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☆ British Museum director quits over stolen treasures
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Andrew Macaskill | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A sign for the British Museum which houses the Parthenon sculptures is seen in London, Britain, January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The director of the British Museum said on Friday he would step down after admitting to failings in its investigation into the theft of items from its collection. "It is evident that the British Museum did not respond as comprehensively as it should have," he said in a statement. Fischer said that he withdrew remarks made about the art dealer who first alerted museum bosses to the stolen items. Earlier this week, Fischer said Ittai Gradel, an antiquities dealer, withheld information about the scale of the stolen items when he contacted the museum.

Persons: Toby Melville, Hartwig Fischer, Fischer, Ittai Gradel, George Osborne, Osborne, Andrew MacAskill, Sachin Ravikumar, Angus MacSwan, Andrew Heavens Organizations: British, REUTERS, British Museum, Police, Thomson Locations: London, Britain

☆ British Museum director quits over stolen items
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A sign for the British Museum which houses the Parthenon sculptures is seen in London, Britain, January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The director of the British Museum said on Friday he was stepping down with immediate effect after admitting to failings in the museum's investigation into the theft of items from its collection. "Over the last few days I have been reviewing in detail the events around the thefts from the British Museum and the investigation into them," he said in a statement. "It is evident that the British Museum did not respond as comprehensively as it should have." The museum's board of trustees, chaired by former British finance minister George Osborne, accepted Fischer's resignation.

Persons: Toby Melville, Hartwig Fischer, George Osborne, Osborne, Andrew MacAskill, Sachin Ravikumar Organizations: British, REUTERS, British Museum, Thomson Locations: London, Britain

☆ Trump confirms he will not participate in first GOP primary debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Washington CNN —Former President Donald Trump confirmed Sunday he will not participate in the first Republican primary debate this week. A Trump adviser told CNN that the former president could still decide to participate in a later primary debate, despite his post. Wednesday’s primary debate is the first of the 2024 cycle. “I’m still holding out hope that President Trump will come. Fox News president Jay Wallace and the network’s chief executive, Suzanne Scott, had also encouraged Trump to participate in the debate.

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☆ Can She Revive the Largest Museum on the African Continent?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Roslyn Sulcas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Kouoh said that she decided to take the job after many conversations with Black colleagues. Kouoh has changed “how the local community see Zeitz,” said the Cape Town-based artist Igshaan Adams, who recently spent eight months in residence there. What influences come from an artist like Issa Samb or Gerard Sekoto to younger artists today? “There is a lot of mutual support, of generosity and care across the continent. I am part of that generation of African art professionals who have pride and knowledge about the beauty of African culture, which has often been defined by others in so many wrong ways.

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☆ Opinion | At a College Targeted by DeSantis, Gender Studies Is Out, Jocks Are In
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In two weeks, the new school year will begin at Florida’s New College, the progressive public liberal arts school singled out by Gov. Hampshire College, a small private liberal arts school in New England, has offered financial aid to New College students so they can transfer without tuition increases. Last week, New College’s leadership announced that it was moving to abolish the gender studies department. Given that Rufo frames the New College takeover as a demonstration project to be repeated by red states nationwide, I’d expect attempts to scrap gender studies to spread. Rufo speaks a lot about academic excellence and the virtues of a classical liberal education.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Chris Rufo, DeSantis, Rufo, Steven Walker, ”, Walker Organizations: Florida’s New College, Gov, Hampshire College, New College, New, Wyoming Legislature, The Sarasota Herald - Tribune, ACT Locations: New England, Hampshire, America, Hungary, Wyoming

☆ Florida State University taps JPMorgan to help find potential investors
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Florida State University has been working with JPMorgan as it explores options to bring in funding from institutional investors, according to a person familiar with the matter. The discussions have been ongoing in recent months, and Sixth Street Partners has expressed interest as an investor, the person said. The discussions with potential equity investors are not tied to FSU's potential push to leave the conference, according to the person familiar with the matter. Sportico earlier reported that FSU was working with JPMorgan and that Sixth Street was part of the discussions. "That effort fell apart, mainly because it was a challenge to mesh private investors with the potential media rights for public schools," said sports media consultant Lee Berke.

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☆ Stanford University president to quit after review finds flaws in his research
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Brad Brooks | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 19 (Reuters) - The president of Stanford University, one of the most prestigious U.S. schools, announced plans on Wednesday to resign his post after an independent review ordered by its board of trustees found flaws in his research as a neuroscientist. Those allegations were in connection with Alzheimer's disease research carried out when Tessier-Lavigne was the executive vice president of research drug discovery at the U.S. biotechnology company Genentech Inc. But the review of 12 research papers dating over two decades found that when concerns about the research were raised, "Tessier-Lavigne failed to decisively and forthrightly correct mistakes in the scientific record." As a result of the review, Tessier-Lavigne said he was going to retract three papers and correct another two. The board of trustees named Richard Saller, a professor in Stanford's Department of Classics, as interim president beginning Sept. 1.

Persons: Marc Tessier, Lavigne, Tessier, " Tessier, Richard Saller, Brad Brooks, Will Dunham, Donna Bryson Organizations: Stanford University, Stanford, University, Genentech Inc, Stanford's Department of Classics, Thomson Locations: U.S, Palo Alto , California, Lubbock , Texas

☆ A Dollar General developer sued a Michigan town after it said 'no' to one of the chain's stores
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Residents in Nottawa Township, Michigan, prevented a Dollar General store from opening in their town. But Dollar General is opening the store anyway after its developer sued the town. Dollar General is one of the fastest-growing retailers in the US and on track to have 20,000 stores. But the developer, Midwest V LLC, who was working on behalf of Dollar General, responded by suing the town. Dollar General is among the retailers opening the most new stores in the US.

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☆ Why college is getting more expensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

After adjusting for currency inflation, college tuition has increased 747.8% since 1963, the Education Data Initiative found. But the net price of college — that’s the amount that students and their families are actually shelling out — has been decreasing. The average student at a private four-year college paid $32,800 for tuition and room and board last year. When adjusted for inflation, the actual price paid for private college has dropped by 11% over the past five years, according to College Board data. In a 6-3 decision the Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration's student debt forgiveness program in Biden v. Nebraska.

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Social Security has likely touched your life or the life of someone you know. While you're working, a chunk of your paycheck goes toward Social Security. In 2023, nearly 70 million Americans will receive a Social Security benefit every month. The Social Security Board of Trustees projected in its annual report that the combined asset reserves of the Social Security trust funds will become depleted in 2034, one year sooner than previously projected. A woman stands outside a U.S. Social Security Administration building in Burbank, California, Nov. 5, 2020.

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☆ Britain considers tougher scrutiny of pension fund trustees
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Huw Jones | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Finance minister Jeremy Hunt on Monday set out plans to increase pension fund investment in unlisted companies and mandatory consolidation of poorly performing schemes. Many trustees work voluntarily while retired, on in a full time job, and can struggle to stay on top of things, the paper said. "Evidence from Australia’s 'constructively tough' approach to supervision of trustees shows the importance of focusing on good governance to improve results for members," the paper said. Regulators questioned the skills of trustees who signed off on using liability-driven investment (LDI), which struggled last September to come up with enough collateral. FCA CEO Nikhil Rathi has said that a smaller number of defined benefit schemes using professional trustees might be better at delivering long-term investment.

Persons: Jeremy Hunt, Australia’s, Nikhil Rathi, Huw Jones, Mark Potter Organizations: Regulators, Financial, Authority, Thomson

☆ Northwestern Fires Pat Fitzgerald, Football Coach, Amid Hazing Allegations
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Eduardo Medina | More About Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Northwestern University on Monday fired Pat Fitzgerald, its longtime head football coach, after an investigation found that his players had participated in widespread hazing, including forced nudity and sexualized acts. His firing came three days after the university said that Fitzgerald, who had been head coach of the Wildcats since 2006, would be suspended for two weeks without pay after the investigation found the hazing allegations to be credible. Michael Schill, the president of Northwestern, said in a statement that the decision to fire Fitzgerald, 48, came “after a difficult and complex evaluation” of his earlier discipline and after discussions with the board of trustees, students, alumni and Fitzgerald. “The decision to originally suspend Coach Fitzgerald was mine and mine alone, as is the decision to part ways with him,” Schill said.

Persons: Pat Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, Michael Schill, “, ” Schill Organizations: Northwestern University, Monday, Wildcats, Northwestern

☆ An Elite School, a Boy’s Suicide and a Question of Blame
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( John Leland | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Suspected suicide attempts among adolescents Ellis’s age were up 49 percent in 2021 compared with prepandemic levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Because it did not contextualize in any way what the issues were in my son’s suicide. And it says the school is being proactive to deal with this mental health crisis. Totally dishonest.”Jeffrey Gural, Ellis’s grandfather, also pressed the school’s board of trustees. The elder Mr. Gural is chairman of GFP Real Estate L.L.C.

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☆ Opinion: The Supreme Court rewrites American society once again
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Opinion Cnn Contributors | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +25 min

But learning the facts - that affirmative action is critical for fostering equal access and opportunity in our academic institutions -cemented my belief that affirmative action is necessary if we want to create an equitable nation. The court’s decision Thursday is consistent with its view that race-based preferences should and would have a limited shelf life. Jon Wang, who revealed himself as a plaintiff in this Supreme Court case, was rejected by Harvard but was accepted at and is now attending Georgia Tech. Affirmative action enabled my ability to experience different ways of thinking and to form the lasting friendships I have made. Affirmative action has been a tool used by many countries to ensure underrepresented communities are included in areas they normally are not.

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☆ ‘Building Something Together’: Translators Discuss Their Art
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There are as many ways of translating a literary text as there are translators. Literary translators have, however, historically received little recognition. Efforts by translators and by organizations like PEN America, which recently issued a manifesto on literary translation, have brought the field greater visibility, helping to cement the rights of translators and to raise awareness of literary translation as a creative art in its own right. Mui Poopoksakul is a Thailand-born lawyer turned literary translator. Bruna Dantas Lobato, originally from Brazil, is a literary translator from Portuguese and a writer.

Persons: Samantha Schnee, Allison Markin Powell, Jeremy Tiang, Mui, Bruna Dantas, JULIANA BARBASSA, Isaac Bashevis Singer Organizations: PEN America, Times, Conference, PEN Locations: Singapore, Thailand, Brazil

☆ Fact Check-Shahzada Dawood, who died on Titanic sub, was not a WEF vice chairman
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Businessman Shahzada Dawood, a passenger on the deep-sea Titan submersible destroyed during a dive to the Titanic wreckage, who is now confirmed dead, was not vice chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), as claimed in social media posts. One user who shared the claim on Twitter said: “One of the passengers on the Titan submarine is Pakistan billionaire Shahzada Dawood - The Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum Coincidence? Dawood is not listed as a board member or employee of the WEF via the organization's website (here). A search for Dawood via the WEF website reveals that he was listed as an attendee at various WEF meetings in his capacity as Director of Dawood Hercules Corporation (here). Shahzada Dawood who died on the destroyed Titan submersible was not a Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Persons: Shahzada Dawood, Dawood, Suleman, “, ” Yann Zopf, ”, Peter Brabeck, Zopf, Read Organizations: Economic, Twitter, Coast Guard, Reuters, Trustees, Business, Dawood Hercules Corporation Locations: Pakistan

☆ James Crown, a billionaire JPMorgan board member who belonged to one of the US' richest families, died in a racing crash on his 70th birthday
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Billionaire businessman James "Jim" Crown died in a racing crash in Aspen, Colorado on Sunday. Crown collided with an impact barrier in an accident, the coroner's office told The Colorado Sun. Forbes ranked the Crown family as the US' 34th richest in 2020 with an estimated wealth of $10.2 billion. Billionaire businessman James "Jim" Crown died in a racing crash in Aspen, Colorado on Sunday, multiple news outlets reported. "The official cause of death is pending autopsy although multiple blunt force trauma is evident," the coroner's office told the publication.

Persons: James, Jim, Crown, Henry Crown, Junius Mayer Schine, Jamie Dimon, Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Biden, Brandon Johnson, Jim Crown Organizations: Sunday . Crown, Colorado Sun, Forbes, Morning, Aspen Motorsports, The Colorado Sun, Pitkin County Coroner's, Aspen Times, Bloomberg, Henry Crown and Company, Aspen Institute, Aspen Skiing, General Dynamics, White, Indian, America, Chicago, Museum of Science and Industry, University of Chicago Locations: Aspen , Colorado, Pitkin County, Colorado, Chicago

☆ More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Reuters Graphic | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +46 min

Then the war came, and according to the family history, Union soldiers plundered Sessions’ 27-room house. About 48 years old at the time, he did not stand a chance to succeed without slavery, the family history suggests. ‘A Better Nation’Some historians and genealogists say there is a valuable reason for white leaders – and other white Americans – to explore their links to slavery. Nicka Sewell-Smith, a professional genealogist with the family history website Ancestry.com, said people frequently ask her what to do with such documents. The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Meeks said in an interview that he has spent years trying to trace his family history back before 1870.

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☆ Chicago business executive and philanthropist Jim Crown killed in Colorado racetrack crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Crown, a grandson of industrialist Henry Crown and the chief executive of Henry Crown & Co., was involved in a single-vehicle accident at the Aspen Motorsports Park in Woody Creek, the Pitkin County coroner's office said in a news release. Crown's father, financier Lester Crown, said his son "was driving a race car, and it hit a wall going around a curve," the Chicago Sun-Times reported. "There never was a finer human being in every way," Lester Crown said. Crown's family business, Henry Crown & Co., invests in public and private securities, real estate, and operating companies. "The Crown family is deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Jim Crown in an accident earlier (Sunday)," his family said.

Persons: James, Jim Crown, Henry Crown, Lester Crown, Jim, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Brandon Johnson, Obama, Salomon, Lester, Renée Organizations: James Crown, University of Chicago, Chicago . Crown, Co, Aspen Motorsports, Chicago Sun, Times, Commercial Club of Chicago, Sun -, Chicago, Aspen Skiing Co, General Dynamics, JPMorgan Chase, The Aspen Institute, Museum of Science, Industry, President's Intelligence, Hampshire College, Stanford Law School, Salomon Brothers Inc, Capital Markets Service Locations: Chicago ., Chicago, Colorado, Woody Creek, Pitkin County, It's, Amherst , Massachusetts, New York

☆ Special Report: US, Swedish prosecutors study graft complaint naming son of Turkey's Erdogan
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( David Gauthier-Villars | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +16 min

The proposed plan was detailed in communications and business documents seen by Reuters, as well as by a person familiar with the matter. A screengrab shows information about the AL-100K dashboard breathalyzer on the website of Swedish company Dignita Systems. Reuters was unable to confirm independently whether President Erdogan and his son Bilal were aware of, or had involvement in Dignita's alleged kickback scheme. Ibn Haldun University was founded by Turgev, a charity organization President Erdogan helped create in the 1990s, when he was mayor of Istanbul. In 2016, Italian prosecutors conducted a money-laundering probe into Bilal Erdogan on suspicion he had brought cash into the country without declaring it.

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However, the golf simulator transaction appears to have been structured to avoid Florida’s rigorous ethical disclosure requirements, said two governance experts in Florida. Florida state law requires public officials to file quarterly reports listing all gifts received with a value over $100. Uthmeier wrote that the loan was “permissible” according to state law and the Governor’s Ethics Code. Trump paid for his own golf simulator, according to the Washington Post. According to the list, the “acquisition cost” of both the treadmill and the golf simulator are listed as $1.

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☆ OceanGate Expeditions' Titanic tourism is a thing, and it's dangerous
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

But for those willing to shell out, tourism and research company OceanGate Expeditions offered eight-day missions that allow customers to explore the Titanic more than 13,000 feet below the ocean’s surface using five-seat carbon fiber and titanium underwater vessels. OceanGate launched successful expeditions to the Titanic wreckage in 2021 and 2022. Geoffrey Kent, the founder of luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent, has recently planned trips for clients including race car driving on ice in Finland and orangutan trekking in Borneo. OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush has also repeatedly claimed that existing submersible regulations needlessly prioritize passenger safety over commercial innovation. But it also hasn’t innovated or grown—because they have all these regulations,” Rush said in an interview that appeared in a June 2019 issue of Smithsonian Magazine.

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☆ Top Donor Provided Ron DeSantis, an Avid Golfer, With a Costly Simulator
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Alexandra Berzon | Maggie Haberman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

A list of the mansion’s acquisitions that was provided by the governor’s office included rugs and a Peloton bike donated to a previous administration. On the campaign trail, Mr. DeSantis, an avid golfer, has been playing up his working-class roots in an effort to connect with voters in early voting states. His appointment predated Mr. DeSantis’s first term in office, but he was reappointed by Mr. DeSantis in 2021. The front-runner, Mr. Trump, has repeatedly sought to draw attention to Mr. DeSantis’s use of private donor planes. Jason Miller, a Trump aide, reacted to the news reports on Wednesday on Twitter, saying it was “Ron DeSantis’ Florida Swamp in Action!”

Persons: DeSantis, Donald J, Trump, Hosseini, Jeremy Redfern, ” Mr, Redfern, DeSantis’s, James Uthmeier, Jason Miller, Ron DeSantis Organizations: Republican, New York Times, ICI Homes, University of Florida, Mansion Commission, Twitter Locations: Florida, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Milwaukee

☆ Hamish Harding, billionaire explorer and prominent Pakistani father and son are on board the missing sub
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

While the names of those on board have not been released by the authorities, British businessman Hamish Harding, Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman Dawood, and French diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet have been confirmed to be on board the craft. The company said in statement posted on social media that Harding was on board the submersible. From The Explorers ClubFather and sonShahzada Dawood and his son, Sulaiman Dawood, have also been confirmed to be among the five people aboard the submersible. Harding said in a social media post on Saturday that diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, was scheduled to be on the dive with him. He serves as the director of underwater research at RMS Titanic Inc., the company that has exclusive rights to salvage artifacts from the ship.

Persons: Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Sulaiman Dawood, Paul, Henry Nargeolet, Harding, Buzz Aldrin, Giles, ” Hamish Harding, Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Shahzada, Abdul Samad, Sabrina Dawood, Dawood Hercules Corporation’s, Henri Nargeolet, “, ”, Nargeolet’s, Nargeolet, David Gallo, … we’ve, we’re Organizations: CNN, Authorities, United Arab, Action Aviation, Explorers, OceanGate Expeditions, Club, Dawood Hercules Corporation, SETI, BFMTV, Titanic Inc, French Navy Locations: British, United Arab Emirates, New York, California

☆ Biden aides tap Google chair for chips research effort, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Trevor Hunnicutt | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The Biden administration picked the chairman of Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O), John Hennessy, and four other technology industry experts to help with research-and-development of next generation computer chips, U.S. officials told Reuters. Hennessy and the selected individuals are set to be announced by the Commerce Department on Tuesday, according to the officials, who declined to be identified. They will be responsible for picking a board of trustees to run the National Semiconductor Technology Center. That public-private partnership was authorized to lead research on next-generation chips as part of last year's bipartisan $52.7 billion semiconductor manufacturing and research law, which also subsidizes new chip plants. The nonprofit board is expected make politically sensitive decisions, including where in the United States to locate the center's research facilities.

Persons: Biden, John Hennessy, Hennessy, Joe Biden, Janet Foutty, Jason Matheny, Don Rosenberg, Brenda Wilkerson, Trevor Hunnicutt, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Google, Reuters, Commerce Department, National Semiconductor Technology, Stanford University, Deloitte, RAND Corp, Anzu Partners, Qualcomm, Thomson Locations: United States, China, Taiwan

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