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...same thinking lies behind Coda Automotive. The joint venture began after Lishen started producing electric batteries for Miles Electric Vehicles, a small-scale startup founded by former Ralph Lauren executive and philanthropist Miles Rubin. Coda Automotive, Rubin's next project, takes that relationship a step further. The Coda sedan (the body is made by another Chinese auto company, Hafei Motor) will run for about $45,000 when it goes on sale in California in 2010. Coda expects to sell about 2,700 cars in the first year, with an annual sales target of around 20,000. For Coda's Czinger...
...able to work efficiently and independently—following deadlines, organizing lists, and thinking through problems instead of allowing them to sort themselves out, for example—then who will do that sort of necessary work for the African people? The evangelical missionary? The corrupt politician? The outside philanthropist? The perhaps too-eager Harvard student? Whomever it happens to be, it won’t be the Africans themselves...
...about 9:30 on a warm June evening, after Booker has finished his radio show and is on his way to sell Newark to yet another philanthropist, I give him the ultimate no-win task. Grade yourself. Like any other good pol, Booker dodges. "It's very hard to feel you're doing an A performance when you still have a 12-year-old who gets shot," Booker says, recalling a recent incident (luckily, the boy has recovered). "But I do feel more hope and optimism than I've ever had in my life that we can get there...
...Israeli security barrier surrounding much of the West Bank, there was an added bonus to the trip: it was the first time many of the kids had seen the Mediterranean sea, which shimmered in the Spring sunshine. The kids even coaxed the event's benefactor, Sheri Arison, a philanthropist and probably Israel's wealthiest woman, onto the dance floor. (See pictures of Israel's recent war in Gaza...
...open, she said it would also be in the Square. Alo opened in 2000 after Seven Stars Bookstore vacated the 58 JFK St. location above Shay’s Pub & Wine Bar. The space is owned by the trust of Geneviève McMillan, a former Cambridge resident and philanthropist who passed away last year. Like other Harvard Square owners who have been recently forced to close their stores due to their inability to pay rent, Santa Maria attributed Alo’s lackluster sales to the recession. “I mean, we’ve got an economy...