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What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live 4/19/06 - Kellyanne Conway of The Polling Company and Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners discuss their new book. The event is part of the Center for Politics 2006 National Symposium on Women and Politics. |
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Tolerate Dissent or Tolerate Religion? 4/11/06 - Americans should turn to universal principles to decide whether society should follow a tolerant religious model or a tolerant secular model before assessing specific controversial issues such as abortion and gay marriage, NYU law professor Ronald Dworkin said at the Jefferson Medal in Law Lecture April 12 at the Law School. |
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What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power3/29/06 - U.Va Politics Professor Jeffrey Legro shares his thoughts on the political goals of China with the International Relations Organization. Legro is the author of Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order. |
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America's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century 3/28/06 - Former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbot now serves as president of the Brookings Institution. He spoke at a joint forum of the Miller Center and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs at the University of Virginia about what non-partisan institutions can offer to the nation. He's introduced by Diplomat Scholar Michael Krepon |
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Independent Media in a Time of War: Amy Goodman 3/24/06 - Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now" and author of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. In this event from the 2006 Virginia Festival of the Book, Goodman critiques the commercial news media and discusses the importance independent media. |
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Former N.H. Governor Speaks to U.Va Students 3/22/06 - Former Governor Jeanne Shaheen spoke to students in Larry Sabato's Introduction to American Politics. Shaheen is now the director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics. The event is part of the U.Va Center for Politics' National Symposium on Women in Politics. |
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Free Speech and Islam: The Cartoon Controversy and the True Character of the Prophet 3/20/06 - Are there limits to free speech, and if so, what kind of limits? The Imam Siraj Wahhaj of the Brooklyn's Masjid At-Taqwa weighs in on the recent uproar in the Muslim community regarding cartoons of the Islamic prophet. The event begins Islam Awareness Week at the University, a program of the Muslim Students' Association. |
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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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