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Zain's my hero

Zain Latif (25), a former Goldman Sachs Executive Director and founder of new London-based special situations fund TLG Capital, hopes to double his $25 million fund in the next few months. 'We do not invest in A..…
Recent Berkeley grads making the news for the work they do

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." It's so good to see people you knew/were friends with at school or university make the news for constructive…
Profiles of innovative friends who inspire me: Sarah

Sarah Suhail (26) is the oldest friend I have. We were introduced in 1990 and babbled about politics. We both, apparently, had aspirations to become Pakistan's prime minister. She's also the first person - and last - I s…
Profiles of innovative friends who inspire me: Basim

Few people get expelled from a school where their grandpa was principal. But then few people are as creative as the exceptionally lovable and charismatic Basim Usmani (25), Punkistani extraordinaire and regular Guardian …
Personal statement

*(For an optimal reading experience, read this while playing the music of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh2GgCFR2dw&feature=related Motorcycle Diaries - De Usuahia a la Quiaca by G Santaolalla) I always wanted to h…
Profiles of inspiring people in my life in London: Nathan Murphy

Although Nathan wouldn't be so haughty to call himself a social entrepreneur, the earnest, self-employed product and web designer is just that. Nathan Murphy (24) has, through clever marketing, won the attention of autho…
Profiles of inspiring people in my life in London: Matt Werner

Matt Werner (24), a friend from the fundraising campaign in California 2004 to oust George Bush, stayed with me last weekend on route from Edinburgh University to Oxford University. In that short space of time, he inspir…
Profiles of inspiring people in my life in London: Guillermo

Guillermo Wechsler is a young guy in his 50s who continually approaches the new with an open, inquisitive mind and has found for himself stimulating work which he is passionate about. He is learning rock-climbing, he tal…
Profiles of inspiring people in my life in London: Toni

Toni Stuart (26) is the consummate artist-activist. A reporter for South Africa's Independent newspapers, she was flown half way round the world by the University of Southern California at the age of 23 to lecture master…
Harnessing creativity through creativity to tackle terrorism

For anyone interested in tackling terrorism without bombs and perpetuating hate, Pakistan's Alif Laila Book Bus Society has an answer. The Society, with its grounded double-decker London bus, its peripatetic bus librari…

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