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Whatever Happened to Thrift? Why Americans Don't Save and What to Do About It 11/14/09 - It is no secret that Americans save very little, but why? What can be done about it? Wilcox, a professor at U.Va.'s Darden School of Business, will describe how the "savings crisis" adversely influences personal lifestyles over the long term, and how it can undermine our national wealth and standard of living. Wilcox will highlight practical strategies to spend less and save more, and he will explain how reinventing thrift can make America a more prosperous nation. |
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A Generation Looks Back at Brown in New Book 2/27/09 - A new book edited by a pair of Law School professors explores the profound impact the Brown v. Board of Education decision had on the generation that grew up during the struggle against segregation. |
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No One Factor Can Cause, Cure Economic Crisis, Experts Explain 2/26/09 - The current economic crisis is not without precedent, but the notion that deregulation was the sole cause doesn |
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Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare 2/23/09 - WILLIAM LEE MILLER is Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the Miller Center. From 1992 until his 1999 retirement, he was Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought and Director of the Program in Political and Social Thought at U.Va. A speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign and a contributing editor and writer for The Reporter magazine, he was the founding director of the Poynter Center on American Institutions at Indiana University. He is the author of eight books, including Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography (Knopf, 2002). |
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Infrastructure 2/21/09 - America's infrastructure is in grave disrepair. Analysts have determined that one-third of the nation's roads are in poor or mediocre condition, and the Federal Highway Administration recently estimated that one out of every four bridges is either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Every infrastructure sector, from rail, air and seaways, to water supply, sewage and irrigation, to energy pipelines and the electric grid, are in need of significant capital. The Miller Center of Public Affairs hosted a panel to discuss infrastructure on February 21, 2009. |
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Schauer Charges Students to Ponder Nature of Legal Reasoning 2/20/09 - Professor Frederick Schauer asked students to consider what it is to |
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The Eight Stages of Genocide 2/16/09 - GREGORY H. STANTON, the James Farmer Professor in Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington, is the Founder and President of Genocide Watch, the Founder and Director of the Cambodian Genocide Project, the Founder and Chair of the International Campaign to End Genocide, and the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Stanton served in the State Department, where he drafted the United Nations Security Council resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Burundi Commission of Inquiry, and the Central African Arms Flow Commission. A fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, he has been a Law Professor at Washington and Lee, American University, and the University of Swaziland. This Forum was co-sponsored with Students Taking Action Now, Darfur (STAND) and Genocide Awareness and Research Organization (GARO) and the Corcoran Department of History. |
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Panel Explores Minority Marriage Gap 2/13/09 - Research indicates that marriage is good for society, but there is a pronounced racial divide in the marriage rates and no easy answers on what actions |
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