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Paul S. Madera, Meritech’s managing director, said his firm was impressed by Facebook’s rapid growth and its potential for further expansion in the coveted college-age market...
...merging two huge tax administrations within the ministry. Both are still in place; Parent and his colleagues left the structures largely alone, but looked at ways to eliminate the overlap. "I prefer progressive reforms that succeed even if they take five years," Parent says, "to more ambitious and more rapid ones that run the risk of being a complete failure." That's typically French. In Germany and Scandinavia, change happens after considered debate and lengthy analysis. In France, by contrast, it tends to be convulsive and born of conflict: one violent leap backward followed by two surreptitious steps forward...
...even began, Bujagali was put on hold four years ago after one of its contractors was involved in allegations of corruption. The dam, which will generate around 200 MW of much-needed power for Uganda when it is eventually built, will also drown a series of large rapids that roil the Nile and have become one of Uganda's biggest tourist attractions. Hitesh Vora, manager of Equator Rafts and the Speke Camp, which overlooks the falls, is in two minds about the dam. "We definitely need more power," he says. "But perhaps there are other sites further down the river...
...News earlier this week that the work of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, as well as his own work in Yale’s Investments Office alerted him to the possibility of divestment. The trustees were receptive to the proposal, Pietrosimone said. “We divested in a rapid manner, taking into account...our fiduciary responsibility,” said Kottage. Trustees credited the measure’s success and speedy passage to the nature of the Darfur issue. “It’s just a situation that can’t exist,” CERF...
...said that he and Gerken are planning on holding the Public Law Workshop once more next year. Gerken will commute from New Haven to Cambridge to teach the course, he said.Gerken’s departure comes at a time when the school is growing its professoriate at a rapid pace. Though there had been concern in the past about the depth of the constitutional law faculty at Harvard, both Gerken and Fallon expressed confidence in the strength of the school’s program.“Harvard will never have any problem finding talented constitutional law professors...