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...Jurist Walter Cronkite and VIP Jury members such as George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Senator Barack Obama. Some of the world’s largest entertainment companies have also joined forces behind this initiative, including MTV, Walt Disney Studios, Entertainment Weekly, and USA Today. The Film Your Issue ThinkTank will judge the entries and select semi-finalists, and these films will then be opened up to voting by both the public and the VIP Judges. In addition to awarding a paid internship at Walt Disney Studios as the coveted first prize, Film Your Issue will broadcast the top entries...
...raise retirement ages, increase labor participation rates and encourage the immigration of skilled workers. But politicians have been more bashful when it comes to urging people to have more babies. Low birth rates "will have a major impact on Europe's economic future," says Jonathan Grant, director of independent thinktank RAND Europe's Cambridge office and principal author of a study of European fertility released last year. "But there's a disconnect between the cycle of political elections and the generational cycle of demographics. That's one reason politicians haven't been willing to expend a lot of political capital...
...currently serves as a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics, an independent non-profit thinktank in Washington...
...undergraduate, he had other endgames in mind than the presidency. He considered enlisting in the army. He contemplated a career in opera. Even after he went for politics, friends say they expected him to be a thinktank policy guru or a professor of political science--a job Keyes says he may eventually consider--rather than a presidential sideshow. Die-hard Keyes supporters--as such people always do--have an intricate, domino theory detailing a Keyes win: Bauer, Hatch and Forbes will drop out, and their supporters will turn to Keyes to form a solid conservative block. Then, once Bush...
...built her academic career, Albright gradually turned her Georgetown home into a thinktank, where she constantly hosted meetings and dinners with Democratic foreign policy makers...