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...meter platform prelims. He has explained, in his bashful, self-effacing way, that he is not really training. Headshaking here; sad to see a fine athlete on the downward slide. Uh-huh. But when the diving is finished a couple of days later, guess which bashful, self-effacing phenomenon has another two golds? The real surprise is that Michele Mitchell also wins two. She won the silver last summer in the 10 meter platform, and owns that event, but now she outclasses Teammate Kelly McCormick, another Olympic silver medalist, in the springboard...
Clance isolated the impostor phenomenon in 1978, after discovering that others harbored the same insecurities that she had had as a graduate student at the University of Kentucky 16 years earlier. Says Clance, who was near the top of her class: "I was always afraid that I would blow it with the next exam." At first, Clance thought that she had uncovered a problem peculiar to women. But shortly after she began to write about it in technical journals, she began to hear from successful men burdened with the same misgivings...
...these people are professionals who secretly believe that they have been overestimated, and that at any moment the truth about them will out. According to two new books, their private feelings of fraudulence are shared by an estimated 70% of all successful individuals. In The Impostor Phenomenon (Peachtree Publishers, Ltd.; $14.95), Dr. Pauline Rose Clance, a professor of psychology at Georgia State University who first identified the syndrome, explains that many such impostors are perfectionists who can never meet their own standards...
...capitalist exploitation. In fact, tapping the spending power of the poor can reduce poverty, he maintains. Expansion by multinationals into new markets creates new jobs--product-distribution networks and shops, for example--and income earned from those jobs ripples through local economies, creating more new jobs, a phenomenon that economists call the multiplier effect. "This creates a large pool of individual entrepreneurs who are participating in an expanded economy," says Prahalad. "The company makes more profit, and the people's lifestyle changes." The poor also benefit because they have access to services such as banking and insurance that once were...
...Honorable Court” emerged from a Sept. 14 message that Tribe posted on the weblog of Massachusetts Law School Dean Lawrence R. Velvel, in which Tribe said the misattribution of sources by “writers, political office-seekers [and] judges” constituted “a phenomenon of some significance...