Results for “Open Society Foundations”

…anking relationships insufficient to create general personal jurisdiction). NCB offers its customers the opportunity to open accounts directly with United States-based securities broker-dealers, but NCB does not act as a broker-dealer for securities sold in the United States and...

…laint call to the front desk and we had an attendant cleaning up my bed linen. The cleaner noticed the window was still opened, he warned not to leave it ajar at nighttime just in case another monkey wanted to make himself comfortable in my quarters. Ghislane joked that maybe |...

… if you want to call me and read me the highlights, I can type them on a Word Doc as you dictate...(?) (Even when Scott opened them on his end he had no highlights) Forwarded message From: Scott Denett Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM Subject: raw text To: Lesley Groff < Accord...

…, two instances are particularly troubling. First, the USAO authorized the public disclosure of specific details of the open investigation to the New York Times—including descriptions of the prosecution's theory of the case and specific terms of a plea negotiation between the par...

inadequate for describing the mechanisms underlying biological systems, and so he missed out on how similar mechanisms might eventually be embodied in technological computational systems—as now they have been. Today’s dominant technologies were developed in the world of Turing an...

inadequate for describing the mechanisms underlying biological systems, and so he missed out on how similar mechanisms might eventually be embodied in technological computational systems—as now they have been. Today’s dominant technologies were developed in the world of Turing an...

the same city, nominally, but it’s as if it were two completely different cities—and this is perhaps the most important cause of today’s plague of polarization. On Extreme Wealth Some two hundred of the world’s wealthiest people have pledged to give away more than 50 percent of...

…ar? The EUR itself is still in an existential crisis; nothing needs to be said about the JPY; China could not even dare opening up its capital account. In fact, Beijing has just issued even more 'strict controls' on overseas investment, after experiencing some USD207 billion in o...

From: Terry Kafka Sent: 11/4/2013 4:06:12 PM To: Michael S. Buchholtz CC: Jeffery Edwards [[email protected]]; Mark L. Epstein Subject: FW: Rabbi Steven Pruzansky Attachments: image001.gif; image001.gif Importance: High MB: this sums up my feelings on the direction of the cou...

…irector Nisbet testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “We the People: Fulfilling the Promise of Open Government Five Years Journalists’ observation of World Press Freedom Day in Ottawa, Canada May 13-15 OGIS Staff participates in the American Society of...

… machines to ask the same of us? We note the growth of movements toward transparency in potential financial conflicts; “open-source” software, hardware, and wetware; the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR); and the Open Humans Foundation. In his 1976 book...

…tinue to swing between the reaffirmation of national unity and the solidarity of "the crescent and the cross" and the propensity towards sectarian strife and its attendant confrontations, clashes, accusations and conflicting theories as to whether this phenomenon stems from a lon...

…e were no economic or industrial strategies with discriminatory effect, e.g. nationality. The Haitian banking system is open to the entry and operation of foreign banks. At present, there are two foreign banks operating in Haiti: Citibank and Scotia bank (PRS Group, 2002; Invest...

…ok at the background to understand where China is today. This is the 40 th year, the anniversary, of China’s reform and opening up. On December 18 th , 1978, Deng Xiaoping made his famous speech, which transformed China from ideologically driven class struggle into economic devel...

…th the press (and in many ways with the entire outside world) have been about as disastrous as any could be, helping to open a Pandora’s box of lifestyle vulnerabilities that sent him to prison on a prostitution charge in 2008. And yet here he is, in his 50,000 square foot m...