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...band betraying their punk credentials are nothing new - it says so on page 113 of The Clash, their first official autobiography. In the words of front man Joe Strummer, "fanzine Sniffin' Glue wrote 'Punk Rock died the day the Clash signed to Columbia' [in 1977]." In reality, mainstream success didn't kill their principles: as the band recounts, when their week-long residency at Bond's Casino in New York City was oversold, they stayed on and played 17 shows until every ticket holder had seen them live. Filled with such details, the book erases any cynicism about...
...notion of using technology to gauge the potential for entrepreneurial success was pioneered by Klinger, who worked with a similar screening program in South Africa last year while completing his doctoral dissertation. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...story, "Aid Org Nets Google Grant," stated that Bailey Klinger, a fellow at the Center for International Development, pioneered the notion of using technology to gauge the potential for entrepreneurial success. In fact, the technology was pioneered by both Klinger and Harvard Kennedy School professor Asim ljaz Khwaja...
...Factors such as urban design, land usage, and social equity all occur in tandem and it is difficult to disentangle them,” he said. “Could I predict, right now, whether Harvard’s current plan will be social failure or an absolute success? Absolutely...
...Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, however, is fighting in Arizona in an attempt to protect gay marriage's sole Election Day success story. They've been involved in California too, though Wilfore says things there could go either way, in part because it's unclear what impact Senator Barack Obama's popularity in the state will have on the gay-marriage vote. Blacks and Hispanics, she says, are likely to vote with conservatives on gay marriage, but young people of all backgrounds tend to vote the other way. Which group will prove dominant is anyone's guess, she says...