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...sooner left Searchlight than he appeared at a fundraiser in Las Vegas featuring Al Gore as the keynote speaker. The former Veep, who ran for President twice, takes Palin seriously. From the day McCain plucked her from obscurity, Gore has seen her as a potent, raw political talent who should not be underestimated. He didn't mention Palin by name in his remarks at the Reid event, but he did condemn Republicans who rail "against everything without any sensible policy prescription" alternatives...
That investment is showing some positive signs. Handset sales began slowly improving in late 2009 as Jha set about changing Motorola's 9-to-5 corporate culture and wooed top talent away from competitors. He scrapped much of the 2009 product portfolio in favor of new smart-phone offerings, all running Google's Android operating platform. (Get the latest gadget news and reviews at Techland.com...
...split also means his charge will be able to keep the strong cash flow. "We will reinvest some of that money in expanded innovation, and we can consider ways to grow the firm organically or potentially through acquisitions," Brown says. "It will also be easier to attract world-class talent to a world-class firm rather than one in transition." Perhaps two heads will prove, after all, to be better than...
...progress on diversity since 2005. She cites in her message a principle adopted by two of the task forces convened in the wake of the Summers remarks. “A diverse faculty is a strong faculty because it emerges from the broadest possible consideration of available talent,” Faust wrote, quoting their conclusions. “The development, recruitment and support of outstanding faculty...provide the essential foundation of a great university...
...tend to assume that kids (and adults) know how to achieve success. If they don't get there, it's for lack of effort - or talent. Sometimes that's true. But a lot of the time, people are just flying blind. John List, an economist at the University of Chicago, has noticed the disconnect in his own education experiments. He explains the problem to me this way: "I could ask you to solve a third-order linear partial differential equation," he says. "A what?" I ask. "A third-order linear partial differential equation," he says. "I could offer...