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...An influential paper by James Coombs of Florida State University concludes that CEO power simply overwhelms board independence. Of course there will always be governance horror shows....
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...That gruesome event, beside a bank of television news cameras, contributed to the sense of a city going mad — be it the recent violence on the subways or anti-Israel protests at Columbia University that...
...It also envisages giving Palestinians a political horizon, with concrete steps towards the establishment of a Palestinian state....
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...On its merits, however, the Colorado high court has reasonable grounds for removal of Trump from the state’s primary ballot....
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