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...least developed of continents. It has to be given a chance to rise without dictators who are groomed, financed and put in power by the West. From Gabon to Nigeria to Guinea, it is the same story: a hundred cronies surround a dictator who connives with oil companies to amass wealth while millions live in dire poverty. Western governments and their oil companies must step in and stop the looting. Just as Western banks do not accept al-Qaeda's money, so too should they refuse African dictators' stolen money. Those funds should be used to emancipate African children...
...least developed of continents. It has to be given a chance to rise without dictators who are groomed, financed and put in power by the West. From Gabon to Nigeria to Guinea, it is the same story: a hundred cronies surround a dictator who connives with oil companies to amass wealth while millions live in dire poverty. Western governments and their oil companies must step in and stop the looting! Just as Western banks do not accept al-Qaeda's money, so too should they refuse African dictators' stolen money. Those funds should be used to emancipate African children...
...please their teachers and go on to earn solid middle-manager salaries. But business fortunes are built, like Pick-a-Pair victories, on risk, a little luck and pricing assets: calculating, assessing value and never overbidding. (And against a ticking clock.) People who do that are the ones who amass billions, drive the economy and bankroll politicians. They don't need to know when the Magna Carta was signed; they hire the guy who does...
...says. “Issues that you’re using the endowment for to make a statement have to be those with widespread campus support.”CHANGING ‘CORPORATE BEHAVIOR’Meanwhile, students at Harvard and other universities are working to amass that support. A campus petition launched in March has garnered over 1,400 signatures, while an Undergraduate Council resolution supporting the group’s divestment proposal passed unopposed in mid-April.Peter N. Ganong ’09, an Adams House resident and member of HDAG, says the group received a response...
...Jones had been highly regarded in her field and widely praised for MIT's efforts to reduce the stress of college admissions. She redesigned the school's application to reflect her desire for applicants who make strong contributions to a few extracurricular activities rather than amass long lists of them. A book she co-wrote last year, "Less Stress, More Success," emphasized that theme...