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...faculty co-chairs of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative and a professor of marketing at the Business School, was trained as an engineer. But after he graduated from the renowned Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1971, he found that he was unsatisfied with the cold emphasis on numbers.“I worked for a structural engineering firm for a short time after graduating from IIT,” Rangan said, “I enjoyed what I did, but it was all analytical, consisting of technical drawings and calculations. Meanwhile, I had always been interested in the human...
...What happened? SSC was criticized by Congress for going over its budget. At a time when NASA was demanding large amounts of funding for the International Space Station and the end of the Cold War made scientific competition appear unnecessary, the collider seemed like a luxury...
...John Updike ’54, and Joyce Carol Oates are considered for the prize. But a comment made on Tuesday by a senior member of the Swedish Academy—the body that bestows the Nobel Prize—that American literature is too self-absorbed might throw cold water on the hopes that an American author will bring home the prize. In an interview with the Associated Press, Horace Engdahl called the United States “too isolated, too insular.” “They don’t translate enough and don?...
...bringing McCain in to help, the House GOP leaders may have done more damage to their members' electoral chances. When McCain gets a cold - Obama now holds his widest leads yet in many polls - his coattails get pneumonia. After trailing Democrats in generic matchups for most of the year, early last month Republicans started to catch up, coming within 3 percentage points of the Democrats in a CNN/Opinion Research poll. The latest poll, however, done Sept. 19-22 - after Paulson's emergency request but before the failed vote - shows the Democrats have widened that lead to 14 percentage points...
...Piracy declined in subsequent centuries, thanks to increasingly vigilant militaries and the development of the steam engine. But amid a drop in naval patrols and a boom in international trade following the end of the Cold War, it has flourished anew - particularly in narrow choke points such as Asia's Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden, which links the Red and Arabian seas. Buoyed by fast boats, fearsome weaponry and high-tech communications gear, pirates carried off 263 reported heists in 2007 - 28% of which occurred in the treacherous waters off Nigeria and Somalia, where vast coastlines...