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Warren Buffet us looking around for someone to succeed him, eventually, as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. Since that company's main asset is Warren Buffett, it's an important choice. But Buffett told the Wall Street Journal recently that he doesn't care if the person in question is a college graduate...
What does launching satellites have to do with lifting Africans out of poverty? Just ask Robert Boroffice. He's the head of the space agency of Nigeria--yes, Nigeria--and he is convinced that space programs can succeed where Earth-bound projects have failed. Though blessed with vast oil reserves, Africa's most populous nation has been crippled by years of military rule and mismanagement. According to the World Bank, 70% of Nigerians live on less than...
...UC’s recent decision not to fund club sports in its final grant package brought to light an unfortunate reality: Many Harvard club sports teams are severely underfunded. The Department of Athletics, not the Undergraduate Council, is responsible for ensuring that these important teams exist and succeed. While we applaud the UC for its past attempts to better a bad state of affairs, it ultimately falls to the Department of Athletics to adequately fund club sports. Unless a club sport doesn’t need a coach, equipment, or travel—highly unlikely—it?...
...things because it's that operational level just below Bin Laden and Zawahiri that you care about the most. Is it a permanent kind of report card? No, because they're always going to try to reconstitute. The issue for them, of course, is the people who succeed, that layer that you've taken away, are never quite as good and the game is against them before they get as good. So, you know, that's the whole deal here...
...trips to Iraq, [Deputy Defense Secretary] Paul Wolfowitz told our senior man there, "You don't understand the policy of the U.S. government, and if you don't understand the policy, you are hardly in a position to collect the intelligence to help that policy succeed." It was an arrogant statement that masked a larger reality. In many cases we were not aware of what our own government was trying to do. The one thing we were certain of was that our warnings were falling on deaf ears...