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...August conferences—which will enroll undergraduates, MBA students, and young professionals??will have slightly different focuses. The Business Conference centers on analyzing economic and business trends in the region. At the Academic Conference later in the month, students will discuss broader academic, political, economic, and social issues in the region...
...majority of Iraqis, the future is bleak indeed. More than two million—most of them middle-class professionals??have left the country, with another two million internally displaced. This means that, for those who remain, the numbers of doctors, professors, university teachers, engineers and technicians available to them sinks by the day. Meanwhile, central government has more or less ceased to exist, leaving the provision of social services to local sectarian strong-men and their militias who allocate these services on a mainly religio-political basis. In short, most Iraqis now live in localities governed...
Porter will be joined on Romney’s global competitiveness group by a number of business professionals??including honorary co-chairs William B. Harrison, Jr., who is the former chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and Meg Whitman, president and CEO of eBay. Whitman is an HBS graduate...
...nationalities and from different firms. About 4,600 serve in various “combat” roles, such as personal bodyguards for important officials or driving and protecting vehicular convoys.By far the largest and most well known private security contractor is Blackwater USA. “Security professionals?? is the term that Blackwater prefers when describing its employees, many of whom are former special operations personnel from U.S. military branches. However, critics often refer to these professionals as modern-day mercenaries; soldiers-for-hire who retired or are cherry-picked from the military by Blackwater and firms...
College athletes are today disparaged as “professionals?? even if they don’t violate the compensation technicalities. If they train hard to become skilled, they are dismissed as “pros.” Being a good athlete is fine, but there is something wrong with becoming a very good athlete. Superb Harvard athletes are suspected of not being what former Princeton president William G. Bowen calls “regular students” in “Reclaiming the Game,” his indictment of intercollegiate athletics at selective colleges...