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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 148. Chapters: Muhammad Yunus, Harry Shearer, Deepak Chopra, Alec Baldwin, Yoani Sanchez, Martin Lewis (humorist), Alice Waters, David Sirota, John Conyers, Michael Lucas (director), Gary Hart, Johann Hari, Thor Halvorssen Mendoza, Cenk Uygur, Arianna Huffington, Charles Karel Bouley, Lubomir Kavalek, Tom Rhodes, Paul Krassner, Ted Danson, Aaron Harber, Jane Hamsher, Robert Reich, Alan McGee, Dom Joly, Lisa P. Jackson, Diane Ravitch, Andy Borowitz, Kent Greenfield (law professor), Mickey Kaus, Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Bradley Whitford, Michael Huffington, Mark Joseph (producer), Larisa Alexandrovna, Andrew Cohen (spiritual teacher), Labrinth, Howard Friedman, Joe Cutbirth, Maddy Dychtwald, Larry Gelbart, Joel Lamstein, Tony Blankley, Simon Jenkins, Greg Gutfeld, Steve Gilliard, Rob Shuter, Eugene Volokh, Sami Moubayed, Mike Stark, Jacob M. Appel, Tom Matlack, Greg Selkoe, Mariela Dabbah, Gloria Bonilla Santiago, Lane Hudson, Robin Wilson (eco-designer), Marc Cooper, Bill Press, Kathleen Sullivan (journalist), Tim Giago, Nicholas von Hoffman, Don Tapscott, James Warren (journalist), Davia Temin, Laurie David, Auren Hoffman, Nathan Gonzalez, Jeff Schweitzer, Dan Froomkin, Leslie Morgan Steiner, Eric Holt Gimenez, Hudson Taylor (wrestler), Lawrence Bender, Bruce Reyes-Chow, Sabria Jawhar, Anne Sinclair, Lizz Winstead, Marty Kaplan, Iris Krasnow, Thomas B. Edsall, Sally Thorner. Excerpt: Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi banker, economist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. He previously was a professor of economics where he developed the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below." Yunus himself has received several other national and international honours. In 2012, he was installed as Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, serving in this capacity as the university's titular head. He is also a member of advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Previously, he was a professor of economics at Chittagong University in Bangladesh where he developed the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. He is the author of Banker to the Poor and two books on Social Business Models, and a founding board member of Grameen America and Grameen Foundation. Grameen Intel is just one of hundreds of public and private partnerships now mediated Youth & Yunus. In early 2007, Yunus showed interest in launching a political party in Bangladesh named Nagorik Shakti (Citizen Power), but later discarded the plan. He is one of the founding members of Global Elders. Yunus also serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation, a public charity created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes. The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world s most pressing problems, and broadens support for the UN. In March 2011, after months of government attack, the Bangladesh government controversially fired Yunus from his position at Grameen Bank, citing legal violations and an age limit on his pos
