After all, there are enough bad things in the world and worrying doesn't help.

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It stops tonight but I don't think it was a bad World Cup by us.

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Of course, the world doesn't need more bad business ideas, and leaving a secure job to start a business is like "buying a lottery ticket" says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who studies startup failures.

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Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance.

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But in the optimistic world of "nation branding" even that isn't all bad.

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Realpolitikers will grumble: too bad she doesn't have Marshall's billions of dollars to rearrange the world.

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The world's dominant retailer at a market multiple of earnings isn't a bad way to go when the biggest stocks are doing best.

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"People have said this isn't a vintage All Black team but even a bad one, and this one isn't, will be ranked first or second in the world, " added Johnson.

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He fears this will mean that we don't get to see information that challenges our world view, and will ultimately be bad for democracy - if you're an American in favour of gun control, for instance, you will tend to see information that reflects your views, while members of the National Rifle Association will be served up sites that chime with their stance.

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