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URL: http://www.nytimes.com SUBJECT: EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION (90%); INDUSTRY ANALYSTS (89%); ACCOUNTING (88%); SALES FIGURES (78%); ENTREPRENEURSHIP (78%); PERSONAL COMPUTERS (78%); COMPANY REVENUES (76%); BUSINESS FORECASTS (76%); COMPANY EARNINGS (76%); INTERIM FINANCIAL RESULTS (74%); WAGES & SALARIES (73%); COMPUTER MAKERS (73%); CONFERENCES & CONVENTIONS (71%); SECURITIES TRADING (71%); STOCK OPTIONS (65%); LAW ENFORCEMENT (65%); JUSTICE DEPARTMENTS (65%) Appointments and Executive Changes; Suspensions, Dismissals and Resignations; Biographical Information; Accounting and Accountants; Computers and the Internet COMPANY: DELL INC (94%); SANFORD C BERNSTEIN & CO LLC (62%) ORGANIZATION: SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION (59%) Dell Inc; Securities and Exchange Commission; Justice Department TICKER: DELL (NASDAQ) (94%); DEC (LSE) (92%) INDUSTRY: NAICS334111 ELECTRONIC COMPUTER MANUFACTURING (94%); SIC3571 ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS (94%) PERSON: MICHAEL DELL (92%); ANN LIVERMORE (59%) Michael S Dell; Kevin B Rollins; Damon Darlin GEOGRAPHIC: NEW YORK, NY, USA (79%) NEW YORK, USA (79%) UNITED STATES (79%) LOAD-DATE: February 1, 2007 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company 1181 of 1258 DOCUMENTS The New York Times
Late Edition - Final Do-Gooders With Spreadsheets BYLINE: By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF SECTION: Section A; Column 1; Editorial Desk; Pg. 21 LENGTH: 760 words DATELINE: DAVOS, Switzerland The World Economic Forum here in Davos is the kind of place where if you let yourself get distracted while walking by a European prime minister on your left, you could end up tripping over a famous gazillionaire -- and then spilling your coffee onto the king on your right. But perhaps the most remarkable people to attend aren't the world leaders or other bigwigs. Rather, they are the social entrepreneurs. Davos, which has always been uncanny in peeking just ahead of the curve to reflect the zeitgeist of the moment, swarmed with them. So what's a social entrepreneur? Let me give a few examples among those at the forum in Davos. In Africa, where children die of diarrhea from bad sanitation, Isaac Durojaiye runs a franchise system for public toilets. He supplies mobile toilets to slum areas, where unemployed young people charge a small fee for their use. The operators keep 60 percent of the income and pass the rest back to Mr. Durojaiye's company, Dignified Mobile Toilets, which uses the money to buy new toilets. Nic Frances runs a group that aims to cut carbon emissions in 70 percent of Australian households over 10 years. His group, Easy Being Green, gives out low-energy light bulbs and low-flow shower heads -- after the household signs over the rights to the carbon emissions the equipment will save. The group then sells those carbon credits to industry to finance its activities, and it is now aiming to expand globally. In the U.S., Gillian Caldwell and her group, Witness, train people around the world to use video cameras to document human rights abuses. The resulting videos have drawn public attention to issues like child soldiers and the treatment of the mentally ill. Now Ms. Caldwell aims to create a sort of YouTube for human rights video clips. Social entrepreneurs like Ms. Caldwell resemble traditional do-gooders in their yearning to make the world a better place, but sound like chief executives when they talk about metrics to assess cost-effectiveness. Many also generate income to finance expansion. ''We're totally self-sustaining,'' said Mirai Chatterjee, a dynamo who is coordinator of the Self-Employed Women's Association in India. ''From Day 1 our idea was to run a strong economic organization.'' Ms. Chatterjee's organization now has nearly 1 million members, owns a bank, runs 100 day care centers, trains midwives and provides health insurance for 200,000 women. It is empowering women and fighting poverty across a growing swath of rural India, and its down-to-earth approach is characteristic of social entrepreneurs. ''Politics is failing to solve all the big issues,'' said Jim Wallis, who wrote ''God's Politics'' and runs Sojourners, which pushes social justice issues. ''So when that happens, social movements rise up.'' Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, demonstrated with Grameen Bank the power of microfinancing. His bank has helped raise incomes, secure property rights for women, lower population growth and raise education standards across Bangladesh -- and now the success is rippling around the globe. One of those inspired by Mr. Yunus, for example, was Roshaneh Zafar, a young Pakistani economist. She quit her job and started Kashf, a microfinance institution that now gives hundreds of thousands of Pakistani women a route out of poverty. Ms. Zafar also received help from Ashoka, a hugely influential organization for social entrepreneurs started by an American, Bill Drayton (who describes social entrepreneurs as ''the most important historical force at work today''). Ashoka is one of a growing number of donor groups that offer the equivalent of venture capital for social entrepreneurs. ''The key with social entrepreneurs is their pragmatic approach,'' said Pamela Hartigan of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, which is affiliated with the World Economic Forum. ''They're not out there with protest banners; they're actually developing concrete solutions.'' When I travel around the world, I'm blown away by how these people are transforming lives. A growing number of the best and brightest university graduates in the U.S. and abroad are moving into this area (many clutching the book ''How to Change the World,'' a bible in the field). It's one of the most hopeful and helpful trends around. These folks aren't famous, and they didn't fly to Davos in first-class cabins or private jets, but they are showing that what it really takes to change the world isn't so much wealth or power as creativity, determination and passion.
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Late Edition - Final Glen Tetley, 80, Pioneering Choreographer BYLINE: By ANNA KISSELGOFF SECTION: Section B; Column 4; The Arts/Cultural Desk; Pg. 8 LENGTH: 839 words Glen Tetley, an American choreographer long popular in Europe whose pioneering fusion of ballet and modern dance challenged taboos and rattled purists but influenced major companies worldwide, died on Friday in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 80 and also had homes in New York and Rome. The cause was melanoma, said his sister Byrne Erb. Mr. Tetley -- who also succeeded John Cranko as director of the Stuttgart Ballet from 1974 to 1976 -- choreographed in the United States for American Ballet Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem, the Houston Ballet and in Toronto for the National Ballet of Canada. His works were performed by other companies including the San Francisco Ballet, the Feld Ballet and the early Joffrey Ballet. But essentially he was Europe's favorite American choreographer, more honored in the Old World than the New. In 1969, he closed his own company in New York and arrived to freelance full time in Europe. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Mr. Tetley seemed ubiquitous on the dance scene there. Through his prolific creation of new works, he reversed a traditional pattern: America had imported ballet from Europe, but Mr. Tetley introduced and integrated American modern-dance aesthetics and movement into European choreography. But in the United States, keepers of the flame in both the ballet and modern-dance camps were long troubled by Mr. Tetley's breaking down of barriers between idioms. Interviewed for his 80th-birthday celebrations, Mr. Tetley recalled how ''the extreme moderns,'' as he called them, criticized him for using pirouettes and arabesques in ''Pierrot Lunaire,'' his first acclaimed piece, later popularized by Rudolf Nureyev and set to Schoenberg's Expressionist song cycle. ''I am just using the vocabulary of dance,'' Mr. Tetley told his critics. Today, choreographers commonly mix modern dance and ballet. But Mr. Tetley did not simply juxtapose elements of both dance idioms. True to Martha Graham, his own mentor, he incorporated the dynamic torso of Graham's technique into ballet's elongated line and partnering. After the early 1970's, Mr. Tetley worked less with ''contemporary'' dance troupes he helped mold like Ballet Rambert in London and Netherlands Dance Theater, where he was co-director from 1969 to 1971. As he became associated with major ballet companies like the Royal Ballet in Britain, the Australian Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet, his work gained wider acceptance. Nor were audiences still confounded by the taboo-breaking sexual imagery of his early pieces (''Arena'' and ''Mutations'') or his use of nothing but 20th-century music, some of it considered undanceable. ''Voluntaries,'' his popular elegiac tribute after the death of Mr. Cranko in 1973 and set to Poulenc, was often performed by Ballet Theater and numerous troupes. Mr. Tetley's springboard was usually intellectual or inspirational, and he was interested in Eastern religions. Glenford Andrew Tetley Jr. was born in Cleveland on Feb. 3, 1926, and grew up in Wilkinsburg, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The image of a journey from innocence to experience in his 1962 ''Pierrot Lunaire'' paralleled his own youthful quest. ''Pierrot finds his own unity,'' Mr. Tetley said in conversation last year. ''After I made the work, I realized it was my journey.'' His life course, in fact, changed several times. After pre-med studies at Franklin & Marshall College and a stint in the Navy, Mr. Tetley received his B.S. degree at New York University in 1948. Already interested in dance, he studied ballet in New York with Helene Platova, Antony Tudor and Margaret Craske as well as at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet. He then trained with two modern-dance pioneers, Graham and Hanya Holm, becoming Holm's teaching assistant and appearing in the Broadway shows she choreographed. One of the original members of the Joffrey Ballet in 1956, he also performed with Graham's company in 1958 while dancing with Ballet Theater (until 1961), with the New York City Opera and other modern dance groups. In 1961, he was a dancer in Jerome Robbins's Ballets: U.S.A., and from 1962 to 1969, he directed the Glen Tetley Dance Company, which he disbanded because of financial problems. After directing the Stuttgart Ballet, which remained wedded to Mr. Cranko's more traditional aesthetic, Mr. Tetley created three successful works as artistic associate at the National Ballet of Canada from 1987 to 1989. Although even his plotless works always had an emotional undercurrent, his Toronto ''Alice'' offered a delightful psychological study of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell, the model for ''Alice in Wonderland.'' He is survived by his sisters, Ms. Erb of Palmyra, Pa., and Shirley Leonard of Bellingham, Wash., as well as his companion, Raffiele Ravaioli of Rome and West Palm Beach. After Scott Douglas, Mr. Tetley's partner of 42 years, died in 1996, he choreographed ''Lux in Tenebris,'' another elegiac piece, for the Houston Ballet in 1999; it was his last work. URL: http://www.nytimes.com SUBJECT: ENTREPRENEURSHIP (78%); MUSIC (78%); SKIN CANCER (57%); DANCE (92%); ARTISTS & PERFORMERS (90%); THEATER (89%); BALLET (91%); DEATHS & OBITUARIES (91%) Deaths (Obituaries); Biographical Information COMPANY: HE INC (64%); OLD WORLD BAKERY (56%); AMERICAN MODERN METALS (55%) ORGANIZATION: AMERICAN BALLET THEATER (57%) PERSON: Anna Kisselgoff GEOGRAPHIC: TORONTO, ON, CANADA (57%); LONDON, ENGLAND (52%) NEW YORK, USA (93%); FLORIDA, USA (92%); ONTARIO, CANADA (72%) UNITED STATES (94%); EUROPE (92%); UNITED KINGDOM (79%); CANADA (72%); DENMARK (58%); NETHERLANDS (58%); ENGLAND (52%) CATEGORY: Dancing Glen Tetley LOAD-DATE: January 30, 2007 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH GRAPHIC: Photo: Glen Tetley (Photo by Michael Stravato for The New York Times, 2006) DOCUMENT-TYPE: Obituary (Obit); Biography PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company 1183 of 1258 DOCUMENTS The New York Times
Late Edition - Final Tech Barons Take On New Project: Energy Policy BYLINE: By MATT RICHTEL SECTION: Section C; Column 5; Business/Financial Desk; TECHNOLOGY; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1445 words DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28 President Bush set broad goals last week for the adoption of alternative energy. Hoping to take on the role of filling in the details is an unlikely group: Silicon Valley's technology investors. These venture capitalists, backers of giants like Google and Genentech, have traditionally been free-market advocates, favoring ideas and innovation over government intervention. Now they are heading to Washington on a crusade to influence energy policy because they have a big stake in the outcome. The investors in recent years have poured billions of dollars into alternative energy start-ups in areas like solar and wind power or the production of fuel for cars from feedstock and crop waste. Many of these projects, they say, could stall without subsidies or government mandates for greater energy efficiency. These barons of the new economy are not new to politics, though their interest in energy places them in a powerful spotlight. And it puts them in conflict with the oil and gas industries, which are more politically potent and have far deeper pockets. ''It's very different from the business world, where you come in with a good idea and leave with a deal,'' said Mark Baldassare, research director for the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research group. The question, he said, is whether venture capitalists ''have the patience to be part of the political process.'' The venture capitalists say they have earned political credibility through their track record of creating jobs and technological change. However, if they are to translate their formula for innovation successfully to the world of energy, they say, they need the government to be, in effect, an investment partner. The message to politicians is that ''you have to create a playing field to make it possible for us to back these companies,'' said Nicholas Parker, chairman of the Cleantech Group, a research and trade organization representing venture investors in alternative energy. In recent months, venture capitalists have met with most of the ostensible 2008 presidential candidates, members of Congress, and officials in the Bush administration and the Energy Department, pushing their ideas for things like tax subsidies and efficiency requirements. With President Bush's State of the Union address emphasizing alternative energy, and with the ascension of Democrats, who are less aligned with oil interests than the Republicans, the time might seem right for Silicon Valley to speak up. Mr. Baldassare and other political analysts said the venture capitalists could become a powerful part of the realignment of energy politics. They are lending a new voice to the debate, one that politicians are likely to listen to given the investors' reputation as smart backers of next-generation companies. ''They're responsible for huge chunks of economic activity,'' said Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization, noting that the investors are also major potential donors. ''If they choose to get the ear of Congress, they can do it more and more, and they're just waking up to that.'' Yet the venture capitalists have already been handed one stinging defeat. In November, California voters rejected Proposition 87, which would have taxed gasoline and used the proceeds to back alternative energy. The initiative enjoyed much voter support at first, but it was defeated after a $100 million lobbying effort by oil companies portrayed the venture capitalists as greedy seekers of tax subsidies who wanted to burden the state with bureaucracy. ''There's a lot of money on the other side, a lot of power and influence,'' Mr. Baldassare said. Lobbyists for oil and gas companies spent $59 million in 2005, compared with the $2 million spent by venture capitalists, said the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit Washington group that tracks campaign contributions and lobbying. The venture capitalists say that their research and lobbying helped with the creation and passage of a California bill that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law in September, capping the state's greenhouse gas emissions at 1990 levels by 2020. When it comes to supporting alternative energy sources, the venture capitalists are backing up their words with money. In 2006, venture capitalists put $727 million into 39 alternative energy start-ups, compared with $195 million in 18 such firms for 2005, according to the National Venture Capital Association. More than a third of the 2006 investments went to technologies related to ethanol, a gasoline alternative that is made from corn and other plant material. Mr. Bush has high hopes for ethanol and other alternative fuels, calling for them to take the place of 35 billion gallons of gasoline by 2017. One venture-backed ethanol start-up is Altra, a 50-employee company based in Los Angeles. It offers a twist on ethanol production by making the fuel from nonedible plant matter, producing what is known as cellulosic ethanol. Altra's process can create ''large volumes of fuel with significantly lower emissions than gasoline, and in a fashion that does not compete with the food supply,'' said John Denniston, a partner at the Silicon Valley investment firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. The firm invested an undisclosed amount in Altra as part of a financing round that raised $50 million, Altra said. Mr. Denniston said Altra could benefit from policy changes. For example, the government could require that cars be able to run on either ethanol or gasoline, or it could set up a national carbon trading system that would increase demand for ethanol by forcing companies to find greener alternatives to oil and gas. Such a system would put a limit on the volume of carbon dioxide emissions and then create a trading system where companies could buy credits that would permit them to emit more. Mr. Denniston also wants to see a change to the so-called blender's credit, a 51-cents-a-gallon subsidy that goes to the company that mixes gasoline with ethanol, typically one of the major gas companies. He would like that money to go to producers like Altra. And he wants the subsidy to rise when the price of oil falls, or drop when oil prices rise. Not surprisingly, the oil companies are not ceding any turf. Edward Murphy, group director for refining and marketing for the American Petroleum Institute, an industry trade group, said the venture capitalists were ''somewhat naive'' to think that they could easily replace gas, oil and coal, which account for 85 percent of energy production. The investors, Mr. Murphy said, are begging for handouts from the government because their ideas are not realistic alternatives to oil. If a company's product sells for less than gasoline, ''you don't need government help,'' he said. ''Consumers will be beating a path down to your door.'' Venture capitalists are also facing skepticism from within their own ranks. Some are reluctant to sign on to the idea of any government assistance, saying this undermines the long-term health of the technology. Even those who support subsidies seem to be walking a fine line. ''In the past, venture capitalists would say, 'Let the market decide.' But the reality is that sometimes the market needs a boost,'' said Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association, an industry trade group. To bring about the change, venture capitalists have begun forming committees and lobbying groups. Kleiner Perkins has formed the Greentech Innovation Network to bring together entrepreneurs, scientists, academics and policy makers. The National Venture Capital Association has a committee focused on energy policies. At the same time, some venture capitalists are acting as lone rangers. The most visible and one of the most outspoken is Vinod Khosla, a founder of Sun Microsystems and now a partner at Khosla Ventures. In September he put together a 19-page paper calling for new energy policies -- from mandating that 10 percent of gas stations have at least one ethanol pump to requiring that 70 percent of new cars sold in the United States by 2010 be able to use more than one type of fuel. Mr. Khosla said that since October he had met with senators and House members, governors and most of the likely presidential candidates, though he declined to name names. ''I'm a very small fry compared to the influence of the oil business in the political world. I'm less than peanuts,'' Mr. Khosla said. But he is optimistic about the prospects for alternative energy. ''There is zero question in my mind we can replace all the petroleum used in cars,'' he said.
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