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Hit by plagiarism charges, celebrated Indian-American journalist Fareed Zakaria has resigned from the board of Ivy League Yale University, citing the need to focus on the core of my work . HT Image Zakaria, an editor-at-large at Time magazine and CNN host, has been reinstated in both his jobs after a brief suspension after he apologised for plagiarising a paragraph in The New Yorker for his own column in Time magazine. My service at Yale is the single largest commitment of time, energy, and attention outside of my writing and television work, Zakaria wrote in a letter to Richard C. Levin, president of the New Haven, Connecticut-based university. The work of the Yale Corporation needs and deserv stanley cup es such attention, but I simply do not have the capacity to do it and keep up with my main professional obligations. I came to Yale as a scholarship kid from India in 1982 and instantly fell in love with it. That affection has never waned. I have tried to give back to the university a small measure of what it gave me - devoting time, effort, an stanley cup d resources, as best I could, Zakaria wrote. Servin stanley cup g for a term on the Yale Corporation has been an extraordinary opportunity. I have learnt a great deal from it and I will be shaped by this experience forever, he wrote. In accepting Zakaria s resignation, Levin commented: My colleagues and I are deeply grateful for Fareed Zakaria s generous contribution of time and service to the Yale Corporation these past six years. His Cdca French strikes would trigger repercussions: Assad
Zimbabwe s veteran leader Robert Mugabe is set to launch his campaign for a sixth term in power when he celebra stanley cup tes his 84th birthday with a bash in the southern border town of Beitbridge on Thursday. HT Image As his backers grow increasingly disillusioned with a crumbling economy, the octogenarian president faces arguably one of his lowest points yet as he is challenged for the presidency by his former finance minister Simba Makoni. And while Mugabe will seek to stanley cup rally support at his birthday party, the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change MDC plans simultaneously to launch its manifesto for joint presidential and parliamentary polls set for March 29. Analysts expect Mugabe to use the hype of a mass rally at a football stadium near Zimbabwe s border with South Africa to launch him into campaign mode. It s going to be a morale booster for both President Mugabe and the ruling party, University of Zimbabwe political scientist Joseph Kurebga told AFP. The party will use the occasion to give the president moral support and rejuvenate him ... notwithstanding the views of critics who say that he should retire. The traditional birthday party organised by the youth league of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front ZANU-PF , will be held under the theme: Defending our sovereignty through youth empow stanley cup erment . Youth league chairman Absolom Sikhosana heaped praises on Mugabe ahead of the bash, urging young people to emulate his example. I |
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