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...York City Public Schools Chief Operating Officer Photeine M. Anagnostopoulos ’81, and the Smithsonian’s Director of the Museum of Natural History Cristián Samper won six-year terms in an alumni vote to serve on the 30-member board.Former CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Joshua S. Boger, who received the sixth most votes, will serve the remaining three-year term vacated by Arne S. Duncan ’86, who left to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education...
...Although Silverglate and Freedman argued that the Board of Overseers has been acting too much like a rubber stamp, the Board will have at least one new member with experience asking probing questions...
...While there were many messages from the election that took place between June 4 and 7 - including the record low turnout and the rise of the fringe vote - the main one appeared to be a ringing rejection of the centre-left. Across the E.U.'s 27 member states, the story was the same regardless of who the incumbent national government was: voters were shifting rightwards, leaving many social-democrat parties hurting from historic defeats. (Read TIME's roundup on the European election from the U.K., Italy, France and Germany...
...Labour Party into third place. Anti-Gypsy extremists in Hungary and Slovakia won seats. In Austria, two far-right parties earned 18%, while Finland's anti-immigrant True Finns won 10% of the vote. And Britain's UKIP, who won 13 of the 72 British seats despite having no members in the 646-member House of Commons, will be joined by two European Parliament newcomers: the far-right British National Party and Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru. (Read a TIME piece on the gains made...
...accused - Michael McKevitt, Liam Campbell, Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly, none of whom were present in court - were judged to have assisted in the organization and execution of the bomb attack, with Justice Morgan describing the evidence against them as "overwhelming." (McKevitt and Campbell are known to have been members of the Real IRA at the time of the attack, while Murphy was described as having been a member of another IRA splinter group, the Continuity IRA, in August 1998. There is no proof that Daly was a Real IRA member when the bombing occurred.) A fifth man, Seamus McKenna...