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Fun fact: First used in a private communiqué by Google co-founder Larry Page, ‘googling’ entered into the lexicon nearly as quickly as the company became the leader in Internet search. One of the earliest uses in popular culture was by the character...

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From Ian: Alan Dershowitz: A tribute to humanity’s teacher Elie Wiesel was my teacher, my “rabbi,” my mentor, my colleague, and my dear friend. Over the past 50 years, we worked together on numerous human rights projects. Elie did more to bring the...

It is easy to get distracted by other important events in the last week by the enormity of the information that has been released in the so-called – The Panama Papers – which document around 40 years of secretive banking deals, tax dodging, criminal...

Three days of peace and music. That is what started on this date some 44 years ago, when the Woodstock Music Festival opened on Max Yasgur’s farm in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York town of Bethel. The estimates of those in attendance...