Student demonstrations at the university in 1919 gave the influential May Fourth Movement its name.
Boese walked us through some of history's most influential April Fools' Day jokes — the notorious, the successful, the truly cringe-worthy.
He played an important behind-the-scenes role in shaping public opinion by instigating and then editing an influential February 1947 Harper's article entitled "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb".
Omani officials interceded with Iranian leaders last year to secure the release of American hiker Sarah Shourd, and were influential last month in persuading Iran to free Joshua Fattal and Shane Bauer.
In a research report this week, influential economist Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs directly ties the 6.5% rise of corporate profits to the nearly inert 2% growth of US wages.
In a research report this week, influential economist Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs directly ties the 6.5% rise of corporate profits to the nearly inert 2% growth of US wages.
Politicians, celebrities and other public figures have nonetheless escalated their calls on voters to register as deadlines come to a close in states that could prove influential in November, underscoring the importance of the moment.
The following 10 universities are home to the student voters we think could be the most influential on May 7. Result in 2010: Conservatives gained the seat from Labour with the third smallest majority of the election – just 54 votes.
Although Moyes – who has lost his influential midfielder Jan Kirchhoff for at least three months after the German underwent cartilage surgery on a knee – has no compunction about deploying Defoe as a solitary spearhead, he feels Victor Anichebe's arrival as his new, highly effective and apparently reborn, attacking partner is bringing the best out in him.
Drug companies must be forced to "pay or play" in the urgent race to develop new antibiotics, said former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill, who led the influential 18-month review, or medicine will be "cast back into the dark ages".
Kimmie Smith has been front-and-center during Fashion Week, reviewing the shows for her readers (Kitten Lounge gets 20,000 hits from new fashion influentials a month).
