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“you lock the door and throw away the key there’s someone in my head but it’s not me.” – Pink Floyd The problem with our society is we have so much bias that we notice it the same way a fish notices water. It’s all around us but we don’t think anything of it. Any…
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The Fortune article “MBAs gone wild: Have B-schoolers gone too far?â€, highlighted how a cultural flaw that afflicts Wall Street and many high-powered business cliques and corporate communities has come to infect business schools… “The problem of the ‘male adolescent culture’ at business schools is widespread,” says one prominent business school professor who preferred not…
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“You who are on the road Must have a code that you can live by And so become yourself Because the past is just a good bye. “Teach your children well, Their father’s hell did slowly go by, And feed them on your dreams The one they picked, the one you’ll know by.” Crosby Stills…
Islamic militants had managed to strike again, this time in Indonesia denying 50,000 fans the chance to see their favourite pop mega-star. Indonesia’s national police had denied a permit for Lady Gaga to perform in Jakarta after that city’s police had expressed concerns that it would not be able to guarantee security for the sold-out…
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It is quite ironic that in a police state such as the Philippines where around every corner and at every doorway, armed security forces stand ready to fire high-powered shotguns and assault rifles at any suspicious-looking loser, one or the other politician is now weighing in with their opinion of how slack security had recently…
Bad breeding is at the heart of most issues that plague Philippine society and its culture of dysfunction. It is endemic at the macro level and ingrained at the micro levels — at the very threads that are woven into the very fabric of the national soul. This is evident in the manner with which…
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Everyone makes mistakes. Most of us learn from them, become better persons as a result, and then move on. As the saying goes, “Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment”. In fact, we’ll make more mistakes than we can ever remember and in between being born and…
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In a country where the “word” and “will” of the Roman Catholic God are popular buzzwords and points of deference that transcend profession and social and economic class, it has always been one of modern societies’ biggest ironies that gigantic billboards exhibiting scantily clad models pitching skin whiteners, body sprays colognes, and mobile devices stand…
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