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...Nobel-laureate economist Milton Friedman wrote a magazine article about "corporate social responsibility," an earlier term for something very much like creative capitalism. Friedman said the responsibility of corporations was to maximize value for their stockholders--period. Anything else was a betrayal of those stockholders, who can always give their profits away to worthy causes if they want. But the choice should be theirs. It was argued in reply back then that social responsibility benefits the bottom line because it makes the corporation look good, thereby attracting more customers and better employees. Gates makes a similar argument. But this reasoning...
...Gate Theatre of Dublin for the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City took place not in the Center's usual theater space but at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (familiars call it the John Jay College of Criminal Knowledge). For the oeuvre of the Nobel Prize-winning Irishman contains testimony from, and about, people guilty of a long list of particulars, most particularly being born. They solemnly declare all crimes of commission and omission, which Beckett sets down in crystalline phrases that might be spoken from the witness stand, or from the hangman's platform just before...
...What won Beckett his Nobel Prize - the grim death gargling at you from every page - may also keep audiences away; they think he's a sanctified chore, homework for Mensa members. But as McGovern, Fiennes and Neeson demonstrated, with their considerable artistry, Beckett was a mesmerizer, a spellbinder, who held a cracked mirror to humanity and saw the humanity in it. We're pitiable creatures, no doubt, and birth is just the first step toward death, but funny in our cruelties and yearnings. At least that's what this Beckett fan thought at the end of the Gate marathon, Laugh...
...least arch an eyebrow when Burma signed the charter is nothing short of willful ignorance. Yes, ASEAN did speak forcefully on July 20 when Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yeo said the bloc's members felt "deep disappointment" that Burma in May prolonged the detention of opposition figurehead and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. But any mention of that negative emotion was excised from the formal communiqué issued by ASEAN the following day. And an initial flurry of excitement caused by Yeo when he said that his Burmese counterpart had told him Suu Kyi might possibly be released...
...packaging us like perfume commercials.'' But the pull of just one more won out. The tour was the idea of John Healey, 48, an ex-Franciscan monk and Peace Corps worker who heads the American office of Amnesty that goes after left- and right-wing oppressors, won the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize, but remains little known in the U.S. ''We're a household name in Europe. I want a grassroots- level recognition here too,'' Healey explains. At first he had trouble getting artists. Many were ''aided'' out. ''Six weeks ago I had just about decided it was easier to deal...