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...gender improve members of the marketplace. HUWIB is not only sexist, it’s idiotic. Let’s imagine for a moment that HUWIB had a male counterpart—Harvard University Men in Business. I cannot believe most Harvard students would think that was acceptable. I dare say Drew G. Faust (soon to be Harvard’s most powerful official, gender aside) would chime in on the affair. I will leave it to the reader to ponder the implications of Harvard’s “Women’s Center...
...need for real innovation--clean technology that lowers costs or improves output. Venture capital is increasingly flowing to green start-ups: $474 million in the first three quarters of 2006 in Silicon Valley alone. That's sparking the interest of everyday investors, who see green technology as--dare they wish it?--the next Internet. Says Ray Lane, a partner at the KPCB venture-capital firm: "If you consider the sheer scale of the problem, I think this is an order of magnitude bigger...
There is another grand gesture open to Olmert, but it dare not speak its name--mostly because the U.S. doesn't want it to happen. Various Israelis have been quietly talking about opening peace talks with Syria--which actually does have some power over the Palestinian extremists, since it allows the militant wing of Hamas to be based in Damascus. The deal seems obvious: Syria gets back the Golan Heights. Israel gets recognized. Hamas gets the boot. Two years ago, Syrian President Bashar Assad told me he wanted to reopen talks with the Israelis. When I asked Olmert about Assad...
CATE BLANCHETT: The 37-year-old Oscar winner is in negotiations--does that mean she'll be Indy's girl? Or, dare we think it, Indy Jr.'s mom? Or maybe ... she's involved with Jones pre (Sean Connery). Now that's archaeology...
Minka Van Beuzekom, who described herself as a member of the Area 4 Neighborhood Coalition Rodent Committee (A4NCRC), said the presence of rats could “only be solved by, dare I say it, a holistic approach,” including educating schoolchildren on the perils of littering and increasing fines for improper trash disposal...