Word: foundered
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...talk around Auckland last week was about ethnic identity and a festival of sport, there was also bright buzz around news of a business deal. The $NZ700 million purchase by Australian media company Fairfax of local online auction site Trade Me had a number of sweet elements. Founder Sam Morgan, 30, a university dropout, was about to become one of the country's wealthiest people. Fairfax's new Sydney-based boss, David Kirk, is a former captain of the All Blacks. And if it seemed almost every computer owner in New Zealand had a personal stake in Trade...
...event featured important leaders like Chang in the history of Asian organizations at Harvard—such as five past presidents of the AAA and two past presidents of the Korean Association. The event’s keynote speaker, Fred Ho ’79, was an original founder of the AAA in 1976 and said he was a main participant in what he called a 1970s movement to include Asian and Asian Americans in Harvard’s on-campus programs targeting minorities. He recalled meeting with a dean and staging protests on campus to ask Harvard to recognize...
...Mgbako ’06, said that the theme of this year’s festivities was “supreme perseverance.” Seven Harvard seniors were celebrated for exemplary leadership, a high school senior was presented with a $2,000 scholarship, and Pamela G. Carlton, co-founder of Springboard-Partners in Cross Cultural Leadership, was honored with the Woman of the Year Award. The Senior Leadership Awards were given to seniors who had “contributed to Harvard and the world,” said BMF officer Bryan C. Barnhill ’08. Each senior...
...While no one is advocating that such documentaries be censored, activists working against prostitution are upset to see pimps glorified or affirmed as authority figures, whether intentionally or not. In pop culture, pimps have become cool. Lois Lee, founder of Children of the Night, an organization that aims to take prostitutes off the street, was dismayed to see Three 6 Mafia's "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," from "Hustle & Flow," win best song at the Oscars. Songs and videos about pimping "make it look like it's O.K.," argues Lee, who has known thousands of prostitutes...
...action star and former Walker, Texas Ranger is now an online cult hero and founder of the World Combat League, a new fighting organization...