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When a recently leaked e-mail revealed that Focus on the Family founder and Christian Right titan James Dobson had ruled out supporting Fred Thompson (who admitted he doesn't go to church), God-o-Meter's counter nearly bottomed out. But in the days following the leak, heavyweight Evangelicals like former presidential candidate Gary Bauer and the Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land have come to Thompson's aid. Will religious conservatives remain divided or rally around Thompson? With the Christian Right �lite anxious to get behind a candidate, we hear that the next few weeks are make...
Chip Conley, the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which operates 40 boutique hotels and other properties, exemplifies San Francisco smarts in Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Conley's company was almost wiped out by the post-9/11 downturn. But the theories of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow provided "mouth-to-mouth resuscitation," says Conley, a Stanford M.B.A. (In miniature: Maslow believed that as their basic needs are met, human beings and companies are able to strive for higher goals.) Despite a few New Age-y concepts like "karmic capitalism" and a tendency...
When Deborah Bial answered her phone in a rental car in Chicago, the unfamiliar voice on the other end asked the founder of a nonprofit for urban high school graduates if she were alone and sitting down. He then told her that she would be receiving a half-million dollar grant through the MacArthur Fellows Program...
...started crying,” said Bial, founder of the New York-based Posse Foundation...
...many conservatives, the near-deathbed conversion is all too unconvincing. "We probably lost the 2006 elections because of his record on spending," said Paul Weyrich, founder of the conservative Free Congress Foundation. "He says, 'Well, I had a Republican Congress and I didn't want to go against a Republican Congress.' Well why not? He could've vetoed all those bills. People would've been happy about...