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In her own words, a transgender teen talks candidly about acceptance and tolerance.
Yesterday, Chaz Bono announced his plans to have a sex change. Rika, a…
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I’m in the middle of reading The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, a memoir by Jacqueline Novogratz. The book traces her journey from her time as a young banker in Africa to her current role as the founder of the Acumen Fund, a new kind of venture fund that invests in market-oriented approaches to solving problems like access to health, water, housing and energy, around the world.
As I thought about her life, I started wondering what is it that makes people like Novogratz able to do what the rest of us merely wish we had the ability to do -- make real contact with people in need and actually do something to move them out of poverty. I was especially curious about what Novogratz would say to people living in the developed world who are so worried about their own diminished financial well-being that they find it hard to imagine how they could meaningfully affect the lives of less fortunate people in Africa or Pakistan.
So I had a meeting and a series of email conversations with her to get some answers, and some inspiration. After the jump is a condensed version of our discussion.
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Time magazine’s “Most
Influential People in the World” list has been revealed and we find
ourselves utterly in shock at some of the selections. As much as we
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While enjoying a little
vacay with the fam at St. Barts, Bono is seen here hanging with
7-year-old son John. Bono has been with wife Alison Hewson since
1975.
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I'm not sure why U2 singer Bono,
48, is canoodling with 19-year-old chicks in bikinis but it's
creepy OK? Knock, knock, hello? Bono is married with
four children and I don't know what kind of freedoms he and his
wife have in place, but it doesn't look good when a dude, who...
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I was having a great time
attending this year’s Women’s Conference in Long
Beach. So many influential women! So much free
stuff! And then I ended up crawling on the bathroom
floor...
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I was having a great time
attending this year’s Women’s Conference in Long
Beach. So many influential women! So much free
stuff! And then I ended up crawling on the bathroom
floor...
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For the Persistent Style life is a journey, a pilgrimage. She is not one to stay still very long, at least not in her own mind. She is a seeker, a searcher, and every day she heads on down the road of life; her hopes high and her feet swept along on the wings of faith. She is not always sure what... Read More »
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