May. 30, 2012

By DAVID BROOKS
Published: May 28, 2012

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By MELISSA CLARK
Published: May 22, 2012

May 29, 2012 | WSJ |by JENNIFER SMITH and ASHBY JONES

By EDUARDO PORTER
Published: May 29, 2012

May 30, 2012 | WSJ |By ALINA DIZIK.

While learning American idioms has always been challenging, texting, email and social networks have generated a tidal wave of new slang and abbreviations in English. It is difficult enough to decode "OMG" (Oh my God) "BFF" (best friends forever) and "GTG" (got to go), let alone understand why it's funny to call something a "fail" (but not a "failure").

"Nowadays, peppering our speech with nonstandard English is being a regular Joe," says Jason Riggle, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.

Getting comfortable with slang is essential for building relationships and communicating at work. For a manager, relying on formal English can create distance.

November 28, 2011 |: The New Yorker |by George Packer.

JOANNE KATES
From Saturday's Globe and Mail (includes correction)
Published Saturday, May. 26, 2012

David Sparling, PhD & Glen Snoek

Paul Waldie AND Jessica Leeder
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Published Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010

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Published Friday, Nov. 26, 2010

Paul Waldie
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Published Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010

PAUL WALDIE
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010
In 2005, Mr. Menzies agreed to return home and become a co-owner of Wigmore Farms. He came with one condition – the farm’s business model had to change.

Instead of growing crops and then finding a buyer, Mr. Menzies said the farm had to start looking for customers first. The typical farm model is “backward to everything I ever did in the engineering and technology side,” he said in an interview. “We looked for a need and we filled it. And where we found that need was from the world.”

May 29, 2012

What Couples Want to Know But Are Too Shy to Ask

By ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN

May 28, 2012| WSJ | By GERALD F. SEIB.

The Buzz Around Portman, the Un-Palin

February 8, 2005 | WSJ | Amory B. Lovins,CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
Snowmass, Colo.

May 23, 2012 | Mesh Conference 2012 | Mike McDerment interviewing DJ Patil

Brian Milner

From Monday's Globe and Mail

Last updated Sunday, May. 27, 2012

May. 28, 2012 | Globe and Mail | ADRIAN MORROW.

Los Angeles Times wire reports

May 25, 2012

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By: Paul Dunay Published: May 25, 2012

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Published: May 26, 2012

James W. Breyer, a partner at Accel Partners, the venture capital firm. He serves on the boards of five public companies, and four of them are experiencing high-profile problems.

Among those companies are Dell, the embattled computer maker; the News Corporation, which is battling its phone-hacking scandal; and Wal-Mart Stores, which is under scrutiny after accusations of bribery in Mexico. He also is on the board of BrightCove, a company that provides video-hosting services, and that went public last February.

So this Mr. Breyer is a busy man. And we’re not even counting his day job at Accel.

May 25, 2012, 7:00 am
A Harvard Professor Analyzes Why Start-Ups Fail
By JESSICA BRUDER

May 23 2012

By DWIGHT GARNER
Published: May 27, 2012

by Robert D. Kaplan

May 25 2012 | The Atlantic | David Rohde.

Last week, 41 American companies received awards at a little-noticed White House ceremony. Despite the recession, the companies -- most of them small and medium-size businesses -- have experienced rapid growth and handsome profits in recent years. And they've beaten Chinese, Indian and European competitors at their own game.

How? By selling to a burgeoning global middle class expected to grow by 1 billion people -- primarily in Asia -- over the next decade...The awards -- and the places these companies have found customers -- show that the gravest threat to America's prosperity isn't the rise of middle classes overseas. It is Washington's blind adherence to dated ideologies that handicap our innovative small businesses. The world is changing, but Washington is not.

1992 | Ivey | Peter Chiaramonte

Obama’s campaign right now feels as though it were made in a test tube by political consultants. It’s not the Obama we admire. Rather than pounding the country with “I have a plan” — a rebuilding stimulus plus Simpson-Bowles — which would be an Obama-like message of hope, leadership and unity that would put him on higher ground that Romney can’t reach because of the radical G.O.P. base, Obama is selling poll-tested wedge issues. I don’t think it’s a winner for him or America.

By NICK BILTON
| May 27, 2012,

by CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: May 25, 2012

February 3, 2004 | WSJ |By DONALD H. RUMSFELD.

Our troops have performed magnificently -- despite the significant increase in operational tempo of the global war on terror, which has increased the demand on the force.

Managing that demand is one of the Department of Defense's top priorities. Doing so means being clear about the problem, and fashioning the most appropriate solutions. Much of the current increase in demand on the force is most likely a temporary spike caused by the deployment of nearly 115,000 troops to Iraq. We do not expect to have 115,000 troops permanently deployed in any one campaign....That should tell us something. It tells us that the real problem is not necessarily the size of our active and reserve military components, per se, but rather how forces have been managed, and the mix of capabilities at our disposal....Army Chief of Staff Gen. Pete Schoomaker compares the problem to a barrel of rainwater on which the spigot is placed too high up. The result: when you turn it on, it only draws water off the top, while the water at the bottom is not accessible or used. Our real problem is that the way our total force is presently managed, we have to use many of the same people over and over again. In Gen. Schoomaker's analogy, the answer is not a bigger barrel of more than the current 2.6 million men and women available, but to move the spigot down, so more of the potentially available troops are accessible, usable, and available to defend our nation.

June 7, 2000| WSJ | Paul Craig Roberts.

October 14, 2003| WSJ | By HAROLD BLOOM.

I have been rereading Edmund Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," which I recommend to anyone in search of wisdom relevant at this moment. Gibbon attributes decline and fall to many varied factors, but the characters of specific Roman emperors -- good, bad and indifferent -- are viewed by him as crucial in the self-destructiveness of Rome. It is not at all clear whether we are already in decline: Bread is still available for most and circuses for all. Still, there are troubling omens, economic and diplomatic, and a hint or two from Gibbon may be of considerable use.

September 2005 | ATLANTIC MAGAZINE |By Sridhar Pappu

Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, loves data, hates waste, and reveres Dwight Eisenhower. He's also the Next Big Thing in the Republican Party. But can anyone so clean-cut, so pure of character, and (by gosh!) so square overcome the "two Ms"—Mormonism and Massachusetts—to be our next president?

Apr. 14, 2003 | TIME |By Pete Davies .As scientists race to unravel the mysteries of SARS, one issue high on their agenda will be the likelihood that the new virus is a cross-species transmission in which the virus has mutated from its animal carrier so that it can infect humans, who have no immunity from the alien invader. The most obvious examples of this are HIV and influenza, and the latter disease has disturbing parallels with SARS. The flu virus lives usually in the stomachs of waterfowl, and the two are co-adapted — the birds don't get sick. It is widely believed among virologists, however, that with the domestication of ducks in southern China 2,000-3,000 years ago, flu jumped species.

This region has always had high densities of people living in close proximity to large populations of pigs and chickens. It's not known in which order, but with this ready pool of targets near at hand, flu has transferred from ducks to all three species — and once established, it can swap back and forth between its different new hosts with devastating effect. The virus survives and thrives by constantly mutating — so that just as our immune systems recognize and kill off one strain, a new one emerges against which our defenses don't work. Most are minor adaptations, the product of genetic "drift." Every now and then, however, something more dramatic occurs: a genetic "shift." Also termed "a reassortment event," this is the creation of a wholly new strain with genetic elements taken from viruses found in different species.

April 22, 2003 | WSJ | By STEPHEN MORSE.
SAR was not the first such outbreak, and it will not be the last. Before SARS, human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, rose from obscurity in the 1970s and '80s to become a global public health crisis, leaving millions of orphans in its wake. Outbreaks of ebola, of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, and of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in food and water have also appeared in recent years. And, of course, the flu still has surprises in store, such as the avian ("bird flu") strains that have infected humans in recent years.

March 28, 2003 | WSJ | By ERIC ORMSBY.

February 3, 2004 | WSJ | By PETER WALDMAN | Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
A Historian's Take on Islam Steers U.S. in Terrorism Fight
Bernard Lewis's Blueprint -- Sowing Arab Democracy -- Is Facing a Test in Iraq....Bernard Lewis, Princeton University historian, author of more than 20 books on Islam and the Middle East, is the intellectual author of what is referred to as the the Lewis Doctrine. Though never debated in Congress or sanctified by presidential decree, Mr. Lewis's diagnosis of the Muslim world's malaise, and his call for a U.S. military invasion to seed democracy in the Mideast, have helped define the boldest shift in U.S. foreign policy in 50 years. The occupation of Iraq put the doctrine to the test--and it failed...."The Lewis Doctrine posits no such rational foe. It envisions not a clash of interests or even ideology, but of cultures. In the Mideast, the font of the terrorism threat, America has but two choices, "both disagreeable," Mr. Lewis has written: "Get tough or get out." His celebration, rather than shunning, of toughness is shared by several other influential U.S. Mideast experts, including Fouad Ajami and Richard Perle.

A central Lewis theme is that Muslims have had a chip on their shoulders since 1683, when the Ottomans failed for the second time to sack Christian Vienna. "Islam has been on the defensive" ever since, Mr. Lewis wrote in a 1990 essay called "The Roots of Muslim Rage," where he described a "clash of civilizations," a concept later popularized by Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington. For 300 years, Mr. Lewis says, Muslims have watched in horror and humiliation as the Christian civilizations of Europe and North America have overshadowed them militarily, economically and culturally."

May 20, 2004 | WSJ |By IRSHAD MANJI.

"Muslim reaction to the beheading of Nicholas Berg tells us a lot about what's happening in the Islamic world. More than that, it reveals what's not happening, yet needs to, if Muslims are going to transcend the intellectual and moral crisis in which we find ourselves today."...."Which means religion is no innocent bystander in the violence perpetrated by Muslims. Just as moderate Christians and Jews acknowledge the nasty side of their holy texts, modern Muslims ought to come clean about how our sacred script informs terror."...Moderate Muslims, like moderate Christians and Jews, shouldn't be afraid to ask: What if our holy script isn't perfect? What if it's inconsistent, even contradictory? What if it's riddled with human biases? As an illiterate trader, Prophet Mohammed relied on scribes to jot down the words he heard from God. Sometimes the Prophet himself had an agonizing go at deciphering what he heard. What's wrong with saying so?

What's wrong with not saying so is this: If we Muslims can't bring ourselves to question the peaceable perfection of the Koran, then we can't effectively question the actions that flow from certain readings of it. All we'll be doing is chanting that the terrorists broke the rules, without coming to terms with where they got their concept of "the rules" in the first place. In which case, we'll only be sanitizing what we don't want to hear.

November 4, 2005 | Globe & Mail Page A17 | By NADER HASHEMI. The answer to the Iranian President's vitriolic remarks lies in the enduring legacy of European colonialism.

June 2012 | Report on Business Magazine | Steve Brearton

May 25, 2012 | Report on Business Magazine | By DOUG STEINER.

May 25, 2012 | |Christine Sismondo. All about Pimms.

JUNE 2012 | REPORT ON BUSINESS Magazine pg. 59 | Christina Christoforou.

May 25, 2012 | Report on Business Magazine | Nancy Won

BIG TROUBLE WITH BIG AG

Eric Reguly's column criticizing Bill Gates's recent advocacy of high-tech, genetically modified crops to combat food shortages generated much discussion among readers. One who's worked as a food and nutrition consultant with UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank said: On one of my trips to the wheat growing areas of Egypt, I found that the farmers use growing and storage practices which can best be described as medieval. A local official has estimated that between 30%-50% of the wheat and maize crops are wasted because of poor harvesting and storage techniques. If Egypt were able to have decent post-harvest handling systems, they would reduce their imports of wheat by about 30%. Another suggested that Bill Gates needs to talk to the small farmers who practise cheap, low-tech approaches to farming and not just the big agro-chemical multinationals.

May. 25, 2012 | ROB Magazine - The Globe and Mail | Simon Houpt.

What is "Big Data"?...Let me give it a try. It’s the use of massive sets of data—typically transaction data, motivation data, environmental data, social data—to make better business decisions.

May. 25, 2012| The Globe and Mail | MARINA STRAUSS

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Last updated Friday,

By DAVID BROOKS
Published: May 24, 201

Is it a good thing that so many students at elite universities aspire to work at investment banks, consultancies, hedge funds and the like?

JEFFREY SIMPSON

From Friday's Globe and Mail

Last updated Friday, May. 25, 2012

1994 | The University of Western Ontario | Steve Suarez and Jim hatch

By DAVID TANIS
Published: May 25, 2012

May 23, 2012, 10:34 am
At CUNY, an Ethnic Shift Because of Stricter Admissions
By TANYA CALDWELL

November 15, 1993 | Fortune | By Rahul Jacob & REPORTER ASSOCIATE Meenakshi Ganguly.

May 23, 2012 |WSJ | By DREW HINSHAW And LIAM PLEVEN.

Africa Turmoil Cracks Cashew Market
Amid Military Uprising, Farmers Are Unable to Ship Harvest to Indian Factories That Steam Nuts Out of Shells

Russell Smith

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

Last updated Wednesday, May. 23, 2012

Russell Smith

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

Last updated Wednesday, May. 23, 2012

May. 24, 2012| The Globe and Mail |David Eddie

May 19th 2012 | | The Economist | Anonymous

the growth of internet usage on smartphones, the rise of “big data” computer processing and the increasing willingness of customers to do complicated things online. These developments have long promised to transform the way banks do business and organise themselves....If this was just a more convenient way of paying, the banks would probably shrug. But it also promises to overturn your existing financial relationships. Instead of reaching for the first card that happens to be in your wallet to pay for a $2 cup of coffee (and risk being charged a $35 penalty by your bank for exceeding your overdraft limit), your phone will choose the best method of payment.

May 12th 2012 | ADDIS ABABA

BRAD WHEELER
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Published Monday, May. 21, 2012

May. 10, 2012 | Globe and Mail | PAUL WALDIE.

Sparling noted that it takes about $2.31 worth of assets on a large farm to produce $1 of revenue. By contrast, a farm generating less than $100,000 in revenue requires $18 in assets to produce the same revenue....But not all of the changes have been welcomed. The demise of the Canadian Wheat Board, which had a monopoly over the sale of all wheat and barley grown in Western Canada, has prompted a series of court battles, led by farmers who believe the board gave grain growers clout in international markets. Others fear the shift to large farms will attract buying by investment funds eager to cash in on the rise in global food demand.

Still others worry about the age of Canadian farmers. The Statistics Canada census found that 48 per cent all farmers are 55 or older, the highest percentage ever. Meanwhile, the percentage of farm operators under 35 has fallen to 8.2 per cent from 9.1 per cent in 2006.

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May 20, 2012 | NYT | By QUENTIN HARDY.

Asana is task-based software, a shared to-do list for the company. Work is assigned and completed by a potentially unending set of teams created on the fly. Asana is a Sanskrit word meaning “easeful posture.” Yoga practitioners think of it in terms of complex poses done effortlessly. “You should read a lot into the name,” Mr. Moskovitz said.

Tasks can be named and assigned across the company, then shut down or subdivided as the work progresses. People can rank, or have others rank, which of their jobs need attention soonest. If a company wants, anyone can look in on anyone else’s work, offering help and criticism. “We think of e-mail, in-person meetings, and whiteboards as our competition,” said Justin Rosenstein, Mr. Moskovitz’s co-founder at Asana.