‘She made people feel special’: UC Regent Ellen Tauscher dies at 67
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UC Regent Ellen Tauscher died at Stanford University Medical Center on Monday after experiencing complications from pneumonia.
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New York City in 48 hours and 48 sentences
Begin your foray into New York City when you hop off the bus at Port Authority with “Empire State of Mind” blasting through your earphones, and dodge 15 different tour guides soliciting their services.
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Transfer or impostor: Why we deserve to be here too
The tendency to doubt one’s academic legitimacy or success — otherwise known as impostor syndrome — seems to occur most frequently among transfer students. It’s a persistent insecurity that persuades us we don’t belong…because we did not begin on the same four-year track as most of our undergraduate peers.
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Rush Bowls to rush into Berkeley in about 2 months
Rush Bowls, a health food restaurant that started in Colorado and sells all-natural bowls including acai and fruit, will be rushing into Berkeley within the next two to three months.
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‘Wall Street’ and the unfortunate necessity of greed in the US
What Stone very brilliantly reveals in the film is the fatal flaw of Wall Street, stock brokerage and capitalism as whole: humanity.
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Bernie Sanders advocates higher minimum wage, free college tuition at campus press conference
Speaking with his fists clenched, his finger pointing and his face flushed, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders expounded on his progressive platforms — including raising the federal minimum wage and making public colleges tuition-free — at a UC Berkeley press conference Friday afternoon.
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Back and Forth: Kevin Roose, author and journalist
Kevin Roose is a former writer for the New York Times’ Dealbook and is a current columnist for New York Magazine. His second book, “Young Money,” which follows eight Wall Street analysts at the start of their careers, was published in February.
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ revels in absurd opulence
Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” closely follows the memoir of Wall Street swindler Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), capitalizing on the immoral, excessive and obscene antics that paved his road to wealth and power. A salesman and a scam artist who made
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Imagining a sane GOP
The Devil's Advocate
The Republican Party’s best possible argument against government intervention in the economy is that it has negative unintended consequences — in particular, that it harms the vulnerable. Of course, this isn’t usually the case — government programs, from Pell Grants to food stamps, have helped expand opportunity and lift millions
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Top earners see extensive income gains compared to bottom 99 percent, report says
According to a report released last month by the UC Berkeley department of economics, the top 1 percent of earners have made immense income gains while incomes of the bottom 99 percent have stagnated and declined.
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