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  • s  interested only in yourself

  • Just as Palin kept her head well above water, so too did Biden keep himself under control, staying on message and away from long-winded, condescending and self-serving responses.
  • By year's end, Audubon and National Parks Magazine had published additional excerpts from the book, and all but the most self-serving of Carson's attackers were backing rapidly .
  • The company's advice, to stick with it for several months to improve your odds of finding a soul mate, sounds all too self-serving (the longer you use the site, the more you pay).
News & Articles

  • What gangster hopes to get out of trial
    Author and Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen says Whitey Bulger wants to preserve his self-serving narrative as a "benevolent wise guy." Bulger is charged in the deaths of 19 people. Week two of the dramatic trial began with former hitman John Martorano testifying against Bulger, who was his close friend and partner in crime. The mobster told the […]
    June 18, 2013 - CNN
  • Movie review: This Is the End
    Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's Apocalypse comedy is snarky, juvenile, self-serving and, when you least expect it, surprisingly sweet without betraying its feisty nature. by Ed Johnson-Ott Be nice. Be honest.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
    June 18, 2013 - Nuvo
  • Jeff Jacobs: Coach Jim Penders Says UConn Is Worth The Time For Connecticut Talent
    It is a PowerPoint presentation by a college baseball coach to entice top players to choose college baseball. From that perspective, it can be viewed as biased and self-serving.        
    June 15, 2013 - Hartford Courant
Quotes

  • Frances Fragos Townsend in 940 News
    Fran Townsend, former head of the White House-based counterterrorism office, told CNN that "for him to do this now strikes me as self-serving, disingenuous and unprofessional."
  • Dick Pound in ABC News
    I think the jury is still out on that issue and that the self-serving statements by Bud Selig do nothing to increase confidence,Pound said in an e-mail. "What has emerged in the whole baseball mess is that drug use is widespread and that...
  • Cecil Roberts in International Herald Tribune
    Despite misleading and self-serving comments to the contrary ...... these miners' lives were jeopardized because of the acts of men,United Mine Workers of America International President Cecil Roberts said Friday.

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