Word: commit
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Those who would commit themselves to this task can take heart in the words of Tennyson’s “Ulysses?...
...Zuckerman Fellowship is a testament to the mission we subscribe to here at the Kennedy School of Government, to encourage the best and brightest to commit themselves to public service and help to change the world,” said Tim Sultan, president of the Kennedy School’s Student Government...
...take pride in our campus, or we can sit around and decry “government inefficiency.” We can take responsibility, or we can complain about campus life while student group funding falls. I hope we step up, and commit ourselves to our home, because no one can do that...
Vasella, 50, says his first responsibility is to his investors. But in an industry that has plenty of critics, he also believes in a credible commitment to ethical practices. Novartis was quick to sign on to the U.N.'s Global Compact, which requires that its corporate signatories commit to the highest environmental, human-rights and labor standards wherever they operate. "He epitomizes a kind of leadership that puts equal emphasis on the social value created by the product and its economic value," notes Rosabeth Kanter, a consultant and professor at Harvard Business School...
...young for Guernica, Auschwitz, Oradour and Setif." He wants to exorcise the great butcheries of humanity. A man of fire, a warrior of peace, Kouchner invented "the duty of international meddling." He favors intervention--peaceful if possible, military if necessary--to stop massacres and those who commit them. In the name of human rights, he approved the U.S. intervention in Iraq: "The No. 1 weapon of mass destruction is Saddam Hussein," he said. He lost loved ones in the attack against U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. He deplores the blunders of the Americans, but rejects the I-told...