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...Brian Cowen's first full day as Ireland's new Taoiseach (Prime Minister) this week found him on the hoof - lunching with his British counterpart, Gordon Brown, and donning a tux to schmooze U.S. investors at a grand Georgian mansion on the outskirts of Belfast. It was an elegant turn that belied Cowen's long-standing nickname: Biffo...
...this environment, Vasella had something to prove. His family ties to Moret had provoked dark mutterings of nepotism, especially in light of his rapid rise. But that was unfair, says SG Cowen analyst Peter Laing. "To anyone who followed the company at the time, Dan was the live wire. He had the most international outlook, and there really wasn't anyone at Ciba to challenge...
...can’t grow by cutting,” he said. Cowen added that he hopes to convince people that newspapers were not originally designed to be profitable...
...will be the nation's most visible test of the charter-school movement. Tulane University, a driving force in the renewal of New Orleans, has created an Institute for Public Education Initiatives to serve as a think tank for the process, and fans of the university's president, Scott Cowen, donated money to name the institution after...
...supposed rise of inequality in contemporary America is overblown. As argued by Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University, much of it can be attributed to demographic trends. Simply put, as populations get older, they tend to display higher variation in income. Most of the rest of the increase in inequality is a result of increasing returns on education and skill. In other words, to raise wages, activists would be better off with neo-Luddite machine sabotage than with unions, because structural factors in the economy—globalization and technological change—are responsible for unequal...