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Ahmed Khaled Ahmed; Consulting Editor, The Friday Times, Lahore, Pakistan: "Pakistan and Islamic Fundamentalism," 2/19/02
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AldenEdward Alden; Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 911," 11/18/08
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Bergman Lowell Bergman; Reporter/Producer and Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, UCB: "A 'Long March through the Institution' of Television Journalism," 1/31/01
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BootMax Boot; Olin Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "Small Wars and U.S. Foreign Policy," 3/12/03
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ChandaNayan Chanda; Director of Publications at the Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University: "Great Power Intervention and Regional Stability in Asia," 11/8/01; and, "How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization," 5/16/07
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SenSteve Coll; Associate Editor, The Washington Post: "The Rise of al Qaeda," 3/15/05
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Constable Pamela Constable; Deputy Foreign Editor, The Washington Post: "Reporting from South Asia," 3/29/05; and, as Foreign Correspondent, The Washington Post: "Afghanistan and Pakistan," 04/03/08
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CousinsNorman Cousins; Professor of Medical Humanities at the UCLA School of Medicine: "The Quest for Peace," 9/12/84
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DannerMark Danner; Journalist and Staff Writer a the New Yorker: "Being a Writer," 3/3/99; and "Truth, Power, and the Iraq Debacle," 7/27/07
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Fallows James Fallows; National Correspondent, Atlantic Monthly: "A Journalist's Craft," 12/7/00; and "U.S. Foreign Policy and the Bush Administration," 3/28/05
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FiskRobert Fisk; Middle East Correspondent, The Independent: "'Foreign Correspondent' in the Middle East," 12/14/06
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Gardner Akbar Ganji; Journalist and Human Rights Activist: "Islam and Democracy," 8/10/06
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Garton Ash Timothy Garton Ash; Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford: "An Intellectual Odyssey," 5/4/96
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GoltzThomas Goltz; war correspondent: "Chechnya," 11/17/03
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GordonMichael Gordon; Military Correspondent, The New York Times: "The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq," 3/21/06
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GourevitchPhilip Gourevitch; staff writer at the New Yorker: "Reporting the Story of a Genocide," 2/11/00
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GreenhouseLinda Greenhouse; Knight Distinguished Journalist, Yale Law School: "Reflections on the Supreme Court," 9/17/08
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HassAmira Hass; Columnist, Ha'aretz: "Occupation and Terrorism," 10/24/03
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Joffe Joffe, Josef; Editor and Publisher, Die Zeit:
"Power and Culture in International Affairs," 1/20/00  video1, 2000,  video2, 2000;
"Alliance Lost: The U.S. and Europe in a Unipolar World," 4/4/03  video, 2003;
"The U.S. and Europe after the Iraq War,"
4/12/04  video, 2004;
"The Imperial Temptation of America," 10/22/07 video, 2007

JohnsonHaynes Johnson; Journalist and writer: "Capturing Our Time Through History and Journalism," 1/31/02 and "McCarthyism," 10/28/05
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KinsleyMichael Kinsley; Columnist, The Washington Post: "Journalism in the Digital Age," 4/10/06
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LaphamLewis H. Lapham; Editor of Harper's Magazine, 1976-2006: "An Editor's Odyssey," 10/7/06
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LievenAnatol Lieven; Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for Peace: "American Nationalism," 5/6/04; and, as Senior Fellow, New America Foundation: "Ethical Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy" (with John Hulsman), 10/25/06
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MannJames Mann; Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University: "The Bush War Cabinet" 2/14/05

MicklethwaitJohn Micklethwait; Editor-in-Chief, The Economist: "Globalization and the Conservative Movement in the United States," 2/6/07
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NasrVictor S. Navasky; Publisher and former Editor of The Nation: "Journals of Opinion and the Work of Democracy" 9/16/05
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RashidAhmed Rashid;Author and Journalist: "The Rise of Militant Islam," 3/26/02; and, "Descent into Chaos," 6/12/08
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PfaffWilliam Pfaff; columnist, International Herald Tribune: "The End of the Cold War in Europe," 5/7/90
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Pomfret John Pomfret; Foreign Correspondent, The Washington Post: "Covering Human Rights," 11/18/97; and, "The Emergence of the New China," 2/8/07
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Power Samantha Power; Professor, Kennedy School, Harvard University: "Chasing the Flame," 2/26/08
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SheehanNeil Sheehan; Author, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "Remembering Vietnam," 11/14/88
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SegevTom Segev; Columnist for Haaretz: "Israeli National Identity," 4/8/04; and "Israel and the 1967 War," 3/22/07
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SmithMartin Smith; Documentary Film Producer: "Documentary Filmmaking," 1/29/03
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SteynMark Steyn; Journalist: "America, Europe, and the Islamic World, " 3/14/07
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TerkelStuds Terkel; Performer, Writer and Interviewer: "Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times," 10/29/03
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WickerTom Wicker; Associate Editor, The New York Times: "The Presidency, The Press, and the Cold War," 11/3/83
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WrightLawrence Wright; Staff Writer, The New Yorker: "Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," 11/13/06
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