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Miller Center Forum: Why Spy? Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty 5/12/08 - Frederick P. Hitz is a senior fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the U.Va. School of Law. He has been lecturing at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University and at the U.Va. School of Law since 1998. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Hitz entered the Career Training Program at the CIA and served in the clandestine service in Africa. In 1974, he returned to law practice but re-entered government service in congressional liaison capacities with the State, Defense, and Energy departments before resuming his CIA career as Legislative Counsel to the Director of Central Intelligence. In 1980, he became Deputy Director for Europe in the Directorate of Operations. Hitz was appointed the first statutory Inspector General of the CIA by President George H.W. Bush. Among the many investigations he led at the CIA was the Aldrich Ames betrayal. |
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Miller Center Forum: Why Women Should Rule the World 5/5/08 - Dee Dee Myers was the first woman and youngest person ever to serve as White House Press Secretary. After leaving the Clinton White House, Myers became a consultant to the NBC series The West Wing. Before joining the Clinton campaign in 1991, she worked on local, state, and national campaigns, including Senator Dianne Feinstein, Governor Michael Dukakis, Vice President Walter Mondale, and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. She is currently a Vanity Fair Contributing Editor, and is a frequent political commentator on NBC and MSNBC. Myers spent two years as the liberal co-host of the CNBC talk show Equal Time, discussing daily political developments with conservative co-hosts Mary Matalin and Bay Buchanan. |
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Miller Center Forum: Outsourcing Sovereignty: Why Privatization of Government Functions Threatens Democracy 5/2/08 - Paul Verkuil Professor of Law and former Dean (1997 |
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Miller Center Forum: A Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict 4/21/08 - Sandra Mackey is an award-winning expert on Middle Eastern culture and politics. She has taught political science at George Washington University and has served as a visiting scholar at U.Va. Mackey's writings have appeared in periodicals including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Christian Science Monitor. She has appeared on NPR, ABC, and BBC, and was a commentator on the first Gulf War for CNN. Mackey's book, Lebanon: Death of a Nation (Doubleday, 1989), was included on the New York Times list of Notable Books for 1989. |
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Miller Center Forum: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court 4/18/08 - Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and CNN's senior legal analyst, is one of the most recognized and admired legal journalists in the country. He joined CNN in 2002 after six years with ABC News, where he received an Emmy for his coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case. Toobin is a former as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn and associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh. His books include The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Doubleday, 2007), Too Close to Call: The 36-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election (Random House, 2001), and A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President (Touchstone, 2000). |
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Miller Center Forum: A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America 4/14/08 - James Horn is Vice President of Research at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, where he has also served as Abby and George O'Neill Director. He was a Visiting Professor in U.Va's Corcoran Department of History (1999-2002), while Saunders Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. His books include The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic (University of Virginia Press, 2002), The Writings of Captain John Smith (The Library of America, 2007), and the forthcoming The Pearl and the Gold: The Lost Colony of Roanoke. His Forum was the second annual Mary Beth and Gordon Smyth Lecture on American History. |
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The Brundtland Report: How Far We've Come/What More We Need to Do 4/11/08 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, special envoy on climate change at the United Nations, former prime minister of Norway and a former director-general of the World Health Organization, addressed issues of sustainable development during her lecture when she received the 2008 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture at the University of Virginia in April. |
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50th Anniversary of William Faulkner's Residency at U.Va. 4/4/08 - This spring marks 50 years since the great American author William Faulkner served his second and last term as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. To mark the occasion, the U.Va. Library and the English department organized an exhibit and a symposium to explore what |
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