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...City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University by Nicholas Dirks (Cambridge University Press)A former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, reveals how administrators, faculty and...
...Darpa (the “D” for defence was added later) funded 70 per cent of all US computer research in the early 1960s, much of it coming from labs in the Californian hills around Stanford University....
...Heads of state including German chancellor Olaf Scholz and Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley will discuss how to bring about this “overhaul of the international financial system” at a summit in Paris on...
...Himalaya moved from Wall Street to Pasadena, California, in 2007, in order to be closer to Munger, before settling in the lower-tax Washington state in 2018....
...According to ESPN and the US Census, head coaches are among the highest paid public employees in almost every state in the country....
...The athletics director at Princeton University will become the LPGA’s ninth commissioner, replacing Mike Whan....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...For the first time during the pandemic, all seven of the most populous US states — New York, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania, as well as California — on Friday reported more than 10,000 cases...
...Ahdaf Soueif is now based mostly in Cairo, where she was born 70 years ago, the child of university professors....
...Still, the number of coronavirus-related hospitalisations reached a record in California, as was the case in 10 other states....
...Mr Pranoto at the University of Indonesia thinks Mr Thohir made a strong start by clearing out many of the retired government and military officials that had populated the boards of many state companies....
...Last year the UK directed pension fund trustees to consider ESG factors or give a reason why they had not. Some investors were already on board....
...“There is a significant design fault about how we are dealing with the phenomenon of digital afterlife — with global implications,” said Faheem Hussain, a clinical assistant professor at Arizona State University...
...Theresa Sackler, the widow of Mortimer Sackler, is on the V&A’s board of trustees until the end of the month....
...Supreme Court ruled to end the separation of students by race in the landmark Brown v Board of Education case in 1954....
...It turns out several US states don’t think so. A group of 10 state attorneys-general led by New York and California have sued to block the $26bn mobile telecommunications deal....
...When sages speak Here is a thumping research report from Jonathan Woetzel, Jeongmin Seong et al from the McKinsey Global Institute....
..., the head of the UN-backed government....
...Goodarzi will also join the board of directors at that time....
...The 400,000 savers and members of the Central States Pension Fund, set up in 1955 to provide for truckers in their retirement, received a letter in May from their board of directors and trustees with an...
...(FT) Made in Japan Leo Lewis heads to the Japanese glasses manufacturing heartland of Sabae, the world pioneer of titanium frames in the 1980s....
...Some of the engineers use standing desks and balance boards to exercise while they work....
...The new chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors, for example, will be Paul Gilman, chief sustainability officer of Covanta, the waste-to-energy group....
...The push for new legislation was ultimately held up in Congress. Meanwhile, Michelle Lee, Google’s former head of IP, replaced Mr Kappos as head of the USPTO....
...He says the fact that the recommendations were taken on board — leading to the creation of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan — reflected the determination of the province’s treasurer and the head of the...
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