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...like HUWIB are not explicitly anti-male, the fact that they are essentially gender exclusive and the nature of their mission statements suggest an underlying negativity against the other sex. The group purports to aim to enable women to be more able participants of the global marketplace, but I fail to see how alignments on the basis of gender improve members of the marketplace. HUWIB is not only sexist, it’s idiotic. Let’s imagine for a moment that HUWIB had a male counterpart—Harvard University Men in Business. I cannot believe most Harvard...
...birth of freedom,” borrowing verbatim from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Calling for national unity, Lincoln said in 1858, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” “Divided, we are bound to fail,” would-be President Obama said, on the same note, 149 years later...
...paid, too. In practice, says Philip Secrett, a partner at Grant Thornton Corporate Finance, one of the largest Nomads, only a "small minority" progress onto AIM; most are turned away for being too immature or unsound. And there is AIM's track record: around 3% of AIM-listed companies fail annually, a figure roughly comparable with the main market...
...whether Congress finally passes a law to limit greenhouse emissions. That effort began in earnest in 2003, when Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman sponsored a bill that would set limits on industrial greenhouse gases and let companies that do better than required sell pollution credits to those that fail to meet targets. One credit worth of extra pollution from a dirty company is offset by one credit worth of extra cleanliness from a more environmentally conscious company, and the clean company is paid for its effort too. This is just the kind of strategy that was implemented...
...Thompson, more than anyone else, knows what drives the doubters: a hoops stereotype that says black guys play with their bodies and white guys with their brains. And even if the 2007 Hoyas fail to win the national title on April 2 in Atlanta, Thompson's team has done more to smash that perception than any other in recent memory. "If you think of the Princeton Offense, you wouldn't think a team of African-American guys can run it," notes Georgetown star Jeff Green, whose last-second bank shot against Vanderbilt in the regional semifinals kept the Hoyas...