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...shift in the lineup, Card could be named Treasury Secretary by the beginning of the year. Among his possible replacements are White House budget director Joshua Bolten, former Montana Governor Marc Racicot and deputy budget director Clay Johnson III. An adviser says the personnel shifts will be gradual: "They don't want to communicate panic because they're not panicked...
...leadership in volunteerism is not coming from traditional nonprofits," says Marc Freedman, Civic Ventures' president and co-founder, "but from a new generation of social entrepreneurs, boomers and preboomers who are taking matters into their own hands." Numbers tell part of the story. During the 1950s and early '60s, according to Leonard Steinhorn, author of the forthcoming The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, there were about 5,000 IRS-approved nonprofits. "From the 1970s through the 1990s, when boomers came into their own," he says, "that number soared to nearly...
...Londoners have long had their own ideas of what kind of statue should go on the plinth: Princess Diana! Margaret Thatcher! A giant pigeon! But lacking a permanent solution, a government-appointed committee last year picked two works that would each occupy the spot for up to 18 months. Marc Quinn, 41, creator of Alison Lapper Pregnant, says he wanted his work to reflect classical influences while addressing a contemporary social issue. "Disabled people are largely underrepresented in the history of art," says Quinn. "I wanted to celebrate a different kind of beauty and bodily diversity...
Stay Directed by Marc Foster Twentieth Century Fox ** Anyone up for a wannabe “artsy” film on crack? If so, check out director Marc Foster’s (“Finding Neverland”) mentally twisting movie “Stay.” “Stay,” starring the oh-so-lovable Ewan McGregor, traces psychologist Dr. Sam Foster’s (McGregor) journey through discovering the truth about his disturbingly troubled and clairvoyant patient, Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling). The narrative leapfrogs back and forth in time without explanation, which...
...these added benefits.“There is a strong case, therefore, for a renewed international commitment to vaccination,” the study, which was published in World Economics, says.Authors David E. Bloom, Gamble professor of economics and demography, David Canning, professor of economics and international health and Marc Weston of River Path Associates in the United Kingdom, found that previous studies on the subject of immunization focused primarily on the benefits to physical health but failed to quantify the programs’ economic impact. “The long-term productivity effects of immunization that we estimate...