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...other books already walk the path of resistance, including diatribes against President Clinton (No One Left to Lie To, 1999), Mother Teresa (The Missionary Position, 1995) and, most recently, Henry Kissinger, whom he claimed should be indicted for war crimes in Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Chile, to name...
...Chile: Wash with Osama...
...worst mistake a nonprofit can make is to take all the money you're given and be beholden to doing things on someone else's terms." That's how Linda Rottenberg explains turning down an enviable $450,000 grant last March from the government of Chile to her nonprofit organization, Endeavor. Like most government gifts, it came packaged in red tape. At the time, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos--and no doubt many of Rottenberg's fellow nonprofiteers--had two printable words for her: "You're crazy...
...four years ago to nurture entrepreneurs in Latin America's emerging markets. That doesn't mean simply writing checks with lots of zeros. In fact, the organization gives no direct funding to the regional airline, the gourmet-cookie company and the 62 other firms it fosters in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Rather, it provides M.B.A.s as consultants and organizes management workshops and research missions to places where the money is, like Silicon Valley...
...Buenos Aires working for Ashoka, the nonprofit that pioneered venture philanthropy by giving small cash infusions to local groups across the globe. On a recruiting trip to Harvard Business School, Rottenberg met Kellner, who had co-founded a Western-managed independent oil company in Russia, and they scoured Chile and Argentina for people with outsize ideas. "We found a sheep farmer in Patagonia who was a real computer genius but just didn't have the right tools," says Rottenberg, 33. "We only needed to open the doors so he could...