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...Once investors are paid off, Firmage plans on funneling money into the ManyOne Foundation in which board advisors will oversee how it's spent. The board and its advisors reads like a Who's Who list, including the likes of Goodall, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus and General Wesley Clark, among others...
...Foundation with two initial gifts totaling $100 million. No institution did more in the 20th century to further the cause of international development. It led the way in the eradication of hookworm in the U.S. South, helping pave the way for the region's economic development. It supported the Nobel-prizewinning work that created the yellow-fever vaccine. It helped Brazil eliminate a malaria-transmitting strain of mosquito. And perhaps most stunningly, it funded the Asian Green Revolution, the transformative agricultural success that enabled India and other countries to escape endless cycles of famine and poverty...
Early poll results indicate that Nobel Peace Prize laureate José Ramos-Horta has won a landslide Presidential election in the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor. Formerly the country's Prime Minister, Ramos-Horta may very well be trading jobs with his Presidential predecessor, Xanana Gusmão, who is tipped to become Prime Minister after legislative elections slated for June...
...Another lesson is flexibility: When Unionists dumped Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble as their leader, Blair adapted the process to bring in Paisley. He also employed "creative ambiguity" to get over the toughest hurdles by letting each side believe they were scoring points. Even today the central question of whether Northern Ireland will ultimately be British or Irish remains unresolved, but the matter will be settled in politics...
...their memory must forever be respected. But they died liberating Poland because Stalin and Hitler had carved up that country in 1939. A real tragedy of the war was that Soviet soldiers "boldly entered foreign capitals and came back to their own one in fear," to quote the Nobel Prize Winner poet Josef Brodsky. They destroyed Nazism, but, in a bitter twist of history, their heroism in defense of the Motherland also shored up another despicable tyranny. And having liberated the countries of Eastern Europe, they installed a new occupation...