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...operate. Ian W. Jones, a management lecturer at Oxford University, and Michael G. Pollitt, a reader in business economics at Cambridge University, co-direct the Ethics, Regulation and Globalisation project at Cambridge's Centre for Business Research. Time talked to them about the challenges and benefits of good corporate citizenship...
...TIME: Let's start with an example of a corporate citizenship program that works well. Pollitt: One we found very impressive was a project run by the large mining company Anglo American in South Africa. They set up a venture-capital fund for local black entrepreneurs who were setting up small businesses. Mainly these businesses were aimed at supplying services and goods to Anglo American mines. This project not only provided financing, it gave training. It also provided access to the purchasing managers of a major multinational. So, it was an excellent project which helped local communities and leveraged...
...avail. I suggest that instead of creating elaborate laws to solve the problem of illegal immigration, we should require that illegal aliens spend a year in national service--defending the country in the military, rebuilding infrastructure or combating climate change in a green corps--to become eligible for citizenship...
...First, the authors no longer assert that Israeli “citizenship is based on the principle of blood kinship,” a charge that had prompted Harvard’s Dershowitz to declare that the “mendacious emphasis on Jewish ‘blood’ “might indicate that the professors had used “neo-Nazi propaganda” in their sourcing...
...Shoe bomber Richard Reid underwent a similar evolution and was selected for his failed mission in December 2001 on the assumption that his British citizenship and clandestine conversion to radical Islam would protect him from suspicion ahead of his attack. Jamaican-born convert Lindsey Germaine was similarly central to the July 2005 London attacks. Even German officials have had previous experience with radical converts: in 2003, France arrested Christian Ganczarski - a German national who has boasted his ties with top al-Qaeda leaders, and was implicated in the 2002 bombing of a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia - after Germany was forced...