Word: bruderer
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...past relationships have always been fine,” said Gerard E. Bruder, chief of the biopsychology division at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, where Gorman directed the Mental Health Clinical Research Center. “I’ve never had any problems with...
...Bruder, the horrors of 9/11 served as a pivot point into active philanthropy. A real estate developer who calls New York City his hometown, he was particularly interested in tackling the social conditions in the Muslim world that foment support for such violent radicalism--specifically, the lack of jobs. After consulting Middle East scholar Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland, Bruder concluded that the people most resentful of the U.S. were those who were educated but lacked employment. The time he had spent doing business in Northern Ireland confirmed Bruder's notion that the path to peace and democracy...
...jobs are scarce and growing scarcer in Arab countries. The region already faces 15% unemployment, and 90 million new jobs will be needed by 2020 to accommodate the swell of young workers, according to the World Bank. When Bruder, 59, met with employers who operate in the region, however, they complained of posts left unfilled for lack of skilled professionals. "They had all these university graduates who had no clue how to hold meetings or run spreadsheets or even how to dress at an office," he says. So he formulated a deceptively simple-sounding plan: his Education for Employment Foundation...
...Bruder's rather lofty goal is to replicate Alshaikh's experience across the region by expanding the program into a dozen countries, training and placing up to 50,000 young people in jobs in five years' time. But what he really wants is for the idea to replicate itself. "Nothing would make me happier than governments banding together to make job creation in the region a priority," he says. And perhaps nothing else can make the region a more secure place...
Other athletically driven looks for early fall include hip-hop-influenced tracksuits and girls' teeny-tiny Soffe brand shorts, which have sporting words like CHEER, SOCCER and SOFTBALL printed across the rear. "They're always worn with the waistband turned down," explains Jennifer Bruder, owner of New York City's Berkley Girl, a tween and teen boutique. In fact, girls often roll them down twice, testing school dress-code limits on short shorts. The must-have shoe to wear with the shorts: equally sporty old-school-styled kicks, especially the groovy retro-looking Puma Mostros New Mesh sneakers...