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…trial contractors, operators, advisors and financiers in the infrastructure industry. TIIC Group successfully raised a First Fund with €140m of commitments targeting transportation investments across Europe. The portfolio of the First Fund comprises 6 assets located in Portugal,...

4 BANNON teve Bannon was the first Trump senior staffer in the White House after Trump was S sworn in. On the inauguration march, he had grabbed the newly appointed deputy chief of staff, Katie Walsh, Reince Priebus’s deputy at the RNC, and together they had peeled off to inspe...

… to follow, I will recount my experiences—both professional and personal—with each of those purported exceptions to the First Amendment. I will describe how the First Amendment has changed over the half century I have been litigating freedom of expression cases. In some instances...

…I did not deny that some pornography could be degrading to women, but I argued that it is precisely the function of the First Amendment to protect those whose speech offends and degrades. I pointed out that some of the most vocal opponents of pornography inadvertently provided t...

…were others doing referrals -- Protestant min- isters. So, I left my practice behind me. EP: The Realist was one of the first, if not the first, news sources to talk about Enovid [the first birth control pill]. PK: In the first few issues! And the pill was just a rumor. This guy...

…gineer named Paul Baran, who had been working at Howard Hughes’ aircraft design factory in Los Angeles, arrived for his first day at work at a low-slung, modern building along the Santa Monica beach in California. RAND - astylish 1950’s acronym for Research & Development - had be...

…m Kampala who had been allowed to visit them made three further visits: late Saturday afternoon, then shortly after the first Hercules had taken off from Sharm al-Sheikh, and finally around nine at night. I was able to reassure Rabin that the question to his second question was a...

…ed on racial, gender or religious stereotyping could raise sensitivities. I was sympathetic, therefore, when I asked a first year student how we would have responded to a particular plea bargain offer by a prosecutor. His response: “I would have tried to Jew him down a bit.” The...

you are in a first-world country and can buy local insurance to augment your own, which I do, and it is useless if you are a 10-hour flight from civilization. I had evacuation insurance in Panama, as it’s a 2- hour flight from Miami, but I didn’t bother elsewhere. Don’t freak out...

…anges over time I moved to Cambridge with my wife and two sons during the late summer of 1964. We rented an apartment, first in Brookline and a year later in Cambridge. I began my teaching career at Harvard at the age of 25. Some of my students were older than I was, and a lot...

…Cordelia Jenkins — Livemint and the Wall Street Journal On Friday, around 60 prospective philanthropists attended the “First Givers Club” summit in Delhi run by the online philanthropic donation forum Givelndia. While the club has existed in Mumbai since 2010, said Dnaval Udani,...

…age, which he even said could be a few times a day. Tomorrow we could be leaving Palm Beach together in his private jet first heading to his residence in the upper east side of Manhattan, also the largest mansion in N.Y, and would next be setting off to the Caribbean, where he ow...

…cused of legal misdeeds in representing several victims. The case would have been noteworthy because it would mark the first time that Epstein’s victims would have their day in court, and several of them were scheduled to testify. However, Epstein settled that case and publlicl...

…year run, in the reviving of European and then global fortunes, America played a decisive if reluctant role. As in that first period, she emerged richer, more central, and more modern. A third struggle, the Cold War, immediately followed the end of this second period. This conte...

… made Chinese and Indian workers today far more productive than they were under Mao Zedong or Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Societies now accept the simple fact that workers need material incentives to be productive, which has led to increased dignity and self-w...