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...called on the audience to employ their skills to help the less fortunate. “We must use the methods that each of us learned at HBS to solve the world’s social problems,” Cohen said. “If we dither and delay in dealing with housing repossession, unemployment, and inflation, then the backlash against capitalism will be serious.” ENTERPRISING NONPROFITSSummit attendees split up in the afternoon to attend interactive classroom sessions on a variety of topics. Business School professors Herman B. “Dutch” Leonard...
...conventional dither/ With a conventional star in my eye ?/ If you?ll excuse/ An expression I use/ I?m in love, I?m in love, I?m in love, I?m in love?
...more than a short jail sentence. Ruffalo is a very good goof-off, at once likable and infuriating, but eventually it is Phoenix who takes over the picture. He's playing a mild-mannered, doubtless liberal-minded college professor, who turns into an implacably vengeful monster as the police dither impotently with their investigation of his son's case. Even his shattered wife (Jennifer Connelly) attempts to move on - or perhaps we should say move back - to normalcy...
...Sydney on Tuesday for the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, flatly denied the U.S. had made such a bargain. "No, they haven't been taken off the terrorism list," he said. And with that, it was Groundhog Day again: the dispute gives the North another reason to dither and dissemble should it so choose. "It can argue that it agreed to provide a full accounting of its nukes in return for being taken off the terrorist list," says one former South Korean diplomat...
...couldn't have hurt either. Sixty-five years ago, we declared war against Japan and Germany, and we fought that one tenaciously and decisively and won it conclusively. We did not send the same message before hostilities began with either Iraq or Afghanistan, and there we drift and dither still. Now, we await commissions and coalitions to help extricate us from the shambles Iraq has become and achieve the stable state that Afghanistan could still be. Knowing what we were getting into in the beginning - and saying so out loud - might have helped spare us and the world...