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...million Women's Growth Capital Fund, the largest venture-capital fund in the eastern U.S. and one of the few to focus on businesses owned or managed by women. In addition, Abramson and her partners created WomenAngels.net an investment club for 85 D.C.-area women who each commit $75,000 over three years to nurse along promising early-stage high-growth companies and reap the collective rewards. By the end of the year, her Women's Growth Capital Fund will be fully invested in 18 companies, and she plans to launch a second fund in the fall. --By Anne Moffett...
...when asked how he could support prosecuting some children as adults when they have none of the rights associated with adulthood, Sullivan said he believed that when people commit adult crimes, they should be treated as an adult...
Undergraduates who commit a similar alcohol-related offense generally face a mere warning or probation...
...Washington social whirl of the 1960s. But at 49, Phil, a manic-depressive, killed himself. Bob Graham was 27 at the time. "Phil's legend was both inspiring and intimidating," says a person who knows Graham well and asks to remain anonymous. "After you see your brother commit suicide, one of the things you seek is control. No wild behavior, no profanity, no risk, loudness or recklessness of the kind Phil exhibited. Be self-disciplined. A form of it is that notebook...
...hell. Cain says he stayed quiet when he killed his first man and didn't give him a chance to confess and get right with God, and Cain felt him go to hell, felt it in his hand surer than anything he'd ever known, and it made him commit his life to Christ. "My wife, she doesn't like that she's married a killer," he says. "This is probably going to end my marriage...