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...head on Saturday, debating four topics united under the rubric of “Internationalism in U.S. Foreign Policy.” The issues up for discussion included the role of the United Nations in U.S. foreign policy, the doctrine of preemption, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia University, and the choice between engagement or containment. Jonathan M. Padilla ’11 and Sahand Moarefy ’10, who represented the Dems in the debate, stressed the importance of diplomatic resolution to international conflicts. “We have to work within multinational institutions...
...speech last Monday entitled “X-Underrated—Pornography and Popular Culture,” Pound Visiting Professor of Law Catherine A. MacKinnon stressed to her Barker Center audience of several dozen that pornography cannot exist separately from the mainstream. MacKinnon is a longtime social activist who has committed much of her career to advocating legislation to curb pornography and representing former porn actresses in suing for damages. In her speech Monday, MacKinnon went straight for shock tactics, suggesting that society is wrong to consider porn harmless when it produces images as bad as those that came...
...public just has a wonderful sense of who they trust and who they don’t,” she said. “Sometimes they can get fooled, but they can judge only by what they have at hand.” Before Dowd’s speech, Alex S. Jones, the director of Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, awarded the third annual David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest. In 2005, Priest broke the story about secret CIA prisons in Thailand, Afghanistan, and Eastern Europe used to interrogate...
...speech, Kerim tried to address the question of whether or not globalization will undercut national sovereignty. “Now you can’t have one without the other,” he said...
Dutch B. Leonard, Jr., professor of public management at the Kennedy School of Government, said Kerim’s speech could help to broaden international perspectives at Harvard...