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...meet with Father Elias Chacour, a Catholic Archbishop and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee who runs a school for Jewish, Muslim and Christian children. We were also encouraged by life in Galilee, whose population is a fifty-fifty mix of Israelis and Palestinians. The city can be a model for peaceful coexistence in all of the Holy Land. Steve Hawkins, BOULDER, COLO...
...they probably don’t want to change it too much,” said Clardy, who first submitted a proposal for his course to be approved for the new Gen Ed curriculum in late January. “I think they thought it was a successful model...
...their sport. For this year's championship, each of the leading teams has spent around $300 million on building and fine-tuning its cars. Behind the drivers is a network of boffins - engineers, mechanics, wind-tunnel experts - charged with analyzing the performance of every system of last year's model with the goal of making the new one faster. Inevitably, the high stakes have led to skulduggery. The sport's governing body, the Paris-based International Automobile Federation (FIA), last year fined McLaren a record $100 million for possessing 800 pages of confidential technical data about the cars of arch...
...brilliant visionary and a genuinely compassionate human being, but he runs the danger of being trapped by his past," says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management who has extensively studied CEOs. "Entrepreneurs sometimes don't grow with the business. You shouldn't pretend the model can't keep evolving." Schultz is fond of saying that the current energy and optimism reminds him of the early days, when Starbucks was "fighting for survival." It is a nostalgic way to look at things, and that, says Sonnenfeld, is a big problem...
...problem is revenue and an inefficient business model - and gripes that the Americans aren't competing on a level playing field. For one, the Japanese teams have not been run as profit-making entities; instead they traditionally operate as advertising vehicles for parent companies. The NPB's annual revenue is estimated to be only slightly over $1 billion, one sixth of what the U.S. draws. The salary gap between what the best players make in each country is equally large. The NPB has no integrated system of selling media or merchandising rights...