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04
2012
John McCain and Joe Lieberman visited a refugee camp as the situation continues to get worse in Syria. Clashes reached the Turkish border and Prime Minister Erdogan is now evaluating how best to respond.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335002038472414.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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Categories : Foreign Policy
28
03
2012
Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer and she previously worked at Google as well. She speaks regularly about women in the workforce, particularly about their place in male dominated industries (such as technology), and in C-level positions. These are links to an article about her in The New Yorker and two talks that she gave, one at a TED conference and one at Barnard’s commencement ceremony.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_auletta
http://barnard.edu/headlines/transcript-and-video-speech-sheryl-sandberg-chief-operating-officer-facebook
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Categories : Announcement
4
03
2012
“When the chips are down, I have Israel’s back”
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Categories : Foreign Policy
16
02
2012
The following two articles appeared in the New York Times in December when the city announced that Cornell and the Israeli Technion would be opening a graduate school for sciences on Roosevelt Island.
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Categories : Announcement