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...each of them,” he said. Among the panelists—all former fellows of the center—were University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71, who has written a book with Thompson, Samantha Power, a Kennedy School of Government professor and Pulitzer Prize winner, and Internet law guru Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University. Discussion at the panels ranged from the ethical dilemmas surrounding government responses to genocide, to the proper allocation of healthcare services, to wages for service employees at wealthy universities. “These problems are real, they are hotly debated...
...photo and short profile of each finalist, along with a short blurb about her highlighted social cause. Pasricha was chosen for her efforts campaigning against youth smoking. Glamour donates $2,500 to a charity of each finalist’s choice, and gives the finalists themselves a cash prize and a trip to New York, according to a press release from the magazine. Pasricha—pictured in the magazine next to the headline “She’s an Antismoking Crusader”—was chosen from thousands of applicants. Glamour selected Pasricha...
...influence as a businesshistorian was such that some analysts refer to the period before Alfred Chandler published his works as "B.C." The "dean of management theory" was known for his accounts of how General Motors and other giant corporations were developed. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1977 book, The Visible Hand, which posited that very visible managers had replaced invisible market forces as the key factor shaping corporations...
...other words, you would want someone like Al Gore-the improbably charismatic, Academy Award-winning, Nobel Prize-nominated environmental prophet with an army of followers and huge reserves of political and cultural capital at his command. There's only one problem. The former Vice President just doesn't seem interested. He says he has "fallen out of love with politics," which is shorthand for both his general disgust with the process and the pain he still feels over the hard blow of the 2000 election, when he became only the fourth man in U.S. history to win the popular vote...
...onetime chief of staff, Peter Knight. (Someone handed out buttons that said Al Gore Reunion 2007, but it was just a social event; Gore didn't attend.) They cite October as a good time for him to get in, since that's when the Nobel Committee announces its Peace Prize. Finally, they point to The Assault on Reason, the sort of book that could be a talisman of intent, since it takes aim at George W. Bush from multiple directions, diagnoses what's wrong with our democracy and offers ideas for curing it. Why else would you write a book...