Word: egos
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Some news veterans blame the blunders on competition. "Making the first call is all a question of network ego," says Martin Plissner, former executive political director of CBS News. "It's a question of whose is bigger." Another problem is noncompetition. Networks share VNS data and then hire analysts, who race to crunch the same numbers. Competing operations might have more incentive to avoid errors--or at least wouldn't multiply them...
...There's something more astringently satisfying in the tiger option. Either way, it's a pretty primal choice, if you think about it - an annihilating ferocity of ego version a gesture of self-abnegation that approaches a religious dimension...
...worthy: He aspires to be a prince, and hence, ultimately, a king. He is found out, and is to be punished for it. Here, the action switches to the heart and mind of the princess (who was the prize): In the princess, a primitive ferocity of ego competes against the generous impulse of self-abnegation...
...might be more to the point to imagine that Gore or Bush was in the stands, standing beside the king. If that were the case, would Princess Al make a choice motivated by destructive ferocity of ego, or by self-sacrifice? How about Princess George...
...historian and author of 1995's Pulitzer Prize winning Lincoln, has fallen victim to that grim disorder that so often strikes Harvard's demigod professors. It's a disorder that most recently befell Fletcher University Professor Cornell R. West '74, with his Cornell West Reader. The disorder: over-inflated ego combined with tremendously juicy publishing deal...