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...tightest, sharpest productions at Harvard in years, the cast of Hapgood make you believe the way only the best theater can and even the best spy movie ca't. While spy movies lean on gadgets and effects, Hapgood reminds one that spying is really about acting--not to dismiss the outstanding technical design of this production...
...solution has been the founding of venture philanthropies, which use the same aggressive methods as venture-capital firms, whose money typically comes with technological expertise and experience at running lean, efficient organizations. This new breed of philanthropist scrutinizes each charitable cause like a potential business investment, seeking maximum return in terms of social impact--for example, by counting the number of children taught to read or the number inoculated against malaria...
...gets into a tangle now and then. "Like any organization that's run by people," he says, "it's imperfect." Turner points out that he gives quite a bit of money to the U.S. government in taxes, and the last time he checked, that was less than a lean, clean operation. He feels compelled to donate to the U.N. in part because the U.S. has not been paying its membership dues. "The U.N. has bills just like any other organization," Turner says, citing U.N.-sponsored environment and family-planning organizations as being among the recipients of U.N. largesse...
...Just call ahead and request a bland meal. That's right--along with kosher and vegetarian choices, most airlines offer a bland meal. For breakfast, it might include a muffin and unsalted margarine, and for dinner some lean chicken and perhaps a pear half or two. And yes, you can get a first-class version as well, which is bland in the most deluxe...
...ornaments and tractor chassis into separate piles for recycling. All sandy hair and freckles, dressed in a life jacket, cap and khaki shorts and sporting a pair of wraparound dark shades, Pregracke could be a latter-day Huck Finn. His grin is impish, his body compact and coiled. Two lean, tanned young women in similar uniforms--Jennifer Anderson, 26, and Lisa Hoffman, 22--toil alongside him, heaving corroded truck tires onto a towering stack. "It's hard work, but it's fun work," Hoffman says, describing a regimen of 12-hour days hauling discarded Porta Potties from stagnant, snake-filled...