Focus 580 Archives for Week of October 6, 2008
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Monday October 06, 2008, 10:06 AM
Social Activism for Civil Rights
Charles E. Cobb, Jr., Award Winning Journalist formerly with WHUR, NPR and National Geographic
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Categories: Children • Civil Rights • Community • Education • History • United States history
Monday October 06, 2008, 11:06 AM
Baghdad At Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War In Iraq
Peter R. Mansoor, the General Raymond Mason Chair of Military History at Ohio State University and formerly Executive Officer to Commanding General David H. Petraeus of the Multi-National Force-Iraq
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Categories: Military • War • Iraq
Tuesday October 07, 2008, 10:06 AM
Fallen Giants: A History Of Himalayan Mountaineering From The Age Of Empire To The Age Of Extremes
Stewart Weaver, Professor of History at the University of Rochester and book Co-Author
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Categories: Mountaineering
Tuesday October 07, 2008, 11:06 AM
"World Englishes in the Global Context"
Kingsley R. Bolton, Ph.D., Professor of English Linguistics at Stockholm University
Yamuna Kachru, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Language and Linguistics
Wednesday October 08, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Leaders We Deserved (And A Few We Didn't): Rethinking The Presidential Rating Game
Alvin Stephen Felzenberg, Teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the George Washington University
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Categories: Government • Elections • History • United States history
Wednesday October 08, 2008, 11:06 AM
Xenophobia in South Africa
Teresa A., Barnes, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and Gender/Women's Studies, University of Illinois
Bekisizwe Ndimande, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois
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Categories: Human Rights • Immigration • Labor/worker issues • Race/Ethnicity • Violence • Africa • Mozambique • South Africa • Zimbabwe
Thursday October 09, 2008, 10:06 AM
Sway: The Irresistible Pull Of Irrational Behavior
Ori Brafman, Organizational Expert and Speaker
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Categories: organizational behavior
Thursday October 09, 2008, 11:06 AM
Protecting the Homeland
Admiral James M. Loy, Senior Counselor, The Cohen Group
Categories: National Security
Friday October 10, 2008, 10:06 AM
House Resolution 6357 and Health Privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
Twila J. Brase, R.N., President, Citizens' Council on Health Care
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Categories: Consumer issues • Health • Health Policy
Friday October 10, 2008, 11:06 AM
Iran, Iraq and the U.S. Global War on Terror
Colin Flint, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois
Behrooz Gharmari, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois
Categories: International Affairs • Terrorism • Iran • Iraq
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