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...micro lenders often work on projects unaffected by large-scale global banking travails. Recent studies have confirmed the robust reliability of borrowers at the bottom end of the global income scale. The world's poorest are affected, though, by commodity price volatility and fluctuating food and fuel costs. Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO of Women's World Banking, a global network of 54 microfinance institutions and banks in 30 countries, spoke to Time's Jeremy Caplan recently about how the financial crisis has affected those on the lower rungs of the world's economic ladder...
What if the McCain campaign had run ads using footage of Barack Obama dancing with Ellen DeGeneres to show his coziness with celebrity? Or followed up on its Paris Hilton ad with others featuring Donald Trump and Jessica Simpson? All of that was on the drawing board of Fred Davis III, the advertising whiz that John McCain has used for almost all of his campaign media and one of the most talented conservative political operatives in America. Oh yes, he also had an Internet ad up his sleeve that would attack Obama's celebrity by associating him with Oprah...
...largely because the overall number of concentrators has dropped by 30 percent. As of last year, Harvard had just four female computer-science concentrators out of a total of 23.“Our concentrators have been decreasing since the end of the Internet boom,” said Ellen Holloway, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences academic programs administrator. “There were twice as many five years ago, but also twice as many concentrators,” The gender balance is more skewed in computer science than in other normally male-dominated fields, such as applied...
...very much in tune with the Baroque style, which suggests the way deep emotion arises out of formal gesture. Performance in the very idiosyncratic vein of “Baroque” was in fact the subject of a master-class hosted at the NCT last week. Soprano Ellen Hargis worked with six members of the cast of “L’Ormindo” to demonstrate the importance of performance gestures in interpreting arias and recitatives. In a Baroque opera, gestures are instrumental in communicating feeling. This stylization is understandably difficult to grasp, and resulted in artifice...
...play a musical instrument perform better on tests of motor, auditory, vocabulary, and non-verbal reasoning skills, according to a study by Harvard researchers released last month. The study, which was led by co-principal investigators Gottfried Schlaug, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Ellen Winner, a professor of psychology at Boston College and a senior research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, tested a group of 59 musicians and non-musicians ranging from eight to eleven years old. The tests showed that the children who had played piano and, or a string instrument...