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New York Review of Books on The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men
The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men is reviewed in the Feb 24, 2011 New York Review of Books (NYRB). http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/24/stopping-malaria-wrong-road/ Though...
Book Party Celebrating Global Health Entrepreneur Steve Hoffman
Tuesday will be a wonderful opportunity to meet global health entrepreneur Steve Hoffman, who developed the malaria vaccine on which...
How Poverty Has Disappeared from the National Dialogue
Last week, prior to the State of the Union, I wrote about my fear that President Obama would feel politically...
“A powerful imagination generates the event”
Over the weekend I picked up one of the slim “Great Ideas” volumes published by Penguin Books. It was a...
Hoping for some FDR in Obama State of the Union
The State of the Union speech tomorrow will be scrutinized and analyzed based on the President’s every word. But I...
An economic and political climate that calls out for creating community wealth
A recent Chronicle of Philanthropy article (http://philanthropy.com/article/Nonprofits-Seek-Ways-to-Cope/125838/?sid=&utm_source=&utm_medium=en) about the economic peril facing most nonprofits begins as below and essentially makes...
Keynoting The Haiti Fund lunch
I had the great honor on Friday of keynoting a lunch at the Parker House Hotel in Boston to commemorate...
“Deep Poverty” is deeper than we thought
After writing the previous post about the failure of our political leaders to address poverty, I asked our friend and colleague Stacy Dea...
More Poverty, Less Concern
Bob Herbert’s column in Saturday’s NY Times about the increase in poverty America but the decrease in concern about i...