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Oklahoma governor calls for more rigorous educational standards at NPC Luncheon
The United States needs more academic rigor, higher educational standards and should demand more of its students, said Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R), chair of the National Governors Association, before a full-house at a National Press Club Luncheon Sept. 17. “The bottom line is that we’re just falling behind and many people won’t reach the middle class,” Fallin said, “so it’s up to governors to build new pathways to the middle class, which must be flexible, efficient and meet both students' and employers' needs.” Fallin introduced ‘America Works: Education and Training for Tomorrow’s Jobs,’…
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Veteran journalist tells NPC, U.N. Development Program event about changes in Myanmar
There have been major changes in Myanmar (also known as Burma) since Thein Seing became president in March 2011, replacing the military regime with a democratic platform, veteran journalist Tom Cheatham said Sept. 11 at a National Press Club event presented by the NPC’s International Correspondents and Photography Committees and sponsored by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). “The fear of government is gone,” Cheatham said. “People are much more relaxed about criticizing their government and local politicians,” Cheatham noted after pointing to an old billboard describing the…
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Suarez introduces TV series, book about Latino Americans at National Press Club event
The National Press Club drew a capacity crowd in its ballroom as the Book & Author and Events committees co-hosted a preview of a documentary produced by Public Broadcasting for Greater Washington, also known as WETA, on Latino America, which is slated to premier on Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. The program was followed by a book signing with Ray Suarez, chief national correspondent for "PBS NewsHour," and author of the companion book Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation. Suarez has been with the NewsHour since 1999. WETA President and Chief Executive Officer Sharon Percy…
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Apuzzo, Goldman discuss NYPD's secret spying unit at National Press Club Book Rap
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman of the Associated Press' Washington bureau want to start a conversation about what counter-terrorism measures are effective and which ones are not. Apuzzo and Goldman, have co-written a provocative book, Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America. They appeared at a National Press Club Book Rap, Sept. 10. In their book, which the authors refer to as "a thriller," Goldman and Apuzzo write about a breathtaking race to prevent an al-Qaeda bomber from launching Osama bin Laden's…
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CDC Director catalogs health threats that are ‘just a plane ride away’
Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is worried about coughs. In his Sept. 10 talk at the National Press Club, Frieden cataloged the many types of health threats posed by the many new, deadly, sometimes drug-resistant pathogens loose in today’s interconnected global environment. “A virus anywhere is just a plane ride away,” Frieden said, and “most of our seafood, fruits and vegetables, and our medication supply comes from other countries.” The first threat, according to Frieden, is from “the cough of emerging diseases.” Each year, on average…
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CNN fields largest, fastest media team in NPC Beat the Deadline 5K Race
CNN fielded the largest and fastest media team in the National Press Club 5K race on Sept. 7. The cable network entered 22 people in the event. Its top three finishers completed the course in an average time of 19:41, edging out It’s Business Time, which clocked in at 19:47, and CQ/Roll Call, which finished at 20:55. The top male finisher was Alemayehu Deksisa, 34, who ran the race in 15:27. He was followed by Phil Reutlinger (16:28), 34, and Travis Boltjes (16:56), 34. Erin Taylor, 31, was the fastest female at 18:03. Barb Fallon-Wallace, 39, came in second at 18:11, and Kathryn Neeper, 29,…
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NAACP's President Jealous deplores racial profiling
If history is any guide, racial profiling is ineffective, inhumane and indefensible, Benjamin Jealous, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), told an Aug. 29 National Press Club luncheon. The United States is a young country, so “we have no excuse not to know our own history,” Jealous said. “When we forget our history, we repeat it. And we do so at a great price.” Speaking a day after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for civil rights led by Martin Luther King Jr., Jealous drew on a study he wrote on racial profiling not…
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Kalb Report: Talking About “The Dream”
The "Kalb Report" Aug.27 was an historic event on top of an historic event. Gathered with host Marvin Kalb were three of the leaders of the 1960's civil rights movement – Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga, Andrew Young and Julian Bond - along with John Wilson, the president of Martin Luther King’s alma mater, Morehouse College; PBS News anchor Gwen Ifill; and Dorothy Gilliam, the first African American woman hired by The Washington Post. The program marked the 50th anniversary of the 1963 “March on Washington” where King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech that has reverberated through the decades as…
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On The Kalb Report: Thomas L. Friedman on where freedom and security clash in the age of hyper connectivity
In a wide-ranging discussion of freedom vs. security with host Marvin Kalb Monday, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman came down on the side of freedom – for the most part. “Freedom,” Friedman said on "The Kalb Report," “is the ability, desire, aspiration to live in a context where I can realize my full potential as a human being.” That, he said, is what the initial Arab Spring revolutions were all about. Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, was in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during that uprising, and he said the Egyptian people were fed up with a corrupt, top-down hierarchy that…
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EU Parliament's elections to feature US-style TV debates
Jaume Duch Guillot, director of media and spokesperson for the European Parliament, forecast at a Feb. 11 Newsmaker heightened public and media attention to May's elections of Parliament's members. Guillot said the elections are the "second biggest election exercise in the world," behind India. In the past they have been a "kind of second class national election," but he anticipates a different situation this year. For the first time, the Parliament, directly elected by voters in member states, will select the President of the European Commission, one of two heads of the executive branch of…
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