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Ben Stiller is working with Save The Children, the leading organization creating lasting change for children in need, to provide critical education programs for children in Cévérine, Haiti. Your support will help build classrooms, provide school supplies, and employ teachers. Additionally, funds will establish a consistent clean water source, help local farmers grow 500 acres…
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An interesting article on WSJ.com: An Old-School Social Network – The Wednesday 10 – WSJ.com. Before there was Facebook, there was the Wednesday 10. In 1957, as men in their late 20s, they began meeting—initially over breakfast, then over dinners held at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel or at the Harvard Club in midtown Manhattan. Few were…
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Angelsoft was founded in 2004 with a simple idea: to bring the power of collaboration technologies to the professional early-stage investment industry. Today, with over 19,000 early stage investors using state-of-the-art, online tools to manage their investments through over 450 venture funds and angel groups, Angelsoft’s platform has become a vital, global ecosystem supporting serious…
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Storage plays a key role in moving towards an energy-efficient future. However, energy storage is bound by technical challenges that have proven tricky to overcome. Listen to four experts in the field discuss the current state of energy storage technology, and where they think the industry is headed. Moderator: Frank DiSalvo, John A. Newman Professor…
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The NY Times has some alternative plot lines for the upcoming Wall Street 2 movie from Oliver Stone. My favorite is the microfinance-related plot – Bud Fox doing microfinance in some tropical paradise, only to have Gordon Gekko swoop in and buy poor villagers’ beachside huts at pennies on the dollar to demolish them and…
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Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” during Obama’s primetime speech. Turns out, he is the one who voted to provide tax payer money to illegal immigrants according to congressional records… On Wednesday night, Rep. Joe Wilson [R, SC-2], shouted “You lie!” at President Obama when he said that the healthcare bill would not cover illegal immigrants.…
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Vice President Biden mourned the 9/11 attacks with New Yorkers on a rainy Friday morning… White House blog on the 9/11 memorial
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As VP of the Latin American Business Club at the Tepper School of Business, I used to recommend all students (Latino and non) to attend the annual NSHMBA Conference and Career Fair. It is an excellent way to meet recruiters from the nation’s top firms and practice your firm handshakes, elevator pitches, and of course,…
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Was researching information on the latest healthcare bill and came across this very cool website: OpenCongress.com. OpenCongress brings together official government data with news and blog coverage, social networking, public participation tools, and more to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress. OpenCongress is a free, open-source, not-for-profit, and non-partisan web resource…
David Mantilla 