Results for “American Academy of Arts and Sciences”

…ngton’s intentions. The shift occurred at the same time as a broader effort by the Obama administration to counter anti-American sentiment and reach out to opposition leaders across the political spectrum. The United States “wants to have the cake and eat it, too,” said Nabil Fa...

…Justice: The Making of the Security State. New York: Crown, 2016. Greenwald, Glenn. How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a Presi- dent Run Amok. San Francisco: Working Assets, 2006. . No Place to Hide. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014. Harding, Luke. The S...

…A Mandarin service away from programs with direct relevance to China toward programming that seeks instead to highlight American everyday life or teach American-style English to Chinese listeners. An example would be a program called Cultural Odyssey, a VOA TV series that focused...

….M. – 8:00 P.M. Congresswoman Diana DeGette (center) in Stockholm, Sweden with Barbro Ehnbom (left), Chairwoman Swedish-American Life Science Summit and Swedish Ambassador Karin Palmquist (right). Diana was honored to be the keynote speaker at the Swedish- American Life Science S...

…rst century, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency developed it to allow American intelligence operatives to cloak their movements on the Internet. They could anonymously manipulate websites oper- ated by Islamic radicals, for exampl...

… television network. CCTV also expanded its offerings in the United States, growing its bureau in Washington and hiring American reporters too. By 2012, CCTV, recently renamed the China Global Television Network (CGTN), was broadcasting in seven languages. Its programs for Ameri...

98 CHAPTER TWELVE Whistle-blower “They elected me. The overseers... The [American] system failed comprehensively, and each level of oversight, each level of responsibility that should have addressed this, abdicated their responsibility.” --Edward Snowden in Moscow While Snow...

…s that have very little in common aside from some hostility - which is receding - towards past European colonialism and American hegemonism. That Russia is both a member of the exclusive western club of the G- 8 and of the BRIC grouping is just one example of the complex global...

…ow delicious we thought it was. It reveals a distortion in our capacity to anticipate — or forecast in the words of the American social psychologist Daniel Gilbert — how we will feel, and in particular, how much we will like the experience. This is a problem for the elements of p...

…could find no evidence that Snowden had made any arrangements during his monthlong stay in Hong Kong to go to any Latin American country. Before he went public on June 9, he could have easily gotten a visa in Hong Kong with his still-valid passport to go to almost any country in...

…nd all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved Elisa New Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Harvard University 148 Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Elisa New Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Harvard...

… blogs denouncing of US government surveillance. Aside from Greenwald and Poitras, Snowden sought an outlet inside the American establishment. So he had Poitras write Barton Gellman, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Washington Post. Born in 1960, Gellman graduated fro...

…f 11 traveled Nov. 13-19 and joined with other Close Up high school chapters from across the country to learn about the American democratic process. Central High School history teacher and Close Up advisor Ericka Hansen took 10 students on the annual trip, which gives high scho...

…rk which makes them easy to identify and track down. *4 Neil Gross & Solon Simmons, “The Social and Political Views of American College and University Professors,” in N. Gross & S. Simmons, eds., Professors and Their Politics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014). 7...

…rk which makes them easy to identify and track down. *4 Neil Gross & Solon Simmons, “The Social and Political Views of American College and University Professors,” in N. Gross & S. Simmons, eds., Professors and Their Politics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014). 7...