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Henry Laurence, Karofsky Faculty Encore Lecture, September 12, 2008 Updated: 2008-11-13 21:21:12 Description: "You Can't Say That! Keeping Terrorists, War Crimes and Gay Marriage off TV." Henry Laurence is an associate professor of government with a joint appointment in Asian studies at Bowdoin. He teaches courses in Japanese and comparative politics, media ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Senator George J. Mitchell '54, September 19, 2008 Updated: 2008-11-13 21:21:02 Description: Senator George J. Mitchell was born and raised in Waterville, Maine, and graduated from Bowdoin College and Georgetown University Law Center. He entered the U.S. Senate in 1980 and went on to an illustrious career in the Senate that spanned fourteen ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tracy Kidder, Feb. 9, 2007 Updated: 2007-05-11 18:38:49 Description: Tracy Kidder is well known for his powerful and inspiring book Mountains Beyond Mountains. In this book he tells the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, a single-minded physician bent on improving the health of some of the poorest people on the planet....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill '74, Feb. 16, 2007 Updated: 2007-03-06 18:04:36 Description: Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill '74 head of the U.S. delegation to the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, spoke at Common Hour Friday, February 16, 2007. Hill discussed recent developments in the talks during hi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Evan Wolfson, Nov. 3, 2006 Updated: 2007-01-19 19:48:16 Description: Evan Wolfson is the Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, the gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide. Mr. Wolfson worked for the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund in New York City, where he represented several g...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Professor Paul Franco, Sep. 8, 2006 Updated: 2006-09-27 18:18:55 Description: Mr. Franco is a Professor of Government with teaching responsibilities in the history of political philosophy and contemporary political theory. Mr. Franco is the author of The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott, Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Matthew Pearl, Nov. 19, 2004 Updated: 2006-04-10 19:06:07 Description: Matthew Pearl graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in English and American Literature in 1997. In 1998, he won the prestigious Dante Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. His first novel, The Dante Club, a New Y...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dr. Charles Johnson, Feb. 10, 2006 Updated: 2006-04-03 19:02:29 Description: National Book Award winner Charles Johnson is a storyteller who ingeniously braids history, philosophy, and imagination in making post-modern fiction. A philosopher, literary critic, cartoonist, essayist, novelist, short story writer and screenwriter...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Doris Kearns Goodwin, Nov. 2, 2001 Updated: 2006-03-13 18:04:17 Description: Former Harvard professor and White House fellow under Lyndon Johnson, Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of bestsellers The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream. Her articles on political issues have appeared in leadin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Robert Reich, Oct. 25, 2002 Updated: 2006-03-09 18:50:18 Description: Before joining the Brandeis faculty, Reich served as the nation’s 22nd Secretary of Labor during President Bill Clinton’s first term. Under his leadership, the Department of Labor implemented the Family and Medical Leave Act and the School-to-Wor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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