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...competition for Best New Artist - an award that ought to be called best artist new to Grammy nominators - are British singers Adele and Duffy (also known as the next Amy Winehouse and the next next Amy Winehouse), country act Lady Antebellum, Philadelphia soul diva Jazmine Sullivan and the Jonas Brothers, who, despite being just out of adolescence, actually released their third album in 2008. They...
...same time, MFIs themselves are increasingly transforming from non-profit organizations to regulated, for-profit institutions. They are doing so even as many microfinance institutions still rely on a guy keeping a big book with a ledger rather than a computer system. But there is a delicate balancing act that we have to maintain, because while commercialization holds tremendous promise for expanding access to microfinance services to the more than one billion people - especially women - who have yet to benefit, there is also a clear risk of mission drift. One particularly disturbing trend - since you can't talk about poverty...
...site. As of last week, GradeFund claimed over 800 users, 34 of them with Harvard affiliations, according to Michael Kopko. GradeFund also scored its first corporate sponsor in ZooToo.com founder and president Richard Thompson. An entrepreneur himself, Thompson said that he does his best to support young people who act upon their ideas such as Kopko with GradeFund. “Do it the day you come out of college,” he said of starting your own business. “There’s no better time, and in this economy, you’re not gonna...
...pressure, the bishop demanded that the school shelve the books. The school’s nuns refused, arguing that it was their academic right to teach the modern canons regardless of the content. In response, the bishop threatened to remove the school from the Catholic diocese—an act that would freeze the school’s funding...
...Obama's staffers aren't the only ones who recognize that the Executive Branch could have an easier team pulling off such a rescue operation. On Tuesday Pelosi, made it clear that the Bush Administration has the authority to act at any time without Congress, saying that "an intervention will happen either legislatively or from the Administration ... I think it's pretty clear that bankruptcy is not an option." Until now, President Bush has been unwilling to consider such an approach. But on Tuesday, the same day the automakers reported their worst month of sales in 26 years, the White...