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...universities more distinctly than the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics (IOP). Every week, the Forum creates a venue for the greatest minds in the world to speak, for all to hear, about pressing issues of our time. The Forum has one simple rule: every speaker, irrespective of his or her rank, title, or stature, must stand before our community and answer any questions posed by the audience...
While May recalled Kennan’s remarkable ability as a negotiator and historian, combining the often mutually-exclusive spheres of political influence and academic renown, Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60, offered a remembrance of the diplomat as a public speaker...
...history. "You thought you could trust him," says Alex Bryant, an ex--WorldCom sales manager in Springfield, Mo. Soon after WorldCom bought MCI, Bryant recalls, Ebbers addressed a group of employees and urged them to hang on to their company stock. "He was a great motivator, a great speaker," says Bryant. Ebbers also was desperate to keep WorldCom's share price afloat as telecom prices were collapsing, to the point that he presided over $11 billion in phony book entries...
...made your T shirt?" A speaker at a 1999 Georgetown University student protest against sweatshops turned that question into an accusation. Pietra Rivoli, a professor of business, heard something more: a challenge to find the answer. A few weeks later, she bought a T shirt and began tracing its path from Texas cotton farm to Chinese factory to charity bin. The result is an engrossing new book, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy (Wiley; 254 pages...
...Lindbergh Jr. from his father's Sourland Mountain home in Western New Jersey on the windy night of March 1. Last week the case passed into its third month with the child still missing, the abductors still uncaught. No national wave of kidnapping had followed. Children of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney and Lady Willmott Lewis (daughter of President Frank Noyes of the Associated Press, wife of the London Times's Washington correspondent) had been reported threatened. But the Burns and Pinkerton detective agencies reported no increase in orders for private protection. The U. S. Press...