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Securing the Common Good in a time of Global Crises
Ban Ki-moon
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for the international community to move quickly and boldly in addressing urgent global challenges.
Why Human Rights are Impossible Without Religion
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John Warwick Montgomery, lawyer and human rights theorist, examines the foundation for human rights. "Everyone presumably favors human rights," says Montgomery, but everyone favors them on their own terms.
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Thomas de Waal
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Thomas de Waal brings viewers to "the lands in between." The Caucasus has long been an arena of great-power contact and conflict. The region is often seen as intractable, yet we should discard misleading cliches such as "ancient hatreds" and "frozen conflicts," de Waal says.
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I
Malik Neal
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CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World & How We Can Come Back
Thomas L. Friedman
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According to New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman, the U.S. faces four major challenges that threaten to jeopardize the American dream for current and future generations and lessen the U.S.'s standing in the world.
Image of Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World
Author: Samantha Power
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2008)
Binding: Mass Market Paperback, 640 pages
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Author: Samantha Power
Publisher: Harper Perennial (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 688 pages
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Author: Samantha Power, Roméo Dallaire
Publisher: Da Capo Press (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 592 pages
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Author: Elizabeth Neuffer
Publisher: Picador (2002)
Binding: Paperback, 528 pages

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Posted by leesteve1981 December 08, 2011 at 8:18am

The world would be a much more danerous place if it wa not for the US.