Word: groupthinker
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...anathema of the American right, but in substance she’s just as pro-choice, just as tough on guns, and perhaps less Orwellian a presence than Giuliani. Both of these frontrunners have shrunk away from adopting any novel idea in favor of the senseless and discouraging groupthink we euphemize as “electability,” and both have profited mightily. America shall...
...eyebrows bobbing as he worries about "politicians who rewrite history," and the growing tendency in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Japan to forget about wartime atrocities. Japanese history has always been in the background of his works - and his best novel, 1994's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, dissected the groupthink that led Japan into a catastrophic war - but now he wants to act. "Before, I wanted to be an expatriate writer," he admits. "But I am a Japanese writer. This is my soil and these are my roots. You cannot get away from your country." Though he offers no specifics...
...will also become a stop on the Formula One Grand Prix circuit. But Singapore has managed to attract low-skilled workers from developing countries and a much smaller group of talented foreigners who are here only for the short term. Citizens tend to be apolitical and have a groupthink mentality because of the government's tight grip on civic and political activities. Singapore loses talented people who think and act differently to cities like San Francisco, New York, London and even Hong Kong, where they have more freedom of expression. We need mavericks, bohemians and social activists. It is time...
...case of Noorzai is just more evidence of the plague of groupthink that has struck U.S. decision makers, from the mishandling of pre-9/11 intelligence to the mistakes made in Iraq. Officials made contact with a valuable source, but then they just let him rot in jail with the crucial information he has. Such missteps have cost billions of taxpayers' dollars and thousands of soldiers' lives. Winston Samson Virginia Beach, Virginia...
...case of Noorzai is just more evidence of the plague of groupthink that has struck U.S. decision makers, from the mishandling of pre-9/11 intelligence to the mistakes made in Iraq. Officials made contact with a valuable source, but then they just let him rot in jail with the crucial information he has. Such missteps have cost billions of taxpayers' dollars and thousands of soldiers' lives. Winston Samson Virginia Beach, Virginia...