It feels like a violation of my own person.

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From my own experience in the business world, many times the person promoted to a high level position is the person that executives are most "comfortable" with - someone that easily fits in on both the golf course and in the boardroom.

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Prior to being a technology evangelist, I ran my own tech consulting company, so I know more than the average person about technology.

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Even in my own, non-celebrity life, I sometimes feel that making eye contact with a person can give a jolt of energy, or more often, drain some energy away.

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Most of the latter-day Superman writers, and several of my own contemporaries, come down on the side of the notion that Clark is the real person and Superman is just what he can do.

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"I realised that, even as an African person, I was more familiar with Britain and France and the USA than I was with my own continent, " she said.

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Indeed I know at least one person who writes for it and I feel pretty safe in saying that their intellectual capabilities comfortably surpass my own.

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