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DIED. FREDDIE LAKER, 83, ebullient airline-industry underdog and visionary who in the 1970s pioneered the concept of cheap fares for the masses with his short-lived but much admired Skytrain service; in Hollywood, Fla. Launched in 1978, the London-based service encouraged flyers to cross the Atlantic casually, without even booking a flight. (If a flight was full, passengers simply waited for the next one.) Though his company disbanded in 1982 after bigger airlines slashed their fares, Laker became a hero to entrepreneurs including his fellow Briton Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson...
...China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai, and Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, will take a group of CEOs to three continents—while teaching them topics such as market strategy and business-government relations. The concept for this program followed a classic model of supply meets demand, basing itself on what CEOs themselves wanted. According to a survey of participants in previous CEIBS programs, many Chinese CEOs “wanted to learn about global competition and global markets—how to go to European markets...
...place Bentham in context before going into an extended discussion about Bentham’s theories of ethics and metaphysics, punching holes in what he saw as Bentham’s lack of a foundation for absolute rights—“since [he] has no absolute concept of right.” But Chertoff saved his best fighting words for the attack on Bentham’s conception of the individual. Bentham operated with no “concept of right” and thus, human rights did not exist in his world, he wrote...
...tour started in New Jersey in October with Milkshake and the Ohmies, a band based in Baltimore, Md., that introduces kids to world music and yoga at the same time. The first five shows were designed, says producer Dana DuFine, as a proof of concept, before a bigger run this spring, and all sold out. (Scalpers were reportedly asking up to $350 for the $25 tickets.) The next leg kicks off in early March in California, with Zanes headlining. By the end of the year, DuFine hopes to have staged around 60 Jamarama shows across the country...
...news sources like CNN, BBC News, and The Economist. Yet, they all agree on something: the coming months will be decisive for the future of Latin America. Drawing on the colonial heritage of the Iberian Empire, this region boasts a historical dependence on Baron de Montesquieu’s concept of executive power. And the 18 countries electing presidents this year seem to be leaning further toward what the French author would call, la gauche —the left...