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Billionaire George Soros said he will commit $1 billion to start a global university to fight authoritarian governments and climate change, calling them twin challenges that threaten the survival of our civilization. The Open Society University Network will offer an international platform for teaching and research, the 89-year-old said Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The university will be launched through a partnership of the Soros-backed Central European University and Bard College. “As a long-term strategy our best hope lies in access to quality education, specifically an education that reinforces the autonomy of the individual by cultivating...

Committee Demands Stewart's Files Tue Aug 6, 7:46 PM ET By THERESA AGOVINO, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Congressional investigators asked for additional records from Martha Stewart on Tuesday, as they widened the probe into her sale of shares of ImClone shares a day before they plummeted. The House Energy and Commerce Committee requested some of Stewart's e-mails, records from her business manager and additional information on her phone numbers. In a letter to Stewart's lawyer Tuesday, committee chairman Billy Tauzin and James D. Greenwood, chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, again requested an interview with...