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...millions for what are supposed to be the “best interests” of the University. Somehow, ethical values and human values got left out of these best interests. They have come to mean little more than material values, with no other measure than the maximization of profit for the Corporation and its endowment...
...rare are cases like Beddoe's? "We see them quite often," says N.S.W. University's Parker, a psychiatrist for 30 years and director of the Black Dog Institute, a not-for-profit research, educational and clinical body specializing in mood disorders. "We see depressed people who've been undertreated and others whose illness is not quintessentially biological," yet their treatment has amounted to "the relentless pursuit of one physical treatment after another." Parker's experience is that, shortly after starting a course of SSRIs, about 7% of patients feel agitation ranging from moderate to profound, while an additional...
That kind of hand-wringing about margins gets under Zander's skin. At an investors' conference in September where he intended to promote the Rokr, he was instead peppered with questions about how the company would shore up its profit margins once sales of the Razr start to slow. At the end of the meeting, an exasperated Zander started venting to an attendee about the evils of short-term thinking on Wall Street. "I work for shareholders," he said in an interview in his Schaumburg, Ill., office three weeks later. "But, that said, are you a long-term shareholder...
...East European descent, seems an unlikely key figure in a high-stakes Wall Street intrigue. Yet long-standing criminal and civil charges place Badian at the center of a scheme to lend Arizona software developer Sedona much needed operating capital, then trigger the collapse of its stock and profit from the company's demise. This pattern is also alleged in the civil suit handed to Badian on Aug. 8 in his apartment in Austria--only this time the mark was pet-supplies company Pet Quarters, based in Lonoke...
...more women of color in a position to call the shots. For now, says Patricia Gillette, a San Francisco labor lawyer, being a minority woman in business is still "a double whammy." But in the meantime, companies that recognize and boost the hidden talent within their ranks will profit in more ways than...