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...energy because nanosize silicon is a more efficient converter of solar energy to electricity than previously used materials. It could also mean a nanoparticle light "bulb" that would outlive you. What's more, silicon (as in sand) is abundant and harmless. "It's brand-new technology," says InnovaLight CEO Conrad Burke, 39. "We're in a leading position. We're going to do something that has an impact on people's lives...
King will replace Conrad K. Harper, the board’s first black male, who resigned in August amid growing discontent with University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on women and minorities. In a telephone interview today from her office at the Georgetown Law Center, King said, "In my experience, times like these and troubles like these can often lead to positive outcomes...
Others are also beginning to feel the heat. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Democrats began running an ad in Montana that attacks Republican Senator Conrad Burns, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that handles tribal matters. Fully 42% of the contributions to Burns' political-action committee from 2000 to 2002 came from Abramoff clients. In 2004 Burns steered a $3 million federal grant intended for tribal schools to a wealthy Abramoff client, the Saginaw Chippewas. The ad implores, "Tell Burns to work for Montana's working families, not indicted lobbyists." The National Republican Senatorial Committee immediately countered with a press release pointing...
...INDICTED. CONRAD BLACK, 61, former media baron; on eight criminal fraud charges; in Chicago. As chairman and chief executive of the Chicago-based newspaper group Hollinger International, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and one-time controller of Britain's Daily Telegraph and the Jerusalem Post, Black allegedly helped orchestrate a $32 million fraud. He was forced out in November 2003 when shareholders revolted over the surfacing allegations. Along with three other senior executives, Black is also accused of illegally pocketing $51.8 million from the sale of the company's Canadian newspaper assets, which he used to bankroll a lavish...
Summers’ compensation became an issue this summer when Conrad K. Harper resigned from the seven-member Corporation, arguing against a 3-percent raise for the University president. “In my judgment, your 2004-05 conduct, implicating, as it does, profound issues of temperament and judgment, merits no increase whatsoever,” Harper wrote in a letter to Summers...