Washington, US | Xinhua | The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that race-conscious admissions policies used by colleges and universities are unconstitutional, in a pair of cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Supreme Court stated that the admissions policies of Harvard …
Read More »SME chief, John Walugembe graduates from Harvard University
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Small and Medium Enterprise Chief, John Kakungulu Walugembe, graduated from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government on 29th May 2022. In a color full ceremony, held at the University’s campus in Cambridge Massachusetts, that was graced by the United States of America’s …
Read More »IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath to leave post, return to Harvard University
Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Gita Gopinath, chief economist and director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), intends to leave the IMF in January 2022, and return to Harvard University as planned, the IMF announced on Tuesday. “Gita’s contribution to the Fund and our membership has been …
Read More »Harvard student sues Ugandan gov’t officials for blocking him on Twitter
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Ugandan student at Harvard University has dragged the Attorney General to court seeking a declaration that he was illegally blocked from microblogging and social networking site; twitter by president Yoweri Museveni’s handlers. The student identified as Seguya Hillary Innocent Taylor using twitter handle @HillaryTaylorVI …
Read More »Break up Facebook, says company’s co-founder
New York, United States | AFP | One of the co-founders of Facebook called on Thursday for the social media behemoth to be broken up, warning that the company’s head, Mark Zuckerberg, had become far too powerful. “It’s time to break up Facebook,” said Chris Hughes, who along with Zuckerberg founded …
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