Keyword Trends, Harvard Salaries, and Church Speech Backfires

20 Creative Apps to Inspire and Get Unstuck                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 January 09, 2024 | [Read Online]( Good morning. It's Monday, Jan. 8, and we're covering Harvard salaries, Biden’s backfired church speech, MLB offseason needs, and much more. First time reading? Sign up here. American Fact of the Day! The tallest president was Abraham Lincoln: Standing at 193 centimetres, Abraham Lincoln is the tallest president in US history. The country’s 16th president is also in the Wrestling Hall of Fame. He was a talented wrestler before he took on the top job and won 299 out of his 300 matches. Breaking Updates Interim Harvard President Makes Almost $1M a Year From Drug Companies in Addition to His $946K Salary [Former Harvard University President Claudine Gay, who resigned after antisemitism and plagiarism scandals](which occurred under her watch, will return to the faculty and haul in close to $900,000 a year in salary. Her classes must be amazing. Her replacement (at least for now), interim president Dr. Alan M. Garber, the school’s provost. He is paid around $946,000 a year for his work – but that’s only the beginning of his earnings. He made more in 2022 -- $936,000 more -- serving as a board member for two major drug companies, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and California-based Exelixis Inc. [The practice of university leaders serving on the boards of private and public for-profit companies —]( and earning significant compensation for it — is increasingly widespread. But experts on university governance and critics say it can raise a host of conflicts of interest, especially in health care industries where academia and industry are often deeply enmeshed. Carolyn Becker, a retired associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who wants such gigs to be banned, said: To put someone in as president, even in the interim, who has some major conflicts of interest that take him away from his all-encompassing role — they need his full attention focused on the job at hand. Garber’s board member gigs have earned him more than $6.6 million, according to the Boston Globe; plus, he’s allowed to expense things like travel and lodging. Harvard is not alone in this practice; about a third of elite university presidents sit on corporate boards and rake in around $250,000 to $275,000 a year. [The scandals that rocked the top-tier of our academic institutions]( over rampant antisemitism on campuses, and then Gay's plagiarism issues, have brought new scrutiny to these schools. Read more updates [here]( More on How 'Ceasefire Now' Chants During Joe Biden's South Carolina Church Speech Backfired [President Joe Biden went to South Carolina Monday]( to pander to black voters in a blatant attempt to shore up their support ahead of Election Day and at a time when polling shows growing dissatisfaction among black voters for his and Vice President Kamala Harris' performances. During the speech he gave at Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church, which was the site of the June 17, 2015, racially motivated mass shooting that left nine dead and one injured, Biden was heckled by anti-Israel radicals who began chanting "Ceasefire now," as we also reported. [According to some reports,]( "after being led outside the venue, the protestors hugged and cheered; they were happy for disrupting the president's speech." While the "four more years" reactions of those in attendance clearly showed the protesters' stunt backfired, just how badly it backfired was evident in some of the responses given by congregants who were interviewed in the aftermath. Even Biden himself, as further evidenced by his remarks from the speech, treated them with kids gloves, saying he respected "their passion" and noting he has been "quietly"[working with Israeli leaders to get Israel to back off from trying to eradicate the terrorists]( who want them dead. It's no wonder the protesters thought it was okay to yell and scream on behalf of murderous terrorists in a church where a horrific mass shooting took place. 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Open primaries in South Dakota has early support: Poll Nearly half of South Dakota voters support a proposed constitutional amendment to establish “top-two” open primaries for most political races, a News Watch poll shows Manchin, in search of the middle, is intrigued by term limits and ranked choice voting - WV MetroNews Manchin says he wants to help shake up the system and bolster the political middle. Supreme Court turns down Alaska’s appeal on Pebble Mine project The Supreme Court won’t take up a case seeking to revive a proposed gold and copper mine that was blocked by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2021. Share Keeping Up With America You currently have 0 referrals. [Click to Share]( Or copy and paste this link to others: Update your email preferences or unsubscribe [here]( © 2024 Keeping Up With America 19354 Watermark Drive, Suite 202 Cornelius, NC 28031, United States