After selling his first technology company, Gururaj Deshpande donated $20 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create a center for technological innovation, which bears his name. Mr. Deshpande is proud of the work the center fostered, but the effort focused on what he refers to as the two billion people in the world […]
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Nick Nash, a 24-year-old “hard-line conservative” who lives in Louisville, was among the unbothered. In his view, Mr. McConnell was simply acting as the “fighter” that the Republican Party had long needed. “The way D.C. is set up now, when you’re in charge, you make the rules,” Mr. Nash said. He shrugged. “I think Harry
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There was never much doubt that President Trump would make boasts about the economy central to his re-election campaign; that is his style, after all. What is becoming more clear is that the data on the economy are giving him something genuinely worth boasting about. That was especially evident in the first employment numbers of
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An “Friends” reunion special is no longer stuck in second gear, according to reports. An unscripted retrospective with the cast is “finalizing agreements” to stream on HBO Max in the spring, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Citing a person with knowledge of the talks, the Journal wrote that the core stars ― Jennifer Aniston,
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LOS ANGELES — The gallery M+B sold out its show of surreal, cloud-dappled landscapes by Leo Mock over the summer. The work was enigmatic, with images of long, birdlike legs stepping through the paintings. The official “artist bio” was also mysterious, saying only that Mr. Mock had graduated from ArtCenter College of Design and “lives
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