The two big questions about Mr Fedorov's personal efforts concern self-interest and effectiveness.

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Self-esteem is a dominant concern.

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Actor Hugh Grant is among phone-hacking victims who have expressed concern that David Cameron favours continued self-regulation of the media.

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Another concern is whether self-policing would really have any impact on public health.

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McGuffey's Readers, the books on which generations of American children were raised, have plenty of stories treating initiative, hard work and entrepreneurialism as virtues, but just as many stories praising the virtues of self-restraint, personal integrity and concern for those who depend on you.

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Another theory suggests that Kael changed the rules of criticism, setting up a new way of evaluating popular art, without concern for prestige or self-conscious sophistication: in her view, a freshly entertaining or arresting movie was successful, and a movie that seemed tired or required unpacking was a flop.

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And this beneficial outcome follows, remember, on the extreme assumption that voters act not out of concern for the greater good, but out of pure self-interest.

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They know no season but the electoral season, no concern but concern for their own re-election, no good greater than their own political self-interest.

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The concern is that the property-tax lenders are a predatory group that only have their immediate financial self-interests at heart.

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