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...otherwise a large tuition,” he says. HARVARDWOOD HELPSThough such opportunities are not available for ever artform, those students interested in the entertainment arts have taken matters into their own hands by creating an extracurricular network all their own. Founded in 1999, Harvardwood is a non-profit organization that creates connections between Harvard alumni and established members of the entertainment business. According to Harvardwood founder and president Mia E. Riverton ’99, one of the network’s goals is to find summer internships for students. “They become a part...
...Home to some 40 million mostly poor people, Central America is an enormous market for inexpensive clothing. Nicaraguan entrepreneurs often travel to Miami to buy used clothing in bulk, and ship it back home to sell for a hefty profit. According to an investigation by Nicaraguan economist Alejandro Arauz, most such apparel is imported into Nicaragua as "donations" to skirt commercial taxes, then resold for a 200 percent profit. To further cut costs, the used clothing purchased in the U.S. is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, the garments picked over and left behind at Goodwill and then sold...
...Zhang Shuyi, 35, who owns his own small advertising agency. He lived just behind us with his girlfriend and a big mutt of a dog who occasionally scared the daylights out of our daughter, Abby. (Zhang, in typical Shanghainese fashion, sold his house three months ago for a 20% profit and moved to another place not far from here.) Another couple are both engineers who work for Intel, helping design the chipmaker's new factory in Dalian. Another young father, Chen Jun, 36, is a successful clothing wholesaler. These are not rich Chinese, but people who consider themselves solidly middle...
Inspired by Paul Farmer—a Harvard Medical School professor and co-founder of Partners in Health, a non-profit that brings medical care to third-world countries—Leiby said he is taking classes and researching with the Botswana-Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative for HIV Research and Education...
...more well-known one she espoused in the early ’90s that enlisted the government, rather than private health insurance companies, to provide universal health coverage. To many former supporters, this was a proposal that didn’t make sense, given that it was the profit-maximizing function of corporations that induces much of the current system’s quality and accessibility issues. But it started to come together once I realized that Clinton receives more funding from insurance and pharmaceutical companies than anybody other politician—Republican or Democrat. Indeed, as the reality became...