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Public Service, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law 3/18/06 - Public service lawyers are the perfect models for how to face the decisive issues of the 21st century while upholding the values and ideas of the Constitution, said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) in his keynote address March 18 at the Law School's seventh annual Conference on Public Service & the Law. Kennedy, a 1959 graduate of the School of Law, stressed the importance of working towards the common good and also offered tough words for the Bush administration. |
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Comptroller General Predicts Fiscal Crisis Unless Government Reforms 3/17/06 - The government must change how it does business now or the United States will face a serious fiscal crisis in the future, said David Walker, Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), at the Law School's Conference on Public Service & the Law March 17. |
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How Freedom Is Won 2/24/06 - Nonviolent civic resistance movements have been the most powerful forces in creating democracies, according to Peter Ackerman, chairman of Freedom House, an independent nongovernmental organization that supports the expansion of freedom in the world. Ackerman was keynote speaker at the J.B. Moore Society of International Law symposium, "Democracy in the Middle East: Prospect for Political Reform. |
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Women and the Presidency: 8 for '08 Panel Discussion 2/20/06 - The Center for Politics kicks off its National Symposium on Women and Politics with a panel discussion on women and the presidency. Morgan Felchner of Campaigns and Elections Magazine moderates a panel consisting of Marie Wilson of the White House Project, former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, and Republican Political Strategist Bob Carpenter.
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The Next New Orleans? 2/10/06 - Urban planning professor William Morrish describes what he's seen during his trips to New Orleans in the months after Huricane Katrina. This is an update of an earlier speech given last September at the Miller Center. |
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9 Days From Execution: Lessons from the Earl Washington Case 2/2/06 - Virginia death-row inmate Earl Washington's exoneration due to DNA testing may have changed forever how the commonwealth handles death penalty cases. Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, spoke at the Law School about lessons learned from the case and proposed further reforms to criminal investigations and trials. |
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Miller Center Forum: Victim-Survivor-Victor, Overcoming and Overwhelming 1/14/06 - A victim of a sexual predator in 1973, Martin Andrews started a one-man campaign to pass, fund, and implement the Civil Commitment of Sexual Violent Predators legislation in Virginia after learning that his assailant would be released in 2003. He brings a message of survival and hope to thousands of victims of sexual abuse through his personal and television appearances, including The Today Show, as well as through his published works, including articles in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Andrews provides training for advocates and mental health and criminal justice professionals, and acts as an advisor to various advocacy organizations. |
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Miller Center Forum: Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation 1/1/06 - Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, where she has covered Congress, politics, and public policy for the past 15 years, and a senior news analyst for National Public Radio. From 1996 to 2002, Roberts and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. She has won numerous awards, including two Emmys, in her more than 30 years in broadcasting. Roberts has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the 50 greatest women in broadcasting history. Roberts, along with her husband Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers across the country by United Media. Two of her previous books, From This Day Forward (co-written with her husband), and We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, were New York Times bestsellers. |
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