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...Putting campus sexual harassment in perspective --Tuition increases for a stronger America --The hidden blessing of plunging enrollments --Shattering the myths about low-ranking colleges --What athletic-department scandal...
...they still don't get it. And if they cannot get the enormity of the crimes their clergy have committed, they are even further from acknowledging their own role in enabling them. No one has resigned. No one has taken responsibility. And on the two central issues behind this scandal, there is no movement. The first is the authoritarian governing structure of the church, whereby a self-selected elite makes every decision for hundreds of millions of people. When you have a structure like this--immune from outside input--it is bound to create crises like this...
...investing strategy, buy and hold has never been more suspect. Giant companies now collapse in scandal, like Enron; fall woefully behind in technology, like Polaroid; succumb to litigation, like Halliburton (asbestos); or get whacked by overpriced deals, like AOL. Are there still stocks that you can throw in a drawer and sleep well for years? Or has investing got so hopelessly complicated that individuals shouldn't try to go it alone...
...Organization, he is criticized for a rise in joblessness to an estimated 30%, failing to hold new parliamentary elections, allowing his government to intimidate critics and traveling abroad too much. One of the King's most trusted men, former intelligence chief Samih Battikhi, faces trial soon in a corruption scandal...
...essays edited by Yale IBM Professor of Psychology and Education Robert J. Sternberg, concerning how and why ostensibly intelligent people can do incredibly stupid things. Former president Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and Richard Nixon’s claims of innocence during the Watergate scandal are two landmark instances in which two men, blessed with all the trappings of intelligence, were incapable of sound judgement...