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Title: The Irresponsible Investor
Author: Michael Lewis
Source: NY Times Magazine
Date added: June 6, 2004
To read the article: Click here
Article that gets to the root of some important issues regarding business and corporate ethics. We often think that
investing is pretty safe territory ethically. This article points out the effects of a corporate culture that is propagated by the
desires of the shareholders. The end of the article is a fascinating case study on the Birkenstock company (of whose sandals I am
proud owner!!) and their take on the costs that would be involved in going public. Worth reading right to the end.
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Title: Don't Know, Should Care
Author: Jeffrey Sachs
Source: NY Times
Date added: June 6, 2004
To read the article: Click here
Jeffrey Saches is one of the world's foremost experts on international policy and development. He serves as an
advisor to Kofi Annan and was a professor at Harvard before recently moving to Columbia to head the Earth Institute.
When he speaks about the relationship between the developed and the developing world, it is wise to listen. In this
op-ed piece he explains why it is in America's interest to be engaged in helping developing countries develop. He states
that USAID needs a complete overhaul and more prominence among government agencies.
Most importantly though, he states that government officials need more knowledge and experience of the developing world,
a prognisis I agree whole heartedly with.
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Title: What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace
Source: NY Times
Date added: May 29, 2004
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Fascinating article that quotes some research done on social effects of heavy Internet use on a person.
I have often wondered what some of the effects are and this article describes some of them. Being a heavy
Internet user I think I can identify with some of the effects mentioned. However, I would say that I don't
really use the Internet to meet new people so that I don't replace relationships I have with people with
relationships I have made on the Internet. But I do wonder if the quality of relationships is somehow affected
by the medium I use to keep relationships up.
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Title: The Gray Zone
Source: The New Yorker
Date added: May 27, 2004
For more info: To read
The abuses by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad have been in the news for almost a month though.
And the inquiries and hearings continue. We will probably never really know what happened and get to the bottom of who was
was responsible, but this article probably pushes the envelope the furthest. It is by Seymour Hersh, the writer who also broke
the My Lai story back in Vietnam. Not sure if his sources have been coaborated, but I am guessing that there is quite a bit of
of truth here.
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Title: Interview with Tony Campolo
Date added: May 1, 2004
For more info: To read the article
The PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly program is running an interesting series on the impact of Evangelical Christian faith in the United States.
As part of the program they interviewed Tony Campolo. They have made the entire interview available on their website and it well worth reading.
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