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Newman has extensive administrative experience in business and academia in addition to her political background. Newman has served as interim dean of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire and is currently managing director of The CommerceGroup, a strategic communications consulting firm she founded...
...only thing that detonated was a debt bomb. The Marshall model didn't work in places like Mozambique and Peru. These countries were missing the vital social infrastructure, to say nothing of the legal and business background, that sped Europe's regeneration. By the late 1990s, the debt of these countries had reached absurd proportions. Today, for instance, every man, woman and child in Guinea-Bissau owes global lenders $964--a problem for a nation where per capita income is $160 a year. At last year's G-8 economic summit in Germany, the world's richest countries adopted...
That's one reason Drayton in 1980 founded Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (named for a benevolent Indian Emperor from the 3rd century B.C.). Its approach grew out of Drayton's background as a student activist at Harvard, traveler through India and consultant for nearly a decade for McKinsey & Co. Ashoka started by raising "seed capital" mostly from small donors, including three family foundations belonging to Bill Golden, Mark Lipkin and John Klingenstein. Drayton was named a MacArthur fellow from 1984 to 1989, which gave him more time and money to develop Ashoka. By 1991 its budget was $2.2 million...
...presidency--is stale. But he has new evidence to support it, including on-the-record stuff from Marla Crider, a onetime Clinton girlfriend who clashed with Hillary in 1974 and has never discussed the situation publicly. And Oppenheimer has uncovered new material about Hillary's family background--an astounding amount, given that close to a dozen biographers have gone down this road before...
Geyser University Professor emeritus Henry Rosovsky said that Corporation member and former University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray will provide a strong academic background for the search committee...