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Merck's success in Botswana and similar CSR successes by other companies around the globe raise an interesting question: might businesses be better at aid than traditional NGOs and charities? There's reason to suppose they might be. After all, businesses the size of Merck are capable of marshaling greater medical expertise and more resources than any one NGO, and they are obsessed with results and efficiency...
...Microsoft has said the ruling would have a disastrous impact on innovation, and it is expected to appeal. The company said it would undermine efforts by market-leading firms across the globe to improve their products for consumers, as they would not be able to benefit from their own innovations...
...Sept. 10, Shakespearian actor Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (a working modern replica of the London theater Will co-owned and acted at), unveiled a "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt." Created by the California-based Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, an educational charity dedicated to raising awareness of the Shakespeare identity question, the document asks the world of academia to accept that there is "room for reasonable doubt about the identity of William Shakespeare" and to start taking the research into who is really responsible for his works seriously. Along with Jacobi and Rylance, signatories...
...McCann, a British girl on vacation with her parents in Portugal, disappeared. She hasn't been found in more than four months despite one of the most intensive and far-flung missing-person searches in history. This past spring and summer, Europe and much of the rest of the globe became fixated on the disappearance, which carries both the international breadth of the Diana tragedy and the hypersentimental, at times prurient fascination that Americans brought to the unsolved case of another little blond girl, JonBenét Ramsey...
...former Massachusetts House speaker, Flaherty won the editorial endorsements of several newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Cambridge Chronicle, and Somerville Journal...