The Inquiry - Why do the Indian farmer protests matter? - BBC Sounds
The Inquiry - Why do the Indian farmer protests matter? - BBC Sounds
Released On: 21 Jan 2021
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What could India’s farmer protests mean for the nation’s economic and political future?
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Universities face pressure to vet ex-Trump officials before hiring them Marisa Iati, Lauren Lumpkin Richard Grenell, a former Trump administration official, speaks to reporters at the White House in September. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) There is a long tradition of political appointees moving into academia former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice returned to Stanford University as a professor, ex-CIA director Robert Gates was a dean and then president at Texas A&M University, and former secretary of health and human services Sylvia Mathews Burwell is president of American University. But in recent months, some students and faculty have argued colleges should apply more scrutiny to former Trump officials looking to make similar transitions.
Still other colleges, particularly smaller campuses, reported few if any cases throughout their semesters.
Yamey and colleague Nahid Bhadelia, a professor at Boston University and director of the Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center, warned that colleges should prepare to be dealing with the impacts of the virus through 2021.
In a recent story for Time magazine, they recommended colleges employ measures such as frequent testing of all students; plenty of isolation and quarantine rooms for those infected or exposed to the virus; and social distancing on campus and the classroom.
Test, test and test again
Many higher education leaders say they ve already taken some of those lessons to heart.
Roosevelt claimed âthe Jacques report found that there was no homophobic intent or action in the actions by Gus Bickford,â while Jacques instead said that she did not make findings either way on the “motivations” for any actions taken â a clarification helpfully located at the top of the report on the first page. Roosevelt also said, âMayor Morse responded and acknowledged there were no false allegations.â While Morse has acknowledged “concerns” and apologized for making anyone uncomfortable, he never made a statement on the nature of the allegations â since, in fact, no concrete allegations were made.
The Intercept asked Roosevelt what he made of the suggestion that while Goverman’s slur was the most explicit expression of bigotry at the meeting, the entire thrust of the opposition was touched with homophobia. Roosevelt pointed to the state party investigation which he claimed found no evidence of homophobic intent. Asked why so many people f
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When Craig Carpenito took over as U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey nearly three years ago, he brought a reputation as a workmanlike lawyer who would use the high-profile position to focus on the courtroom, not the television cameras.
And that s what he did, slipping past the spotlight as he added more attorneys, boosted the office s production and created special units to deal with violence, opioids and cybercrime, among other things. It was a far different approach from predecessors such as former Gov. Chris Christie, whose boisterous style catapulted him into Drumthwacket just a year after he stepped down as the U.S. attorney in 2008.