Know which side your bread is buttered

A description of Harvard University by Chris Langan (from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers) that pretty much sums up the situation at SPH and the rest of the government machinery in Singapore: “The people running it are not necessarily searching for truth and knowledge. They want to be big shots, and when you accept a paycheck from… Read More »

Does it have to be Bill Clinton?

Bill Clinton may be getting all the credit for the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, two female American journalist detained by North Korea, but there may be a reason why it has taken so long for the hostage situation to be resolved: Years ago, police documented something called the Stockholm syndrome. Robbers had… Read More »

Redundancy & euphemism

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In a word

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