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...which ruled the half-island for 24 years, torched the country. The United Nations quickly moved in, restored peace and set about providing this traumatized country with the basics of nationhood, from a constitution to government ministries. By 2004, the UN administration was confident enough about East Timor's start-up democracy that it began pulling out troops...
...short, slight Parisian whose motorcade roared through Khartoum in mid-June was on familiar ground. Bernard Kouchner--France's new Foreign Minister--first went to Sudan three decades ago, during its bloody civil war, while running a little start-up relief group called Doctors Without Borders. With his former organization now a Nobel Laureate, Kouchner is back, trying to end the tragedy in Darfur, where government-supported militias have been rampaging for four years. He told TIME he was outraged by the death toll (upwards of 200,000, by some estimates), saying the world must "yell and make noise" about...
...Both Lugovoi and Kovtun deny any involvement in the murder. In April, Lugovoi even suggested they might even apply for assistance from the Litvinenko Justice Foundation, established by Marina Litvinenko, family friend Alex Goldfarb and the exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky, who supplied $1 million in start-up funds. The foundation aims to keep up the pressure for Litvinenko's killers to be brought to justice and to help seek compensation for the 200-odd people who came into contact with the polonium 210 . "We have borne considerable financial loss due to medical testing, which I am still undergoing," said Lugovoi...
...telling everyone is exactly the right way to do it,” says Ruml. “The idea of keeping it a secret is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”Another judge, Christopher A. Thorpe ’98, launched a start-up business as an undergraduate and has since returned to Harvard as a teaching fellow. Thorpe says that Check My Radar’s target market and stage in development helped their chances. “The space they are entering is large, and they are not too far along...
...story is a testament to perseverance almost bordering on naivete: when he sought financing, he had no capital nor a financial advisor, and went to bank after bank for a year and half seeking start-up money. "They kept saying no, but I knew it was just a matter of time, because I had a sound idea. It was the 14th bank that gave me the loan." Now celebrating half a decade, with three openings in 2006 alone, Cojean has been profitable since last year. Not bad for a guy who's never read a marketing book and claims...