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...that right, Charlie. That's when he created his inner investment group. "In any business deal I do going forward," Palmer explains, "I offer [the staff] an opportunity to invest in any project on the same terms I do." If, for example, Palmer invests $200,000 to buy 30% of a business, the group might invest $100,000 for an additional 15%. Now numbering 22, the group can choose to invest or pass. And members decide which employees can join...
...Americans, this new alliance has caused a reappraisal of the previous opening-up to Don King. The boxing impresario had always been inscrutable, speaking a language of double and triple entendres?and quadruple negatives?that made his pronouncements the subject of devoted Don-ologists who conjectured as to the inner workings of his Cleveland leadership compound. That Beijing chose to appease King is a tribute to the Chinese commitment to the very ideals King best embodies: bare-knuckle capitalism combined with the stench of corruption. (King lured IBF and WBC heavyweight titlist Hasim Rahman by reportedly giving...
...find many inner-city schools with the academic results produced at Accelerated, which serves Grades K through 8--and, as a charter school, is free of much of the red tape that often chokes other institutions. While some states have begun to question whether most charter schools outperform regular public schools, the Stanford Achievement Test scores at Accelerated have jumped 93% since 1997, with increases of 35% in reading and 28% in math last year alone...
...grant applications. Wells Fargo, the school's largest donor, pumps $200,000 into Accelerated each year. And the school in 1997 received a $6.8 million office and warehouse site, donated by clothing designer Carole Little and her business partner Leonard Rabinowitz. As a result, Accelerated is that rare inner-city public school with stylized, glass-block walls and palm trees...
...scroll by in Technicolor. This week a few dozen synesthetes and the psychologists who study them will gather at Princeton University for the first meeting of the American Synesthesia Association--a society devoted to furthering research into the phenomenon in the hopes that it will reveal something about the inner workings of the human mind...