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...think what's over is the old notion of retirement, of getting a gold watch, of going to Florida, sitting on the beach and doing nothing else. That was the model when people didn't live very long beyond retirement. Now to retire and do nothing for 30 years is not an option...
...received merely an eighth-grade education. He rose to prominence in Sao Paulo as a fiery labor-union leader and head of Brazil's leftist Workers Party. After losing three presidential races, he finally won in 2002 with a more centrist vision that many development experts see as a model that can be applied elsewhere. Lula's challenges are daunting. Brazil's economy is wheezing again this year, and angry voters around Latin America are protesting a decade of capitalist reforms. But he has staked out a distinct role. Says Eduardo Gamarra, director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center...
...criminals and ending welfare as we knew it. Today, with the exception of free trade (of which they are staunch advocates), there is almost no argument among Democrats on the principles of the Clintons. In Europe the doctrine came to be called the Third Way and acted as a model for Britain's Tony Blair and Germany's Gerhard Schroder. When George W. Bush ran for the presidency in 2000, his "compassionate conservatism" had more than a faint ring of Clintonism...
Being the Midas of global outsourcing might not make Azim Premji popular in the U.S., but back home in India he's a role model. The story of how the Stanford-educated Premji transformed Wipro, his family's vegetable-oil business, into one of the world's most important outsourcing companies (total employees: 27,200) is already part of Indian business folklore. A growing number of U.S. and European firms rely on the Bangalore-based Wipro to handle their software needs, keep their databases and computer networks up and running, and answer calls from customers. That has made Premji...
...have imagined the extraordinary movement that his self-effacing but certain leadership would help produce. Yet there is little doubt that the free-software movement for which Stallman planted the seed has achieved a permanence through Torvalds' pragmatic work. And there is no doubt that the open, collaborative model that produced GNU/Linux has changed the business of software development forever. --BY LAWRENCE LESSIG, Stanford Law School professor and author of Free Culture