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...Much charity in the region is still disbursed as it has been in the past. For example, Hong Kong's foundations tend to be family run, with little openness. "It's based on relationships," says Edith Terry, author of a 2005 report on the city's charity sector for the Asia Foundation. Organizations with promising ideas for philanthropic projects can't easily connect with the family foundations, she says. "In that environment, it's inevitable that some worthy ideas are going to be missed." But Terry points out that as younger family members begin to replace their elders in managerial...
...caper. Still, there was no reason to think it would not learn to cater to its new share-owning constituency. Today, around 1 in 9 voters is a Telstra shareholder; it's a broad group, to be sure, but like a majority of asset-rich Australians, these T-people tend to vote for the John Howard?led Coalition. Just last week, a survey by Roy Morgan Research showed that the government has very strong support among its joint-venture partners in the telco: 71% of Telstra shareholders surveyed supported the Howard government's management of the economy, while only...
...admit that surfing is our favorite time waster, according to a joint survey by Salary.com and AOL. A Northeast technology company found that several employees who frequently complained of overwork spent all day on MySpace.com Information-technology departments routinely receive automatic Web reports on what sites employees visit; they tend to review them only if there's a red flag...
...well as more established, steady firms--and the latter are the sort of stock that quant investors often end up with. That's because their process, which usually includes hypothesis-testing an idea before it's added to the computer model, relies on historical data, and growth companies tend to work because of what has yet to happen. The fabulous returns of the past few years are "a rare occurrence," says Daniel Celeghin, an associate director at Casey, Quirk. "I wouldn't bet on it happening again anytime soon...
...voters were far more interested in staying out of foreign wars than in understanding what those fights were all about. For the past 30 years, Americans have clearly preferred Governors in the White House--four of the past five Presidents had been state chief executives--and Governors tend to be thin on foreign policy experience. Presidential candidates have needed detailed policies on taxes and welfare and social security. So what if they didn't know the name of the Prime Minister of Malaysia...