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...ever artform, those students interested in the entertainment arts have taken matters into their own hands by creating an extracurricular network all their own. Founded in 1999, Harvardwood is a non-profit organization that creates connections between Harvard alumni and established members of the entertainment business. According to Harvardwood founder and president Mia E. Riverton ’99, one of the network’s goals is to find summer internships for students. “They become a part of our organization and participate in other activities,” she says. Media goliaths ABC, Disney, Dreamworks...
...mildly apathetic global Gen X brigade, but like many an urban Turk, I was raised on a solid diet of modernist mantras. The secular zeal of Turkey's nation-builders runs in my blood. As an air force pilot, my grandfather fought alongside Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, in the country's war for independence. After it was won in 1923, his job was to help build Turkey's first fleet of biplanes. My grandmother was what's called an "Ataturk girl" - like many others, she was put on a train to Germany...
...satellite cities going up around Shanghai alone - and you get a sense of the economic forces at work. To the developers who conjured this place out of nothing, the payoff is as close to a matter of fact as any investment can be. Listen to Guo Guangchang, the co-founder and CEO of Fosun Group - whose subsidiary, Forte, is one of the primary developers here - and the message is clear: if you build it, they will come...
...anyone else to adopt the dogs. Some are injured or too old to race - greyhounds have a racing life of only two to three years - but others have simply been deemed too expensive for the struggling enterprise to maintain. "They're making a huge mistake," says Cynthia Branigan, founder of Make Peace With Animals, a Pennsylvania-based greyhound adoption organization. "If they want more business, they must promote adoption and prove this is a wholesome activity...
...organization rarely talked in public about Mughniyah and his alleged exploits from the 1980s. Sheikh Sobhi Tufayli, a founder of Hizballah who led the organization between 1989 and 1991, once told me that Mughniyah was innocent of the charges leveled against him by the U.S. "He had nothing to do with it," the gruff cleric said, then added "Besides do you think I would tell...