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Both attention controllers and attention seekers can have fatal blind spots. The attention controllers, like Woods, come to believe that their accomplishments in the real world, along with their personal wealth, can insulate them from the artificial world of media frenzies. By the time they realize they're wrong, they find that, like the golf champ, they're not in a protective bunker but in a sand trap, and digging themselves deeper. (See pictures of Elin and Tiger Woods on Golf.com...
...there is nothing wrong if one believes the rules and practices of corporate governance are adequate to assure reasonable compensation practices. But can anyone maintain they do, given the undemocratic ways in which corporate directors are chosen and elected, and the myriad examples of executive compensation perversely related to shareholder return...
...prominent member of his community, has been detained by U.S. forces (once at Guantánamo for five years) due to false information planted by rivals, says Shavzkhil. "The problem with foreign forces is in the system, not in the numbers. If the U.S. troops keep listening to the wrong guys, or if they don't check the information they are receiving, they will continue to harm innocent people, and that only makes the problem worse...
...religious freedom play on this fear, and reveal how thoroughly it has stifled reason. One picture depicts seven imposing black minarets pinning the Swiss flag to the ground, with a Muslim woman clad in full Muslim garb at the forefront. Besides the fact that the minarets depicted are the wrong color and that there are only four existing minarets in Switzerland, the picture does not just represent radical Islamic practices as a threat to Switzerland, but rather Islam itself as a threat to Switzerland...
...ultimately successful campaign are misguided at best and openly bigoted at worst. Legitimate justifications for banning a harmless religious structure are frustratingly hard to pin down. But one thing is clear—the Swiss government and the Swiss people must take very immediate steps to right this wrong...