In this interview with WSJ reporter Maggie Severns, longtime Trump ally Steve Bannonreflects on President Trump’s executive orders, Elon Musk’s role in the U.S. government with DOGE, and the closing of USAID among other topics.
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Daily Archives: February 1, 2025
#ThisAmericanOpera – Steve Bannon
#ThisAmericanOpera – Sean Duffy
20th United States Secretary of Transportation
Sean Duffy – the 20th United States Secretary of Transportation – comes to the upper reaches of the American Government by way of his time as a cast member on The Real World: Boston, Road Rules: All Stars and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons.
Secretary Duffy holds a marketing degree from Saint Mary’s University, and a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law which is affiliated with Hamline University in Saint Paul, MN.
Interestingly, the Secretary of Transportaion shares an name with the fictional detective Sean Duffy in Adrian McKinty’s mystery novel series.
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We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.
~ Will Rogers
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Campus Map
La Trobe University
[Twitter] @latrobe
[Facebook] https://www.facebook.com/latrobe/
[YouTube] https://www.youtube.com/user/latrobeuniaustralia
[Instagram] https://www.instagram.com/latrobeuni/
Campus Life at La Trobe University
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Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years.
~ Adam Grant
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Five Universities in Mainland China with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
- Beijing Normal University
- Jiangnan University
- Soochow University (Suzhou)
- Sun Yat-sen University
- Chang’an University
For a lighter read, Dmitri O’Bannon recommends Beijing Bound: A Foreigner Discovers China by Glen Loveland – published by Sid Harta Publishers.
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Five American Universities
to follow on LinkedIn
Learning Object
via The Wall Street Journal
Why Economists Hate Donald Trump’s Tariff Plan.
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Campus Map
Loughborough University
www.lboro.ac.uk/ | Wikipedia | Facebook
[Twitter] @lborouniversity
[Instagram] https://www.instagram.com/lborouniversity/
[TikTok] https://www.tiktok.com/@lborouniversity
[YouTube] https://www.youtube.com/user/lborouniversity
[LinkedIn] https://www.linkedin.com/school/loughborough-university/
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