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A professor started tracking ‘Fortune 500 CEO colleges’ 20 years ago, and ‘the results were stunning.’ They haven’t stopped surprising him since

“Like everyone else,” David Kang assumed the Ivy Leagues would dominate, “but the largest place they had gone was to no college at all.”

Fortune

Alison Brown, banjo star and MBA-holder, is on tour to promote her new album featuring Steve Martin, Kronos Quartet

SAN DIEGO — Grammy Award-winner Alison Brown's status as the world's most unlikely banjo star is as undeniable as her command of the steel-stringed instrument long synonymous with her name.

Tribune News Service

How America's Growing Diversity Weakens the Case for Racial Preferences in Education

Affirmative action becomes harder to defend when it entails discrimination against a variety of racial and ethnic minority groups.

Reason

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Ida B. Wells Society internships mired by funding issues, says Nikole Hannah-Jones

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says administrative delays have made it impossible to carry on with several academic projects intended to foster the careers of young Black investigative journalists.

WEKU

‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski died by suicide in prison medical center, AP sources say

Ted Kaczynski was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years. He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 to 1995, killing 3 and wounding 23 others.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ted Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber," died of suicide: AP Sources

Ted Kaczynski, the man known as the Unabomber who carried out a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died by suicide

The Independent UK

Unabomber dead: Ted Kaczynski's cause of death REVEALED after killer found in cell

Ted Kaczynski, 81, was discovered unresponsive at a federal prison in North Carolina on Saturday decades after he terrorised the US with a series of targeted bombings

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Unabomber Ted Kaczynski found dead in prison cell aged 81

The Harvard-educated mathematician, who was the subject of a 2020 true crime documentary, ran a 17-year bombing campaign that terrorised the US

Irish Mirror

Who was Unabomber Ted Kaczynski? Criminal mastermind and pathetic loner who terrorised US

The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, has been depicted in various artistic works, and inspired popular culture, with movies and TV series centred around his criminal mastermind

Daily Mirror

Ted Kaczynski 'Unabomber' found dead in prison cell at 81

The Harvard-trained mathematician waged a war of terror on the USA with a lone wolf bombing campaign

Wales Online

‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, a Chicago native, dies in federal prison at 81

Years before the Sept. 11 attacks and the anthrax mailing, the “Unabomber’s” deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes, even virtually shutting down air travel on the West Coast in July 1995.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ted Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber,' has died in prison at age 81

Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday.

WEKU

A lesson Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg learned: Find the joy

David Hogg is a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting at his high school. He talks about advocacy, finding common ground with opponents and the importance of making time for joy amid the pain.

WEKU

Supreme Court Reaffirms Strong Presumption of Statutory Stare Decisis

It did so in today's Voting Rights Act ruling in Allen v. Milligan. This holding has implications for other cases where litigants attempt to overturn statutory precedents, especially longstanding ones.

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The Roberts Supreme Court is poised to strike down a key civil rights era ‘pathway to achieve the American Dream.’ What follows affirmative action?

As the Supreme Court ponders how educational institutions should use race in their admissions decisions, it’s worth thinking about what it did or didn’t accomplish—and what comes next.

The Independent UK

Harvard women's hockey coach retires amid allegations she verbally abused, hazed players

One of the most decorated coaches in women’s hockey history has stepped down after nearly 30 years leading Harvard’s women’s hockey program in the shadow of allegations by players that she engaged in abuses and other misconduct during her tenure

Fortune

Harvard’s future of work professor sees A.I. killing off one job in particular

The future looks “a lot less dull and a lot less routine” and will rely plenty on human brain power, Joseph Fuller tells Fortune.

PC Gamer

Bill Gates says he's a gamer now, calls them 'a terrific metaphor for human connection'

"The definition of a gamer is becoming a lot broader and more inclusive, and it might be fair to start calling me one".

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The Guardian - US

Harvard affirmative action challenge partly based on Holocaust denier’s work

Complaint draws heavily from 2012 article by Ron Unz, who publishes antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ and neo-Nazi screeds

WEKU

Here are the major Supreme Court decisions we're still waiting for this term

The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue opinions in 27 cases that it heard this term, and has about four weeks left to release them. Here are the major cases NPR is watching.

The Conversation

Ethiopia's musicians fled the country after the 1974 revolution - how their culture lives on

The overthrow of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 led to violent conflict that had a particularly heavy impact on musicians. Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora is the first study of the forced migration of musicians out of the Horn of…

The Conversation

Sudan’s war is wrecking a lot, including its central bank – a legacy of trailblazing African American economist and banker Andrew Brimmer

The war in Sudan between two rival generals for control of the country is devastating in so many ways. Hundreds of civilians have been killed, thousands injured and more than 1 million people are now homeless. The fighting is even wreaking havoc on the country’s central bank.

The Guardian - US

Florida taxpayers pick up bill for Ron DeSantis’s culture war lawsuits

Governor’s Disney battle and extremist policies are met with costly lawsuits covered by ‘blank check’ from Republican legislature

The Times of India

Umbilical cord: Why should parents save it?

Parents should save the cord blood of the new born babies because of the immense health benefits and potential it carries.

The National (Scotland)

Eminent US economist delivers damning verdict on Brexit and UK inflation

BREXIT has worsened inflation in the UK and will be remembered as a “historic” economic mistake, an esteemed US economist has said ...

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