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Actress Ashley Judd Demands End to Mountain-Top, Strip Mining
Actress Ashely Judd branded mountain-top mining with "the rape of Appalachia" in a June 9 Luncheon speech calling for a national effort to halt it. "Mountain-top mining would never happen in other mountains in the United States," she said, citing the Rockies as an example of where it would never occur. Judd said she is proud to be a "hillbilly" from eastern Kentucky. She is also a graduate of the University of Kentucky and an alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. While aghast at the deep well oil disaster in the Gulf, she said the many years of destruction of the mountains of…
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Scowcroft Calls Middle East Most 'Vexing' National Security Issue
Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush, said national security issues now "are like looking through the other end of the telescope," compared with the single focus on the Soviet Union in the Ford years. He spoke June 7 at an NPC Luncheon at which he awarded the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Journalism Awards. In a complicated world of disparate threats, Scrowcroft identified the Middle East from the Balkans to Afghanistan as the most "vexing" issue now. The area contains the residue of conflicts from the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian…
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Pattengale Receives Sagamore Fellowship
NPC member Jerry Pattengale, assistant provist at Indiana Wesleyan University, has been selected the Sagamore Institute v siting fellow for education and civil discourse for 2010-11. Pattengale is the author of "The Purpose Guided Student and Why I Teach" and "Helping Sophomores Succeed." He also is the founding executive director of The National Conversations: The University and the Public Square.
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Deb Price Wins Nieman Fellowship
NPC member Deb Price was selected as a 2011 Nieman Fellow. A Washington correspondent for the Detroit News, she will study China's explosive growth and the opportunities and challenges it presents Michigan. The 25 journalists from the U.S. and oversees will study at Harvard University for a year. The group includes journalists who work in print, radio, television, photography, filmmaking and online.
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Club Signs Agreement with Georgetown Program
The Club and Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies signed a memorandum of understanding May 26 to give Club members who enroll in the university’s School of Continuing Studies preferred rates. Club members can enroll and receive a $500 scholarship to take classes at the University’s School of Continuing Studies. “We are delighted to have this agreement with a prestigious university like Georgetown,” said NPC President Alan Bjerga. “Our members are looking to upgrade their professional skills and in some cases move to new careers and fields. Having access to the resources and…
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Club Closed Saturday through Monday for Holiday
The Club will be closed Saturday, May 29, through Monday, May 31, in celebration of Memorial Day. There will be no brunch or dinner service in the Fourth Estate Restaurant on Saturday.
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Ex-Afghan Foreign Minister Says Help Needed to Defeat Taliban
Despite allegations of irregularities in last year's elections, "Hamid Karzai is recognized as president of Afghanistan, and you have to deal with that," the country's former foreign minister and 2009 presidential candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, said at a May 24 Newsmaker press conference. Abdullah withdrew from a second round of the elections after the Electoral Complaints Commission disallowed a number of questionable ballots, most for Karzai. Abdullah said Afghanistan is doing its part in the fight against the Taliban but cannot succeed without help. "The international community must do its…
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Global health care disparity is unjust, Barbara Bush says
"The extreme disparity in health outcomes and access to health care that exists today between the world’s rich and the world’s poor is unjust and unsustainable," Barbara Bush said at a May 26 National Press Club luncheon. She discussed the Global Health Corps, a non-profit organization she co-founded and heads. "We aim to mobilize a global community of young leaders to build a movement for health equity," said the daughter of President George W. Bush. Barbara’s twin sister, Jenna, also attended the event. "Global Health Corps believes that a global movement of individuals and organizations…
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DNC chairman urges GOP to help rebuild economy
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine said his party will go all-out to ensure the mid-term congressional elections help continue the country's economic recovery against what he said was "near-united Republican opposition." At a May 19 luncheon, he said Democrats would welcome "good ideas" from Republicans on how to restore the nation's economic health. His remarks came in the wake of key votes in three states the day before -- Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Arkansas. “Now it's true that Sen. Arlen Specter fell short in yesterday's Pennsylvania primary," he said. "But while the…
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Wizards, Caps owner seeks to give back to D.C.
Like other owners of professional sports teams, Ted Leonsis got into the game to win. For him, though, victory involves more than beating an opponent on the ice or the court. “I want to bring our city closer together,” said Leonsis, who owns the Washington Capitals hockey team and will soon assume control of the Washington Wizards basketball team. “I’d like to give back to the community.” It’s a philosophy based on a “double bottom line” that the technology entrepreneur and executive outlined at a Luncheon May 21. Leonsis articulates the approach in his book “The Business of Happiness,” which…
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