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‘Media firestorm’: Israel protest at professor’s home sparks heated free-speech debate

Controversy followed a viral video of pro-Palestinian students interrupting a dinner held by a Berkeley free-speech defender

The Guardian - US

Students Don't Have a Right to Use Public University Social Events for Their Own Political Orations,

whether at administrators' homes or in law school classrooms.

Reason

Berkeley Students Post Anti-Semitic Cartoons, Disrupt Dinner at Dean Chemerinsky's Home

"I never thought I would see such blatant antisemitism."

Reason

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Plans for seven Woolwich tower blocks up to 18 storeys tall for 650 new homes

Plans have been revealed for a series of seven tower blocks up to 18 storeys tall in Woolwich along with a new park. Berkeley Homes has sent plans to Greenwich Council to build over 650 new homes and a park on the former Royal Arsenal site in Woolwich.

Evening Standard

Competition watchdog investigates £2.5 billion housebuilder merger

The CMA has opened an invitation to comment until 2 April

Evening Standard

McDonald’s says it’s trying to solve tech issues affecting some restaurants worldwide – as it happened

Global chain apologises to customers over IT problems which left customers unable to order food in countries including Australia, China, UK and Japan and led to temporary store closures

The Guardian - UK

Berkeley Students Violently Shut Down Event Featuring Israeli Attorney

Students should be able to peacefully protest events, but they shouldn't disrupt a speaker or assault attendees.

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Housebuilder shares fall as competition watchdog opens investigation; UK retail sales slump eases – as it happened

The CMA has opened an investigation into eight housebuilders following evidence they may be sharing commercially sensitive information.

The Guardian - UK

Endo Kazutoshi: Japanese chef to launch sushi bar and grill at 20 Berkeley

Creative Restaurant Group is changing the concept at its Mayfair restaurant after six months

Evening Standard

Are we witnessing the slow death of Peckham? How residents are battling big business to save the area's soul

The south London neighbourhood has never been so happening — which may be its downfall. As luxury housing and rising rents loom, residents are battling ‘gentrification on steroids’

Evening Standard

More Than Half of Californians Skip or Delay Medical Care Due to Cost

For many, premiums and deductibles now take three times more out of one’s budget than 20 years ago, UC Berkeley study shows.

Capital & Main

John Heilbron obituary

Historian of science whose books, including a biography of Galileo, helped to debunk several myths

The Guardian - UK

UC Berkeley Reverses Instructor's Attempt to Give Extra Credit for Pro-Palestinian Political Activity

"While instructors enjoy considerable freedom and all individuals, when acting as private citizens, enjoy free speech rights, University policy does impose limits on using the classroom or one's course for purposes of political advocacy."

Reason

Berkeley professor tells law firms not to hire his ‘antisemitic’ students, amid campus free speech crisis

Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon accused members of the student body of ‘advocating hate and practicing discrimination’

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Reason

Employers, Employees, Professors, Students: Remember—Some States Restrict Discrimination Based on Employees' Political Activity

Sunday, the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed by a law professor at UC Berkeley that argued: My students are largely engaged and well-prepared, and I regularly recommend them to legal employers. But if you don't want to hire people who advocate hate and practice discrimination, don't hire some of…

WEKU

'A Man of Two Faces' is a riveting, one-stop primer on Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer author's memoir is cocky and riveting — self-consciously constructed as if written for a standup audience and serving as a generous, one-stop primer for his fiction and scholarly work.

The Guardian - UK

UK interest rates now expected to peak at 5.5%; offshore wind power auction flops – as it happened

Government criticised as Britain’s latest subsidy auction to help support new renewable energy projects awarded no contracts for offshore wind projects

Evening Standard

FTSE 100 Live: London shares finish week ahead after late climb, pound below $1.25

London’s top flight is down today despite starting ahead, with GSK among the risers while yesterday’s top winner Melrose leads today’s fallers board.

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The Hindu

Oppenheimer: Remembering the physics that first made him great

J. Robert Oppenheimer had already made a foray into the topic of stellar collapse, which convinced him of the inevitability of black holes. Together with his student George Volkoff, he was able to significantly extend Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s result. Then, with Hartland Snyder, Oppenheimer provided a remarkably accurate mathematical description of the…

Wallpaper

London restaurant 20 Berkeley recalls a country manor in Mayfair

20 Berkeley celebrates British produce in a setting inspired by a private home

The Independent UK

Robert Oppenheimer: The true story behind Christopher Nolan’s biopic about ‘the father of the atomic bomb’

Real-life scientist behind the atomic bomb has a complicated legacy in America

The Independent UK

Robert Oppenheimer: The true story behind Christopher Nolan’s biopic about ‘the father of the atomic bomb’

Real-life scientist behind the atomic bomb has a complicated legacy in America

The Independent UK

Robert Oppenheimer: The true story behind Christopher Nolan’s biopic about ‘the father of the atomic bomb’

Real-life scientist behind the atomic bomb has a complicated legacy in America

The Independent UK

Oppenheimer: The true story behind Christopher Nolan’s biopic about ‘the father of the atomic bomb’

Real-life scientist behind the atomic bomb has a complicated legacy in America

Tribune News Service

Campus diversity will be a struggle without race-based admissions, history shows

States that have tried to enroll more Black and Hispanic students in state universities without using race-based admissions policies have seen the numbers of those students slip — especially at elite institutions.

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