Word: wrongfulness
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Part of the problem is that, while fictional pop star Montana is loved by tweens and preschoolers, Cyrus is 15. Critics called the photo "sexualizing," but that's precisely the wrong verb; teens do not need professional help to become sexual. The sexualization that some parents really fear is off-camera. They see their daughters being pushed down a slope that starts with sexy princesses and ends in rehab. Pop culture, they say, is making kids grow up too fast...
...third generation of Oppenheimers to run De Beers, notes, "Ultimately, people do not need to buy diamonds." That they do buy them, he says, is bound up in the emotions and events with which they are associated: love, marriage, purity. "If we behave in a way that is wrong, if we play with the image of diamonds in a way that downgrades them, we're destroying ourselves...
...hero Johnny is a frustrated young cube dweller, disillusioned with his fledgling accounting career. "He did what everyone said he was supposed to do," writes Pink. "He's begun to suspect that everyone was wrong." Enter Diana, a comely sprite who doles out zenlike job advice ("Think strengths, not weaknesses. Persistence trumps talent. Make excellent mistakes") along with manga magic in this witty Japanese-style graphic novel. She convinces Johnny that following his true creative passion is the secret to workplace success. Luckily for readers, Pink, a best-selling author who studied manga in Tokyo, and his talented illustrator...
...Well, sir, I essentially told him that his memorandum was wrong," I said. "I guess he didn't like that...
...Williams-Thomas is critical of how the police handled the disappearance. "It went wrong right from the start, when they did not treat it as a critical incident," he says. The McCanns should have immediately been considered suspects, if only to quickly exonerate them, he says, and the crime scene should have been properly preserved - neither of which happened. Because of initial mistakes, Williams-Thomas says, it's doubtful the crime will ever be solved, unless Madeleine's body is discovered. He also doubts the police have evidence to charge the McCanns with murder. But, he says, it is likely...