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Miller Center Forum: President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman 2/12/08 - William Lee Miller is Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the Miller Center. From 1992 until his 1999 retirement, he was Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought and Director of the Program in Political and Social Thought at U.Va. A speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign and a contributing editor and writer for The Reporter magazine, he was the founding director of the Poynter Center on American Institutions at Indiana University. He is the author of eight books, including Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography (Knopf, 2002). A book signing will follow his Forum. |
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Jack Ford: Duke Lacrosse Case Defining Legal Moment 2/12/08 - Jack Ford, anchor for truTV (formerly Court TV), addressed legal issues of the Duke lacrosse case during a talk in Caplin Pavilion Feb. 12 sponsored by the Student Legal Forum.
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The Medical Center Hour: Beyond Safety and Efficacy: Should the FDA Consider Ethics in Drug Approvals?2/6/08 - Fran Hawthorne, journalist and author, and Richard A. Merrill, former UVA Law School
dean and council for the FDA, discuss the increasing pressure on the FDA to take into account the
ethics of the drugs before it. |
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Miller Center Forum: Prosecuting the Terrorists 1/31/08 - Rob Spencer is vice president and associate general counsel for litigation and compliance at Lockheed Martin Corporation. He joined Lockheed Martin in 2006 after serving as an Assistant U.S.Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia. There, Spencer prosecuted terrorism and espionage cases, including U.S. v. Zacarias Moussaoui, and served as Co-Chief of the Assistant Attorney General's 9/11 Task Force. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Changing Virginia's Mental Health Laws: Before and After the Virginia Tech Tragedy1/30/08 - James Stewart, Commonwealth Inspector General of Mental Health, and Richard Bonnie,
Chair of the State Supreme Court's commission on mental health, discuss reforming Virginia's
mental health system. What's being proposed, and why? How will changes in state law serve patients,
their families, and the public?
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Miller Center Forum: From China to Chinatown: Human Smuggling Between China and the United States 1/28/08 - Patrick Keefe is a Program Officer and Fellow at the Century Foundation, a nonprofit public policy research institution committed to the idea that amix of effective government, open democracy, and free markets is the best solution to challenges facing the U.S. The author of Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping, he is a project leader at the World Policy Institute and a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Food for Thought: Global and Local Strategies for Healthy Eating1/23/08 - This Medical Center Hour explores a new attentiveness to the foods we consume, with
emphasis both on foods themselves and on the social, environmental and cultural implications of our
eating preferences and patterns. |
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Miller Center Forum: Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History 1/21/08 - Michael Klarman is one of the nation's leading authorities on race and constitutional history, and is currently a James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg when she served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and has written for publications including the New York Times, The Nation, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Klarman is the 2005 winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History for his previous book From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. |
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