He changed his name to Henry Ross Perot in honor of a brother, Gabriel Ross Perot Jr., who had died, just a toddler, in 1927. The family pronounced the surname PEE-roe, but in his 20s he changed that, too, making it puh-ROE because, he said, he got tired of correcting people. He called himself Ross; […]
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Image caption Nick Hulme is in charge of Colchester and Ipswich hospitals A hospital boss said his staff had to deal with “racist and homophobic” abuse from patients, with some refusing to be treated by black nurses. Nick Hulme, chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust, made the remarks during a Health
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionCressida Cowell: “I want to get children reading for the joy of it” Cressida Cowell, who has been named as the new Children’s Laureate, is ready to do battle to encourage children to love books. “The telly is glorious but that’s the competition,” said The How To
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Amazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first “war cloud” computing system. But Amazon‘s early hopes of a shock-and-awe victory may be slipping away. Formally called the Joint Enterprise Department Infrastructure plan, or JEDI, the military’s computing project would store and process vast amounts
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Matthew Wolff is so good that as a freshman at Oklahoma State, he received a vote for the Haskins Award as the best college player without even winning a tournament. There’s a little more to the story. And it starts long before Wolff went from NCAA champion to PGA Tour winner in a span of
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WASHINGTON — Amy McGrath, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and combat pilot who was a star Democratic candidate in 2018 but failed to capture a House seat in Kentucky, announced Tuesday that she would seek to take on Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, for his seat in 2020. Ms. McGrath, 44, made her
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the Fed’s annual stress tests of the nation’s largest banks will need to evolve to keep pace with a changing financial system. Powell called the tests, which determine whether a bank could survive a severe economic downturn, one of the “most successful supervisory innovations” achieved in the
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With veggie burgers — excuse me, plant-based burgers — firmly entrenched in fast-food restaurants, stock market IPOs and our culture, I can’t be the only one wondering why, in this brave new world of protein substitutes, there isn’t more fake fish. Until recently, this was a struggle that only a seafood-loving subset of hardcore vegetarians
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It didn’t take long for racism to truly hit home for Kristin Davis after she adopted the first of her two black children. Appearing on Jada Pinkett Smith’s “Red Table Talk” Monday to discuss interracial adoption, the “Sex and the City” star got teary-eyed as she described an incident involving Gemma, now 7. (See the
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Image copyright Reuters France is set to introduce an “eco-tax” for all flights from French airports, the government has said. The tax is expected to raise about €180m ($202m; £162m) from 2020, said Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne. The amount of the tax will depend on the type of ticket being bought. Economy class tickets on
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