Politics
The Center on Congress at Indiana University will celebrate its 10th anniversary in a series of events at IU Bloomington Oct. 8-9, including two events at which center director Lee Hamilton will address the public. The celebration also marks the official debut of Hamilton's new book, Strengthening Congress, published by Indiana University Press, which details the steps Congress should take to re-establish the power and influence envisioned for it in the Constitution.
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Military coups used to be a regular occurrence in Latin America, but the coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya early Sunday was quite different from those of the past, said Jeffrey L. Gould, a Central America expert at Indiana University Bloomington. The primary difference: the United States, along with virtually every other nation, has condemned it.
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Media expert and election-reform advocate Mark Crispin Miller will speak Thursday, Oct. 2, at Indiana University Bloomington. His lecture, "Rigged: Election Fraud and Media Coverage, 2000-2008," will take place at 7 p.m. in Woodburn Hall 100.
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Former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh will return to his alma mater on Thursday, Sept. 25, to present a lecture on the importance of church and state separation. Bayh, JD'60, will give a public talk from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Moot Court Room at the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington.
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The Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study, in cooperation with the IU Center on Congress, is presenting a Branigin Lecture Series, "Thinking about the Election," on the presidency, elections and politics. Prominent historian Robert Dallek, the author of numerous presidential biographies, will lead off the series on Thursday, Sept. 18.
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John Karaagac, the author of John McCain: An Essay in Military and Political History, commments on McCain's candidacy for president. Karaagac teaches public policy in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington.
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