But while the bigness of information volume poses tremendous management challenges, the badness of much of that data makes it even worse.

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Like a car wreck from which you have trouble looking away, the depth of badness Wells evokes makes me wonder what the experience would be like.

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Elie Godsi, a clinical psychologist and author of Violence and Society: Making Sense of Madness and Badness, says the impact of abuse carries on for decades.

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Some in his administration though not the robustly unapologetic vice-president now seem to be inserting them retrospectively, and Mr Bush himself is emphasising Mr Hussein's general badness.

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But, you know, they don't advocate independence out of badness.

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There is the badness.

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Ahmadinejad means to make certain that to the extent a distinction is made between Iran's nuclear weapons program and Israel's purported nuclear arsenal, the distinction will claim that whereas Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal needs to be destroyed, Iran's interest in nuclear weapons is a justified response to Israeli badness.

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