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...just hopeless at science—it was just a question of how I would cobble the various disciplines together. 8. FM: “Aftertaste,” your senior thesis, has been screened at film festivals around the world. What inspired you to write a documentary about post-Apartheid farming in South Africa? CD: Near Cape Town there are a lot of wine farms. During my senior year there were a lot of farmers starting “empowerment projects.” Basically this meant that for the first time the workers could own parts...
...even his good friend Bill Gates couldn't pull off. There was Carol Loomis, the writer at Fortune (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Inc.), who edited Buffett's annual letter to shareholders. And, most vividly depicted of all, there was Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post, in which Buffett was a major investor. Graham became Buffett's entrée into high society (the man of notoriously simple tastes once said he had an easier time talking to Dolly Parton than to Princess Di), and Buffett became Graham's tutor in the ways of business. With...
...numbers for the fiscal year 2008 have not been finalized yet, Bailey said that the Health Alliance was hit especially hard this year with an annual $13 million in additional expenses to be tacked on under a new accounting rule, which requires public employers to record costs for post-retirement benefits. Bailey declined to release additional figures as an audit has yet to be completed, but stated that without the $13 million tag, the Health Alliance would have been on “very solid footing...
...Castellanos emphasized the important role that youth would play in changing the face of politics, noting that “government is going to look a lot more like Facebook and eBay in the future.” “Undergrads are going to build the post-industrial politics,” he said in an interview after the event, adding that the new politics would be “ground-up” and “based on communication.” Castellanos has served as a media consultant for seven presidential candidates. After advising the Bush...
...letter of resignation to the speaker of parliament and will officially leave office once parliament chooses an interim successor, as it is expected to do within a month. Mbeki appeared calm and dignified as he defended his legacy of 14 years as the premier policy architect of a post-apartheid South African state, first as deputy president under Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999, then as head of state. But despite his demeanor, it was a bitter moment for a man who, as the son of ANC liberation hero Govan Mbeki, has often said that he was "born into...