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For the past several years, City & State has closed out the year with a list of leaders in the private sector who are actively seeking to help New Yorkers and make our state a better place. It was a nice, uplifting feature that reminded us all that there’s more to life than making money as we brainstorm our own New Year’s resolutions.
But 2020 was different. As we shut ourselves in our homes and lost family, friends and neighbors to a deadly pandemic, and as the federal government abdicated responsibility, it fell on state and local governments and private institutions to do the responsible thing and pick up the slack to help New Yorkers in their time of need.
Wolfgang Kaleck is using the justice system to do what nation-states will not or cannot.
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December 14, 2020
Wolfgang Kaleck, a 60-year-old human rights lawyer with large blue eyes and a wave of sandy brown hair, smiles a lot for someone who has spent his life litigating some of the world’s worst atrocities. “The stories you hear you won’t forget,” he says, sitting at a long table in his office in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. “But at the same time you learn about these cruel facts of the world, you learn about the light side, which is that there’s resistance basically everywhere.” He should know: For the better part of three decades, he has pursued cases across borders on behalf of victims who have been disappeared by the military dictatorship in Argentina and spied upon by the East German Stasi. He has filed criminal complaints against former U.S. officials, including President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Direc
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Microsoft, Nasdaq among founders of new National Council for AI Monday 14 December 2020 | 09:07 CET | News A number of US organisations, including Microsoft, Mastercard, Visa and Nasdaq, have come together to form a new National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI). The council also beings together the Brookings Institution, CUNY (City University of New York), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Plug and Play, SUNY (State University of New York) and the University of Central Florida. The council s aim is to establish a pragmatic coalition with public-private partnerships in the financial services sector to identify and address societal and industry barriers.
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