Breibart News is the ultra-right wing outfit associated with Bannon. It espouses ultra-nationalism and hatred of Moslems, homosexuals, liberals etc etc. It now aims to subvert the elections of several European countries, and any advertising revenue paid to it helps in this effort. Several organisations have been campaigning to get advertisers to stop supporting Breibart …
There are around 70,000 British pensioners in Spain and 62 Spanish pensioners in Britain. (Prospect magazine, January 2017)
We spend an inordinate amount of time, and a tremendous amount of energy, making choices between equally attractive options in everyday situations. The problem is, that while they may be equally attractive, there are often tradeoffs that require compromise. If these mundane decisions drag on our time and energy, think about the bigger ones we …
About 40% of American colleges enroll 1000 or fewer students. Another 40% enroll 1000 – 5000 students. Most are dependent on tuition fees and don’t have decades of giving by alumnae behind them. The smaller colleges are competing for a shrinking number of students. The huge amount of money spent by their larger competitors on …
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In America educational institutions have struggled with low graduation rates and the fact that graduates have failed to pay off their loans after earning degrees with “little value in the job market”. Obama tried to strengthen consumer protections for those at for-profit colleges, introduced a system called Scorecard that was designed to help students and …
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