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Forbes Power List (PHOTOS): The World's Most Powerful Leaders

Huffington Post | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Worlds Most Powerful, Slidepoll, Angela Merkel, Power, Forbes, Pope Benedict XVI, Barack Obama, Forbes List, Forbes Power List, Forbes Power List 2009, Forbes. World's Leaders Most Effective, Barack Obama and International Leader Pictures, The Forbes Power List, Rank on Forbes List, World News

Forbes has announced its list of the most powerful people in the world. Click here to see. How exactly do you measure power? While wealth does...

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Men, Women, and Balance

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Success, Gender Stereotypes, Relationships, Women's Health, Ceos, Careers, Balance, Power, Family, Gender, The Balanced Life, Living News

A study I performed on successful CEOs of private equity funded ventures found that their wives played pivotal roles in their success as executives and in their sense of balance.

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Single-Eyed Vision

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peace Circles, Environmentalism, Cooperation, Power, Indigenous People, National Parks, Chicago, Politics News

For all our material progress, for all our ability to dominate just about anything or anyone we encounter -- this is our history, our manifest destiny -- things are falling apart in every sector of society.

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Beware the 'Hidden' Costs of Dirty Fuels

Rob Perks | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Power Plants, Power, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Green News

A new study found coal to be the costliest of all fossil fuels -- to the tune of $62 billion a year. Indeed, the damage caused by the nation's 406 coal-fired plants is far worse than any other energy source.

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N.O.P.E.: National Organization of Pissed Off Elders

Jim Selman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Aging, Social Security, Elders, Drag Race, Bureaucrats, Power, Capitalism, Common Sense, Compassion, Ideology, Decency, Politics, Scooters, Freedom, Principles, Slogan, Goodwill, Customer Service, Nope, Zoomers, Sex, Living News

I want to create a new organization to stamp out stupidity and indifference and restore common decency and goodwill into society. I think I'll call it the National Organization of Pissed-Off Elders (N.O.P.E.).

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No Slacks In The Office: Gail Collins And Lesley Stahl Relive the Birth of Feminism

wowOwow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Relationships, Gender Inequality, Lesley Stahl, Power, Feminism, Gail Collins, Inequality, Gender, Living News

With the release of When Everything Changed, Gail Collins's new book, Lesley and Gail recount the amazing revolution of American women from 1960 to th...

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Women: We Are Still The Out Crowd

Leslie Grossman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Career Women, Gender Inequality, Sex, Careers, Discrimination, Power, Exlusion, Leslie Grossman, Gender, Living News

Recent headlines remind me again that things are far from equal in the power suites of America. What's worse is so many men are not even aware of what they say or what they do publicly to exclude women.

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Sexual Harassment: Just The Facts, Ma'am

BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Power Dynamics, Career, The Late Show, Sexual Harassment, Workplace Romance, BJ Gallagher, Power, Feminism, Sexuality, David Letterman, Living News

The issue of sexual harassment is fraught with ambiguity. It's emotionally loaded because it is so personal and intense - involving both sex and power.

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A Discussion with a Nobel Laureate: Shirin Ebadi and the Struggle for Democracy in Iran, Part I

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Ebadi told me that part of her job is to help women interpret Islam "correctly" in order to assert their claim to equal rights. If she is any indication, the Iranian Women's Movement is in extremely capable hands.

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Obama's Nobel Honors His Dignitarian Politics

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Politics of Dignity, Dignitarian, Dignity, Nobel, Nobel Committee, Egalitarian, President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Power, Libertarian, Rankism, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Nobel, World News

Obama got the prize not for doing, but for being. Not for making peace, but for exemplifying something new on the world stage -- the politics of dignity.

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Power With, Power Over

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Restorative Justice, Peace Circles, Power, Derrion Albert Murder, War, Chicago Public Schools, School Reform, Education Reform, Politics News

Derrion Albert's death is just another symptom of a city, a nation and a world at perpetual war with itself. It's merely one in a series of tragedies that we are numb to or never hear about.

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The Hypocrisy of David Letterman

Jane Shure | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Working Women, Power, Women's Issues, Work, Sexual Harassment, David Letterman, Media News

Let's not just turn a blind eye to this situation simply because we appreciate David Letterman's humor and want to continue to be entertained by him. This isn't simply a case of philandering.

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U2's Music and Mission and My Kid's First Rock Concert

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fedex, Social Justice, Washington, Music, Campaign, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Power, Desmond Tutu, Aung San Suu Kyi, Rock Band, President Bush, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Justice, Love, Human Rights, Democracy, Africa, Activism, Politics, Willie Williams, 360, Aung San Suu, Myanmar, Amazing Grace, Teenager, Burma, U2, U2 Tour, Beautiful Day, Singing, Partisan Politics, D.C., Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Rock and Roll, Entertainment News

What I love about a U2 concert, headlined by the Irish tenor with the sunglasses, is how it achieves such a powerful combination of art and social justice, music and message; and all with such fun.

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Fleecing the USA Again: Non-Performance-Based P3 Banker Fees

Michael Likosky | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, p3s, Chicago Parking, Investment Banks, World War Two, Bridges, Public-Private Partnerships, Tarp Banks, Power, Public Works, City of Chicago, Water, Roads, Privatization, Levies, Bonuses, People of Chicago, Skyway, Business News

If the recovery is done right, we can forge public-private partnerships akin to the Second World War. However, our least patriotic institution, the large scale investment bank, seems to have something different in mind.

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Saving Energy: Efficient Electronics Are Still Power Hogs

nytimes.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | Technology

Read More: Energy-Efficient, Saving Energy, Energy Consumption, Power Consumption, Energy Efficiency, Power, Reducing Energy Use, Electronics, Technology News

The proliferation of personal computers, iPods, cellphones, game consoles and all the rest amounts to the fastest-growing source of power demand in th...

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Power in the Post American World

Kal Raustiala | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Kosovo Independence, India, Kosovo, Nato, Brazil, South Ossetia, Power, Russia Georgia War, Post-American World, China, World News

In the 21st century it is no longer enough to wield great military force, as the U.S. itself has learned on recent occasions. Nor is economic wealth alone enough

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A Dialogue on Leadership in Uncertain Times: Session 3

Jan Birchfield, Ph.D | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Leadership, Women's Leadership, Job Loss, Corporate Power, Power, Executive Coaching, Executive Power, Living News

Humility arises when we see through the illusion of personal identification with power; this increases the chance that we will use it in service of something larger than ourselves.

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Kennedy's Legacy: A Movement That Can Multitask

Melissa Bradley | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Carbon, Social Change, Conflict, Power, Momentum, Senator Ted Kennedy, Capital, Tides-Foundation, Politics News

What has stood out for me about Ted Kennedy was his ability to balance his vision with the most pragmatic of details, across the wide breadth of issues.

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I Want You to Sell Your Body!

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

We grouse about Congress people prostituting themselves all the time. If we believe in health care, we may have to do the same, as it were.

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The Medium is the Message

Jim Selman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Government, Social Media, Twitter, Social Networking, Marshall McLuhan, Youtube, Power, Hulu, Facebook, Learning, Communication, Living News

The general consensus is that the phenomenon of social networking/social media is as potentially revolutionary as the Industrial Revolution. Whether this is hyperbole or turns out to be fact will remain a question for history.

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On Patriotism and Principle: An Open Letter to the President (aka "The GOP's Bridge to Anywhere But Here")

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Patriotism, Rush Limbaugh, Empowerment, Framing, Obama Press Conference, President Obama, Democracy, Obama National Security, Power, Barack Obama, World News, Dick Cheney, Foreign Policy, Torture-Apologist, Patriotism, National Security, Sarah Palin, People-Power, Glenn Beck, Global-Relations, Republican Party, Torture, Political Strategy, Republicans, Media, Gop, Politics News

Mr. President, talk to us directly. Tell us again why your election was only the first step, not the culmination, of a genuine movement to change the way we understand power, democracy, and our own roles in those phenomena.

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Sonia Sotomayor's Amazing Judicial Temperament

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Women in Politics, Power, Scotus, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor Hearings, Politics News

Sotomayor displayed admirable self-control and patience throughout this hearing. I, on the other hand, found myself yelling at the TV screen during the question periods from some of the senators.

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L.A.'s Coal Ban Leads To Another Abandoned Power Plant

greenbiz.com | Tilde Herrera, July 13, 2009 | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, L.A., California, Coal Industry, Los Angeles, Power, Green Energy, Coal, Power Plant, Coal Based Electricity, Coal Ban, Electricity, Evolving Energy Tech, Coal Mining, Green News

The Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) announced Thursday it has given up plans to build an additional coal-fired unit. Its biggest customer -- the city...

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Neda, a Shahida (Martyr) for Freedom

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Martyrdom, Politics, Iran Elections, Shahida Martyrdom, Iranian Oppression, World, Power, Woman, Iran, Freedom, Cnn, Islamic Republic of Iran, Liberty, Mullahs, Iran's Election Results, Shahida for Freedom, Neda, Iran Protests, Iran's Election, Iranians, Umuma, Ummah, Shahida, Martyr, Persians, Madar, World News

Neda, I met you on video like the millions of people around the world this past weekend. In your silence, you have spoken to me louder than any voice ever has screaming for liberty and justice.

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Smart Grid: 5 Cities Leading The Way

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Electricitiy, Green News, Smart Grid, Climate Change, Environment, Power, Green Energy, Stimulus Package, Green News

The nation's electricity industry is in for an overhaul. Power lines spread across the country are finally moving into the digital age with smart grid...

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