Word: selfishly
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...this time it will have occurred to the viewer that what the film is dealing with is a sort of equatorial Oskar Schindler, an ordinarily selfish, not particularly idealistic human being who, under the impress of unimaginable events, finds within himself qualities of compassion neither he nor anyone else particularly guessed he had. One suspects that such men find in terrible situations an irresistible challenge not to their morality but to their amorality, their ability to manipulate people who, having lost their reason, can be mastered by those who are fully in charge of their faculties and thus in charge...
...know it isn’t in keeping with the Christmas spirit, and may even be selfish of me, to try and guarantee that Harvard’s football team will be successful and not Indiana’s. After all, there are more Hoosier fans than Crimson Crazies...
...Donald Mintz Sunnyvale, California, U.S. Hot Times in the Arctic "Meltdown!" [Nov. 22], your article on the impact of global warming in the Arctic, was especially timely in the wake of the re-election of Bush, who so arrogantly dismissed the Kyoto Protocol. The U.S. is a nation of selfish materialists who refuse to be good stewards of the earth, and we deserve every abuse Mother Nature heaps upon us. It's just too bad the rest of the world has to suffer with us. Cheryl Clark Calera, Oklahoma, U.S. Ghostly Goings-on Having resolved not to comment on Jennie...
...chance to meet California’s most serious challenge: paying off over $22 billion in debt—caused not only by the (Texas power company-induced) energy crisis, and the collapse of capital gains revenue from Silicon Valley, but also by costly voter initiatives, promoted by selfish special-interests, that mandated an uncontrollable spending explosion. By law, no California governor can touch the Prop 98-guaranteed 40 percent of the budget directed to an ineffective—and ever-growing—education bureaucracy, and the teachers’ unions it benefits. And, by law, no governor...
...general election, Republican Jack Ryan withdrew after reporters revealed that his ex-wife had complained that he took her to sex clubs. Finally, the state's straggling Republican Party gifted Obama with Keyes as an opponent. Though a powerful speaker, Keyes alienated even conservatives by calling homosexuality "selfish hedonism" and engaging in other such hysterics...