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More than the Score: Score Big by Reaching your Financial Goals 11/22/08 - Do you have financial goals and a plan in place to reach them? Karin Bonding, CFA, professor in the McIntire School of Commerce, offered alumni possible investment strategies during the final More than the Score lecture of 2008.
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10th Annual American Democracy Conference: Larry Sabato Moderates 11/21/08 - Each year, the Center for Politics presents the American Democracy Conference. Growing from the first National Post Election Conference in 1998, these gatherings examine not only the most recent election cycle and/or primaries in hindsight, but also current campaigns, upcoming elections and prospects for the future of American democracy. This year the Center for Politics and CQ Politics brought together today's leading journalists, Beltway insiders, political analysts and academics to examine the presidential and congressional races. Professor Larry Sabato hosted this second panel that took place on Friday, November 21, at the University of Virginia Alumni Hall. |
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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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 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 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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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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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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