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...York City last month, a nonprofit group called Women's World Banking organized a three-day conference at Goldman Sachs that the hosts dubbed "Wall Street Meets the World of Microfinance." As a subset of socially responsible investing, microlending has a compelling "double bottom line": make a profit and alleviate global poverty. Pension funds, university endowments and large corporations have been sniffing around for opportunities, but all--understandably--want to see good track records first. That's starting to happen. Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's have begun either to rate microfinance transactions like bond issuances or to rate...
...depends from board to board. It involves a subset of the 60 to 70 members discussing what goes in a particular board’s content for the issue. It’s a collective decision on what will be consistent for the content for the whole issue...
...RIAA subpoenas that will force schools to disclose student information belie a more fundamental flaw in the association’s method for eliminating file sharing. It is profoundly unfair to target and punish a small subset of the offending population, hoping to make examples of them and scare others away from file sharing. And even if this were justifiable, it is not an effective deterrent. When the initial announcement of the lawsuits against file sharers was made in June, user traffic on Kazaa, one of the most popular platforms for sharing music files, was lower for 10 hours...
...jogging artfully, Dean running artlessly--that's pretty much where the race stands in New Hampshire these days. There are other candidates and other states. Congressman Dick Gephardt has support in Iowa and could easily win the nomination, especially if Kerry and Dean murder each other over the same subset of white, well-educated voters. And so Kerry vs. Dean has become the preliminary bout before the Democrats' main event. It is a struggle that revolves around a single issue that mixes style and substance. The issue is Iraq. The style question is, How angry should Democrats be about what...
...jogging artfully, Dean running artlessly-that's pretty much where the race stands in New Hampshire these days. There are other candidates and other states. Congressman Dick Gephardt has support in Iowa and could easily win the nomination, especially if Kerry and Dean murder each other over the same subset of white, well-educated voters. And so Kerry vs. Dean has become the preliminary bout before the Democrats' main event. It is a struggle that revolves around a single issue that mixes style and substance. The issue is Iraq. The style question is, How angry should Democrats be about what...