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...Next Step In june, I moved out of my day-to-day role at Microsoft to spend more time on the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I'll be talking with political leaders about how their governments can increase aid for the poor, make it more effective and bring in new partners through creative capitalism. I'll also talk with CEOs about what their companies can do. One idea is to dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that affect the people who have been left behind. This kind of contribution takes the brainpower that...
...years after its 1968 Broadway debut, when the touring company came to San Francisco. I was a student at Berkeley, and I would occasionally take a break from dodging tear gas in Sproul Plaza to usher for plays in the city. It was a good deal: students could spend half an hour helping fat cats find their way to their orchestra seats and, after the curtain went up, take any empty seat for free. Except that the night I saw Hair, the house was full, so the ushers had to sit on the aisle steps in the balcony. Which turned...
...lengthy interview in his office. A 6-ft. 1-in. (1.85 m) former Dartmouth football star with a permanently hoarse voice and a direct manner, Paulson doesn't go out of his way to be ingratiating. He does go out of his way to keep the conversation going. "I spend a lot of time on the phone," he says. "I find I assimilate information by talking to people and getting inputs from many people. I always said to my kids, 'Don't assume.' I say to the people here, 'Don't assume. Pick up the phone and call and talk...
...things he proposes rests on loaves-and-fishes premises, especially the prospect of a Congress mesmerized into acquiescence on controversial issues like raising taxes to Clinton-era levels and closing corporate loopholes. But Obama's economic proposals - especially the $21 billion per year he wants to spend on alternative energy and infrastructure projects - represent an acknowledgment that the economic conversation has to change, that the old order faileth...
...when even the most rudimentary responsibilities of government have been neglected - like keeping up the country's infrastructure, and not just its roads and bridges but also its educational, energy, information and research infrastructures. "The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that we're going to have to spend $1.6 trillion over the next five years to rebuild our infrastructure," says Janet Kavinoky of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an organization not known for its radical-leftist leanings. "We've let things lapse for 20 years. The pipes, wires, asphalt, bridges and radar systems are old, and everything seems...