And How To Make The Most Out Of It As with the rest of life, it is hard (if not impossible) to find a one-size fits all solution to the “perfect university experience”. However, after three years of being a student at UvA, I found that there is very little information that is faculty-specific about
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“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.” — Herbert Hoover At the time of publication, U.S. debt was estimated to be $28,239,008,350,646 (28 trillion U.S. dollars). U.K. national debt was £2,505,290,850,892 (2.5 trillion pounds). France’s national debt was €2,560,624,067,827 (2.5 trillion euros). It is hardly useful to compare absolute debt numbers
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The family office with a $50bn bet with Wall Street March 25th, 2021 — The stock of ViacomCBS, a traditional and popular U.S.-based multimedia company, had free fallen from $100.34 to $66.35 in only three days (see chart below). The stock had been highly popular with investors in the months prior, nearly doubling its price. The market
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In the middle of the 1947 heat-wave, Seretse Khama, the Prince of Bechuanaland (colonial Botswana) and heir to the throne, met the English Lloyd’s clerk Ruth Williams at a London ball. The Prince was smitten – after only a year of courtship, the Prince and the English clerk got hitched. However, what came after their
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Source: New York Times Almost no students leave university without passing a course on ethics–so why is the modern application of ethics so far from the textbooks? The word ethics comes from the Ancient Greek ēthikós that means “relating to one’s character”. To Socrates, being ethical meant knowing one-self and being open to every fact
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