed democracies that Clinton views as a form of post-cold war self-interest. Said Clinton: "The kinds of things we propose to do are likely to have lasting and tangible impact...
Citing films and a classic work of literature, Yale Professor Hazel V. Carby said yesterday that efforts by liberal whites to improve America's racial climate by calling for social change are often doomed to failure because of their roots in self-interest...
...well-informed and well-educated elite can only watch and weep as an Attorney General candidate who did nothing illegal is sacrificed to a telephone-wielding mob of radio talk-show listeners, and sound long-term proposals are torpedoed by myopic self-interest. Such idiocy will not stop until government answers only to those capable of calling it to account. Only the well-informed have the ability to do so, yet in a democracy, their influence is hopelessly diluted...
Harvard should have the courage--and students should let go of a little of their self-interest--in order to allow this new level of diversity to occur...
...issue of choice comes down to thinking that you are going to get a good lottery number. While an optimistic trend for first, years, this luck makes students slaves to their self-interest. When we consider the principle involved, however, placing the value of diversity makes more sense...