Word: minow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state of protracted turmoil. The sputtering 76-year-old publisher founded to "inform, enrich, entertain and inspire people" has lately just incited a group of big-game-hunting shareholders, who want to see the Digest company restructured or sold. "This is a company that has been asleep," says Nell Minow, a principal of Lens, an activist Washington-based money manager with a substantial stake in the firm. "We are trying to bring them into the 20th century before we get to the 21st...
Kagan said he assigns some of Brown's writings for this Core class Social Analysis 56: "Children and their Social Worlds," which he teaches with Professor of Law Martha L. Minow in the spring...
...stood up to all the characters that inhabit Saturday-morning television, which accounts for just a few of the 28 hours the average American child spends in front of the tube every week. Wonderland? Children's programming is more like the quintessential "wasteland" denounced by former fcc chairman Newton Minow, a land in which young viewers are pursued--and often captured--by cartoons and cartoonish people sponsored by companies trying to entice the kids into buying their candies and sweetened cereals and toys...
Some of the luminaries who signed the letter include Professor of Government Seyla Benhabib Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Alice A. Jardine; Professor of Public Policy Jane J. Mansbridge; Professor of Law Martha Minow; Professor of Government and of Sociology Theda Skocpol; and C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Women's Studies Susan R. Suleiman...
...When I started teaching, [ethics] was thought to be an obligation," says Minow. "For many reasons, people now understand it to be relevant to the practice of most firms.... The conception of ethics has been broadened to include the issues of race and gender...