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Chris Dufresne, LA Times Sports Columnist

August 23, 2012 admin All Conversations, Sports, Uncategorized

Both off and on the field, college sports has again hit the front pages. This time it’s football. The week began with the fast and

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Joe Nye, Former US Asst. Sec. of Defense

July 11, 2012 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

From potential bank runs in Spain to full revolt in Greece. From new leadership in France to new tensions in Germany. From fallout in Ireland

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Linda Greenhouse, Yale Law School

July 10, 2012 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

If the calendar says June, it means only one thing for my next guest: The end of the US Supreme Court term. The session end

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Enrico Moretti, Economics Professor & Fulbright Fellow, UC Berkeley

July 9, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Public Policy, Uncategorized

New US employment numbers were released yesterday, and as you surely know by now, they brought bad news. This happened, as did this… And you

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Juliette Kayyem, Former Asst. Sec., Dept. of Homeland Security on the Middle East

July 8, 2012 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Uncategorized

It would be hard to find a more troubled part of the world right now than the Middle East. In Syria, terrible massacres, including last

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Clara Shih, CEO, Hearsay

June 8, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Technology, Uncategorized

Facebook’s IPO missteps aside, there can be no argument that social media is a major — if not THE major — next step in human

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Diane Brady, Senior Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek

June 2, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

The Queen’s 60 year jubilee in England is not the only major anniversary of an institution this week. This also marks the 50 year anniversary

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EJ Dionne, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

June 2, 2012 admin All Conversations, Politics, Public Policy, Uncategorized

Four years ago, no matter how you voted, there was a sense that, maybe, just possibly, we as a nation would be ready to come

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Harriet Worsley, Author, “100 Ideas That Changed Fashion”

June 2, 2012 admin All Conversations, Culture, Uncategorized

Of the many topics I’m where I’m better off asking the questions rather than answering them, fashion has to top the list. No one is

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Joel Stein, Time Magazine, Author “Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity”

June 2, 2012 admin All Conversations, Culture, Uncategorized

Many of us have children with a very clear goal for our offspring: We want to raise a mini-me someone who reminds us our childhood

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Laura Stoll, New Economics Foundation

June 2, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

What causes well-being? What enables some people and societies and countries to prosper and others to fail? What does it mean to prosper — is

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Dr. Paul Piff, UC Berkeley, Social Psychologist

June 2, 2012 admin All Conversations, Culture, Science, Uncategorized

From Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” to Eddie Murphy’s “Trading Places” to today’s hidden camera TV shows that put unsuspecting people in morally-challenging situations and

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