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Violinst Vladimir Spivakov will perform music of Schubert, Brahms, Arvo Pärt and Richard Strauss at 8:00 pm on February 28, in McCarter Theatre.
Musical ensemble
The Vienna Choir Boys
will appear at 7:30 pm on March 1 in McCarter
Theatre.
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This green-glazed Chinese horse dating to the Han Dynasty (25 to 220 AD) will be discussed by docent Nancy Greenspan in the children's talk "Horses From the Steppes" at 11:00 am on March 4.
Speakers
Corzine speaks on US role as
superpower
Jon Corzine will discuss
"America's Role in the World As Its Only Superpower" at 4:30
pm on February 28 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson
Hall.
Corzine, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the US Senate, joined Goldman
Sachs in 1975. Appointed general partner in 1980, he was
named chair and CEO in 1994. While he was chair, Fortune
magazine named Goldman Sachs one of the 10 best
companies to work for in America; in 1997 Time
magazine called Corzine one of the top 50 technology
executives in the country. Also in 1997 he was appointed
cochair of a presidential commission to study capital
budgeting as a way of increasing investment in the nation's
technology, infrastructure and schools.
His talk is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School.
Campolo talk addresses religion,
politics
Anthony Campolo will address
the question "Is Jesus a Republican or a Democrat?" at 4:30
pm on February 29 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson
Hall.
Campolo is professor of sociology
at Eastern College in Pennsylvania, as well as president and
founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of
Education (EAPE/Kingdom- works), a ministry that serves
at-risk urban youth and sponsors education and economic
development programs in Third World countries.
He is the author of 26 books,
including Is Jesus a Republican or a Democrat?;
Can Mainline Denominations Make a Comeback?;
Sociology through the Eyes of Faith; and Wake Up
America!
An ordained minister, Campolo
is associate pastor at Mount Carmel Baptist Church in West
Philadelphia. He also has a weekly television show, "Hashing
It Out," on the Odyssey network.
His talk is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School and the Center for the Study of
Religion. It is part of the Crossroads of Religion and
Politics Lecture Series.
Risen examines computer security
cases
James Risen will speak
on "The Wen Ho Lee and John Deutch Cases: Similarities and
Differences" at 8:00 pm on February 29 in Dodds
Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Risen, Washington bureau
correspondent for the New York Times, was the
reporter who first wrote about the cases of Lee and Deutch,
both of which involve computer security and the
vulnerability of classified information. Lee, a physicist,
was fired from Los Alamos National Lab after transferring
information related to US nuclear capabilities to unsecure
computers and portable tapes; Deutch, former director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, violated security rules by
keeping classified documents on his home computer. Lee is
facing felony charges; Deutch was stripped of his access to
intelligence secrets.
Risen's lecture is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School.
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Cass Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago, will speak on "Republic.com: Television, the Internet and the Public Interest" at 4:30 pm on March 1 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. This lecture is the inaugural event for the University's new Program in Law and Public Affairs, a joint venture of the Woodrow Wilson School, Department of Politics and University Center for Human Values. The program sponsors teaching, scholarship and public discussions related to when and how legal systems, concepts and practices contribute to justice, order and the common good.
Ambassador analyzes "virus down
under"
Denis McLean will speak
on "Australia vs. New Zealand: The Nationalism Virus Down
Under" at 4:30 pm on March 2 in 1 Robertson Hall.
McLean, former New Zealand
ambassador to the United States, also served as New
Zealand's secretary of defense from 1979 until 1988. He is
the author of No Bridge: Australia and New Zealand and
the Rub of Nationalism, a study connecting the
realtionship between Australia and New Zealand to wider
issues of nationalism and globalism. He discusses why,
despite their similarities, the two countries do not pool
resources and form a political union.
His lecture is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School.
Chechnya roundtable includes Baker
Former Secretary of
State James Baker will join diplomats, experts on Russia and
Chechnya, and policymakers in a panel discussion on "What's
at Stake in Chechnya: Causes, Prospects, Solutions" at 7:30
pm on March 2 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson
Hall.
The group will analyze the present
situation in Chechnya -- its military, humanitarian,
political, economic and conceptual dimensions in their local
and regional context--and discuss models for possible
amelioration of the current situation and strategies to
avoid regional crises in the future. Wolfgang
Danspeckgruber, director of the Liechtenstein Research
Program on Self-Determination, has organized the program as
part of an international project bridging academia,
diplomacy, business and the interests of ethnic communities
in Russia.
Participants expected to join Baker
and Danspeckgruber include Chechen Foreign Minister Ilyas
Akhmadov; Chechen expert Marie Bennigsen Broxup, editor of
Central Asian Survey; Sergei Lavrov, permanent
representative of Russia to the United Nations, and Stephen
Holmes, professor of politics.
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