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...John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced last week that it had selected John S. Carroll as the first Knight Visiting Lecturer, a position that will focus on journalism and public policy and will be based at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The Knight Foundation, which advocates journalism and community service, founded the lectureship in a joint project with the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy to attract nationally recognized, practicing journalists. Those selected as Knight lecturers receive a $200,000 grant, which they can use to research at the university of their choice...
Yesterday morning, aides to former President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, and Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., jointly unveiled a compromise plan to reform Social Security. The three authors of the proposal include Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Jeffrey B. Liebman, who served as a special assistant to former President Clinton for economic policy from 1998 to 1999. The other two authors are KSG alumna Maya C. MacGuineas, who advised McCain on Social Security during his 2000 presidential campaign, and Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College Andrew A. Samwick...
...what has developed into a turbulent bid for Canadian Parliament, former Kennedy School of Government (KSG) professor of public policy and newly-minted star candidate for Canada’s Liberal party Michael Ignatieff came under attack last Friday over statements he made to the Harvard Crimson concerning his intentions to return to Harvard post-election. Ignatieff, who raised eyebrows when he left Harvard this September to assume a visiting professorship at the University of Toronto in Canada, took a break from academia almost two weeks ago to enter as a Liberal candidate for Canadian Parliament...
...prevalence of religion in America may protect us from the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism, according to the Boston Globe’s London bureau chief Chares M. Sennott. In a forum at Kennedy School of Government (KSG) yesterday, Sennott drew on his experience as a reporter covering the Middle East to discuss the different approaches America and Europe take in confronting terrorism and the lessons that can be gleaned from both. “We have a lot to learn from Europe,” said Sennott, who is a Fellow this year at the Harvard?...
Iraq in certain instances, such as when military officials tried to bribe Iraqi newspapers to print stories that painted the U.S. in a favorable light, the former dean of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and a former marine explained to an audience of about 30 yesterday. In a panel discussion entitled “The Role of the Military in Exercising Soft Power,” Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations Joseph S. Nye and former captain and current KSG student Nathaniel Fick argued that the military has to uphold its image as a positive force...