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Second Nature: The Popularization of the Telephone in Late Nineteenth Century Chicago 11/14/08 - Richard R. John the author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995) and many articles on the history of American public policy, business, and communications. In addition, he is the editor of a volume of original essay on topics in nineteenth-century U. S. political history, Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America (2006). He is currently completing a history of early American telecommunications. |
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Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy 11/13/08 - Keith Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University and current director of graduate studies in the Department of Politics. He has published widely on American constitutional theory and development, federalism, judicial politics, and the presidency. He has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow and American Council of Learned Societies Junior Faculty Fellow, and a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He is currently working on a political history of the judicial review of federal statutes and a volume of cases and materials on American constitutionalism. |
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The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence 11/10/08 - ROBERT SAMUELSON is one of Newsweek's most recognized writers for his biweekly columns analyzing and reporting socioeconomic issues. His other biweekly column appears in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. Samuelson's many journalism awards include the 1993 John Hancock Award for Best Business and Financial Columnist and the 1993 Gerald Loeb Award for Best Commentary. He has also worked for the Washington Post's Business Desk and for The New Republic. |
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An Open, Civilized World 11/7/08 - ERNEST MAY is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has been a consultant to the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, and other agencies, and was Senior Advisor to the 9/11 Commission (2003-04). May is a former Dean of Harvard College, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Institute of Politics. PHILIP ZELIKOW is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at U.Va., and a former Director of the Miller Center (1998-2005). He served as Director of three bipartisan commissions, including the 9/11 Commission, and was Counselor to the Department of State (2005-07). |
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2008: An Election Post-Mortem11/6/08 - "2008: An Election Post-Mortem, A Forum on Race, Gender and Religion in the Presidential Campaign" took place in Clark Hall on November 6 at 7:30 pm. Designed as an event to bring together UVa students, faculty and the Charlottesville community in an open discussion and assessment of this historical Presidential Campaign, it featured Tim Lovelace, graduate student in History, Lynn Sanders, Assoc. Professor of Politics, Valerie Cooper, Asst. Professor of Religious Studies, and Bruce Williams, Professor of Media Studies, as speakers. A question and answer session ended the evening.
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The United Nations and International Peace 11/5/08 - EDWARD LUCK is Senior Vice President and Director of Studies, International Peace Institute. In February, he was appointed Special Adviser and Assistant Secretary-General of the UN. Luck is Director of the Center on International Organization at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He is also the founder and former Executive Director of the Center for the Study of International Organization at the NYU School of Law, and former President and CEO of the UN Association of the USA. Luck is the co-editor of International Law and Organization: Closing the Compliance Gap (2004) & author of Mixed Messages: American Politics and International Organization, 1919-1999 (1999). |
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Intelligence Analysis and Dissemination 11/3/08 - THOMAS FINGAR is Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, the intelligence community center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking. He became Assistant Secretary of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (NIR) in 2004. He previously served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Analysis, Director of the Office of Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific, and Chief of the China Division. Between 1975 and 1986, Fingar held several positions at Stanford University, including Senior Research Associate in the Center for International Security and Arms Control, and Director of the U.S.-China Relations Program. |
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Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball: 2008 Election Predictions 11/1/08 - Professor Larry Sabato makes his final pre-election 'More Than the Score' presentation of the award-winning Sabato's Crystal Ball. After several hundred national TV appearances and more than two hundred speeches on the subject, Sabato has saved the best for last to share with the people he calls his extended Wahoo family. Named the most accurate prognosticator of 2006 by FOX News, MSNBC, CNBC and Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism, Sabato offers his predictions for the Senate, House and Governor |
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