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...work is part of a newer, more businesslike style of philanthropy: "A market-based approach to giving," says Julie Juergens, director of Stanford University's Center for Social Innovation. Acumen works with local companies on business plans, then helps them make, distribute and market products and services for the poor, from drip-irrigation kits in India to generic-drug shops in Kenya. The underlying idea is that if you help build financially stable companies that sell things poor people need--clean water, housing, health care--then self-sufficiency and a better standard of living follow...
Patricia Miranda, the bronze medalist at Athens in the 48-kg class, says her matches against males, which continued through Stanford, were invaluable to her development as an athlete and a woman. Wrestling offers "tremendous benefit for the female population," she says. "Girls learn the value of hard work, accountability and self-worth, things you can't get from magazines, boys or other girls." Although she won just once in her college career, she maintains that the only way for women to gain parity in the sport is through continued access to matches. If that means wrestling boys...
Hoxby confirmed last night that she is seriously considering an offer from Stanford University, but she has made no final decision...
...year, the list shrunk to less than a tenth of the lucky 400. Clinton and Gore struck out, but dozens of Harvard outsiders were still in consideration. Condoleezza Rice, the former Stanford provost who was then helping George W. Bush to secure his presidency; Richard D. Klausner, then the director of the National Cancer Institute; and Nobel laureate Harold E. Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan all made...
...State, and Klausner left the National Cancer Institute for a top spot in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Just this month, Sullivan accepted a prestigious one-year stint as counsel to a top California trial law firm, where she will build an appellate practice before returning to Stanford Law. She is rumored to be favored for a Supreme Court appointment...