Word: businessman
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...Directed by Todd Phillips 2.5 stars “There are two types of people in this world: those that run shit, and those who eat shit.” So goes the mantra of Dr. P (Billy Bob Thornton), a successful businessman who makes a living denigrating the lives of pathetic Manhattan men in a “top-secret” confidence-building class. Roger (“Napoleon Dynamite’s” Jon Heder) is one of those sad sacks who falls into the latter category of eating shit. He’s like...
...hall workers? We can pretend that the small elite around Harvard is the whole world, but we’d just be wasting four years of our lives.Once we realize that billions of people exist outside of our little bubble, we have to ask ourselves whether they need another businessman, politician, or lawyer who follows the socially acceptable compromise path.For example, last summer’s immigration protests were hailed as the equivalent of the civil rights movement for latinos, but there was no Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the movement. Why? Because the leaders of the immigration movement...
...Flowers University professor, and David A. Weitz, the Mallinckrodt professor of physics and applied physics. Their main initial duties will be to set the institute’s research agenda and to get more faculty groups on board. The Kavli Foundation was founded in 2000 by Fred Kavli, a businessman turned philanthropist, in order to probe three main areas of science—astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. The money from the foundation is given with no strings attached, with the hope that researchers will explore the frontiers of these three disciplines without having to worry about producing usable applications...
...wealth, however, often brings corruption in its wake, and for three years the country has been embroiled in "Kazakhgate." In March 2003, in the most far-reaching charges ever brought under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, U.S. prosecutors charged James Giffen, an American businessman who was once a key Nazarbayev adviser, with funneling $78 million in bribes from oil companies to Kazakhstan's top leaders. Kazakhstan has flatly denied that its officials have done anything wrong, and Giffen has denied the charges against him. His case is scheduled to go to trial in January...
...between Florida and Memphis, is energetically working his former support base in inner-city Memphis for his sons. Meanwhile, the Black Ministers Association and the other erstwhile African-American consensus seekers, including a handful of Democratic activists, have also endorsed Jake. Then there's Mark White, a young white businessman and the Republican candidate, who would ordinarily stand to get no more than 30% in a heavily black district. But the split among Democrats may give him a better-than-usual shot - unless Republican moderates get worried about a reawakened Ford dynasty and go for Cohen...