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...moved on to one of the hardest jobs in publishing--advertising manager at the newly launched Ms. magazine--in 1972. "It was a hellishly hard sell for its advertising team," she writes. The magazine's outspoken feminist message and its famous co-founder, Gloria Steinem, were too much for some ad buyers. "Gloria was a lightning rod anywhere she went," Black writes. When Steinem went with her on sales calls, "people were leaning out of their offices to see what these freaks and weirdos looked like...
...official story of how health-care reform was conceived in Massachusetts could hardly have been less inspiring--or promising. In the earliest days after Mitt Romney's election in 2002, goes the tale, the new Governor of Massachusetts sat down in his office with his old friend Tom Stemberg, founder of the Staples office-supply chain. "There are lots of things you can do to make this state better," Stemberg told him. "But if you really want to make a difference in the long term, you should fix the health-care system." Romney did not exactly jump at the prospect...
...prevent fresh political groups from emerging - far more important in developing nations than in stable, two-party political systems. In Bangladesh, Sheik Hasina Wazed and her chief rival, Khaleda Zia, both of whom hail from political dynasties, have swatted down past attempts to form new parties. When Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus tried to launch a party earlier this year, many Bangladeshi politicians, including those from Hasina's party, quickly attacked...
Woolhandler, who is also the co-founder of the advocacy group Physicians for a National Health Program, said she sees the studies’ findings as bolstering the case for a universal health care program...
...orders have been booked so far. The goal is to be turning out a million laptops a month by mid-2008. That avalanche, the critics will say, better start rolling soon. But Negroponte doesn't seem to mind the doubters. Four years ago, he ran into Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell computer makers at the World Economic Forum and told him - again - about his concept for making inexpensive computers for all the world's poor children. Recalled Negroponte: "He said: 'Nicholas, you tell me that every time I see you. But you know what? It's impossible.'" With...