More broadly, African Americans have a large share of players in only

five sports: baseball, basketball, football, boxing, and track. In baseball,

this share has been declining, from 19 percent in 1995 to 8.2 percent in
2013. And across all professional sports, the vast majority of managers,
head coaches, and team owners are white (Institute for Diversity and
Ethics in Sport, 2014). Who benefits most from professional sports?
Although many individual players get sky-high salaries and millions of
fans enjoy following their teams, the vast profits sports generate are
controlled by a small number of people— predominantly white men. In
sum, sports in the United States are bound up with inequalities based on
gender, race, and wealth.
Back in 1990, executives of Charles Schwab & Co., a large investment
brokerage corporation, gathered at the company’s headquarters in San
Francisco to discuss ways to expand their business. They came up with
the idea the company would profit by giving greater attention to the
increasing cultural diversity of the United States. Pointing to data
collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, they saw that the number of Asian
Americans was rising rapidly, not just in San Francisco but also all over
the country. The data also showed that Asian Americans, on average,
were doing pretty well financially. That’s still true, with more than half
of today’s Asian American families earning more than$76,000 a year
(U.S. Census Bureau, 2014).
At the 1990 meeting, Schwab’s leaders decided to launch a diversity
initiative, assigning three executives to work on building awareness of
the company among Asian Americans. The program really took off, and
today Schwab employs more than 300 people who speak Korean,
Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, or some other Asian language. Having
account executives who speak languages other than English is smart
because research shows that most immigrants who come to the United
States prefer to communicate in their first language, especially when
dealing
with important matters such as investing their money. In addition, the
company has launched web sites using Korean, Chinese, and other Asian
languages.
Britain’s BBC was forced to axe much of its sports coverage on
Saturday after presenters refused to work in a show of solidarity with
Gary Lineker, as a row over freedom of speech threatens to turn into a
crisis for the national broadcaster.
Hitler’s Nazi regime had the services of some of the period’s finest minds and
intellectuals in Germany, such as the philosophers Carl Schmitt and Martin
Heidegger, the logician Rudolf Carnap, and a host of others. They helped
Hitler mould Nazism into an all-encompassing ideology.
In Pakistan, three governments banked heavily on intellectuals to formulate
their respective ideologies, narratives and economics. The Ayub Khan
dictatorship (1958-69) carried scholars who specialised in providing
‘modernist’ interpretations to various traditional aspects of Islam. This they
did to aid Ayub’s modernisation project. The intellectuals included the
rationalist Islamic scholars Fazalur Rahman Malik and Ghulam Ahmad
Parwez, and, to a certain extent, the progressive novelist Mumtaz Mufti and
Justice Javed Iqbal, the son of the poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. The
writer Qudrat Ullah Shahab was Ayub’s Principal Secretary.

in a January 2022 essay for The Atlantic, David A. Graham wrote that it’s not
that intellectuals have vanished from political parties. Rather, due to
populism’s anti-intellectual disposition, they have purposely dumbed down
their ideas.

According to Graham, “This is the age of smart politicians pretending to be

stupid.” If stupidity can now attract votes and save the jobs of intellectuals in
parties and governments

A lot of students are keen to have opportunities for internships. Internships

are an excellent way to: a) get acquainted with what goes on in an area, sector
or firm; b) get a close look at the actual work being done; c) gain firsthand
experience in some of the work; d) have exposure to the ‘real world’ and get a
feel of how things are done there; e) get to know some people in the relevant
sector and build a network; and f) possibly get scoped for job opportunities.
For firms, interns mean not only low-cost labour but also prospective
candidates for jobs.