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(As first published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review on October 23, 2012) The dangers of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal reach far beyond performance-enhancing drugs. When the news of Lance Armstrong’s doping allegations hit what we thought was the media and judicial nadir this summer, a friend of mine’s upstanding, informed, college-bound son irritably commented that he didn’t see the point of “all of this.” If everyone does it—and everyone does, according to him—why not legalize it? What he was saying, as many others have, is that taking performance-enhancing drugs has become normalized within our ethics framework—even though it...
(Initialement paru dans la Stanford Social Innovation Review le 23 Octobre 2012) Les dangers du scandale du dopage de Lance Armstrong vont bien plus loin que le dopage. Quand parurent les allégations de dopage contre Lance Armstrong, et que nous pensions à cette occasion avoir touché le fond tant au point de vue médiatique que juridique, le fils d’un de mes amis, intègre, informé, sur le point d’intégrer l’Université, fit ce commentaire, qu’il ne voyait pas à quoi « tout cela » pouvait bien rimer. Si tout le monde agit ainsi – et tout le monde, d’après lui, agit en effet ainsi – pourquoi...
Colony Capital, LLC is a privately held independent global real estate investment firm founded in 1991 by Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. The Firm and its affiliates have an extensive global footprint and corresponding infrastructure, with over 400 employees operating in a total of 12 offices in the following nine countries: China, France, Italy, Lebanon, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Over the past 21 years, Colony has established 44 investment vehicles, including global investment funds, dedicated regional investment funds and investment-specific co-investment vehicles, raising an aggregate of approximately $19 billion of equity capital, which has been invested...