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...Increase in monthly stipends, to $916, the French government will give any parent who takes one year of unpaid leave from work after the birth of his or her third child 1.9 Average number of children per woman in France, where the fertility rate must rise to 2.07 to prevent population decline...
...example, David M. Rubenstein, co-founder of The Carlyle Group, a leading private equity firm, contributed $10 million to the Kennedy School of Government last fiscal year. Rubenstein is a parent of an undergraduate and is married to a graduate of Harvard Business School (HBS), but is not an alum, Rapier said...
Only a company whose customers line up along Tokyo blocks clamoring for cheap casual chic would be comfortable predicting being "bigger than Gap." But Tadashi Yanai, CEO of parent company Fast Retailing, expects Uniqlo to reach $10 billion in sales by 2010, with 10% coming from the U.S. The haberdasher's son is introducing neighborhood concept stores--stocked with basics made with colorful Egyptian cotton and Mongolian cashmere--to three high-volume New Jersey malls, to add to Uniqlo's roughly 700 stores in Asia and Britain. Yanai talks big, but expansion failures in the London area...
...animation was an art form it created and then nurtured for six decades, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 through the '94 smash The Lion King. Who could imagine that the empire would crumble? And why, when Disney had a distribution pact with Pixar, should the parent studio pursue CG animation? The box office answered both questions briskly: of the 10 top-grossing animated films since 1995, when Toy Story became the first computerized cartoon feature, all but one (Disney's Tarzan...
...confined to extremists on talkback radio." Kightley, of Samoan heritage, is one of the creators of bro'Town, a satirical animated sitcom set in Auckland. The show's characters are mainly Pacific Islanders and Maori - who together make up 22% of the population and growing. "As any parent says, you're only as happy as your saddest child," says Kightley. "If you look at the statistics, the saddest kids in New Zealand are the brown ones. They are at the wrong end of too many indicators. That tells me we need to improve things from the bottom up. Doesn...