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...there’s so much schadenfreude to draw from when they, like us, get caught with two left feet. Also, unlike the majority of competition shows, it manages to stay exciting all the way through, from the first freak-filled auditions to the finals.…invest plenty of time and a record amount of money in a new kind of hybrid voyeur-house drama/talent competition show only to have its first episode draw the second-smallest audience of any premiere of any show on a major network. Ever: ABC really messed up with...
...change will present. And even then, publishing reports is only a small first step. To make a real difference, insurers need to change how they themselves do business. There remains, after all, a deep, structural contradiction between the risks insurance providers face from climate change and the places they invest to provide the income to meet those risks. Put more bluntly: most big insurers are heavily invested in those businesses that are believed to be the biggest contributors to global warming. A 2000 report by Friends of the Earth on the investment portfolios of the U.K.'s top insurance companies...
...this year's meeting, Richard Branson grabbed headlines by pledging to invest all future proceeds of his Virgin Group's airline and train businesses to fight global warming. But other commitments with smaller budgets were similarly designed to have a real impact. The Global Partnership for Afghanistan pledged to launch 100 commercially viable orchard and woodlot businesses. The Sanam Vaziri Quraishi Foundation partnered with child-rights activist Craig Kielburger to "adopt a village" in the Masai Mara of Kenya. With an investment of only $68,000 in the first year, they will help change the lives of 1,000 children...
...cross-disciplinary and inter-institutional cooperation. The University brought in Office of Technology Development head Isaac T. Kohlberg last year to “work on better translating the academic success that Harvard has had,” Halvorsen said. The office is now building the framework to invest in the technologies itself, in order to “take those early stage technologies and move them a little further along to a stage where there is commercial interest,” Halvorsen said. The report notes that the survey data did not account for the fact that...
...yacht owners. I left Athens behind, but not the attitude. I spent too much time with laidback Greeks to let myself get stressed about shopping classes. I know the various Parthenons in my life are important—getting into grad school, finding a job, deciding how much to invest in extracurriculars—but can probably be conquered later. For now, I just want to savor these last warm days with the everyday rockstars I call my friends.Kristina M. Moore ’08 is a History and Literature concentrator in Dunster House. She would still like to meet...