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Anti-Apartheid Leader Mamphela Ramphele Announces New Party to Challenge South Africa’s ANC
One of the leading activists from South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement has launched a new party. Mamphela Ramphele says her party will challenge the ANC in the 2014 elections. Anchor Katy Clark gets details from The World’s Anders Kelto in Cape Town.
This Week’s Agenda: NATO Summit, G8 Conference, Rajat Gupta Trial, NAACP’s Gay Marriage Endorsement
The NATO Summit spurs protests in Chicago all week, while European leaders continue talks that began at the G-8 conference over the weekend. The insider trading case against former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta begins this week in New York, as the Senate Banking Committee starts a round of Dodd-Frank hearings. Also, just a few […]
Gupta Faces Insider Trading Charges
Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta surrendered to FBI officials on Wednesday morning. Gupta faces criminal charges in a massive hedge fund insider trading case. He has been under investigation over whether he leaked corporate secrets to Raj Rajaratnam, the co-founder of the hedge fund the Galleon Group. Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in […]
The Green Revolution Plus Thirty
Reporter Bruce Gellerman of member station WBUR in Boston visits the Mexican wheat fields of Norman Borlaug, known as “the Father of the Green Revolution.” Borlaug’s revolutionary approach to plant breeding and high-intensity agriculture helped to feed the world as the population doubled over the past 30 years, and won him the Nobel Peace Prize. […]