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BAGHDAD, March 25, 2009 – The Gulf Region Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Iraq unveiled two initiatives March 21 that will expand Iraqi businesswomen’s ability to gain work with the division. GRD officials announced the initiatives at the division-hosted Women-Owned Business and the Future Conference in Baghdad’s Al-Rasheed Hotel. From left, Azza Humadi, program manager, Women’s Advocate Initiative; Iraqi Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Mikhael; and Lt. Col. Sandra Rodriguez-Brown, Joint Contracting Command Iraq and Afghanistan’s director of business development and outreach program, speak at the Women-owned Business and the Future Conference at Baghdad’s Al-Rasheed Hotel, March...

MADAM DROPS NEW BOMBSHELL By LAURA ITALIANO, STEFANIE COHEN and LUKAS I. ALPERT June 29, 2006 -- The Brazilian bombshell charged with running an upscale brothel has told cops she has an ex-husband - and named a second hot-shot corporate executive as her sugar daddy. "I wouldn't have kept having sex with him or any of these guys if they weren't paying," Manhattan madam Andreia Schwartz, 31, confessed to police in a statement. And one reason for that is another shocker: She doesn't "really have sex with guys anymore, just girls," she said In the latest twist in the case,...

Karen Durham-Aguilera takes a “hands-on” approach to inspecting a reconstruction site in Iraq last year. Last week she explained how she helped women-owned firms in Iraq win more than $250 million in reconstruction contracts. • Printer-friendly version • E-mail this article • Army helping Iraqi businesswomen win contractsBy Lt. Col. Stan Heath February 7, 2006 WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 7, 2006) -- About 250 reconstruction contracts worth more than $250 million have been awarded to women-owned businesses in Iraq over the past eight months. Opportunities for Iraqi businesswomen are increasing, with help of the U.S. Army Corps of...

Press Release Source: Office Depot ADVISORY/Senator Hillary Clinton, D-NY, Kicks off Sold-out Office Depot Success Strategies for Businesswomen Conference on Sunday, February 22 Wednesday February 18, 3:59 pm ET (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Katie Couric, Mary Matalin, Dawn Hudson, Iyanla Vanzant and Other Notables Will Address More Than 700 Professional Women From Across the Country WHO: The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton will open Office Depot's Fourth Annual Success Strategies for Businesswomen Conference on Sunday, February 22, delivering a keynote address from 7:00-8:00 p.m. Dawn Hudson, President of Pepsi-Cola North America, will provide a keynote address on Monday, February 23 from 8:15-9:15 a.m....