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eJewish Philanthropy (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
South African philanthropist and communal leader Mendel Kaplan died yesterday at his home in Cape Town. Kaplan, 73, suffered a major stroke earlier this week. He will be buried on Sunday. Kaplan who has been involved in communal projects for over»
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Martin Johnson's men made it tough for their superior opponents, but nothing other than a New Zealand win was on the cards England promised to show their spirit against the All Blacks, and they were as good as their word. If you wanted a moment that summed up the challenge they presented to a side generally reckoned to be their superior in every respect, it would have to be Steve Borthwick's tackle...
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new A's ballpark (Free subscription) | yesterday
After a 12-year run as a charter franchise in the WNBA, the Maloof family suddenly closed up shop with the Sacramento Monarchs, citing financial concerns. This leaves the WNBA at least temporarily with 12 teams, and the Maloofs with one less loose end should they try to bolt from Sactown. At least one player learned of the team's ignominious fate via Twitter . That doesn't mean that women's pro hoops...
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Environmental and Urban Economics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Parents understand backwards induction. We believe that if our child can attend an elite university that this will build his/her human capital, social networks and resume. The fancy university bumper sticker on your car will signal that this kid should and will be part of the meritocratic elite (i.e the NY Times David Brooks). Is any of this logic actually true? Do the elite schools really have such...
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... for Some Value of Magic (Free subscription) | yesterday
Holden Web's first one-day workshop was, thanks to Jacob Kaplan Moss, a sell-out success. As a result, and partially due to some excellent feedback from the New York City Python Meetup group, we will be running the same workshop in New York on January 22 , again with Jacob presenting. We are also offering a one-day IronPython workshop presented by Michael Foord on January 21. Since the three-day Introduction...
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Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Watch what you write online. A survey by the group Kaplan found one in ten college admissions officers have viewed an applicant's Facebook or Myspace page.
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Cape Town – Leading South African-Israeli philanthropist Mendel Kaplan died Thursday in Cape Town after suffering a stroke on Tuesday. He was 73. Honorary president of Keren Hayesod and a former chairman of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors, Kaplan led numerous Jewish and Zionist projects to fruition over more than 50 years of community service [...]
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My Right Word (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Chabad-Lubavitch Sir, – In his review of Dana Kaplan’s Contemporary American Judaism (In Brief, October 2), Simon J. Rabinovitch misleadingly implies that the Chabad-Lubavitch movement is well beyond the pale of mainstream Judaism when he labels it as a “messianic, proselytizing . . . sect”. If by “messianic” Rabinovitch is referring to the hope that Chabad’s...
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Faultline USA (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
There has been a story flying around the internet in recent days that the Obama administration intends to purge Republicans from the bureaucracy by using a new federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) rule requiring that all applicants for career civil service jobs who held political jobs "within the past five years" be approved by OPM. The assertion is that “past five years”...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
[JURIST] A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani does not have a right to be represented by his military defense lawyers in a civilian court. Military lawyers Colonel Jeffrey Colwell and Major Richard Reiter were reassigned by the Department of Defense despite their willingness to continue representing Ghailani and Judge Lewis Kaplan's initial ruling in...