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Christmas Spirit

Christmas Spirit

The other night, Natalie saw a TV commercial which profiled children who are less fortunate than she is. She retreated to her room, returning a few times to confirm how to spell a few words (we didn't know what she was working on). When she finally...

Mandela Bono Edge

Bono, Jay-Z, Rihanna: Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)

Bono, Edge, Jay-Z and Rihanna performing Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) live at "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief." The event was hosted by George Clooney, Wyclef Jean, and Anderson Cooper to raise funds for earthquake...

Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch: Last Lecture

Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) was a well-known Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction (Alice.org) professor at Carnegie Mellon (CMU) who gave his (now famous) "Last Lecture" at CMU on September 18, 2007. The "Last Lecture"...

Kiva

Kiva: Loans That Change Lives

I first heard of Kiva when a Senior Leader at work mentioned it in a weekly update. Kiva is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 by two Stanford graduates with the design and purpose of allowing people like you and I to lend to specific...