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...Berlusconi,” Bono said. “They don’t like me,” he added in an Italian accent. Bono also emphasized the importance of the G8 summit, applauding the progress and the $50 billion increase of development. Talking about the percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) given to aid, Bono said that the United States only gives around .17 percent, falling far short of his aim of .7 percent from all developed countries. “No Americans know this,” Bono said. “In a recent poll, Americans...
...responsibility should be ceded to an independent group of administrators and students.“Perhaps the people that would want to serve on a programming committee might be better suited to [plan events] than elected members of the UC,” Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 writes in an e-mail.And the UC seems to agree.The UC’s recently-tabled amendment to dissolve its Campus Life Committee (CLC) and replace it with an autonomous, directly-elected Social Events Committee (SEC) responsible for planning campus-wide social events indicates a growing sentiment...
...UC’s role in social programming has also come under question from University Hall. “I think the UC should give some consideration as to whether it should be in the campus life business,” said Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 in a meeting with the council early in November...
...people know the difference between a great idea and a great business model as intimately as Gross. As the founder of Idealab, the technology incubator, Gross has become a multimillionaire by funding such Internet start-ups as CitySearch, now owned by Ticketmaster, and Overture Services, the Web marketing firm that Yahoo! bought in 2003 for $1.6 billion. Idealab productions that, painfully, seemed great at the time--Petsmart.com and eToys.com- failed in two of the most dramatic flameouts in the dot-bomb collapse...
There's always Plan B, a daunting cosmic hurdle. Says Gross: "I don't know if we can get everyone to run in the direction of the Earth's spin to stop it from turning...