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...TIME: To what extent and in what specific ways is the worldwide credit crunch impacting microfinance in developing countries...
...things to look for are, to some extent, the same as they always are - low expenses and solid management. With reopened funds, it's especially important to make sure the people making the investment decisions are the same ones who created the great track record that made the fund so admired in the first place. The Sequoia Fund, for example, was long run by the legendary investor Bill Ruane, but he died...
...three dances for three causes on campus. So there are definitely individuals and groups on campus that are interested in giving back and creating events that can bring Harvard students together in both fun and socially conscious ways. Yet rather than compete for attendees (which was inevitable to some extent), the dance organizers communicated with each other and promoted each other’s events throughout the week. Rather than pitting three important but disparate causes against each other, the fundraisers opened Harvard’s students’ eyes to the myriad ways in which they can give back...
...extent of concentration on résumés becomes most transparent in the field of extracurricular activities. The Harvard student with a coherent five-year plan to get into a top law school, featuring specific courses and activities, is far from a rarity. The obvious danger within this approach, which lies in using our free time as a mere means to a distant end, is to run the risk of forgetting what truly interested us in the first place...
Heartland Heartache I am a libertarian and can't abide free government handouts, so I agree to an extent with Michael Grunwald's argument for farm-bill revision [Nov. 17]. However, I must contest some of his findings. He states, "The median farmer's net worth is five times the median American's." Of course it is - farmers own tons of acres; but let's see you try to operate your business when all that net worth is tied up in land. In addition, he claims, "the biofuel boom is also jacking up the price of grain." Yet the price...