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...sellers, they are redeveloping the middle market, a segment once thought lost forever in the crush between the high and low end. "Both JCPenney and Kohl's have come to understand what their shoppers expect: great prices every day, ease of shopping and an exciting store," says Wendy Liebmann, founder of WSL Strategic Retail, a consultancy that publishes quarterly surveys on how Americans shop. "They're working hard to address the needs of the core, Middle America shopper...
...have been strengthened and professionalized. But activist lawyers who try to take advantage of these developments still face enormous obstacles. Many courts simply refuse to take certain cases. "If the subject is sensitive or new, most judges will just decide they don't want the hassle," says Guo Jianmei, founder of the Peking University Center for Women's Law and Legal Services, one of China's first legal-aid NGOs. Even when they do take such cases, judges are often instructed how to rule by Communist Party-controlled supervisory organs called politics and law committees, or simply pressured...
...released the Philadelphia Consensus Statement on University Policies for Health Related Innovations, which calls upon universities to adopt research and technology transfer policies that promote global health. The growing list of signatories include Harold Varmus and three other Nobel laureates; Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor and Co-Founder of Partners in Health; Jim Kim, Director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Center for Health and Human Rights and Former Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of HIV/AIDS; and Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. This increasing support from both inside...
...Leadership is not a line or trajectory, it’s a spiral staircase,” Lindsay N. Hyde ’04 told audience members at the Breakthrough Leadership conference hosted by the Women’s Leadership Network (WLN) on Saturday. The founder and executive director of the non-profit Strong Women, Strong Girls, Inc. (SWSG), Hyde delivered the keynote address at the event, which was aimed at helping women break through a “glass ceiling” limiting their leadership opportunities. Hyde spoke about her winding staircase to business success—she first...
Father Richard John Neuhaus is a Catholic priest and founder of the journal First Things...