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Ch 11/21/08 - JENNIFER MCCOY is a Political Science Professor at Georgia State University, and Director of the Americas Program at The Carter Center in Atlanta. She is an internationally recognized expert on Venezuelan politics, and she accompanied President Jimmy Carter on his historic 2002 trip to Cuba. She is editor and contributor to The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela (Johns Hopkins University, 2004); Political Learning and Redemocratization in Latin America: Do Political Leaders Learn from Political Crises? (North-South Center, 2000); and Venezuelan Democracy Under Stress (North-South Center, 1995). She spoke at the Miller Center on November 21, 2008. |
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The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race and Deindustrialization 11/21/08 - Guian McKee joined the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program in August 2002. He received a Ph.D. in American history at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2002; prior to joining the Miller Center, McKee was a visiting scholar in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include U.S. social policy history and urban history. He is the author of The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia, which will be published in Fall 2008 by the University of Chicago Press. He is also the author of Lyndon Johnson and the War on Poverty: How Policymakers Try to Deliver on Social Promises (tentative title), which will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. He has published articles in the Journal of Urban History, Journal of Policy History, Journal of Planning History, and the Boston Globe. He spoke at the Miller Center on November 21, 2008. |
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 11/20/08 - As part of the Law School's Future of Health Care Reform Lecture Series, Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., from the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, discussed guaranteed health care in America at the Law School Nov. 20. Emanuel is a breast oncologist, philosopher and author/editor of several books. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America 11/19/08 - Consensus that the system is ineffectual and calls for health care reform have produced
varied solutions with bedeviling details. Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD outlines the essential elements
of an effective, sustainable health care system and promotes comprehensive change. Co-presenters:
Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, School of Law's Sadie Lewis Webb Program. |
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The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America 11/19/08 - JAMES BAMFORD is the author of Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency (Anchor, 2002), and A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (Anchor, 2004). A former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC News' World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, he has written investigative cover stories for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. He spoke at the Miller Center as part of The Business of U.S. Intelligence Gathering and Analysis Forum. |
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Former NPR Executive Says State of American Journalism Is Not Sound 11/18/08 - During the second Outside the Box Lunch, a lecture series featuring law school graduates who have taken career paths outside of law, Ken Stern |
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Interagency Relationships in the Intelligence Community 11/17/08 - PHILIP MUDD joined the CIA in 1985 as a leadership analyst responsible for South Asian issues, and in 1992 began focusing on Middle East terrorism - particularly Iranian state-sponsored terrorism - in the Counter Terrorism Center (CTC) in 1992. Mudd later became the Deputy Director of the Office of Terrorism Analysis. In 2003, he was appointed the CTC's Deputy Director, and in 2005 became Associate Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch. The Director of Central Intelligence gave Mudd the Director's Award in 2004, for his leadership, extraordinary fidelity, and essential service. |
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War 11/14/08 - MICHAEL DOBBS joined the Washington Post as its Warsaw correspondent in 1980. He was the first Western journalist to visit the Gdansk shipyard in August 1980, and spent much of the '80s covering the collapse of Communism from Eastern Europe, Russia, and China. Dobbs has also covered the State Department and been a foreign investigative reporter for the Post, and has held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton universities. He is the author of Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (Vintage, 1998) and Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey (Henry Holt and Co., 1999). |
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