Harvard grad, activist, Soros Fellow: Meet Amar BakshiIn a three-part series commencing today, Arthur J Pais profiles some of the winners of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. First up is Amar Bakshi, who fought and won a legal battle to uphold the freedom of the press in Zimbabwe and has studied at Harvard, John Hopkins and now Yale. Amar Bakshi, a Truman Scholar and now a Soros Fellow, was jailed a few years ago in Zimbabwe on charges of stealing government secrets. Officials there had become concerned, he said, over his ... Rediff.com, 12 hours ago |
This book junks some of innovation's most toxic myths Arthur J Pais analyses How Stella Saved the Farm, a book that many organisations are talking about at the moment Written by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, How Stella Saved the Farm is a parable about a farm in trouble and how it innovates to get out of trouble. The duo has also authored the New York Times bestselling Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere. How Stella Saved the Farm reflects the classes that Govindarajan, a Dartmouth business professor, has been ... Rediff.com, 1 month ago
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Thank you, Mr Ebert, for taking us on this journeyWe will always remember Roger Ebert at the movies, says Arthur J Pais, in his tribute to the prolific movie critic, who passed away on April 4.Roger Ebert, the prolific movie critic, author of half a dozen influential books on cinema and a brave fighter against cancer which had robbed him of his voice and finally, his life, on April 4 -- nearly 11 years after it was first detected -- had visited India only once, for less than two weeks.‘But I left a part of my heart there,’ he ... Rediff.com, 1 month ago
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Degree recipients earn bounty of honors, prizes and awardsRice undergraduates, graduate students and recent graduates earned a number of fellowships, scholarships and awards this year. C.M. and Demaris Hudspeth Endowed Award for Student Life and Clubs Ian Bishop Schimmel Charles Duncan Award for ... Rice University, 1 week ago
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'Lost' Portraits Of Andy Warhol Go On Display For First TimeMarilyn Monroe with banana-yellow hair, Queen Elizabeth bathed in psychedelic colours - just two of the world-famous portraits we associate with American artist Andy Warhol, the leading figure of the 1960s Pop Art movement. Having shaped the art ... Huffington Post UK, 3 weeks ago
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Meet Raj Chetty, the 'Baby Nobel' winner this yearA 360-degree view of the man, his family and his pioneering work on education. Indian American economist Raj Chetty won the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal for 2013, often referred to as the 'Baby Nobel' because one in every three economists who won this award went on to win a Nobel. Notable among those who won the John Bates Clark Medal and later went on to win the Nobel include Milton Friedman, Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Paul Samuelson and Chetty's mentor Martin Feldstein. Awarded ... Rediff.com, 1 month ago
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Ties That Bind: Ernest Moniz, Keystone XL Contractor, American Petroleum Institute and Fracked Gas ExportsCongress will review the Obama Administration's nomination of Ernest Moniz for Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE) in hearings that start today, April 9. Professor Ernest Moniz, Obama's nominee to head the US Dept. of Energy, has come under ... Common Dreams, 1 month ago
Steve Horn: Ties That Bind: Ernest Moniz, Keystone XL Contractor, American Petroleum Institute and Fracked Gas
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Mangalore: Six CFAL Students Qualify for Prestigious 'Kishore Vaigyani' ScholarshipsTeam Mangalorean Mangalore: During the press meet held at the Press Club, Urwa here on Wednesday, 3 April, the Principal of Centre For Advanced Learning (CFAL), Severine Rosario, along with Arthur Pais (Vice-Principal CFAL) and Henry Rosario ... Mangalorean, 1 month ago
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"GOLD FEVER" April 13th World PremierePosted by Rights Action Team | 0 comments Rights Action is please to help announce the World Premiere of Gold Feverat the 2013 Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY): http://environment.yale.edu/film/2013/gold-fever/ WHERE: Whitney Humanities ... Rights Action, 1 month ago
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GOLDCORP & TAHOE RESOURCES linked to assassination of Exaltacion Marcos Ucelo, four indigenous Xinca [Shinka] leaders were forcibly kidnapped by armed masked men, after participating as observers at a public community consultation process that ended up saying no to Tahoe and Goldcorp's Escobal mine in the San Rafael Las ... Rights Action, 1 month ago
MORE MINING AND REPRESSION IN GUATEMALA In memory and honour of Exaltación Rámirez López
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