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TORONTO (AP) — Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist and primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington, who often worked tirelessly out of the limelight, takes center stage in the new Netflix drama “Rustin." “Rustin,” directed by veteran theater and film director George C. Wolfe, is the first narrative feature from Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama's production company. Led by a powerhouse performance by Domingo that's already being called a likely Academy Award nomination for best actor, “Rustin” aims to celebrate a pivotal but undersung civil rights hero. In 1953, Rustin spent 50 days in jail and was registered as a sex offender — a conviction that was posthumously pardoned in 2020 by California Gov. It’s like: ‘I’m directing ‘Angels in the America’ a seven-hour play, get out of my way.’ ‘I’m doing a movie about Bayard Rustin.
Persons: — Bayard Rustin, “ Rustin, Colman Domingo, Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr, , , , George C, Wolfe, Michelle Obama's, Domingo that's, “ Rustin ”, , Gavin Newsom, Tony Kushner’s, Lori Parks ′, Topdog, , ’ ”, “ I'm, ’ ‘, Bayard Rustin, ” Rustin, Obama, Oscar, Ma, Chadwick Boseman, ” “ Rustin ”, Chris Rock, Roy Wilkins, Jeffrey Wright, Adam Clayton Powell Jr, Audra McDonald, Ella Baker, it's, Jake Coyle Organizations: TORONTO, Netflix, Toronto, California Gov, National Center for Civil, Rights, America ’, West, Israel, Jobs, NAACP, Twitter Locations: Washington, America, ’ Da, Atlanta, Pennsylvania, West Indies, North Carolina, Montgomery, , Boseman,
Is School Choice Destroying Public Education?
  + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Dale Russakoff | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
THE DEATH OF PUBLIC SCHOOL: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America, by Cara FitzpatrickCara Fitzpatrick’s first book,“The Death of Public School,” opens with a superb survey of the political, cultural, legal and natural forces undermining public trust in our nation’s schools. This means less money for traditional public schools and the 90 percent of American students who attend them. “Support for traditional public education has become another partisan divide in our already divided country,” writes Fitzpatrick, a Pulitzer Prize-winning education reporter and editor. “The Death of Public School” is a history of how that happened. And, curiously, it ends before the arrival of the Covid pandemic and the convulsions of school closings, book banning and school culture wars — all of which have become accelerants for the “freedom of choice” idea in education.
Persons: Cara Fitzpatrick Cara Fitzpatrick’s, , Fitzpatrick, Mark Twain, Milton Friedman Organizations: Conservatives Won, Public School, Republican, Public Locations: America
Those lawyers and representatives for OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday. The lawsuit is at least the third proposed copyright-infringement class action filed by authors against Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Companies, including Microsoft (MSFT.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and Stability AI, have also been sued by copyright owners over the use of their work in AI training. OpenAI and other companies have argued that AI training makes fair use of copyrighted material scraped from the internet. The lawsuit requested an unspecified amount of money damages and an order blocking OpenAI's "unlawful and unfair business practices."
Persons: Dado Ruvic, Michael Chabon, Chabon, David Henry Hwang, Matthew Klam, Rachel Louise Snyder, Ayelet Waldman, ChatGPT, Blake Brittain, David Bario, Aurora Ellis Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, OpenAI, San, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, Washington
The harrowing documentary, which was produced by the AP and the PBS series “Frontline,” is culled from 30 hours of footage AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his colleagues shot in Mariupol following Russia’s Feb. 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine and its siege of the city. It documents fighting in the streets, the crushing strain on Mariupol’s residents, and attacks that killed pregnant women, children and others. The siege, which ended on May 20, 2022, with the surrender of a small group of outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian fighters at the Azovstal steel plant, left thousands dead and the city in ruins. “20 Days in Mariupol” won the Sundance Global Audience Award for Best Documentary and several other prizes. Raney Aronson-Rath, editor-in-chief and executive producer of “Frontline,” called it “deeply meaningful” to have the opportunity to screen the documentary at the United Nations.
Persons: Barbara Woodward, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, , Mstyslav Chernov, Linda Thomas, Greenfield, , Vladimir, Mariupol, Vasily Nebenzia, Julie Pace, Mariupol ”, Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko, Lori Hinnant, Raney Aronson, Rath Organizations: UNITED NATIONS, Associated Press, General Assembly, Ukrainian, AP, PBS, United Nations, Sundance, Public Service Locations: United States, Britain, Mariupol, Ukrainian, Ukraine, Paris, ukraine
Nora Eckert — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
  + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Nora Eckert | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Nora EckertNora Eckert is an auto industry reporter based in Detroit, focusing on the major car companies, as well as broader trends in retail, manufacturing and technology. Nora was previously an investigative reporter with the Rochester Post Bulletin in Minnesota. She first joined The Wall Street Journal as an intern and later worked with the paper’s investigations group as a reporter. Nora has contributed to other outlets, including the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Reporting, the Associated Press and National Public Radio. A Wisconsin native, she holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park, and attended St. Norbert College as an undergraduate.
Persons: Nora Eckert Nora Eckert, Nora, Norbert Organizations: Rochester Post, Wall, Journal, Wisconsin Center, Investigative, Associated Press, National Public, University of Maryland, College Park, St, Norbert College Locations: Detroit, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Isabelle BousquetteIsabelle Bousquette is a reporter covering enterprise technology, data and artificial intelligence for The Wall Street Journal in New York. She writes frequently on the benefits and drawbacks of emerging technologies and the role they play in the corporate world. Isabelle is a 2021 recipient of the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, awarded to the top four graduates each year of Columbia Journalism School. Isabelle joined the Journal from Forbes, where she worked to estimate the net worth of billionaires. Prior to Forbes, Isabelle wrote a series of investigative stories about local museums for the Detroit Free Press.
Persons: Isabelle Bousquette Isabelle Bousquette, Isabelle, Forbes Organizations: Wall Street, Fortune, Columbia Journalism School, University of St, Forbes, Detroit Free Press Locations: New York, Andrews, Scotland
Biden’s Fibs Are a 20th-Century Throwback
  + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Peggy Noonan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University. Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.
Persons: Peggy Noonan, , ” Noonan, Ronald Reagan, Noonan Organizations: Wall, Journal, NBC News, The, Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, Yale University, Reagan White House, CBS News, Journalism, New York University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Lions, New York Public Library Locations: New York, Brooklyn , New York, Massapequa Park, Long, Rutherford , New Jersey, Rutherford, New York City
The National Book Foundation, the nonprofit which presents the book awards, announced Friday that Dove is this year’s winner of its medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, an honor previously given to Toni Morrison, Edmund White and Art Spiegelman among others. She is best known for her poetry, but has worked in other art forms and is currently planning a memoir. “Dove’s work transforms the everyday into the remarkable, brilliantly blending music, politics, and, let’s not forget, pleasure.”Political Cartoons View All 1148 ImagesThe National Book Award ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 15 in Manhattan, with Drew Barrymore hosting. Dove has received so many previous honors, lifetime and competitive, that it’s almost surprising the book foundation didn’t get around to her sooner. A fellow Pulitzer winner, poet Jericho Brown, will introduce Dove at the National Book Awards.
Persons: , Rita Dove, I’m, Toni Morrison, Edmund White, Spiegelman, “ Thomas, Beulah, , Oscar, John Williams, Rita Dove’s, ” Ruth Dickey, , let’s, Drew Barrymore, Dove, Paul Yamazaki, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ruth Lilly, Jericho Brown, Shakespeare, William Blake, Rosa Parks, Fred Viebahn, Cave Organizations: Book Foundation, Luck, Lights Booksellers & Publishers, Poet, City, Presidential, University of Miami, University of Iowa, Pulitzer, Humanities, of Arts, NAACP, Poetry Foundation, Library of Congress, American Academy of Arts and, University of Virginia Locations: Ivory, Manhattan, San Francisco's, Akron , Ohio, Ohio, Charlottesville , Virginia, New York City
Democrats Form a Circular Firing Squad
  + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Daniel Henninger's weekly column, “Wonder Land,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Thursday. Mr. Henninger was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 1987 and 1996, and shared in the Journal's Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of the attacks on September 11. In 2004, he won the Eric Breindel Journalism Award for his weekly column. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for commentary, the Scripps Howard Foundation's Walker Stone Award for editorial writing and the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Award for editorial writing. He is a weekly panelist on the "Journal Editorial Report" on Fox News.
Persons: Daniel Henninger's, , Henninger, Eric Breindel, Gerald Loeb, Scripps Howard Foundation's Walker Organizations: Scripps, American Society of Newspaper, Fox News, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service Locations: Cleveland
VENICE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Award-winning director Ava DuVernay on Wednesday became the first African American woman to present a movie in competition at the Venice Film Festival, overcoming sceptics who had tried to talk her out of applying. "I can't tell you how many times I have been told: 'Don't apply for Venice, you won't get in'. Something happened that hadn't happened in eight decades before, an African American women in competition." DuVernay said it would have been impossible to put together such a cast with a studio in charge. "Origin" is one of 23 movie competing for the coveted Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, which ends on Sept. 9.
Persons: Ava DuVernay, sceptics, DuVernay, Isabel Wilkerson, Jim Crow, Wilkerson, Suraj Yengde, Selma, Martin Luther King's, Aunjanue Ellis, Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Crispian Balmer, Nick Macfie Organizations: Venice Film, Blacks, Golden, Thomson Locations: VENICE, American, Venice, African American, Nazi Germany, United States, India, Indian
LONDON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Oil prices were stable on Monday amid expectations that major producers would keep supplies tight, as hopes grew for the Federal Reserve to leave interest rates unchanged to avoid dampening the U.S. economy. Both contracts ended last week at their highest in more than half a year, after two previous weeks of losses. "Crude oil prices have been primarily driven by the anticipation of additional supply cuts from major oil-producing nations, Russia and Saudi Arabia," said Sugandha Sachdeva, executive vice president and chief strategist at Acme Investment Advisors. Saudi Arabia is expected to roll over a voluntary 1-million-barrel per day (bpd) cut into October. Saudi Arabia's previous announcements on its voluntary cut extension came ahead of its official selling prices, which typically come out in the first week of the month.
Persons: Sugandha Sachdeva, Sachdeva, Alexander Novak, Russell Hardy, Paul Carsten, Mohi Narayan, Yousef Saba, Andrew Hayley, Simon Clarence Fernandez, Jason Neely Organizations: Federal Reserve, Brent, . West Texas, Acme Investment Advisors, Saudi, Russia, Organization of, Petroleum, Reserve, PMI, Investors, Thomson Locations: U.S, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, Kuwait, Jizan, Oman, China, London, New Delhi, Dubai, Beijing
This is a season of transition for two of New York’s most important arts institutions. And Jaap van Zweden, the New York Philharmonic’s music director since 2018, starts his final year in the position with help from Yo-Yo Ma, Steve Reich and Schubert. Grand orchestras like the Chicago Symphony and Staatskapelle Berlin at Carnegie Hall; the Emerson String Quartet’s farewell; and premieres by Kate Soper and Ted Hearne are among the other highlights coming this fall. And Matthew Ozawa’s staging for Detroit Opera aims to be a corrective to stereotypes about Japanese women and culture (Oct. 7-15). DEATH OF CLASSICAL The impresario Andrew Ousley’s bleakly winking concert series, performed in crypts and catacombs, includes the Calidore Quartet, which will present Beethoven’s Op.
Persons: Jake Heggie’s, Malcolm X ”, Florencia, Jaap van Zweden, Ma, Steve Reich, Schubert, Kate Soper, Ted Hearne, Phil Chan, Matthew Ozawa’s, PERELMAN, , Mahani Teave, Andrew Ousley’s bleakly, Lowell Liebermann’s, Maxim Lando, Bach’s “ Goldberg, Hanzhi Wang, David Lang’s Pulitzer, Organizations: Metropolitan Opera, York, Chicago Symphony, Berlin, Carnegie Hall, Emerson Colonial Theater, Detroit Opera, Trinity Church Wall, Easter Locations: el Amazonas, Boston, American
34 Works of Fiction to Read This Fall
  + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Kate Dwyer | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Mr. Texas, by Lawrence WrightWright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and longtime resident of Texas, spins a satirical story about his state’s politics. After Sonny’s heroic actions during a fire, a lobbyist approaches him about running for his district’s seat in the Texas state Legislature. As Sonny, who cares deeply about doing the right thing, ventures deeper into his campaign, he must decide how far he’s willing to go to get ahead and save his ranch (and his marriage). Knopf, Sept. 19
Persons: Lawrence Wright Wright, Sonny, . Organizations: . Knopf Locations: Texas
by Sean MichaelsAt 75 years old, Marian Ffarmer has acquired everything a poet might dream of: a lengthy bibliography, a Pulitzer Prize, an international reputation. As she’s despairing, a large tech company writes with a strange offer: Collaborate on a poem with Charlotte, an A.I. It’s a loud topic, but Michaels’s novel is quiet and thoughtful. Instead of a cliché “man versus machine” struggle, “Do You Remember Being Born?” is an investigation of language and legacies both artistic and familial. “I’m a human being, a thinking human being, and this is a stack of mindless algorithms,” she says after testing out Charlotte.
Persons: Sean Michaels, Marian Ffarmer, , Courtney, Charlotte, Sean Michaels’s, Marian, she’s, ” Charlotte
Shane Shifflett — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
  + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Shane Shifflett | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Shane ShifflettShane Shifflett is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering topics at the intersection of finance and climate change. His stories have explored how regulators, small businesses, tech companies and debt collectors influence the economy. He joined the Journal in 2016 as a graphics reporter building interactive data visualizations. Before joining the Journal, he worked for the Huffington Post on a range of topics from the business of college athletics to the World Bank's policies protecting indigenous people. He began his career in California covering judicial conflicts of interest, local elections and transit for the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Bay Citizen.
Persons: Shane Shifflett Shane Shifflett Organizations: Wall, Huffington, Center, Investigative, Bay Citizen Locations: California
Never has “silence” been more resounding. (Chacon went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in music last year.) My 2023-24 go-to list includes other potentially horizon-expanding group shows, all historical. During the “global” moment a few decades back New York museums, large and small, regularly gave us valuable introductory samplings of unfamiliar (here, anyway) contemporary work from Asia. “Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s-1970s” at the Guggenheim Museum (Sept. 1-Jan. 7) is in the line of such shows and welcome in the present international spotlighting of Korean culture.
Persons: Harry Smith ”, Raven Chacon, , Chacon Organizations: Whitney Museum of American, Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Dakota, Pipeline, , Guggenheim Museum Locations: Pittsburgh, New York, Asia, Korea
Both underscore what has changed — and what hasn’t — in the almost 70 years since Brown while also questioning tidy presumptions. By putting the films together, it just challenges your assumptions in a really interesting way.”Both films also grapple with an unavoidable question: Why has the process been so difficult? Today, when segregation is rife in even some of the country’s most ostensibly liberal enclaves, the reasons aren’t always plain or openly acknowledged. A lot of white parents, in the supposedly enlightened North as well as the historically segregated South, were willing to go to great lengths to keep their children away from their Black peers. And a lot of politicians were happy to help them make it so.
Persons: , Douglas A, Oscar, Sam Pollard, Brown, Cameo George Organizations: U.S . Department of Education Locations: Mississippi
My Summer With Leo Tolstoy
  + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Peggy Noonan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University. Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.
Persons: Peggy Noonan, , ” Noonan, Ronald Reagan, Noonan Organizations: Wall, Journal, NBC News, The, Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, Yale University, Reagan White House, CBS News, Journalism, New York University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Lions, New York Public Library Locations: New York, Brooklyn , New York, Massapequa Park, Long, Rutherford , New Jersey, Rutherford, New York City
Here is a chance to see it live, in a McCarter Theater Center-Berkeley Repertory Theater co-production. The play was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007, when Vogel was on the jury. James Warwick directs the world-premiere production. Directed by John Collins, the company’s artistic director, this world-premiere production instead samples chunks from each of the novel’s 18 episodes, letting them erupt in all their verbosity, vulgarity, vivacity and — it is Joyce, after all — opacity. Cross that with the trans-Atlantic success of “Six,” and you arrive at this production: a Lizzie Borden rock musical with an all-female cast.
Persons: Paula Vogel, underproduced, Davis, Vogel, Donald Margulies, , Karen Allen, Reed Birney, James Warwick, Ulysses ’, , James Joyce’s, Leopold Bloom’s, John Collins, Joyce, Scott Shepherd, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Polanski, Emily Mann, Iris Hond, georgestreetplayhouse.org, Lizzie ’, Lizzie Borden, Steven Cheslik, Tim Maner, Alan Stevens Hewitt, Lainie Sakakura, twhartford.org Organizations: McCarter Theater Center, Berkeley Repertory Theater, McCarter Theater Center , Princeton, Shakespeare & Company, Service, Fisher, New Brunswick Performing Arts Center Locations: California, N.J, Lenox, Dublin, Bard, Annandale, Hudson, N.Y, Polish, Warsaw, New Brunswick Performing Arts Center , New Brunswick, TheaterWorks Hartford, Hartford, Conn
The Stupid Party vs. the Evil Party
  + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Daniel Henninger's weekly column, “Wonder Land,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Thursday. Mr. Henninger was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 1987 and 1996, and shared in the Journal's Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of the attacks on September 11. In 2004, he won the Eric Breindel Journalism Award for his weekly column. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for commentary, the Scripps Howard Foundation's Walker Stone Award for editorial writing and the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Award for editorial writing. He is a weekly panelist on the "Journal Editorial Report" on Fox News.
Persons: Daniel Henninger's, , Henninger, Eric Breindel, Gerald Loeb, Scripps Howard Foundation's Walker Organizations: Scripps, American Society of Newspaper, Fox News, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service Locations: Cleveland
Participants march with a banner with rainbow colours during the annual pride parade in Hong Kong, China, November 7, 2015. "Hong Kong has a real opportunity to take the lead here and give a clear message," said Gigi Chao, the vice chair of listed Hong Kong property firm Cheuk Nang Holdings and a prominent gay rights advocate in Asia. "WAKE UP"Business groups in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan have become increasingly vocal in making the case that Asia's leading economies must do more to encourage diversity. A poll this year by Kyodo news agency of just over 1,500 people showed that nearly 70 percent supported same-sex marriage. While corporates rarely lobby Asian governments directly on LGBTQ rights, activists say they show their support through sponsorship of LGBTQ events and Pride-themed marketing.
Persons: Bobby Yip, Janet Ledger, Jimmy Sham, Asia's, Gigi Chao, Chao, Kida, Kiyong Shim, Dyson, Nomura, Kathy Teo, Singapore's, they're, Teo, Revolut, Jessie Pang, Justin Fung, Xinghui, Hyonhee Shin, Hyunsu Yim, Miral Organizations: REUTERS, Kong's, Community Business, Gay Games, Nang Holdings, Reuters, American Chamber of Commerce, Fortune, Kyodo, Liberal Democratic Party, EY, FINANCE, Rights Watch, Gallup, WeWork, Standard Chartered Bank ., Google, IBM, Thomson Locations: Hong Kong, China, HONG KONG, TOKYO, Tokyo, Singapore, Asia, Taiwan, Nepal, India, South Korea, York, Japan, EY Japan, Korea, Seoul, Standard Chartered Bank . Singapore, Xinghui Kok
Trump the Opera: The Indicted One
  + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Daniel Henninger's weekly column, “Wonder Land,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Thursday. Mr. Henninger was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 1987 and 1996, and shared in the Journal's Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of the attacks on September 11. In 2004, he won the Eric Breindel Journalism Award for his weekly column. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for commentary, the Scripps Howard Foundation's Walker Stone Award for editorial writing and the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Award for editorial writing. He is a weekly panelist on the "Journal Editorial Report" on Fox News.
Persons: Daniel Henninger's, , Henninger, Eric Breindel, Gerald Loeb, Scripps Howard Foundation's Walker Organizations: Scripps, American Society of Newspaper, Fox News, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service Locations: Cleveland
Markets await hints on the outlook for interest rates when Federal Reserve officials and policy makers from the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan head to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for an annual meeting later this week. Earlier on Wednesday, Japan posted shrinking factory activity for a third straight month in August, and the euro zone, France, Germany, Britain and the United States are set to release their own purchasing managers' index (PMI) data later in the day. Crucial to shoring up oil demand over the rest of the year is China, the world's second-largest economy. Crude stocks in the United States continued to fall, dropping by about 2.4 million barrels in the week ended Aug. 18, according to market sources citing American Petroleum Institute figures on Tuesday. That was a slightly smaller draw than a drop of 2.9 million barrels analysts expected in a Reuters poll.
Persons: Jackson, Brent, Hiroyuki Kikukawa, John Evans, Paul Carsten, Yuka Obayashi, Andrew Hayley, Clarence Fernandez, Mark Potter Organizations: Danang Petroleum Machinery Technology JSC, U.S, West Texas, Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, U.S . Federal, NS, Nissan Securities, PVM, Organization of, Petroleum, American Petroleum Institute, Energy Information Administration, Thomson Locations: Danang, United States, Jackson Hole , Wyoming, Japan, France, Germany, Britain, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, U.S, London, Tokyo, Beijing
One Black, one white. In 1995, Ruth J. Simmons, the elder of the two, became the first Black president of Smith, one of the largest of the Seven Sisters colleges. But that wasn’t her last first; in 2001, she left Smith to take the helm at Brown University, making history again by virtue of both her race and her gender — the first Black woman to lead an Ivy League institution, which she did until 2012. In 2007, Drew Gilpin Faust was named the first woman president of Harvard University, a post she held until 2018. As the youngest of 12 children, she had a comparatively easier time because she was the baby of the family.
Persons: Drew Gilpin, Ruth J, Simmons, , Smith, Drew Gilpin Faust, She’s, , Read, , ” Simmons Organizations: Seven, Brown University, Ivy League, M University, Harvard University, American Locations: Texas, East Texas
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSummary China draws on record inventories amid high prices -dataBuoyant heating oil lifts crude prices -analystChinese economy and US rate risk continues to weighLONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Oil prices edged higher on Monday as tighter supply reflected in fewer exports from Saudi Arabia and Russia and high heating oil prices outweighed concern over global demand growth. Brent crude was up 52 cents to $85.32 a barrel at 1348 GMT and U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up 65 cents at $81.90. A weaker dollar makes oil purchases less expensive for holders of other currencies, potentially boosting demand. Another bullish factor is the high price of heating oil, which is in focus as the northern hemisphere approaches darker months, said John Evans of oil broker PVM. However, what is like trying to hit a "flying insect with a bazooka" is determining whether the buoyant heating oil market is enough to rally the oil complex or just hold it in the face of broader macroeconomic concerns, he said.
Persons: Lucy Nicholson, Brent, Warren Patterson, ING's, John Evans, Natalie Grover, Paul Carsten, Florence, Mohi Narayan, David Goodman, Mark Potter Organizations: REUTERS, . West Texas, of, Petroleum, Thomson Locations: Bakersfield , California, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, OPEC, Saudi, London, Florence Tan, Singapore, New Delhi
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