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...that position, critics say, is par for the course for Donohue, who has shown relatively little interest in expanding corporate transparency. One of his chief innovations has been a stealth corporate advocacy program, which encourages firms to funnel funds into special chamber accounts to pay for advocacy campaigns run under the chamber's banner, without mention of the company paying for the ad or their stake in the fight...
...same might be said of its stance toward corporate transparency. The Chamber successfully sued the Securities and Exchange Commission five years ago to block a requirement that 75% of mutual funds' boards be independent. And another legal battle seems likely to be brewing over the new SEC Commissioner's interest in pushing to allow shareholders to nominate independent members to corporate boards. "They will accept all kinds of stimulus funds and bailouts but God forbid we should ask for any kind of accountability in return," says Nell Minow, co-founder of Corporate Library, a corporate governance research firm...
...term ‘microfinance’ tends to turn people off,” Krass says, explaining the importance of having an artistic pathway between her specialized interest and the broader community. “They say they aren’t interested in banking or finance. To have their first vision of microfinance be scenes of people in developing countries opens a lot of windows for us to talk to them about what...
While Mitchell’s translations are looser and more creatively liberal, Snow’s have an interest in direct syntactical facsimile; with a more direct approach to the formulation of Rilke’s images. In “Going Blind,” a poem from “New Poems,” Rilke describes observing a woman who is ostensibly doing just that. The poem ends with a paradigmatic Rilke image—in observing her impediments, he suddenly perceives a flash of transcendent elegance. Mitchell writes, “and yet: as though, once...
...money flowing to Hoffman's campaign from conservative interest groups has been used to paint Scozzafava as a leftist. True, Scozzafava supports abortion rights, gay marriage and the pro-union legislation known as Card Check. But she is endorsed by the National Rifle Association, she supported the Bush tax cuts, and she opposes much of Obama's health care plan. "Whether you agree with Scozzafava or not or whether you like her politics or not, there's this real cognitive dissonance between the woman that we know and this bizarre caricature of her that's being described out there," says...