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...more than one occasion, he offered a comprehensive “mega-motion” to resolve several concerns at once, bending parliamentary procedure but saving precious minutes...
...interview last week, Summers said Harvard also should work harder to solicit large, institution-shaping mega-donations, a category in which it has fallen behind other Universities. While the University continues to rank as one of the top fundraisers in higher education, its largest ever gift—$70.5 million from the Loeb family in 1995—was surpassed by 62 other gifts on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s all-time donation list...
...Asian crises of the 1990s were severely criticized. They helped Western banks get repaid but left developing countries with bigger debt burdens. Indeed, the bailouts may even have contributed to the problem of debt crises, by inducing bad lending practices. The failure in the last six years of the mega-bailouts - in Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, Russia, Brazil, Argentina - made it apparent that an alternative is needed. Since the '80s, alternatives have been proposed - allowing nations to declare bankruptcy and standstills in the same way that individual debtors who cannot meet their obligations are permitted to have a fresh start...
...that the real Roseanne? The real Roseanne, the show suggests, is not on camera: she is the mega-celebrity who once was and may or may not return but whose memory keeps her retinue in line, keeps her audience at attention and keeps Barr working, toward the day she might be just Roseanne again. --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...keyword, and you're there. Google delivers more than 200 million results daily, thanks to its hyperaccurate algorithms. But there's no such thing as a free search; behind that text-only interface is a serious business edging toward what Wall Street hopes will be a new tech mega-IPO. Omid Kordestani, Google's senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations, is fast turning the privately held company into a maniacally profitable outfit. His efforts have transformed the world's top search destination into online advertising's hottest property--scoring more than 100,000 advertisers in just...