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The US Olympic Committee mismanaged the US women's marathon team

Three American women qualified for the Olympic marathon: Fiona O'Keeffe, Emily Sisson, and Dakotah Lindwurm. Jessica McClain, who finished fourth in the US Marathon Trials (15 seconds behind Lindwurm) and met the qualifying standard (2:26:50), went to Paris as a possible alternate after word got around

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Mismanagement at the CGIAR

Don't say I never warned you ...

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The World Bank must improve accountability at its Executive Board

The skies are not marmalade and they are sometimes cloudy and gray

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Some thoughts on Year 1 of the Banga regime at the World Bank

A recent talk ignores some big questions

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Choosing the CEO of the World Bank

The first and second laws of medicine and economics are the same as they have always been

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Odious laws and the World Bank

What price should the World Bank put on indecent laws ?

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MSNBC’s defense of Merrick Garland misses the point

Accountability is not whining about how it is always someone else’s fault

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The World Bank’s Board should close the ‘Private Sector Lab’

This “Lab” holds dangerous conflicts of interest and will not give the kind of advice that the Bank needs

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Ajay Banga at the World Bank — some initial impressions

At least he knows what "spread" means

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More CGIAR agitprop

The CGIAR’s op-eds before COP 28 are not pristinely honest

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BMGF and agriculture

Some thoughts on agriculture in Tim Schwab’s, “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the myth of the good billionaire” (Kindle version, chapter 13, pp 280-303).

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