#christopher patten

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Oxford University and Stanford University have established a partnership with The Morris Trust for the next 100 years.

The University of Oxford and Stanford University are proud to announce one hundred years of Scholarships with The Morris Trust.  Lord Jay Everett Morris and The Morris Trust will pay total infrastructure expenses for The University of Oxford and Stanford University.

Every Fortune 500 Company and every Military across the globe have already confirmed their commitments to partner with The Morris Trust and Morris Scholars.

Christopher Patten

Chancellor, University of Oxford

John L. Hennessy

President of Stanford University

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Una mujer presidirá por primera vez la BBC

Rona Fairhead ha sido elegida para presidir el consejo de administración de la British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), lo que la convertirá en la primera mujer al frente de la cadena pública británica, informó ayer el propio canal. Fairhead, de 53 años y exconsejera delegada del grupo del ‘Fina... Leer más Ver completo en http://panamadeverdad.com/2014/09/01/una-mujer-presidira-por-primera-vez-la-bbc/

[lastnightontaris]

"We live in a world where trying to get it right is good for you."

~ Christopher Patten, the last British Governor of Hong Kong and kind of a badass. From UC Berkeley's Conversations with History series.

"The best places to do business are the countries that treat their citizens most decently, well, what a surprise!"

"It isn't so much that [businesses dealing with China] appear to be trying to inhabit an ethics-free zone, as they appear, when they get involved in politics, to be living in a common sense-free zone."

"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then, it's a pretty worthless endeavor. I think politics which is just about nudging things this way or that, which is just about process, which is just about trying to win another election, which is just about trying to get in office, I think that sort of politics isn't ever going to do very much to change the world. I think politics is above all about ideas, and to try to articulate the ideas that make the greatest sense, and which have the greatest relevance to people's lives, and then getting out and fighting for them."

Also see: 29:00-37:00.