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...Rodgers may be many things--tough taskmaster, Green Bay Packers fan--but reticent he is not. And if anything gets the pugnacious founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor talking, it's the notion that corporations ought to exist for more than the pursuit of profit. In the simplest terms, that idea--called corporate social responsibility, or CSR--invites companies to consider their impact on people and the planet on a par with their traditional quest for profit. Rodgers considers that bunk. Not that he opposes conscientious corporate conduct or occasional acts of charity. He's quick to point out that...
...Remember that the notion of “taking time” in general is a vital component of avoiding the threat of a burnout. So try to give yourself time out every step of the way during college. There’s nothing wrong with taking a Saturday afternoon to yourself to walk around Boston and get away from the chaos of Cambridge. In every week and every day, there should be some time...
...kisses and embraces shared by the duo go well beyond the average representation of male homosexual behavior in an American film. (At the very least, it was enough to scare off Gyllenhaal’s parents, who, he says, walked out halfway through a screening.)Gyllenhaal shrugs off the notion that these scenes with Ledger were particularly difficult compared to previous love scenes. “There are women that I’ve done love scenes with that I wasn’t attracted to, and women I’ve done love scenes with that I probably should...
...Zebra blog—which has had 4,991 unique hits since last Monday—agreed that the blogs serve to bring greater awareness of the UC election to the campus and get students more involved.“We are bringing them in and giving them a notion of why it really matters and why they should care,” he said.Both Golis and Schmidt were involved in the Matthew J. Glazer ’06-Clay T. Capp ’06 UC campaign last year (Golis as campaign manager and Schmidt as field director...
...While he acknowledged that some organizations had very precise data about the aid they were providing, many others had no idea what their suborganizations were doing. “I’m a firm believer in complete sharing of information,” Khwaja said. Khwaja dismissed the notion of donor apathy as an excuse for the lack of donations and media coverage of the Pakistan-India earthquake. “I’m a firm believer that human emotions are very powerful and don’t get exhausted.” To support his point...