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A generation ago, the social critic Christopher Lasch diagnosed narcissism as the signal disorder of contemporary American culture. The cult of celebrity, the marketing of instant gratification, skepticism toward moral codes and the politics of victimhood were signs of a society regressing toward the infant stage. You don't have...
From a corporate point of view, the world has become more difficult because almost no crisis is just a local issue. Coca-Cola learned that lesson in 1999, says Dezenhall, when several Belgian children reportedly were sickened after drinking the soft drink. Soon afterward, similar reports appeared in France and...
Classmate Stephanie Derry told the campus paper Collegiate Times, "We had to laugh because it couldn't ever be real or truthful. I mean, who throws chainsaws around? But we always joked we were just waiting for him to do something, waiting to hear about something he did." When she...
He later quit the Army and was granted a temporary pension. When it ran out he got a job as an apprentice carpenter. Friends, who claim Gregg had post-traumatic stress disorder, say having to work worsened his fragile mental state. They learned only after his death that the military...
Gonzales may have learned his lesson. He waited backstage after the first round of questioning to try and patch things up with Specter. While Specter was answering questions from the press about their exchange, saying he was willing to give the AG another chance in the second round, someone informed...