Dec 14th 2013, 20:16, by Chris Ziegler
In video posted of a New York event held on Tuesday, Tim Cook accepts a Lifetime Achievement Award from Auburn University, where the presiding Apple CEO earned his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering. Cook spends much of his 13-minute speech championing the Employee Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) — proposed federal legislation designed to prohibit companies from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity — that he originally endorsed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last month. He also brings up immigration reform, a hot-button topic in Silicon Valley perhaps best known for spawning Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us that has also been taken on by Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs. While acknowledging that both...
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