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May 31, 2002 |
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Why the rest of the world cares
about the World Cup
Jerome McDonnell takes phone calls from Chicagoans, with Chicago
Public Radio's Jesse Hardman and Dave McGuire |
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To watch World Cup games in a public venue, we suggest you
look around for a bar or restaurant that caters to fans of the
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May 30, 2002 |
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Politics of Soccer in Iran
Nari Safavi
Member, WBEZ Advisory Board |
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Globalization of Soccer: Globalization
of system, immigration and national identity
Kevin Roberts, editorial director of the Sport Business Group
Dave McGuire, Chicago Public Radio |
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Nationalism and Soccer
Alex Kitroeff, Professor of History at Haverford College
Jesse Hardman, Chicago Public Radio |
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World Cup websites we can't live without:
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May 29, 2002 |
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Israel: Refusing to serve in the
Israeli Defense Forces
Ishai Sagi, imprisoned for refusing to serve in the territories
Ram Rahat-Goodman, Senior spokesperson for Yesh Gvul, an organization
that provides support to soldiers who refuse assignments |
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Yesh
Gvul
Courage
to Refuse
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Israel: Civilian volunteers for
IDF
Zeev Shafrir, member of the National Israeli Board of Volunteers
for Israel (known as Sar-El in Israel) |
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Volunteers
for Israel
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May 28, 2002 |
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India-Pakistan conflict continues
to escalate
John McLane, Professor of History at Northwestern University |
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Colombia: Alvaro Uribe wins landslide
election
Robin Kirk, Colombia researcher for Human Rights Watch |
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Juan Elias Uribe |
Young people working for peace in Colombia
Juan Elias Uribe, founding member of the Colombian Children's Peace
Movement
Pedro Alonso, interpreter, Chicago Public Schools, Global Classrooms-Model
United Nations |
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Closing of the Cannes International
Film Festival
Milos Stehlik, Worldview film commentator |
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May 24, 2002 |
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Perspectives on the Russia –
U.S. Summit |
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Anne Applebaum,
Columnist for Slate Magazine, author of forthcoming book
Soviet Gulag
Paul Goble, Senior Advisor,
Voice of America
Alex Babich, contributor to
Russian program Echo of the Planet, 1240 AM, General Partner, Lingua
Communications Translation Services Delegate, Russian-Jewish Committee
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor
of The Nation
Eugene Kaminsky, Journalist,
contributor to Russian program Echo of the Planet, 1240 AM
Steven Schwartz, Executive Director/Publisher
of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Steven Solnick, Director of
the Moscow Office, Ford Foundation |
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Belgian and Finnish film at the
Cannes International Film Festival
Milos Stehlik, Worldview film commentator, Facets Multimedia |
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May 23, 2002 |
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Jerusalem perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict
Ziyad Abu Zayad, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and
Minister for Jerusalem Affairs in the Palestinian Authority |
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Jerusalem perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict
Ehud Olmert, Mayor of Jerusalem, Likud Party |
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Clash of art and celebrity at Cannes
Milos Stehlik, Worldview film commentator, Facets Multimedia |
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May 22, 2002 |
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Rethinking the U.S. military’s
place in the world
David Hackworth, Retired Colonel in the U.S. Army, author of Steel
My Soldiers’ Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation
of the U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam |
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Political films at Cannes
Milos Stehlik, Worldview film commentator
Among the politically charged films at the festival, there’s
a Palestinian film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a
Canadian film about the Armenian genocide |
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May 21, 2002 |
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Kashmir separatist leader shot
Ghulam Nabi Fai, President of the Kashmiri-American Council |
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What’s next for the India-Pakistan
conflict?
Sumit Ganguly, Professor Asian Studies at University of Texas at
Austin; author of Conflict Unending: India Pakistan Tension since
1947 |
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Hindu nationalism in India
Shabana Azmi, member of India’s parliament, actress |
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Who’s winning at Cannes
Worldview film commentator Milos Stehlik |
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May 20, 2002 |
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U.S. Cuba policy |
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Perspective 1
Ambassador Sally Grooms Cowal, President of the Cuba Policy Foundation;
former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America under
former President Bush |
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Perspective 2
Frank Calzon, Executive Director of the Center for a Free Cuba |
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Ireland: Bertie Ahern wins re-election
Bertie Ahern, Prime Minister of Ireland
Excerpt from a speech Bertie Ahern delivered at Northwestern University's
third annual T.W. Heyck Lecture in British and Irish History on
March 11th |
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Cannes International Film Festival
Worldview film commentator Milos Stehlik reviews films on
a range of topics - from Columbine to Catholicism |
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May 17, 2002 |
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History of Turkmenistan
Adrienne Edgar, Assistant Professor of History at University of
California in Santa Barbara, author of Geneologies of National
Identity: State Power and Transformation in Soviet Turkmenistan |
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Leadership in Turkmenistan
Boris Shikhmuradov, former Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan |
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55th Cannes International Film
Festival
This year’s festival has not been immune to world politics.
Both the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
are settings for films at the festival. Milos Stehlik takes us through
these films and other early moments of the festival. |
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May 16, 2002 |
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Tajikistan: Tajik Identity, Civil
War and the Drug Trade
John Schoeberlein, Director, the Program on Central Asia, Harvard
University Lecturer on Central Asian Studies, Department of Near
Eastern Languages and Civilizations |
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May 15, 2002 |
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U.S. Farm Bill and the world’s
poor
Doug Cassel, Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern
University School of Law |
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History and Culture of Kazakhstan
Martha Brill Olcott, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, author of Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise |
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May 14, 2002 |
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U.S.-Russian arms deal
Kevin Martin, Executive Director of Peace
Action in D.C. |
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Oil and Energy in Central Asia
Jan Kalicki, Counselor for International Strategy, ChevronTexaco |
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May 13, 2002 |
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Central Asia Series: Uzbekistan
Russell Zanca, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern
Illinois University |
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Preview of the 55th Cannes International
Film Festival
Worldview film commentator Milos Stehlik |
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May 10, 2002 |
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Pim Fortuyn and Dutch politics
Geraldine Coughlan, BBC Correspondent in the Netherlands |
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A view from the world of Indian
cinema
Shyam Benegal, award-winning Indian filmmaker, Visiting Professor
at Northwestern University
Milos Stehlik, Worldview film commentator |
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May 9, 2002 |
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UN Special Session of the General
Assembly on Children |
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Secretary General Kofi Annan, address
at the session’s opening May 8th |
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Tommy Thompson, U.S. Secretary of Health
and Human Services |
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Human Rights Watch critique of UN
session and U.S. role in session
Jo Becker, Advocacy Director for Children’s Rights at Human
Rights Watch |
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Nepal: Maoist rebel crackdown continues…
Ramjee Parajulee, author of The Democractic Transition in Nepal |
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May 8, 2002 |
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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict |
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Perspective 1
Eyad al Sarraj, First Director of the Palestinian Independent Commission
for Citizens’ Rights, and founder of the Gaza Mental Health
Program |
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Perspective 2
Major General Amos Malka, former Director of Military Intelligence
for the Israel Defense Forces |
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May 7, 2002 |
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“Un-signing” the International
Criminal Court Treaty |
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Pierre-Richard
Prosper, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes |
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David Scheffer,
Senior Vice President for UNA-USA, Former Ambassador at Large for
War Crimes under President Clinton |
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David Rivkin,
Partner, Baker & Hostetler, Wash D.C., White House, Justice
& Energy Dept. official Under Presidents Reagan & Bush Sr. |
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Bart Brown,
Associate Prof. of Law, Co-Director, International and Comparative
Law Program Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology |
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May 6, 2002 |
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Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi released
James Mawdsley, Burmese pro-democracy activist, former political
prisoner in Burma |
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Fighting for HIV/AIDS treatment
access
Gregg Bordowitz, artist, filmmaker; the exhibit "Gregg Bordowitz:
Drive" is currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago |
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May 3, 2002 |
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Burma: Waiting for Aung San Suu
Kyi's release
Christina Fink, author of Living Silence: Burma Under Military
Rule, formerly based on the Thai-Burma border |
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French election preview
Edward G. DeClair, Associate Professor in the Department of Political
Science and Director of the International Relations Program at Lynchburg
College, author of Politics on the Fringe: The People, Policies,
and Organization of the French National Front |
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Colombia's Pacific coast: Impact
of war on Afro-Colombian communities
Dalia Mina Valencia, Colombian human rights worker, Secretary of
the Black Communities Process, brought to the US by Witness for
Peace
Translated by Ryan Calkins of Witness for Peace |
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May 2, 2002 |
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Perspectives on Bush Administration
policy towards Russia |
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Steven Pifer, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State |
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Leon Fuerth, Visiting Professor, Elliot
School of International Affairs, George Washington University |
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Anatol Lieven, Senior Associate, Carnegie
Endowment |
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May 1, 2002 |
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Pakistan: Musharraf
referendum controversy
Steven Cohen, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute |
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Conserving river systems in Brazil and Illinois
Michael Reuter, Chief Conservation Officer for the Illinois chapter
of the Nature Conservancy
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