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...have absolutely nothing against rich people.' HILLARY CLINTON, Democratic presidential hopeful, after the release of her and Bill Clinton's tax-return documents showed that the couple have earned $109 million over the past seven years...
...roles in large companies, including AT&T and Fidelity Investments. McGovern joined Fidelity Investments in 1999, rising through the ranks to become president the following year. McGovern is a trustee of Johns Hopkins University, where she helped raise $2 billion ahead of schedule for the school’s seven-year capital campaign, which has since set a new goal of $3.2 billion. McGovern said that a large part of her strategy at the Red Cross to increase donations would center on encouraging donors to view giving to the organization as a continuing partnership. Fellow Business School professor John...
...Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have had a difficult history, plagued with racial discrimination and economic disadvantage. The thriving British curry industry is not a side effect of British Pakistani and Bangladeshi upward mobility. A paper from the Department for Education and Skills found that just one percent of Bangladeshis and seven percent of Pakistanis held “high managerial or professional” jobs. Professor Tariq Modood, a sociologist at the University of Bristol, has published research that supports this; he found that Pakistani and Bangladeshi weekly earnings being the lowest of all ethnic groups in Britain...
...Thinking back to the Government class on “American Public Policy” I took seven semesters ago, I am reminded that social changes seem to happen either from the bottom up, with individuals transmitting their shifting ideals to the politicians who represent them (think of King’s 1963 March on Washington), or from the top down, with politicians or courts making sometimes-progressive policies that individuals gradually accept with realigned opinions...
...spent too much time in Washington. This diminished stature is no coincidence, since most modern Cabinet aides - especially in the ultra-centralized Bush administration - have relatively unimportant jobs. John Walters and Elaine Chao have served in the Cabinet ever since Bush moved into the White House more than seven years ago, but not only is it unlikely that you can identify them as the drug czar and labor secretary, it's virtually impossible that you can identify anything they've ever done...