TIGEROAR singing "O Holy Night"
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Soccer's top body denies bribe claims
FIFA dismisses allegations by a BBC news programme that three of its executive committee took bribes in return for awarding a key contract in the 1990s.
Setting out Arguments Logic Book Style (slides)
Part three of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will focus on how to identify and analyse arguments, and how to set arguments out logic book-style to make them easier to evaluate.
Evaluating Arguments Part Two
Part six of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this final lecture we will look at fallacies. These are bad arguments that can easily be mistaken for good arguments.
Ecole Européenne d'été 2009 VA - The pharmaceutical community policy (video)
About a single market of the medicine in the EEC: accomplished progress and new community orientations.
The propositions of the committee to improve the access to medicines and reassure the distribution.
SCD Médecine.
Le potentiel pédagogique des nouveaux dispositifs de lecture (video)
Lorenzo Soccavo, consultant en prospective du livre et de l’édition, dresse un panorama sur les nouveaux dispositifs de lecture et leurs apports pour la formation.
Après une introduction sur les technologies d’affichage de ces dispositifs et les grandes familles qui les composent, il présente, en s’appuyant sur des démonstrations, les premiers livres-applications pour l’acquisition de la lecture, les premiers livres numériques adaptés aux enfants en difficulté, et le
SP.400 Special Topics in Women & Gender Studies Seminar: Latina Women's Voices (MIT)
This course will explore the rich diversity of women's voices and experiences as reflected in writings and films by and about Latina writers, filmmakers, and artists. Through close readings, class discussions and independently researched student presentations related to each text, we will explore not only the unique, individual voice of the writer, but also the cultural, social and political contexts which inform their narratives. We will also examine the roles that gender, familial ties and soc
14.123 Microeconomic Theory III (MIT)
This is a half-semester course which covers the topics in Microeconomic Theory that everybody with a Ph.D. from MIT Economics Department should know but that have not yet been covered in the Micro sequence. Hence, it covers several unrelated topics. The topics come from three general areas: Decision Theory, Game Theory, and Behaviorla Economics. I will try my best to put them in a coherent narrative, but there will be inherent jumps from topic to topic.
5.3.1 Muscles
The extreme challenges of life in the polar regions require the animals who make their habitat there to make many adaptations. This unit explores the polar climate and how animals like reindeer, polar bears, penguins, sea life and even humans manage to survive there. It looks at the adaptations to physiological proceses, the environmental effects on diet, activity and fecundity, and contrasts the strategies of aquatic and land-based animals in surviving in this extreme habitat. This unit builds
5.3 Metabolism
The extreme challenges of life in the polar regions require the animals who make their habitat there to make many adaptations. This unit explores the polar climate and how animals like reindeer, polar bears, penguins, sea life and even humans manage to survive there. It looks at the adaptations to physiological proceses, the environmental effects on diet, activity and fecundity, and contrasts the strategies of aquatic and land-based animals in surviving in this extreme habitat. This unit builds
4.3.1 Summary of Section 4
The extreme challenges of life in the polar regions require the animals who make their habitat there to make many adaptations. This unit explores the polar climate and how animals like reindeer, polar bears, penguins, sea life and even humans manage to survive there. It looks at the adaptations to physiological proceses, the environmental effects on diet, activity and fecundity, and contrasts the strategies of aquatic and land-based animals in surviving in this extreme habitat. This unit builds
Professor Mary Teagarden Webinar: Intellectual Property Protection in China
Protecting know-how and intellectual property is a challenge in any market, but especially in hyper-dynamic markets such as China. This is even truer for companies in high-tech services who rely on knowledge to compete. Thunderbird Professors Mary Teagarden and Andreas Schotter, with the help of Joab Meyer '07 and more than 40 other alumni, investigated what companies do to win this intensely dynamic "war" to impede knowledge asset leaks and assure long-term performance.
Religion, Democracy in the Foreign Policy of Obama: Religion and Democracy Promotion in the Obama Ad
The day-long event consisted of four panels, each of which examined the question of religion and democracy in U.S. foreign policy from a different perspective. The panels addressed the role of religious actors in U.S. democracy programs and policies; the 'twin tolerations' and democratic stability in highly religious societies; emerging trends in the data concerning the relationships between religion and democracy; and the relationship between Islam and democracy in key Muslim countries.
Religion, Democracy in the Foreign Policy of Obama: Thinking About Islam and Democracy (with Abbas,
The day-long event consisted of four panels, each of which examined the question of religion and democracy in U.S. foreign policy from a different perspective. The panels addressed the role of religious actors in U.S. democracy programs and policies; the 'twin tolerations' and democratic stability in highly religious societies; emerging trends in the data concerning the relationships between religion and democracy; and the relationship between Islam and democracy in key Muslim countries.
Islam and Liberal Democracy: How Tradition Matters (with An-Na'im, Jackson, Moosa, Esposito)
Moderated by Jane McAuliffe, President, Bryn Mawr College. Panelists included Abdullahi An-Na'im, Georgetown University; Sherman Jackson, University of Michigan; Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University; and John Esposito, Georgetown University.
Michael Oren:
Michael Oren, former PJC Professor and current Israeli ambassador to the United States, talks about the military history of the Middle East
Monthly Dialogue Series: Mark Farha: ?Lebanon as the Mirror of Arab Politics.?
Mark Farha, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, reflects on Beirut's vibrant civil society and Lebanon's strategic role in shaping the politics of its neighbors.
Iran: Domestic Tensions and International Challenges
Iran experts Drs. Mehran Kamrava and Hooshang Amirahmadi and energy expert Dr. Herman Franssen discussed the domestic and international policy implications of the June 2009 elections in the country.
Religion, Democracy in the Foreign Policy of Obama: 'Twin Tolerations' As a Model for Foreign Policy
The day-long event consisted of four panels, each of which examined the question of religion and democracy in U.S. foreign policy from a different perspective. The panels addressed the role of religious actors in U.S. democracy programs and policies; the 'twin tolerations' and democratic stability in highly religious societies; emerging trends in the data concerning the relationships between religion and democracy; and the relationship between Islam and democracy in key Muslim countries.
