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Healthcare NOW! 2008 Year in Review

2008-11-19T02:47:58Z

Highlight reel of what has been a monumental year in the fight for Single-Payer Health Care. For more information please go to healthcare-now.org

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Maya Lin on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

2008-11-19T02:47:41Z

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Artist Maya Lin discusses the meaning behind her once-controversial design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes is a major exhibition of new sculptures, drawings, and installations by renowned artist Maya Lin.

In 1981, Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial dramatically changed the language and form of commemorative sculpture by infusing minimalist design with the emotional charge of memory.

Her subsequent work, whether monument, sculpture, design object, or building is equally characterized by its harmony of message and material. In recent years, Lin has focused on a reconsideration of landscape in a time of ecological tension and change.

This new body of work engages the issue of our fragile connection to the environment in timely and poetic ways - De Young Museum

Born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio, Maya Lin catapulted into the public eye when, as a senior at Yale University, she submitted the winning design in a national competition for a Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be built in Washington, D.C. She was trained as an artist and architect, and her sculptures, parks, monuments, and architectural projects are linked by her ideal of making a place for individuals within the landscape. Lin, a Chinese-American, came from a cultivated and artistic home. Her father was the dean of fine arts at Ohio University; her mother is a professor of literature at Ohio University. She draws inspiration for her sculpture and architecture from culturally diverse sources, including Japanese gardens, Hopewell Indian earthen mounds, and works by American earthworks artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Her most recognizable work, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, allows the names of those lost in combat to speak for themselves. Lin lives in New York and Colorado.

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Google D.C. Talks: A Conversation with Craig Newmark

2008-11-19T02:47:18Z

As part of the Google D.C. Talks series, Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, discusses the history of Craigslist, the future of the Web, and the Internet's role in improving democracy.

This event took place on October 3, 2008 at Google's offices in Washington, D.C.

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Google D.C. Talks: Cloud Computing

2008-11-19T02:47:19Z

Cloud Computing: Navigating the next frontier

As part of the Google D.C. Talks series, John Horrigan of the Pew Internet Project presents a new research report, "Use of Cloud Computing Applications and Services." Panelists Daniel Burton of Salesforce.com, Mike Nelson of Georgetown University, and Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology, respond to the new report and share their own views on this new computing model.

This event took place on September 12, 2008 at Google's offices in Washington, D.C.

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Joe Biden at the Democratic National Jewish Convention

2008-10-31T09:31:36Z

Joe Biden gives a speech at the Democratic National Jewish Convention in Washington, D.C.

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#2 September 15 '07 antiwar die-in and arrests, DC

2008-10-24T03:31:16Z

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Jim Lehrer - "The Phony Marine"

2008-10-15T03:31:32Z

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Novelist and PBS talk show host Jim Lehrer discusses the protagonist from his latest fiction novel, "The Phony Marine," a story about a man who pretends to be a war hero after buying an authentic Silver Star medal on eBay.

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Jim Lehrer, himself a former Marine, perfectly captures the importance of presentation, or impersonation, in his Washington-based novel "The Phony Marine."

Lehrer dives into a highly controversial topic and delivers his most compelling character portrait to date. Late one night, Hugo Marder stumbles upon an online auction for a Silver Star, the medal awarded for bravery in battle. He bids and wins. But it is only after he places the lapel pin on his jacket that he realizes the enormity of his actions - Politics and Prose

Lehrer started work with PBS network in 1973, and in 1975 started The MacNeil/Lehrer Report with Robert MacNeil. The show was later renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and in its most recent incarnation is known as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

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Dinaw Mengestu - "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears"

2008-10-15T09:29:29Z

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Ethiopian-born author Dinaw Mengestu reads an excerpt from his novel, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears."

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Dinaw Mengestu talks about "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears."

Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, and immigrated to the US in 1980. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia Univesity's MFA program in fiction. A former intern at The New Yorker, he is the recipient of a 2006 fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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