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...Ayala Corporation introduced the first tramcar service in the Philippines. Generations later, the company pioneered ways for Filipinos to pay bills and transfer money via their cell phone. Along the way, some of Ayala’s top leaders trained at Harvard—including its current CEO, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II ’81, who last week became the first Filipino to be recognized with the Harvard Business School’s highest honor for its alumni. Zobel has focused on innovative ways to improve Ayala Corporation and the $22 million non-profit Ayala Foundation, whose...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Filipino Businessman Wins HBS Award | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...message to my friends: Thank you for the e-mails and phone calls, the empathy and curiosity about how I've been handling the Hindenburgian flameout of my beloved baseball team, the New York Mets. I'm O.K. Really. I've been through worse... even though this was, well, awful beyond imagining. The losses-seven straight to the crude, macho Phillies, then 12 out of 17 down the stretch. The incessant errors. The pitchers throwing cantaloupes to hitters who didn't belong in the majors. The mental errors that weren't scored as errors. The feeling, in the end, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, My Mets! | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is already running radio ads against Kuhl and his seven colleagues, in addition to automated phone calls and an e-mail campaign. "Congressman Kuhl has a simple choice: give 10 million children the health care they need or turn his back on those children," the radio announcer says in one spot. "Call Congressman Kuhl and tell him to stand with kids, NOT George Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Hay Over the Health Care Veto | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

Answering her red phone in Cabot House late at night, Vanessa Vargas ’09 was greeted by a soft-spoken male voice. Though Vargas didn’t recognize the man who called her, she stayed on the line for a few minutes because the stranger “sounded like he was trying to reach out for help.” “He kept repeating that he just had a really bad day,” Vargas said of the incident which occurred last week. “And he kept saying that he wished...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Late-Night Caller Rankles Quadlings | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

...role, in which the impersonator craved nothing so much as our compassion. Sugeil Mejia, a young mother of two, told police two days after the attacks that her husband was a Port Authority police officer - and he was trapped in the pile. He had just called on his cell phone, she said. A police officer raced her down to Ground Zero, and rescue workers put their lives at risk searching for the man in the unstable rubble. Then Mejia vanished. Four months later, she pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment in Manhattan Supreme Court and was sentenced to three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 9/11 Survivor — or 9/11 Impostor? | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

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