Executive pay packages especially are the subject of endless debates in Congress, shareholder meetings and, on Main Street, a symbol of all that went wrong the past two years.

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This week its leader, Khaleda Zia, appointed her son, Tarique Rahman, for many the symbol of all that was wrong with the BNP's last period of kleptocratic, vindictive rule, as the party's deputy chairman.

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Instead it has become a symbol of how, even for this technological titan, things can go horribly wrong.

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