www.mslaw.edu Excerpts from theMassachusetts School of Law’s program, Books of Our Time, in which Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Gordon M. Goldstein on his book Lessons In Disaster – McGeorge Bundy And The Path To War In Vietnam. Mr. Goldstein discusses McGeorge Bundy’s conduct in office as well as the parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan. Mr. Goldstein is a scholar of international affairs whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. The Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public in television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit mslawledu. MSLAW podcasts are available on itunes (just search for mslaw) and at mslaw.libsyn.com MSLAW videos can also be found on Google.
Women journalists have impacted the reporting and editing of our nations news. What are the challenges they have faced? And what has changed in the roles, expectations, opportunities, and obstacles for women in American journalism? A panel of journalists and news executives will discuss what it took to succeed and the future challenges for women in journalism. The panel includes Cokie Roberts, political commentator for ABC News; Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week on PBS; Diane Rehm, host of the Diane Rehm Show on NPR; and Katharine Weymouth, publisher of The Washington Post and president and CEO of Washington Post Media; and Susan Tifft, professor emerita of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University.
PART ONE: THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? Thats the hypothetical scenario Professor Michael Sandel uses to launch his course on moral reasoning. After the majority of students votes for killing the one person in order to save the lives of five others, Sandel presents three similar moral conundrums—each one artfully designed to make the decision more difficult. As students stand up to defend their conflicting choices, it becomes clear that the assumptions behind our moral reasoning are often contradictory, and the question of what is right and what is wrong is not always black and white. PART TWO: THE CASE FOR CANNIBALISM Sandel introduces the principles of utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, with a famous nineteenth century legal case involving a shipwrecked crew of four. After nineteen days lost at sea, the captain decides to kill the weakest amongst them, the young cabin boy, so that the rest can feed on his blood and body to survive. The case sets up a classroom debate about the moral validity of utilitarianism—and its doctrine that the right thing to do is whatever produces “the greatest good for the greatest number.”
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www.mslaw.edu In this two part episode of the program, Books of Our Time, Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Gordon M. Goldstein on his book Lessons In Disaster – McGeorge Bundy And The Path To War In Vietnam. Mr. Goldstein discusses McGeorge Bundy’s rise to power as well as some of the signature failures and instructive lessons of the Kennedy administration. Mr. Goldstein is a scholar of international affairs whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. The Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public in television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit mslawledu. MSLAW podcasts are available on itunes (just search for mslaw) and at mslaw.libsyn.com MSLAW videos can also be found on Google.
www.weforum.org 29.01.2010 The 189 members of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons will meet in 2010 for a major review of how to rid the world of an estimated 23000 nuclear warheads. How can countries best be deterred from developing nuclear weapons? Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA; Global Agenda Council on Terrorism & Weapons of Mass Destruction Yukiya Amano, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna Lawrence B. Brilliant, President, Skoll Global Threats Fund, USA; Global Agenda Council on Catastrophic Risks Yan Xuetong, Director, Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua University, People’s Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on Negotiation & Conflict Resolution Moderated by Gareth Evans, Co-Chair, International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, Melbourne; Global Agenda Council on Terrorism & Weapons of Mass Destruction
Remnick deserves credit for telling Obamas story more completely than others, for lending a reporters zeal to the task, for not ducking the discussion of race and for peeling back several layers of the onion that is Barack Obama. The Washington Post Superb. Beautifully written and artfully constructed. The Economist Ambitious and well executedIts fair and high-minded, sensitive but dispassionate, admiring but never fawningIts this mix of intellect, fact, and feeling that distinguish Remnicks assessment of Obamas victory.Time Out New York If you care about American politics, you have to read The Bridge. Salon Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, offers a detailed but lusterless account of Barack Obama’s historic ascent. As a piece of “biographical journalism,” the book succeeds ably enough and offers familiar commentary on Obama’s cosmopolitan childhood with strains of isolation and abandonment straight out of David Copperfield-rootless, fatherless, with a loving but naïve and absent mother, he suffered racial taunts and humiliations at the hands of his schoolmates. We read how Obama’s famous composure was hard-won, how he constructed his personality in opposition to his father’s grandiose self-regard, his transformation from “Barry” to “Barack,” the drug use, the burgeoning racial and political consciousness-rehashing events that the subject himself has covered in his frank memoirs. But for the scope (and size) of the book, Remnick’s interest is ultimately limited to a …
Part 2/2. Part of an Arabic television series called “Allamani Al Tareekh (History has taught me), hosted by Dr Tariq Al Suwaidan from Kuwait (with subtitles). The programme consists of a series of lectures about key historic events in Islamic history and the lessons learnt from them. This is the second of a series of a episodes about the fall of Baghdad, the capital of the Islamic World during the Abbasid era.
In this program: About the powers that be in Russia, who want to rule like Stalin and live like Abramovich; about why the judicial and political systems reforms are imaginary; about the Yukos trial and economic forecasts; as well as a simple recipe of how the public might change the situation in the country for the better. Presenter: Darya Pylnova
