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...panel, titled “Thinking Outside the Box: New Corporate Structures, Tax Policy and Public Policy for 21st-Century Social Enterprises,” was moderated by Kennedy School professor and former presidential advisor David R. Gergen and included a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner, a former mayor of Indianapolis, and philanthropist Catherine B. Reynolds, who founded Loan to Learn, a major student loan business. The event’s discussion focused on the blurring of the lines between non- and for-profit organizations providing social services—such as student loans and healthcare?...
Tetsuya Shiroo woke up that morning and got himself a gun. Before the day was over, he allegedly used it to murder Iccho Itoh, the mayor of the southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki, outside his campaign office. While the April 17 shooting first appeared to be an assassination, it soon emerged that Shiroo, a 59-year-old yakuza (gangster) with ties to Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest criminal syndicate, seemed motivated less by politics than by a petty personal grievance. He blamed a minor car accident on city construction work and wanted $17,000 in damages from the Nagasaki government...
...Using economics to influence behavior is something this country is built on-it's called capitalism.' MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, New York City mayor, who is considering charging people a fee for driving into the heart of Manhattan
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, New York City mayor, who is considering charging people a fee for driving into the heart of Manhattan...
...people filled the vastness of Manezh Square outside the crenellated walls of the Kremlin. As a speaker shouted out resolutions, the crowd voted overwhelmingly for authorities to stop persecuting Yeltsin, leader of the Russian republic, and for Gorbachev to resign as Soviet President. Addressing the throng, Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov asked, "Do we trust the leadership of the country?" The crowd roared back...