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With many laughs and a few tears, eight Asian-American seniors received awards at the third annual Reflections banquet last night for the impact they made during their four years at Harvard...
...households in China's cities, defined as those making $5,000 to $12,500 a year, in contrast to 23 million households in 2005. Less clear for the company, says retail analyst Raphael Moreau of Euromonitor International, is "how much it will have to reinvent itself to make an impact...
Lerrick wants the World Bank to stop lending to middle-income countries and restructure its loans to the poorest nations as outright grants. Nancy Birdsall, a former World Banker who runs a Washington think tank called the Center for Global Development, argues that the bank could have more impact on poverty by making better use of its best assets: the expertise of its staff and its ability to coordinate global action. "Lending and grantmaking at the country level should not be the end-all and be-all," she says. "It should be the vehicle for advice and constant rebuilding...
...pressure from global competition inside and outside Siemens has a huge impact on careers. While there are still very few non-Germans in high executive positions, they are becoming more common. For example, a year ago, Umlauft needed a director for global sales. "Everyone expected me to appoint a German," he says. "But I hired a guy out of India. He's now in Görlitz, and he's a great sales...
...hard to take Simmons’s proposal seriously in light of what he wrote about misogynistic lyrics in his 2001 autobiography. In the book, “Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, and God,” Simmons suggests that such cruel words can have a positive impact on young women: “[A]fter years of hearing rappers talk negatively about women, about their babies’ mothers and sex,” he writes, “there’s been a real change in the patterns of teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy...