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...other side of it - and I think this is much more important - is the way in which the University of Chicago was used a tool of U.S. foreign policy. That's why I concentrate so much on Friedman and the University of Chicago because in the 1950s and '60s there was a strategy at the U.S. State Department to try to challenge the rise of economic nationalism in the developing world, particularly in Latin America. A move to the left in Latin America that was threatening the interests of U.S. foreign multinationals in countries like Argentina, and a sort...
...Positive T-shirt may be a useful tool in a place like South Africa, where huge numbers of those living there are infected yet efforts at awareness of treatment and prevention of the disease are stymied by fear of the attached stigma. But at a tolerant place such as Harvard, stigma and silence are not the problem. Community-wide, most of us have already acknowledged that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is devastating; our focus ought to be on the means by which we can marshal our University’s vast intellectual and monetary resources to bring aid to places where...
...Lloc and has opened a "new Swedish identity" restaurant, Mathias Dahlgren, in Stockholm's Grand Hotel. Significantly, Nordic chefs are looking not only in their own backyards but also to one another for inspiration and to their governments for support. The Nordic Council of Ministers, recognizing the marketing tool that gastronomy can be, enthusiastically promotes the interests of new Nordic food as official policy. Pekka Terava of Helsinki's Olo restaurant points out that while each Nordic country is small, the region has a combined population of almost 25 million people. When it comes to cultural influence, there is strength...
...market. "I've had so many moments of falling in love with fashion. For me it's empowering, it's beautiful, it's creative. And truly that's what I wish for every single reader of this magazine: that they learn to employ fashion. It's an important tool. I don't know who said, 'Clothes make the man,' but I'm sure he wasn't lying...
Those that do are eliminating the financial uncertainty. Darling says some young, growing companies see retiree health benefits as a useful recruiting tool. "It's back on the table," she says. But no company is willing to make open-ended promises. "They'll say, We'll give you an allowance or a fixed subsidy--as long as we can afford it--but we're not going to give you retiree health benefits," Darling explains. "There's a big difference." It's a shift similar to the one that transformed retirement, replacing the defined lifetime benefit of a pension with...