Word: selfishly
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Whom, then, will this change help? Only the admissions office, which is acting, it seems, out of a selfish desire to move up a notch or two in meaningless college guides by improving its yield. But that yield is already astronomically high. This move bespeaks that most un-Harvard of qualities: insecurity. If Harvard is afraid that competitors like Yale and Stanford, both of which recently switched from binding to non-binding early admissions policies, will snatch up its best applicants, surely the answer is not to put a further stranglehold on those students. A school with our prestige...
...Basketball Association has 65 foreign-born players and is hoping to expand overseas [BUSINESS, March 17]. The NBA is still a joke and has been for years. People forget that the National Hockey League has had international players in its system for its entire history. Basketball is the most selfish team sport in our society. Until all the thugs and gangsters leave the NBA or learn to behave like adults and not spoiled children, it will continue to be a joke. The NBA should show its games on the Cartoon Network because the sport cannot be taken seriously. ERIC ONKENHOUT...
America, are you still out there? That's the vague, selfish fear we're reluctant to admit out of respect for others' more piercing ones: someday, without warning, we'll hear a silence deeper than the silence we're accustomed to, and we'll know something awful has happened, beyond our reach. --By Walter Kirn
...midst of something serious better be reading heavy-duty theory and nothing else,” Barman says. “If anything, I think I’ve made a mistake by being too serious. Then you begin to feel preachy, and that’s even more selfish than talking about yourself...
...British science popularizer Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker) presided over a lively discussion about the rising pressure in the U.S. to give equal instruction time in biology classrooms to an alternative to evolutionary theory called creation science. Most participants agreed that this was a thinly veiled updating of the Biblical version of human origins wrapped in the cloak of science, but they had no real answer to this trend in light of the strong pressure from religious conservatives on local school boards. Dawkins suggested that biology teachers might help their cause by emphasizing that when scientists speak...