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...public relations officials and were geared primarily to polish the company's image. "The p.r. people wanted to know, How prominent will our names be on this?" says Salvatore LaSpada, chief executive of the Institute of Philanthropy in New York. Now, however, partly due to pressure from shareholders and board members demanding tangible results, businesses are favoring programs like Unilever's Shakti that aim to improve the world while boosting profits - or at least aren't perceived to be wasting money. During the recession, "a lot of activities will be linked to how companies can do business differently rather than...
...Ziada organized Cairo's first human-rights film festival in November. The censorship board did not approve the films, so Ziada doorstopped its chairman at the elevator and rode up with him to plead her case. When the theater was suspiciously closed at the last minute, she rented a tourist boat on the Nile for opening night--waiting until it was offshore and beyond the arm of the law to start the movie...
Parents and schools are increasingly putting their support behind the comprehensive approach. In a 2004 Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 95% of parents of middle-school students said contraceptive methods were "appropriate topics" for school health classes. The Pittsburgh, Pa., school board voted 8 to 1 in February to replace the district's abstinence-only curriculum with a comprehensive program after parents raised concerns about rising teen-pregnancy rates...
...bloodthirsty” and “scary” animals. The $1000 prize—which was established in 2000 in honor of former Harvard Advocate editor and contributor Louis Begley ’54—is awarded by the Advocate’s Board of Trustees each year to the best undergraduate fiction piece published in the Advocate, the College’s quarterly literary magazine. Over two dozen students and faculty members crowded into the Advocate’s sanctum for the award’s ceremony where both Begley, the author...
...water for a non-scoring run of his signature event, the 100 butterfly. The event drew little interest from the crowd.Jones’ finish was a different story. Fans and teammates exploded in jubilation when the Crimson swimmer’s time was displayed on the board, showing that he had recorded the fastest effort of the day—a mark that bested the January “Iron Man” meet’s eventual first place finisher by a tenth of a second.But there was a time when first place showings weren?...