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...When he was considering law schools, John removed Stanford from his list because the Stanford interviewer was wearing sandals and didn’t have a tie,” Bush said...
...lawyers are blasting the charges as politically motivated, and denying any wrongdoing. But the Icelander's partners on the Somerfield bid - they include private equity firm Apax, Barclays Capital and Iranian realtor Robert Tchenguiz - may be getting cold feet. Despite expressions of support from Baugur shareholders including Kevin Stanford, co-founder of Karen Millen, Baugur last week bowed to pressure from its partners to drop out of the consortium. Other Icelanders are waiting in the wings. Boosted by a stock-market boom and a thriving economy, several Icelandic companies are also on the acquisition trail overseas, including financial institution Kaupthing...
...wallop that brings many to tears--especially adoptees, descendants of slaves and others who previously had little knowledge of their roots--skeptics have raised questions about their accuracy. "When genetics becomes a direct-to-consumer product, it gets oversimplified and oversold," says Hank Greely, an ethicist and lawyer at Stanford Law School who specializes in genetics and biotechnology. Although it is relatively easy to determine African or Asian ancestry, it's more difficult to pinpoint roots in, say, the Ivory Coast or Sri Lanka. Accuracy will improve as genealogical databases acquire more samples, but many in this nation of immigrants...
...both her male and female children, illuminates only your mother's female ancestry. "If you go back 300 years, you have more than 1,000 ancestors. They are telling you about 1 in 1,000 of your ancestors. I think they should make that clear," says Stanford ethicist Greely...
...this will grow from a ripple to a wave," and points to six other states, including Ohio and Massachusetts, where governments and pension funds are considering divestment. Meanwhile, Harvard students pushed the university to sell its $4.4 million stake in Petro- China, which has oil contracts in Sudan, and Stanford said it would divest its holdings in four energy firms that operate there. Dartmouth and the University of California are among the schools that have said they might follow suit...