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...Even before Harvard felt the full effects of the financial crisis, the Medical School had been working to revamp faculty development and diversity efforts. These initiatives, Tarbell said, had been identified as one of the many priorities spawning from Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier's strategic planning process launched in Oct. 2007, soon after Flier assumed his post...
With the recruiting process now behind him, Brown will focus on his senior season, looking to cap off a high school career in which he’s excelled in one of the most competitive conferences in the country...
...horrendous civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). (Global Witness is the same nongovernmental organization that helped expose the violence that plagues many of the sources of diamonds.) However, the accused companies, with varying degrees of hostility, deny any culpability, saying Global Witness oversimplifies a complex economic process in a chaotic geopolitial setting. (See pictures of diamonds set on onyx and black enamel...
...private enterprise in the middle of the world's worst economic crisis in 50 years? Something's up, right? Indeed there is. The motor driving France's bustling start-up action is an innovation known as the auto-entrepreneur - a government scheme introduced in January to facilitate the formidable process of founding a small business in France. The scheme cuts through the jungle of administrative red tape usually required to launch a company and dramatically lightens the heavy taxes and social charges other companies pay. While regular outfits face set charges whether business is booming or bust, auto-entrepreneurs...
...reverse long-held negative attitudes in France about starting a small business. "There are a lot more people out there in France who would love to try their hand at running a business and selling a service they can provide but haven't even tried because the process and costs of doing that have been so deterring," says Aurore Longuet, a spokeswoman for the Economy Ministry's small- and medium-size business secretariat. "What we're saying to them now is, 'Give it a try - it's easy now, and you're not facing the same costs. You have nothing...