- Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) was a leading news anchor for CNN from 1980 to his retirement in 2001. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963 to 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Shaw is widely remembered for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating. - Burt Rutan
Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. He is most famous for his design of the record-breaking Voyager, which was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and the suborbital rocket plane SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004. - Riane Eisler
Dr. Eisler tells us that the current political, economic, and cultural categories are useless for creating conditions that support compassion and sustainability area. Thus, she began to recognize two systems of culture: the partnership system and the domination system. In the domination system, caring is devalued. In the partnership system, caring and compassion are two of the highest values. The real wealth of the nation is the contributions of people and nature. - Rich Beem
Rich Beem (born August 24, 1970) is an American golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Beem was born in Phoenix, Arizona, grew up in El Paso, Texas, and played golf at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He turned professional in 1994. His early career was largely unassuming, and even broken up by a spell in Seattle selling car stereos and cell phones to make ends meet. This changed in 1999 when Beem won the Kemper Open as an unheralded rookie. - John Rose
John Rose is an American concert organist who has performed in 45 of the United States and has made a number of foreign concert tours to Australia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and various European countries. He is College Organist at Trinity College in Connecticut, a post he has held since 1977. In the United States he has performed at halls such as the Kennedy Center in Washington, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Davies Hall in San Francisco, the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, - Rod Pampling
Rodney "Rod" Pampling (born 23 September 1969) is an Australian golfer. Pampling was born in Redcliffe in Queensland. He turned professional in 1994. He began tournament golf career on the PGA Tour of Australasia, where he won the 1999 Canon Challenge and also spent time on the NGA Hooters Tour, a developmental tour in the United States. In 2000 and 2001 he played on the PGA Tour's official developmental tour, … - Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 - December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. The co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, Butler was president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1925 to 1945, and received the 8 Republican Party electoral votes for Vice President of the United States in the 1912 presidential race, after that party's VP nominee, … - Joey Sindelar
Joseph Paul "Joey" Sindelar (born March 30, 1958) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. Sindelar was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky while his father was serving in the Army, but has lived in New York for most of his life. He was a childhood friend and high school golf rival of fellow PGA Tour player Mike Hulbert. He attended the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and while there was a distinguished member of the school's golf team. - Jacques Lecoq
Jacques Lecoq was a French actor, mime and acting instructor. Born in Paris, he is most famous for his methods on physical theatre, movement and mime taught at l'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq from 1956 until his death in 1999. Lecoq began his career by studying physical education and sport. After teaching this subject for several years, he found himself acting and a member of the "Comediens de Grenoble". - Glenn Patterson
Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast in 1961. He studied on the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia taught by Malcolm Bradbury and returned to Northern Ireland in 1988. In addition to his novels, he also make documentaries for the BBC and has published his collected journalistic writings as "Lapsed Protestant" (2006). Patterson's recurring theme is the reassessment of the past. - George Sylvester Viereck
George Sylvester Viereck (December 31 1884 in Munich, died March 18 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist. His father, Louis, born out of wedlock to German actress Edwina Viereck, was reputed to be a son of Kaiser Wilhelm I, although another relative of the Hohenzollern family assumed legal paternity. Louis in the 1870s joined the Marxist socialist movement, and in 1896 emigrated to the United States, … - John Howard Lawson
John Howard Lawson (September 25, 1894 - August 11, 1977) was an American writer, and head of the Hollywood division of the American Communist Party. He was also that cell's cultural commissar, answering directly to V.J. Jerome, the Party's New York-based cultural comissar. He was born in New York City, New York. After studying at Williams College (1910-1914) he became a successful writer with plays such as "Standards" (1916) and "Servant-Master-Lover" (1916). - Solomon Linda
Solomon Popoli Linda (1909 - 8 October, 1962) was a South African Zulu musician, singer and composer who wrote the song "Mbube" which later became the pop hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", and gave its name to a style of isicathamiya "a cappella" popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. - Nalini Nadkarni
Nalini Nadkarni is an American ecologist who became a pioneer in the study of Costa Rican rain forest canopies. Nalini Nadkarni took an inventory of the canopy in 1981, and two inventories in 1984. She was one of the first people to explore the ecology of rain forest canopies, and did so by using mountain climbing equipment so that she could safely make the ascent to study the canopies. - Rosemary Barkett
Rosemary Barkett (born in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 1939) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to her nomination for that post, she was Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, where she was the first woman ever to serve on that court. Barkett has had an unusual career path for a judge. One of nine children born in Mexico to parents of Syrian descent, she moved to Miami, Florida in January, … - Dermot Diamond
Professor Dermot Diamond is an author and academic at Dublin City University - R. Scott Frey
R. Scott Frey is a sociologist at the University of Tennessee. He specialises in the interrelated areas of public policy, environment, and social change and social development. His recent work centers on risk and globalization issues. - Thomas R. Pickering
Ambassador Pickering is senior vice president for international relations for Boeing. He has had a long career spanning five decades as a U.S. diplomat, serving as under secretary of state for political affairs, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and as U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan, and El Salvador. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. - Reuel Marc Gerecht
Reuel Marc Gerecht is the director of the Project for the New American Century's Middle East Initiative. He is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Middle East specialist at the CIA. - Edward Felten
Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, hid and disabled the browser with a removal program he wrote while serving as a government witness during the antitrust trial in 1998. But in court, Microsoft adroitly demonstrated that, the way its software is written, Internet Explorer shows up unexpectedly now and then -- no matter how well the program is hidden -- backing its contention that the browser is integral to the operating system. - Erik Barnouw
The Organization of American Historians annually bestows the Erik Barnouw Award "in recognition of outstanding reporting or programming on network or cable television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history, and/or the promotion of history." The first recipient was Ken Burns in 1983. Historian and author. Specialized in the history of broadcasting media. Children: son Jeffrey; daughters Susanna and Karen. - Jaroslav Bucek
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J. Mark Schuster is Professor of Urban Cultural Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a public policy analyst specialising in the analysis of government policies, programmes and financing in culture, he has been an advisor to governments, cultural agencies and cultural organisations in North America, Europe and Australasia. - Diane Orentlicher
Diane Orentlicher , Report of the Independent Expert to Update the Set of Principles to Comabat Impunity (UN Doc. E/CN.4/2005/102 Feb. 18, 2005). Diane Orentlicher , Updated Set of Principles for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights Through Action to Comabt Impunity (UN Doc. E/CN.4/2005/102/Add. 1 Feb. 8, 2005). - Michael Fullilove
Michael graduated in international relations and law from the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, with dual university medals. He also studied as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he took a master's degree in international relations and wrote his doctorate on Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy. His dissertation was awarded the annual prize for the best international history thesis in Britain. - Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon
Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon , Jurisdiccion y Compentcia en las Peticiones Individuales del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (Jurisdiction and Competence in the Individual Petitions in the Inter-American System on Human Rights , __ Revista Argentina de Derechos Humanos (Argentinian Hum. Rights L. Rev.) __ (2001). - Alexander Sebastian Dent
Dr. Alexander Dent is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at The George Washington University, where he began teaching in 2005. Dr. Dent received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. From 2003-04, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, and he held the Earl S. Johnson Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago from 2004-05. - Markos Kounalakis
- Norman Paskin
Norman Paskin Norman Paskin is a consultant on standards for identification and structured management of content on digital networks, and related issues concerning management of products of the human mind. He was the first Director of the International DOI Foundation (IDF), for which his company Tertius Ltd continues to provide management services whilst also engaging in other work including with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives. - Read Magdalena Ruiz
Read Tatyana Goryachova's speech from the awards ceremony held October 16 in New York. - Liz Bywater
Liz Bywater Liz Bywater , PhD, is president of Bywater Consulting Group, LLC, an organizational consulting firm in the Philadelphia area. Dr. Bywater helps her clients dramatically improve individual, group, and organizational performance, resulting in enhanced job satisfaction, maximized productivity, and heightened profitability for the organization. Dr. Bywater is a specialist in human behavior and behavioral change. - Steven Salop
Steven Salop , Professor of Law & Economics, Georgetown University Law Center - David G. Seiler
David G. Seiler is the Chief of the Semiconductor Electronics Division at NIST. The Division provides technical leadership in developing semiconductor measurement infrastructure critical to industry, government, and academia. Dr. Seiler received his Ph.D. and M.S. Degrees in Physics from Purdue and a B.S. in Physics from Case Western. He is a Fellow of the APS and a senior member of IEEE. - Eugene A. Rosa
Eugene A. Rosa is currently the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Policy in the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service, is also currently professor, and past chair, of sociology, faculty associate in the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center, affiliated professor in the Program in Environmental Science and Regional Planning, affiliated professor of fine arts, and faculty associate of the WSU Center for Integrated Biotechn - Adam Posen
Adam Posen is deputy director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, where he has been a senior fellow since 1997. His research focuses on macroeconomic policy and performance, European and Japanese political economy, and central banking issues. The Institute will publish his new book, Reform and Growth in a Rich Country: Germany , partially supported by a major grant from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in early 2008. - Stephen J. Kobrin
Stephen J. Kobrin Stephen J. Kobrin is William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he has been Director of the Lauder Institute and Chair of the Management Department. His research interests are global integration, the impact of the emerging digital economy, and the politics of international business. He teaches courses in multinational management and international political-economy. - Ancha Srinivasan
Dr. Ancha Srinivasan is a Team Leader and Senior Researcher at the Geospatial Analysis Center of the Regional Science Institute (RSI), Sapporo, Japan, where he has worked since 1996. His research is in precision farming for improving sustainability of cropping systems in Asia. - Dennis R. Suplee
Dennis R. Suplee , born January 20, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Admitted to bar, 1967, Pennsylvania. Preparatory and Legal Education: St. Joseph's University, B.S., 1964; University of Pennsylvania Law School, LL.B. , 1967.
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