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Journalist Bill Bartleman talked about the economic varieties in Kentucky’s 1st Congressional District, which comprises approximately the western quarter of the state. Representative Ed Whit…

Campaign Management Institute Co-Director Will Robinson discussed how to reach partisan voters through demographic and electoral targeting. He also took questions from the students.

The American University Lobby Group sponsored this talk. Mr. Finefrock discussed lobbying for multiple interest groups. He also talked about his experience in his career development in lobby…

Robert Allen, AT&T Chairman and CEO, talked about California’s role in the future of information technology, focusing on the growth of the telecommunications industry. He also talked about t…

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl spoke to the German people about a variety of topics including economics and foreign policy and encouraged the German people to have hope in the New Year. Trans…

President Jacques Chirac spoke to the French people on New Year’s Day, encouraging citizens after a difficult year and assuring them that he will do his utmost to help them. Translation into…

Several fiction authors read from their works at an award dinner sponsored by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. The theme for the readings was “A Lesson.” Participating authors were Alice Adams, …

Rodney Armstong talked about the Anthenaeum on Beacon Hill, which was one of the oldest independent libraries in the U.S. The library holds over 750,000 volumes and past members of it have i…

Several authors read from their works to honor the 50th anniversary of Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. Richard Merkin read from Tom Wolfe’s profile of Roger Straus because Mr. Wolfe was ill and…

During the Claremont Institute’s annual Churchill dinner, Representative Richard Armey (R-TX) received the statesmanship award for his governmental service over the past ten years. In his ac…

Lynn Sheer moderated this discussion on the dual issues of women’s role in the 1996 election and its impact on them as a group with Ellen Goodman and Professor Jane Mansbridge. They examined…

As part of the Boston Globe Book Festival, Sapphire read from her novel, Push, about the black experience. This program contains graphic language.

During this luncheon meeting at THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Reg Murphy,President & CEO,NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Spoke about global adventures & research, including the role of science i…

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) spoke about the polarization in U.S. politics. He examined how Republicans moved to the right in the 104th Congress and the Democrats to the left in the 103rd an…

Professor Alan Dundes spoke about the study of folklore as an academic discipline. He emphasized that popular culture is as important, if not more important, than the elite culture of great …

Tom Wolfe, who was working on his latest novel, A Man In Full, spoke about the intellectual environment in the United States since 1945. He emphasized that the two main influences on the spi…

The three authors talked about the state of book writing and selling and took questions from viewers by telephone. They discussed various issues, including the process of writing and researc…

Internationally-known spy novelist John LeCarre spoke about the life of a writer. He talked about various topics, including how his career in British intelligence provides ideas for his nove…

Authors, editors and publicists at the Women’s National Book Association, discussed various characteristics of best selling fiction and nonfiction. They examined various factors, such as na…

Stephen King, Author, delivered the keynote address at a conference on his writing, “Reading Stephen King.” He spoke about three issues surrounding use of works of popular adult fiction such…