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The Controlling Weight of Rhetoric in Presidential Elections 6/6/08 - American history turns on the good or woeful oral advocacy of presidential candidates.
Kennedy won, in large part, because he followed the teachings of rhetoric experts Aristotle and Cicero. Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry lost close elections because they did not. In this podcast, Law professor Robert Sayler uses media clips to demonstrate how recent presidential elections have been won and lost. Can the tenets of classical rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos) be applied to this year |
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Miller Center Forum: Re-engage: America and the World After Bush 5/19/08 - Helena Cobban is a veteran writer, researcher, and program organizer on global affairs. She is a contributing editor of Boston Review, where her recent articles have included essays on Lebanese and Palestinian issues as well as Rwanda. She has also written for the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, The Economist, and Salon.com, and she maintains the blog "Just World News." Cobban has published six books, including Amnesty after Atrocity? Healing Nations after Genocide and War Crimes and The Moral Architecture of World Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss Our Global Future. She has worked as a journalist in the Middle East for the Christian Science Monitor and the Sunday Times of London and has led various non-governmental bodies. In addition to holding research fellowships at Harvard, Georgetown, and the Brookings Institution, she has taught at the Institut des Etudes Politiques and Eastern Mennonite University. |
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Miller Center Forum: Presidential Leadership 5/15/08 - Evan Thomas, Newsweek's Editor at Large since 2006, is the magazine's lead writer on major news stories and the author of more than 100 cover stories and many longer features including special behind-the-scenes issues on presidential elections. He has been a regular panelist on the syndicated public affairs talk show Inside Washington since 1992 and has appeared on numerous television shows including Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Thomas is the author of six books, including Sea of Thunder, Robert Kennedy: His Life, and The Very Best Men: The Early Years of the CIA. A fellow of the Society of American Historians and a former trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, he began a five-year term at Princeton as Ferris Professor of Journalism in the fall of 2007. |
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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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