Word: amare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three friends have been in the same city for only 12 hours. Thomas moved here from Germany. Luis quit his job in Colombia. Amar arrived this morning from Tokyo via Vancouver. Now they are sitting at Elroys, a restaurant on a deserted block in San Francisco, talking about the business they are starting together. "We're so happy right now," Thomas says. "This is an adventure. We're jumping into the cold water, and it feels great." It's surprising that he doesn't go for a Gold Rush analogy, as people here tend to do once per conversation. Surprising...
These 49ers are from the Class of '98 at Harvard Business School, where they met. Luis took a six-figure job with the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. in his native Colombia. Amar, who grew up in New Delhi, went to work for a Dallas software company. Austrian-born Thomas worked in Stuttgart, Germany, as assistant to the CEO of Porsche. Every six months he was loaned a new sports...
Scribes gave honorable mention awards to Akhil Reed Amar's The Bill of Rights and Allan Farnsworth's Changing Your Mind: The Law of Regretted Decisions, both published by Yale University Press...
Scribes gave honorable mention awards to Akhil Reed Amar's The Bill of Rights and Allan Farnsworth's Changing Your Mind: The Law of Regretted Decisions, both published by Yale University Press...
Modernization is also the byword of Nat Nii Amar Nuno-Amarteifio, the mayor of Accra, a sprawling port city that in 20 years will be home to 50% of Ghana's population. Rawlings has just launched an ambitious plan known as Vision 2020, aimed at making Ghana a middle-income country by then. Part of that is spinning off responsibility for local governance to district assemblies, shifting the jobs of housing, feeding, educating and picking up the garbage of Ghana's population to trained technocrats like Nuno-Amarteifio. Local government was career exile before decentralization; now, says the mayor with...