| CSR Certificate Program at St. Michael's College
(CSRwire) A few places still available. The University of St. Michael's College invites applications to its innovative CSR Certificate program. Program begins in Toronto October 18-20, 2004. Unique in Canada, the Certificate program blends theory and practice in a relaxed, conversational atmosphere. Designed in collaboration with the Conference Board of Canada for practitioners, managers and leaders in CSR, community investment, ethics, environmental reporting, human resources, purchasing, communications and public relations. For description visit www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/csr Graduates gave glowing reviews to the program and to its award winning learning tool, a web based simulation that allows participants to strategize, select tactics and get feedback on a complex CSR problem faced by a fictitious GPS company.
America is a terrorist state
Canada has dared admit what other U.S. allies will not: America is a terrorist state that tortures prisoners and violates international law. A Canadian Foreign Affairs Department training manual, Torture Awareness Workshop Reference Materials, defines torture and lists Guantanamo Bay and the United States, along with Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Syria as nations which torture prisoners and abuse human rights. This is not an enemy of the United States making wild claims about “the Great Satan" of America. It's not even our sometimes ally France. This is Canada, one of this county's strongest allies. While Canada didn't come out and say flatly that America is a "terrorist state," the manual clearly identifies this nation as one that uses terror techniques in direct violation of international law.
Middle Age A Global Bummer
Around the world, from Austria to Zimbabwe, happiness ratings were higher before and after middle age. Picture a U-shaped curve, with middle age down in the valley of the U.
Getting Back to Happiness
U.S. men were almost 53 years old when they emerged from their midlife blues; U.S. women shifted back toward happiness earlier, when they were about 39 years old.
Those ages varied somewhat around the world, with the 40s as the turning point for men and women in Europe and developing countries.
The findings are based on adults of all ages. But participants weren't followed over time; the study was a snapshot of worldwide well-being.
Marriage, income, and education didn't explain the results. The impact of health on happiness wasn't part of the study.
Raul R. Romero Elected Chairman of the Board for the Hispanic ...
(CSRwire) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hispanic Scholarship Fund Board of Directors has elected Washington, D.C. businessman Raul R. Romero to a two-year term as Chairman of the Board for the nation's oldest and largest Hispanic higher education governing body. A native of Panama, Romero has served as a member on the HSF Board for more than four years. He assumed the role of Chair immediately on Nov. 1, 2007 and will be Chairman through 2009. Romero said, "I know America's future success depends on a highly educated workforce, and U.S. Census figures show a growing portion of that workforce will be Latino, so we must make the higher education of Hispanics a cause that everyone understands and supports." HSF President and CEO Frank D. Alvarez said, "I am proud to have served with Raul on the HSF Board.
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CAN real consumption inequality decline even as income inequality increases? The Economics Focus piece in the current edition of the newspaper argues that it can and has. Paul Krugman's emphatic rejoinder on his New York Times blog fails entirely to join this issue, despite his table-thumping rhetoric. What Mr Krugman does do is to gesture toward nominal consumption inequality numbers that he prefers over those offered by Dirk Krueger and Fabrizio Perri, professors of economics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota respectively, who he seems to think are guilty of "the misuse of the Consumer Expenditure Survey." But this is, as Mr Krugman recognises, "a narrow technical issue." More importantly, it is mostly beside the point of the piece he is criticising, which is this: But consumption numbers, too, conceal as much as they illuminate.
Our Islamic Interlocutors
In 1993, Bernard Hourcade, a geographer, sociologist, and Persianist who was the head of Iranian studies at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, got a bit of a shock. After completing lengthy negotiations on the first cultural and scientific exchange between France and the Islamic Republic, the Iranian delegation demanded the agreement open with the words: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim ("In the Name of God, the Compassionate and the Merciful"). The negotiations were supposed to be a friendly arrangement, something less formal than an accord. So the French were aghast that the Iranians, whom Hourcade and the other French scholars and diplomats had known for years, would demand the Koranic invocation. The Iranians understood well the secular ethos of France. Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, then the president of the Islamic Republic, was even then making a determined pitch for more French investment and trade.
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