Word: entrepreneurism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this week, Christina F. Starobin ’71 was nursing a newly shattered dream. U.S. District Judge David Hurd had just dismissed on summary judgment a complaint Starobin filed alleging the “literary rape” of her unpublished vampire novel manuscript Blood Eternal by horror entrepreneur Stephen King in his 1996 ephemeral-spirit novel Desperation...
DIED. ESTHER AFUA OCLOO, 83, Ghanaian entrepreneur who tirelessly promoted women's economic development; in Accra. As the first chairwoman of Women's World Banking, which she helped found in 1979, Ocloo pioneered the practice of microlending, or financing tiny businesses with successive loans as small...
...takes a special kind of character to stay in a village when the rest of the world is rushing off to the city. Besides the occasional grandchild on holiday, no young people populate the lovely countryside. Bachelors predominate: there is the entrepreneur known as The Shah, who resolutely refuses marriage; Patrick Ryan, a gruff builder; Bill Evans, a survivor of Ireland’s horrific orphanages, who made it into old age quiet and strangely asexual. Gentle, blithe Jamesie and his wife Mary have grandchildren faraway in Dublin, while their friends Ruttledge and Kate, transplants from London, are childless. Because...
...board to make regular skateboard-style turns, but every time I started sliding, I promptly fell on my behind. It was fun for the two or three seconds before I came crashing down. "There's a pretty steep learning curve," admits Steen Strand, 35, the investment banker turned entrepreneur who invented Freebord. Will I ever catch big air on that curve? Probably not. But that's O.K. I may break my neck trying, but at least I won't die of boredom--or Chunky Monkey ice cream...
...ENRON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB The club, which offers after-school programs for youth, stopped getting payments from its sponsor in December. Local entrepreneur Michael Holthouse has stepped in with a pledge of $1 million over five years...