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Simon Kuper, Financial Times

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Uncategorized

I’m happy to report that for the first time in months, the biggest monarchy news of the week had nothing to do with Princess Kate’s

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Judge Michael Mukasey, former US Attorney General

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

Among the many questions the arrest of alleged Boston Bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev raised, few have gone more to the heart of American law and indeed

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Dr. Antonio Perez, President of Borough of Manhattan Community College

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

It seems nearly every analysis of the future of American competitiveness comes back to one topic: Education. And that highlights the problem: If a college degree

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Lawrence Leibowitz, COO, New York Stock Exchange/EuroNext

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

There is, perhaps, no better symbol of the American economic system than the New York Stock Exchange. Today, while still the largest by stock market

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Paul Theroux, Author “The Last Train to Zona Verde”

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Uncategorized

It’s hardly an exaggeration to say that Paul Theroux is one of the great American writers, with a special – though not exclusive – affinity

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Diane Powell, NASA, Office of the Chief Technologist

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Science, Technology, Uncategorized

Harvard University recently announced the Top 25 programs in this year’s Innovations in American Government Award competition. We’re here to talk about one of them.

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Cameron Stracher, Author of “Kings of the Road”

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Sports, Uncategorized

The fact that the Boston bombing occurred at a marathon – a celebration of one of America’s most popular participation sports – is not lost

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Zack Kopplin, Student Leader of Repeal Creationism

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized

The battle to teach Creationism in classes is playing out in the Bayou. In 2008, Louisiana passed the Louisiana Science Education Act, which many people

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Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, co-Author “Big Data” & Oxford University Professor

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Technology, Uncategorized

Of all the changes technology brings to our lives, none may be more significant to what it means to interact in a human society than

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David Rose, MIT Media Lab

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Science, Technology, Uncategorized

Today more than ever, great, new, innovative ideas come from anywhere. But if you had to name a capital for this place called anywhere, it

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Graham Allison, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Uncategorized

With the death and capture of the of the Tsarnaev brothers, an area unknown to many Americans has now jumped to our front pages: Chechnya.

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Jonathan Hock, 8-time Emmy Award winning producer, director, writer & editor

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Sports, Uncategorized

ESPN’s 30 for 30: What began as 30 documentaries to celebrate the network’s 30th birthday has become a signature for some of the best storytelling

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