If you want to train leaders you have to start early. If you want to keep kids out of prison you have to start early. But it isn't easily done. We have to conduct research, educate a wider public, mobilize citizen allies. We have to persuade diverse groups to work together -- schools, social agencies, the faith community, and all levels of government. Nothing could be more significant for ...

John W. Gardner is the quintessential American hero; a man who has transformed this nation through ideas and action that improved the lives of millions of Americans and shook up American politics.

The Politics of Education An Interview with Benjamin Barber By Scott London Afternoon Insights WYSO-FM December 14, 1992 It's been nearly a decade since the release of A Nation at Risk, a landmark government report on the crisis facing American schools. The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded, the study warned, by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our ...

BENJAMIN R. BARBER CAREER SUMMARY BENJAMIN BARBER has combined a career as a distinguished scholar and political theorist with a life of practical commitment to democratic civic practices and the arts. He is an experienced educational and political consultant, public speaker, fund raiser, administrator, and television and theater writer/producer. As a scholar with a Ph.D. in government from ...

Articles by Yossef Bodansky Yossef Bodansky is the Director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the U. S. Congress, as well as the World Terrorism Analyst with the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies (Houston TX). He is a contributing editor of Defense and Foreign Affairs; Strategic Policy, the author of three books (Target America, terror, and crisis in Korea), several ...

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Reconsidering Immigration Is Mexico a Special Case By Samuel P. Huntington Backgrounder November 2000 (Click here for pdf version) Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth. A partial truth, on the other ...

CHECHNYA The Mujahedin Factor by Yossef Bodansky(1) The Islamist struggle for the Heart of Asia has already crossed a major milestone. The Islamists' objective is no longer just an effort to consolidate their hold over the Muslim states of South and Central Asia as well as a struggle for the liberation of traditionally contested territories such as Indian Kashmir. The Islamists have launched an ...

MANY WORLD ORDERS January 9, 1997 TRANSCRIPT David Gergen, editor at large of U.S. News & World Report, engages Samuel Huntington, professor of international relations at Harvard University, author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. DAVID GERGEN: Sam, Jeane Kirkpatrick points out that in the 20th century the greatest outbreaks of violence have occurred within ...

Samuel Huntington : Bio-profile Samuel P. Huntington is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he is also Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in the Center for International Affairs. His latest book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order ...

Business and Technical Writing | English Department | Rutgers Online Directory | Search the Rutgers Writing Program... Writing Program Main Page 101 Course Description Survival Guide Gradatorium Webpage Building Proofreading/Citation The Link-O-Mat Classpages Expos Myths Tutorama Plagiarism Policy Benjamin R. Barber, Time, Work, and Leisure in a Civil Society Benjamin R. Barber is a political ...

Click here for the main page of Bradley Lecture Series. Global Perspectives on War and Peace or Transiting a Uni-Multipolar World By Samuel P. Huntington Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor of Government Harvard University Bradley Lecture Series American Enterprise Institute May 11, 1998 Before launching into my substantive remarks, let me take this opportunity to say that I have been ...