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...Early in her college years, Buttner began preparing for her life as a journalist, serving as an executive news producer of Harvard’s radio station WHRB, president of the International Relations Council, and the secretary-general of a National Model United Nations (MUN) Conference...
...whims of investors. By early 2008, the combination of a risk-averse global financial climate and possible speculative attacks on the krona meant that Iceland could no longer run itself like a hedge fund. Says Paul Rawkins, an analyst at Fitch Ratings: "The global credit crunch undermined their business model...
...fund raising even harder and has slowed the efforts to scale McCain's lean, insurgent campaign to the size he and his party will need to win in the fall. Back in 2004, Bush built a massive top-down hierarchy that brought a corporate efficiency to politics. The McCain model, by contrast, has been designed to reflect McCain's insurgent personality. While the Bush campaign channeled all decision-making through its northern Virginia headquarters, the McCain campaign has established a decentralized network of 11 "regional campaign managers," who will separately direct much of the campaign in their parts...
...Brazil as elsewhere, the tragedy of childhood is the absence of a male parent to offer a strong, responsible role model. Linha de Passe shows how the young create their own connections. As Salles notes, when fatherhood is missing, they form a brotherhood...
...call Desormeaux a role model. That term would not apply to Dutrow. He remembers mixing cocaine and quaaludes one night in the 1980s and getting into his car. Luckily, he woke up on the side of the road, unharmed. "A miracle," he says. He was a reckless gambler, once betting $160,000 on a horse. He won that one, but he remembers losing a few $50,000 bets. Why risk so much? "'Cause I'm an idiot," he says. "Come...