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Wendy Kopp didn't sit back and say, "How can I find something that will channel my passion?" She built something. The ultimate entrepreneurial act is creating a movement. Wendy Kopp is on a 50-year mission to transform education in this country. And she's doing it by creating an army of people who have been in classrooms, who can say, "I know firsthand what the problems are." She's demonstrating the idea that entrepreneurship is about an idea more than just an organization...
...doting nonagenarian, López sang the praises of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. But she also recalled her opposition to Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime and grappled with contemporary political debates ranging from Basque separatism to Iran's nuclear ambitions. Her ingenuity and lively writing won her a sit-down in 2008 with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero...
Still, there is inevitably a global dimension to tracking bulk rates. "It's the price for moving raw materials, which sit at the beginning of the production chain," Penn explains. "We can say that the complete lockup of world trade we saw at the end of last year has eased considerably." Penn concludes that his index "is useful to look at, but it's not the holy grail...
...undergraduate experience since the 1930s. The College’s House system—a set of 12 residences spanning Dewolfe to Garden Streets, and potentially the Charles River into neighboring Allston one day—are a hub of both academic and social activity. Tenured faculty sit at the helm, supported by contingents of alumni and affiliates from varying generations and trades, all intermingling with a few hundred undergraduates...
...defense and prosecutor,†he said.The representative a student selects will also be able to have some influence on proceedings in front of the board.“Right now if you get Ad Boarded and you bring a non-member of the board, they sit behind you and can’t speak or participate,†Sundquist said.With the committee’s changes in place, advisors will be able to speak on behalf of students or ask for a pause in the proceedings to allow for a break from what Wong described as sometimes...