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THIS IS PROBABLY THE TOUGHEST LESSON TO INTERNALIZE BECAUSE when stress overwhelms the system, your choices often seem more limited than they are. Behavioral scientists have a name for this psychological reaction. They call it learned helplessness, and they have studied the phenomenon closely in laboratory rodents, whose nervous system bears striking similarities to that of humans...
...Another surprise from the poll results: while more than one out of three executives listed the impact of the global economy on their businesses as the single toughest challenge they face, they were relatively unconcerned about geopolitical risks-despite increasing turmoil in the Middle East and the appearance of mounting threats such as a nuclear-armed North Korea. Those polled were more focused on knotty management problems over which they had some control. The executives cited the ability to maintain a common corporate culture as their greatest challenge, followed by understanding local customs and ways of doing business. "Suddenly, companies...
...call for more troops is coming at a time when NATO appears unable or unwilling to take the fight to the enemy. It has failed to send some 3,000 troops it has pledged, and even some of those soldiers operate under rules that preclude the toughest combat. NATO commanders also appear to be minimizing the worsening situation in Afghanistan. A briefing by a British general in the NATO chain told reporters that a recent "spike" in violence had come and gone. Other military sources attribute the slackening to the cold of Afghan winter...
...moment of national reckoning, the execution of Saddam will be remembered by many as a brutal act of sectarian vengeance. Of course, the death penalty is prohibited in U.N. tribunals - a point often raised by defenders of the Iraqi courts. They argue that war criminals should face the toughest penalties allowed by their respective country's legal systems. But war criminals from the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone convicted by U.N. tribunals were spared, even though the death penalty remains on the books in both Rwanda and Sierra Leone and was legal in Serbia until 2002. Is anyone prepared...
...Today, however, may prove to be his toughest test. After a painstaking, three-year, $8 million investigation, the former head of Scotland Yard issued an 832-page report confirming what common sense and all previous inquiries had suggested: that Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a Paris car accident because her chauffeur was drunk and speeding as he tried to outrace paparazzi on motorbikes. The Queen didn't order it, nor the CIA, nor MI6 or MI5 or anyone else - it was simply tragic bad luck...