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...study came on the heels of China’s establishment of the C9, an Ivy League-like group of nine universities in China intended to raise the profile of Chinese education. But while the rankings bore good news for Harvard, none of the ARWU’s top 200 schools was in China...
...also details how hundreds of billions of dollars clouded the judgments of banks, brokers, and insurance companies, encouraging the predatory processes that led to the economy’s ultimate collapse. While policy was made in Washington and the major financial players operated in New York City, American taxpayers bore the brunt of the downturn, losing their homes to foreclosure and repossession and being asked to bail out the institutions that devastated them in the first place...
Stretched over two decades, Morrissey’s solo career has been a mix of disappointment and relief—disappointment because he failed to go beyond his work with The Smiths, relief because his music still bore some indications of talent that helped make The Smiths one of the greatest British bands of the 1980s. “Swords,” however, contains only the disappointing aspects, too disappointing to even make it to the studio albums. It seems as though Morrissey has employed every single instrument and producing effect to cover up the nauseating mediocrity...
Nelson Mandela was still in jail when the first street was named after him. By the time he retired as President of South Africa, hundreds of streets, squares and schools bore his name, as did many more pop songs, books and movies. Not hard to understand. After all, Mandela, who endured 27 years of incarceration under apartheid only to emerge with forgiveness for his racist jailers and become an icon to the world, is an inspiring figure. But what about unauthorized books that bear Mandela's name? Or charities that use his name to boost their profile? What about...
According to a Moroccan student card purportedly belonging to Garcia that was displayed with her passport, she is the wife of Amer Azizi, a Moroccan terrorist suspect linked to the 2004 Madrid bombings. Garcia's passport bore no traces of travel to Pakistan but did have stamps showing repeated travel to Morocco, her apparent husband's country. There was also a used travel visa to Iran, where Azizi is reported to have fled at one point. And there was an Indian visit visa, but it did not appear to have been used for travel...