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...that includes either removing these people or putting them in front of the judiciary, which President Kirchner has been clear about doing. This is also about the corruptors as well as the corrupt: Along with the photos of corrupt Latin officials we also need to publish those of the businessmen who pay them off, including Americans. We're still waiting for the U.S. to extradite the IBM executives who we feel were responsible for one of our country's worst financial scandals...
Five years ago, two big-city businessmen visited Dale Humphrey, mayor of a small town called Popcorn, Ind. (pop. about 50). They had just the kernel of an idea for a business--gourmet popcorn--and visited the town on a whim. Humphrey charmed them with stories about his neighbors, passionate farmers who lived and breathed to harvest corn. Inspired, the two entrepreneurs started selling online and opened up a small shop in Manhattan, getting most of their product from the good people of Popcorn...
July 20, 2007 was a strange night in my hometown of Naperville, Ill. Normally adored by businessmen for its travel-guide beauty, reviled by teens for its mind-numbing monotony, and frequented by twenty-somethings for its moderately hip bar scene, downtown Naperville was alive on this night in a way I had never seen. The businesses cleverly changed their colors and names, the teens un-self-consciously donned outlandish costumes, and the drunken twenty-somethings made way for the flood of families who filled the streets, all in the name of a book. But what really caught my attention...
...break, two Harvard students discovered that they were united by more than an interest in Asia—both shared a passion for entrepreneurship. By the end of the bus ride a partnership had been formed, and now the two have launched a Web site for other aspiring student businessmen. Co-Founders S. Travis May ’09 and Vivek G. Ramaswamy ’07 launched the site last week to connect students who are interested in starting their own businesses. The site, StudentBusinesses.com, sells subscriptions to professionals, such as private investors, venture capitalists, and accountants, with...
...from tiny villages in every corner of China standing wide-eyed on the streets, lured by the hundreds of thousands of jobs the boom has created. Then there are those from even farther afield--venture capitalists from San Francisco, artists from Brussels, chefs from Rome, legions of gimlet-eyed businessmen from Taipei, Berlin and Tel Aviv--all drawn to make fortune or fame or maybe just to say "I was there the year that Beijing welcomed the world...