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June 17
- 23, 2005
This internal publication contains information about recent coverage
of Carnegie Mellon that appeared primarily in national newspapers, magazines
and online publications. Please note that some sources may require registration
or a subscription in order to access their information online.
Please send comments and suggestions to thomas@cmu.edu
The media coverage archive is available at www.cmu.edu/clips
From June 17 - 23,
Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 123
references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 24
The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 24
InformationWeek | June 22
Star Tribune | June 21
Student Experience
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
June 24
Post-Gazette | June 23
The Pensinsula, Qatar | June 21
Post-Gazette | June 16
Qatar Campus
The Peninsula | June 21
Middle East and North Africa Financial Network
(MENAFN) | June 21
Arts and Humanities
Entertainment Design | July 1
Post-Gazette | June 23
The Wall Street Journal | June 20
Twin Cities Pioneer Press | June 20
Information Technology
ComputerWorld | June 20
Bluefield Daily Telegraph | June 19
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Business Times | June 20
Environment
Post-Gazette | June 22
Chemical and Engineering News | June
21
Tribune-Review | June 17
MSNBC | June 1
Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Magazine | July 2005
Post-Gazette | June 22
Tribune-Review | June 20
International News Stories
BBC News, UK | June 17
Globe and Mail, Canada | June 17
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Germany | June 14
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National News Stories
The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 24
In April 1999 I [see note below] wrote an opinion article for The Chronicle
in which I called for new, principle-based curricula to prepare students
for the emerging field of interactive design ... It may be unusual for
a master's program in a new discipline like digital-media studies to
lead to Ph.D. and undergraduate programs. Many institutions start with
a few undergraduate courses that coalesce into a major, and most degree
programs begin at the undergraduate level and work their way upward.
But several prominent universities have started master's programs in
the past five years, including Carnegie Mellon University,
MIT, the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of California
at Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California. Each of those
programs has its own emphasis, reflecting differences in academic organization
and faculty specialties. For instance, Carnegie Mellon has been particularly
successful in combining improvisational theater techniques with innovative
computing research. ***Please note that this forum piece was submitted
by Janet H. Murray, professor and director of graduate studies at the
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute
of Technology.
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i42/42b02601.htm
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The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 24
The next terrorist attack on American soil could involve chemical weapons,
and firefighters across the nation are trying to determine how to best
prepare for such a catastrophe. But staging elaborate drills with scores
of victims is expensive and time-consuming. So graduate students at
Carnegie Mellon University are developing a video game
to simulate a hazardous-materials incident for emergency responders
to practice their skills. The game, called Hazmat Hotzone, combines
detailed graphic design and realistic scenarios to allow firefighters
to safely learn how to handle a real incident involving hazardous materials
released in a public area. Shanna Tellerman, the producer of Hazmat
Hotzone, is a graduate student at the university's Entertainment Technology
Center, which teaches students how to develop video games for entertainment
and training purposes. She says she is trying to make the game as true
to life as possible.
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i42/42a03001.htm
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InformationWeek | June 22
Yakking on a cell phone while driving is dangerous because the brain
can't handle both tasks, researchers at John Hopkins University said
Tuesday. Imaging tests run at the University's Department of Psychological
and Brain Sciences found that subjects submitted to both audio and video
distractions showed decreased activity in, say, the auditory section
of the brain while focusing on visual tasks, and vice versa ... Although
Yantis and his co-collaborator Sarah Shomstein, now
at Carnegie Mellon University, weren't investigating
cell phone use per se -- the research was funded by National Institute
on Drug Abuse -- the results are a confirmation of earlier studies done
on the danger of mixing driving and calling.
http://informationweek.com/story/
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Star Tribune | June 21
There's something about the : ) that brings out the }: [ in some people.
Shannon Worden of Pequot Lakes, Minn., calls emoticons, those sideways
punctuation faces used in e-mail and text messages, "an emotional
firestorm of smiles and frowns and little wiggly grins." Angus
Trumble is even tougher. "To be perfectly honest, I would rather
die than add a little smiley face to a message," said Trumble,
author of "A Brief History of the Smile." And Penn Jillette
-- the vocal half of comic magicians Penn and Teller -- recently wrote
that emoticons are "used by people who would dot their i's with
little circles and should have their eyes dotted with Drano." Scott
Fahlman, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh, just laughs at Penn's polemic. "He seems
to think this is the worst thing ever inflicted on mankind," said
Fahlman, who is credited -- or blamed -- for introducing the emoticon
in 1982, while posting messages on the college's online bulletin board,
a precursor to today's newsgroups.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/5466576.html
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Student Experience
The Chronicle of Higher Education | June
24
To the Editor:"Student Interest in Computer Science Plummets"
addresses a major crisis in our field. However, aspects of the article
help perpetuate views that have led to the crisis. Gender differences
in computer science are not intrinsic. Studies that point to differences
were done in extremely unbalanced environments ... As the computing
environment at Carnegie Mellon University has become
more balanced, we see women and men who enjoy programming and the "geekier"
aspects of computer science -- and men and women who don't. Almost
all the students see the technology as one part of their interest, and
the uses of computer science as another ... Fundamental misconceptions
about computer science, rather than gender differences, are a root cause
of gender underrepresentation as well as the current crisis in the field.
The fundamental misconception, of course, is that computer science equals
programming. ***Please note that this letter was submitted by Lenore
Blum, Professor of Computer Science, and Carol Frieze,
Director - Women@SCS, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i42/42a03901.htm
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Post-Gazette | June 23
Most of the 7,700 e-mailed their opinions about the prospect of airborne
cell phone yappers. Graham W. Strauss of Carnegie Mellon
gave a fuller response. He sent his 174-page doctoral thesis, which
explored whether passengers knew that cell phones are banned for safety
reasons and tried to show that many are sneaking in wireless calls anyway.
"Limiting passenger electronics use on board should continue and
is the only method available to ensure the near-term safety of the flying
public," Strauss wrote. The Associated Press reported one citizen's
excellent suggestion in the event cell phones are allowed up there:
A pay-to-use, glassed-in, soundproof phone booth at the back of the
plane.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05174/526968.stm
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The Pensinsula, Qatar | June 21
With the close of its first academic year, the Carnegie Mellon
University in Qatar yesterday announced the academic progress of the
Class of 2008. All 41 students who began the year in August 2004 may
continue their studies and nine of these students earned the academic
distinction of being placed on the Dean's list for the spring term.
Students in Doha follow the same curriculum and are taught to the same
high standards and with the same performance requirements as students
at the university's Pittsburgh campus. The Dean's list recognizes the
top-ranking students in business administration (BA) and computer science
(CS) each semester.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=
Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=June2005&file=
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Post-Gazette | June 16
The [Crafton] borough's Web site will be getting a new look because
of an internship project performed by Carnegie Mellon
University students in the Information Technology program. Council formally
approved the no-cost project, scheduled to begin later this fall with
a new Web site to be in place by early next year. In the meantime, borough
officials are asking people to review the current site and offer suggestions
or recommendations for its improvement.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05167/522131.stm
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Qatar Campus
The Peninsula | June 21
Qatar's Supreme Council for Communications and Information Technology
(ictQatar), in collaboration with the Qatar Computer Emergency Response
Team (Q-Cert) and the globally renowned cyber-security group, the Cert
Coordination Center, will conduct a series of cyber security awareness
workshops for heads of the country's IT community from today ... The
Cert-CC is a division of the Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie
Mellon University. The Cert-CC was founded with the mission
to respond to security emergencies on the Internet, serve as a focal
point for reporting security vulnerabilities, as a model to help others
establish incident response teams and raise awareness of security issues."Carnegie
Mellon and the CERT specifically has worked with countries and organisations
worldwide to increase their research and development activities as well
as increase their knowledge and experience in the protection of critical
infrastructure," Richard D Pethia, Director of
the SEI's Networked Systems Survivability (NSS) Programme and team leader
of Q-Cert, said. "We are pleased to partner with Qatar and ictQatar
for the project," he added.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=
Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=June2005&file=
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Middle East and North Africa Financial Network
(MENAFN) | June 21
Qatar's Supreme Council for Communications and Information Technology
(ictQatar), in collaboration with the Qatar Computer Emergency Response
Team (Q-Cert) and the globally renowned cyber-security group, the Cert
Coordination Center, will conduct a series of cyber security awareness
workshops for heads of the country's IT community from today ... The
Cert-CC is a division of the Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie
Mellon University. The Cert-CC was founded with the mission
to respond to security emergencies on the Internet, serve as a focal
point for reporting security vulnerabilities, as a model to help others
establish incident response teams and raise awareness of security issues.
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_
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Arts and Humanities
Entertainment Design | July 1
"Pittsburgh is an incredibly vital theatre town," says scenic
designer Anne Mundell, who heads design at Carnegie
Mellon University. Great vendors include "Pittsburgh Cut
Flower (wholesaler for anything floral or decorative), AB Charles &
Son (excellent and odd model supplies, with a knowledgeable and passionate
staff), and The Strip District (wholesale district with everything from
antiques to kitchen supplies to upholstery fabric). We have incredible
scenic artists," Mundell adds, "master scenics who can do
anything you'd need with a great deal of skill and artistry."
Susan Tsu, also on Carnegie Mellon's faculty, says the arts
are "thriving in a reborn cultural district." And if the sourcebook
she provides students is any indication, Pittsburgh has magnificent
resources — from shoes to hats, from uniforms to lingerie —
to support whatever a costume designer imagines.
http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/EntertainmentDesign/
2005/07/01/898464?extID=10026 | back to top
Post-Gazette | June 23
Walter Morales will be the Edgewood Symphony Orchestra's
new music director. The community orchestra named Morales after a yearlong
search that narrowed down the field to four candidates and involved
feedback from players, audience and others. Morales is on the faculty
of Carnegie Mellon University, where he conducts the
Contemporary Ensemble. He has also worked with Opera Theater, the National
Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica and others.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05174/526839.stm
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The Wall Street Journal | June 20
Today, the average person in the U.S. lives for nearly 78 years. But
what about those people who beat the average? Why do some men and women
defy the chronological odds to live longer and in good health? Increasingly,
the scientific community is shifting its focus to this elite group,
these "successful agers" who seem to be doing a better job
of getting old than the rest of us. And what they're finding isn't what
you'd expect ... A study shows that chronic stress increased risk for
catching a cold. One Carnegie Mellon University study
surveyed 300 volunteers about stress and then injected them with a cold
virus. The people who had reported little chronic stress didn't get
sick -- their immune systems battled the virus. But volunteers who had
reported chronic stress that lasted for a month or longer -- such as
unemployment or family crisis -- fell ill.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111867751
964458052,00-search.html | back to top
Twin Cities Pioneer Press | June 20
No matter the final score or outcome, what does it take to create a
win-win situation? After the 2004 U.S. Olympic fencing team beat the
Hungarians in a stunning upset in the quarterfinals, they cheered their
opponents and shook their hands, recalls captain Jeff Bukantz. It was
a different story, though, when the American squad faced off against
France in the semifinals ... The French fencer celebrated his victory
by air-machine-gunning the American team ... And does anybody really
buy into the old adage, "It's not whether you win or lose, but
how you play the game"? Some people's discomfort about losing is
due to the way our society defines it, says Scott Sandage,
a Carnegie Mellon University history professor and
author of the new book "Born Losers: A History of Failure in America"
(Harvard University Press, $35). "There's a T-shirt that is popular
on the campus where I teach that says, 'Coming in second only means
you're the biggest loser.' That's just nonsense," he says. "Coming
in second is pretty good. Coming in 10th in a country of 300 million
is pretty good."
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/11923397.htm
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Information Technology
ComputerWorld | June 20
For vendors and end users alike, the ascent of multicore processors
is as beneficial as it is inevitable. Vendors (of chips, hardware, software,
networking gear -- the works) will get to roll out products with a high
buzz factor, while users will revel in the seemingly ceaseless Moore's
Law march: ever-cheaper, ever-faster, ever-better computing. Stuck in
the middle are IT professionals, who must make it all work ... While
advanced bus alternatives may be a boon in the future, experts say that
in the near term, the key to multicore development is the same as in
any multiprocessor system: careful development of multithreaded applications
(that is, programs whose various portions can run simultaneously) so
that threads don't interfere with one another. Multithreading is also
the secret to multicore's potential speed benefits. "Most IT-grade
software today is multithreaded, so IT people are accustomed to it,"
says Babak Falsafi, an associate professor at
Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Architecture Laboratory
in Pittsburgh.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/
software/appdev/story/0,10801,102543,00.html | back
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph | June 19
A quartet of scholars from Carnegie Mellon University
are re-tracing a path in reverse blazed 60 years ago by Nobel Laureate
Dr. John Forbes Nash Jr. The goal of the scholars is to stimulate economic
development in southern West Virginia by making connections to information
and computer technology. In the summer of 1945, Nash left his home in
Bluefield to study at then, Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, Pa. In three
years, he had earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. He
went to Princeton University in 1948, and two years later, wrote a doctoral
thesis on game theory that continues to have an impact on global economics.
S. John Whitehill of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Appalachian
Network Access, said the four graduate students of Carnegie's Heinz
School of Public Policy are following "parallel paths" to
the one Nash followed in pursuit of his education. "John Nash left
here to find education," Whitehill said. The students participating
in the CANA program have come to southern West Virginia to help the
area "join the digital age through communication technology."
http://www.bdtonline.com/articles/2005/
06/20/news/01mcdowell.txt | back to top
Biotechnology
Pittsburgh Business Times | June 20
Cellumen Inc., formed by two leaders of the Pittsburgh life sciences
industry to develop a deeper understanding of cell functions, has received
an undisclosed amount of funding from venture capital firm PA Early
Stage Partners, the company said Monday. Cellumen was co-founded last
year by D. Lansing Taylor, a local life sciences entrepreneur, and Alan
Waggoner, of Carnegie Mellon University, who
previously worked together to found two local companies, Biological
Detection Systems Inc. and Cellomics Inc. Cellumen forms partnerships
with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as government
agencies and academic centers, to develop knowledge of cells that will
contribute to early stage drug discovery and disease identification.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/
stories/2005/06/20/daily3.html | back to top
Environment
Post-Gazette | June 22
In "Carnegie Mellon Study: New Coal Technology
Could Help Reduce Emissions" (June 16), Dan Riedinger of the Edison
Electric Institute, an electricity trade association, says that such
deep geological sequestration of carbon dioxide "won't be viable
for 15 years." One promising way to keep carbon dioxide from entering
the atmosphere and causing climate change is to inject it more than
a kilometer underground where it can be permanently sequestered in deep
geologic formations ... There are still a variety of regulatory and
other issues to be worked out for deep geologic sequestration of carbon
dioxide. But the only way in which it won't be viable for 15 years is
if we choose not to work seriously on those issues today. ***Please
note that this editorial piece was written by M. Granger Morgan,
Head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05170/523574.stm
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Chemical and Engineering News | June 21
The 2005 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Student Award in Green Chemistry,
administered by the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry, also was
presented at the ceremony. This year’s recipient was Anindya Ghosh,
a graduate student in chemistry professor Terrence J. Collins’
group at Carnegie Mellon University. Ghosh was selected
for his work on iron(III) tetraamido macrocyclic ligand activators that
use hydrogen peroxide or oxygen for industrial oxidations (C&EN,
Feb. 21, page 32). The catalysts are being pursued as cleaner and safer
alternatives to chlorine- and metal-based oxidations.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i25/
8325greenchemistry.html | back to top
Tribune-Review | June 17
Carnegie Mellon University researchers Granger
Morgan, Jay Apt and Lester Lave
say carbon dioxide emissions from electric generation plants can be
dramatically reduced and ultimately eliminated without damaging the
economy. The 75-page report, commissioned by the Pew Center on Global
Climate Change, also stresses that rapidly establishing a clear time
table for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants will result
in lower costs than waiting to do so and admonishes government officials
to promote energy conservation and improve efficiency. Morgan, Apt and
Lave write that all electricity companies should be required to spend
at least one percent of their value added on research.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/regional/s_344916.html | back to top
MSNBC | June 17
A new report finds that water quality is generally good in local rivers
during dry weather, but poor after rain, when sewers overflow. The study
was done by the 3 Rivers 2nd Nature project, based out of the Studio
for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.
Pollution levels are still high in some areas of the rivers, including
the Monongahela River at Braddock's boat launch ramp, where the report
found levels of fecal coliform bacteria four times higher than Environmental
Protection Agency limits. Tim Collins, who headed the
study, told Channel 4 Action News [in Pittsburgh] that government agencies
continue to ignore polluted areas like the Mon in Braddock, even though
more people are using the water. "It's a heavily used boat ramp
but nobody's paying attention there," he said. "There's a
number of people aware of our study, aware of the constant problem there,
but no action has been taken."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8220465/
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Local News Stories
Pittsburgh Magazine | July 2005
From hot dogs to hideaways, we'll give you a collection of insider tips
that will make your life better. Or at least more interesting ... #10:
Every night, a different student group at Carnegie Mellon
University has dibs on a fence that stands between Forbes Avenue and
Hunt Library. This fence becomes their palette between midnight and
6 a.m. A long-standing tradition at Carnegie Mellon allows students
to paint the fence however they like. Then, the painters stay on guard
until sunrise to ensure that their newly created masterpiece isn't painted
over. ***Please note that this story is not yet available online.
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Post-Gazette | June 22
Carnegie Mellon University faces a $7.8 million deficit
in next year's $700 million-plus operating budget but the school's overall
financial outlook is strong, leaders told several hundred employees
yesterday. President Jared Cohon, the school's provost
Mark Kamlet and Chief Financial Officer Deborah
Moon addressed a gathering in the school's University Center,
days after it was disclosed that the 105-year-old institution had imposed
cost-cutting moves that include smaller raises for its 3,500 employees
and a pay freeze for top leaders.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05173/526331.stm
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Tribune-Review | June 20
Getting down on all fours and licking one of the bricks that line the
pathway outside Carnegie Mellon University's Baker
Hall is probably not the first thing on a student's mind. But just to
make sure, one of the pathway's bricks offers this advice: "Do
Not Lick." The message wasn't put there by misguided university
administrators -- someone paid $100 for the personalized brick. With
everything from universities to animal shelters offering up personalized
bricks for sale, it's no wonder that some people choose to have a little
fun with them. "It's sort of a way of saying you were here,"
said Susan Kinchelow, assistant dean for the Carnegie
Mellon's College of Humanities and Social Sciences, which is selling
the bricks. "It's better than graffiti, more socially acceptable."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/
trib/newssummary/s_345849.html | back to top
International News Stories
BBC News, UK | June 17
Professors Todd Mowry and Seth Goldstein
of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania think
that, within a human generation, we might be able to replicate three-dimensional
objects out of a mass of material made up of small synthetic "atoms".
Cameras would capture the movement of an object or person and then this
data would be fed to the atoms, which would then assemble themselves
to make up an exact likeness of the object. They came up with the idea
based on "claytronics," the animation technique which involves
slightly moving a model per frame to animate it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4102018.stm
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Globe and Mail, Canada | June 17
"In a groundbreaking experiment at Massachusetts General Hospital,
a handful of patients battling depression have agreed in recent weeks
to be wired up for 24-hour-a-day, mobile monitoring of their palm sweat,
heart rate, voice dynamics, movements and location," reports The
Boston Globe. Researchers hope to prove that such measures can reliably
reflect a patient's state of mind and that technology has reached a
point where it can monitor a person's basic emotional tenor through
ordinary days ... By 2020? "Consider a world in which robots operate
with microprocessors a million times more powerful than today's,"
says The New York Times. "Hans Moravec, a robotics
scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, conjures images
in his writings of totally automated factories and networks that will
emerge as soon as 2020. These robotic systems will be able to program
themselves and compete vigorously with humans for resources, perhaps
creating self-sufficient artificially intelligent economies that could
squeeze humans out of existence. (Think about a factory that decides
to create an army of Robocops)."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Germany | June 14
Two years ago an ambitious research and education project named "Education
City" was inaugurated at Doha, the capital of Gulf State Qatar.
Now, in addition to American universities, European universities and
companies, including such from Switzerland, are to be invited to cooperate
in the project ... The fundamental concept being pursued by the Emir
of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, with the construction of Education
City is to use the country’s wealth, which mainly stems from rich
oil wells and above all abundant sources of natural gas, to promote
higher education and research ... Until now higher education here has
been guaranteed by reputable American universities that have established
faculty subsidiaries in Doha offering the same study programmes and
degrees as the home university. The universities involved are the Virginia
Commonwealth University in the field of Design, Weill Cornell Medical
College from New York in the field of Medicine, the Texas A&M University
in the Engineering field, Carnegie Mellon University
in Economics and Information Technology and the Washington Georgetown
University with its Edmund A. Walsh School providing education in Political
Science. ***Please note that this article is not currently available
online.
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