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...Dixon Osburn, the co-founder and executive director of SLDN, accepted the award on the organization’s behalf, saying that lifting the military’s ban would mark a milestone in gay rights reminiscent of the civil rights struggle...
...canned speech his office had prepared for him,” Mechling said. But “if I were to have 10 more speeches, I would encourage [Bloomberg] to address those issues a bit more directly.” Bloomberg, a graduate of Harvard Business School and founder of the financial software service company Bloomberg L.P., drew many parallels between business and government during the exclusive ceremony. “Business is a dog-eat-dog world and government’s just worse,” Bloomberg said. “In business you have to build consensus...
...event marked the second time Lambda has given its leadership award to a group battling the military’s prohibition on openly gay servicemembers. Last year, the group recognized Boston College Law School professor Kent Greenfield, the founder of a coalition of law schools that challenged the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment. The law requires universities to grant the military access to their campuses in order to receive federal funds...
...kind? They chose the latter path, despite the dollar signs dangling from YouTube. Given the fortunes Zennstrom and Friis had already accumulated, they could afford to gamble on the venture, which they have largely funded on their own. "They're cutting edge, passionate and aggressive," says Lucas Mann, co-founder of MusicNation, an artist-development company with a music-video-contest channel on Joost. "They're cyberpunks...
...Tompkins, 63, was the founder of the North Face and Esprit clothing lines during the 1970s and 80s, which annually sold hundreds of millions of dollars of clothes worldwide ("Consumer items nobody needed," Tompkins ruefully says now). All that changed when he became involved in radical environmental projects - what he calls his "restoration work," returning native animal and plant species to the nation-sized swaths of property he owns. He and his wife Kristine McDivitt, a former CEO of the Patagonia clothing retail chain and wealthy in her own right, believe in deep ecology, a severe branch of the movement...