It’s the season to be bully.
That guy on the left looks familar. Where have I seen him before?
Oh, now I remember.
Update: Here’s something else these nincompoops can boycott.
Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will partner to build an applied sciences campus in New York City that officials hope will transform the metropolis into a center for entrepreneurship and technology innovation to rival California’s Silicon Valley.
In a news conference on Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the schools’ proposal had been selected in the multi-billion-dollar competition, according to a person familiar with the decision who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not yet been made.
The city is not ruling out the possibility that one of the other proposals will also be approved later on, a New York official added.
The news conference was viewed live in the Technion campus in Haifa, in a crowd that included the recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Prof Dan Schechtman, who teaches at the Israeli university.
Seven universities and consortiums submitted bids to build a campus in exchange for nearly free city land and up to $100 million in city improvements. California’s Stanford University withdrew its proposal on Friday, saying it had failed to find a way to ensure the success of its proposed campus in its talks with the city.
