Word: carpini
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Michael Delli Carpini, Barrie Dunsmore, Don Kellermann, Paolo Mancini, Jacqueline Sharkey and Pearl Stewart will present some of their research at roundtables throughout the semester...
...Carpini, the chair of Barnard College's political science department, will focus on "what Americans know about politics." He said he will use content analysis and focus groups talking about the issue of crime in his research...
Other fellows are Michael Delli Carpini, associate professor of political science at Barnard College, who will study the influence of presidential debates on voters and journalists; Barrie Dunsmore, diplomatic correspondent for ABC News, who will examine the policy implications and strategic effects of covering war "live" from the battlefield; Don Kellermann, founding director of the Times Mirror Center, who will study the impact of media and public opinion on policy formation; and Jacqueline Sharkey, professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, who will analyze the impact of international trade and investment policies on First Amendment traditions and practices...
...conquest of 100 million people by 100,000 soldiers. It was Genghis Khan's grandson Batu who first swept into Russia. When Kiev resisted, Batu besieged the city in 1240, burned it to the ground and massacred all its inhabitants. "When we passed through that land," wrote Archbishop Plano Carpini, a papal legate bound for the new power center in Mongolia, "we found lying in the field countless heads and bones of dead people. This city had been extremely large and very populous, whereas now it has been reduced to nothing...