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Elizabeth Edwards, a political advocate and the wife of former North Carolina senator and presidential aspirant John Edwards, will be one of three additional spring visiting fellows, officials at the Institute of Politics (IOP), officials at the IOP announced yesterday. The two other fellows are Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former president of Latvia, and Andrew White, head of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East. Edwards, an attorney, took on a high-profile role in her husband’s 2008 presidential campaign, calling for more attention to be paid to children’s issues...
...Elizabeth Edwards stands as one of the foremost women in American politics," IOP Director Jim Leach said in a statement...
Journalist Ron Fournier spoke at an Institute of Politics (IOP) dinner last night, stressing that the “change” sweeping through America runs deeper than the current presidential campaigns...
...question-and-answer session—driven by dinner guests who won their seats via an IOP lottery—Fournier remained agnostic about the ultimate outcome of the primary contest, stating that an Obama loss in the primary would fracture the party more than a Clinton loss...
...workers a “living wage,” the benefits of unlimited dining, and being, alas, attached to the global economy, greater dining variety is off the menu. And instead of trading insults over open-lists, we’d probably do better to dispatch some keen IOP-niks to lobby against ethanol subsidies in Washington...