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...political journalism, and Naipaul presents the causes of Africa’s problems with rare balance and simplicity; “At the height of the slave trade, African rulers seemed literally to have gone mad. To get hold of the guns and tobacco and brandy they craved, some chiefs betrayed and enslaved their own people. The desire to possess had spiraled out of control. Their successors behave no differently. Slavery, of course, is now illegal. But are there any moral distinctions to be drawn between a chief who, in order to satisfy his lust for brandy, sells...
...little concerned that the user interface is a bit confusing, and a CS1 student would probably have a difficult time if it were deployed at the start of the semester,” wrote Leitner, who is also associate dean for Information Technology and Chief Technology Officer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Lawrence M. Levine, the associate dean for information technology and chief information officer, will be leaving at the end of September to become the associate vice chancellor and chief information officer at the University of Colorado at Boulder, effective November...
...position, which will entail overseeing 165 employees and a $28 million budget, has consequently been held on an interim basis by current senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer Ric Porreca, according to CU-Boulder spokesman Bronson R. Hilliard...
...bribery conspiracy. They tell Hansen and Borja that $3 million in payoffs will be required to land a cleanup contract, divided evenly among Nuñez, Correa's office (including, said one of the men, the President's sister) and the plaintiffs. The Chevron complaint also fingered Correa's chief legal adviser, Alexis Mera, in the scheme. At a press conference on Sept. 1, Mera denied being involved and suggested that Chevron was simply trying to divert attention away from a case it knows it will probably lose. "The government won't succumb to these types of provocations," he said...