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...unusual is that all those teams are managed by Major League Soccer (MLS). The pro league born of the highly successful 1994 World Cup staged in the U.S., MLS has struggled for a decade to find its place in the sports-entertainment complex. But by thinking like an entrepreneur and managing like a global business, the league is facing the prospect that many concluded was unreachable in the U.S.: success. "What we have today is far more stability, far more credibility and far more optimism about our business and far more popularity than we've had," says MLS commissioner...
...oversaw the completion of a $600 million capital campaign, renovations of the campus, and the inauguration of its fifth international research center—in Mumbai, India. He also terminated the school’s grade non-disclosure policy.C.D. “Dick” Spangler Jr., the entrepreneur and donor who chaired the capital campaign, said that Light “will preserve [the school’s] strengths.”With today’s announcement, Summers has appointed seven major deans during his five-year tenure—more than either of his two immediate predecessors...
...Nevertheless, the vast majority of Chinese feel little restriction in voicing their growing faith. "My previous goal in life was to earn lots of money," says Zhou Jun, a Shanghai entrepreneur who runs a solar-heating company and converted to Tibetan Buddhism in 2004. "But now after studying Buddhism, I realize there is much more to life, and I want to share that lesson with everyone." Zhou now donates a chunk of his earnings to build new Tibetan Buddhist temples in western China, and has imparted the Buddha's teachings to his business partners. Tempering a capitalist impulse with...
...allows the Chinese currency to rise sharply, a move the senators believe would help cut America's trade deficit. Chinese businessman Liu Weiping attended a talk given by the senators to a group of students that included members of his executive M.B.A. class at Tsinghua University. Liu, a tech entrepreneur who has visited the U.S. several times and admires much about it, was appalled. Coburn, he claims, talked of himself as "a representative of Jesus. He spoke like he was preaching to us. They said, 'What are your criticisms of your own government?' I don't think they were deliberately...
DAVE EGGERS The best-selling author and McSweeney's founder is also a social-work entrepreneur I nominate John Prendergast. He is a lucid and vocal "explainer" of what's happening in Darfur and what needs to be done. He has been working in Sudan for 20 years and has been instrumental in mobilizing Americans to get involved on a grass-roots level. Also Shirin Neshat, who is making some of the most riveting art about the Muslim world. It's majestic, timeless, frightening and even prophetic...