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lthy investors collected Dollars 2m (Pounds 1.2m) to conduct a novel experiment on the extent of global academic freedom. The group, which included George Soros, Henry Jarecki and Jeffrey Epstein, established a fund to help scholars escape threats in their home countries and find teaching work elsewhere. The
t an index of academic freedom that would spotlight abuses in particular countries. "The impact and need has been greater than we expected," says Mr Soros, comparing the effort to his work on behalf of central and eastern European dissidents in the 1980s. So far, the thud has helped 30 scholars from 1
rds HEADLINE: Wall Street spearheads push to secure academic freedom: A scheme that began in the 1930s, and helped physicist Felix Bloch and writer Thomas Mann, seeks a Dollars 10m revival. Gary Silverman reports BYLINE: By GARY SILVERMAN BODY: About a year and a half ago, a small circle of wealthy inves
part of a larger effort to create a 10 million endowment that is being leesefugee-turned-millionaire Henry Jarecki, along with fellow businessmen Soros, Thomas Russo and Jeffrey Epstein. While the roster of scholars who have been helped suggests that the Jewish funding for the program does not come
of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany to the United States, including such luminaries as philosopher Martin Buber, physicist Enrico Fermi and novelist Thomas Mann. Descendents of several of those earlier scholars, along with families of other Jewish refugees, gathered recently at the Park Avenue apartment of
is part of a larger effort to create a 10 million endowment that is being lefisefugee-turned-millionaire Henry 'mad, along with fellow businessmen Soros, Thomas Russo and Jeffrey Epstein. While the roster of scholars who have been helped suggests that the Jewish funding for the program does not come
of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany to the United States, including such luminaries as philosopher Martin Buber, physicist Enrico Fermi and novelist Thomas Mann. Descendents of several of those earlier scholars, along with families of other Jewish refugees, gathered recently at the Park Avenue apartment of
thy investors collected Dollars 2m (Pounds I.2m) to conduct a novel experiment on the extent of global academic freedom. The group, which included Soros, Henry Jarecki and Jeffrey Epstein established a fund to help scholars escape threats in their ome countries and find teaching work elsewhere. The d
ds HEADLINE.: Wall Street spearheads push to secure academic freedom: A scheme that began in the 1930s, and helped physicist Felix Bloch and writer Thomas Mann, seeks a Dollars 10m revival. Gary Silverman reports BYLLNE: By GARY SILVERMAN BODY: About a year and a half ago, a small circle of wealthy inves
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Donald Trump
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Bill Clinton
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United States
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Marc Rich
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Prince Charles
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George W. Bush
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Prince Andrew
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General Electric
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Stephen Hawking
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George Mitchell
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Alan Dershowitz
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Paul Ryan
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Michael Douglas
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New York
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