Tim Pawlenty is a lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 39th Governor of Minnesota. After serving as a city councilman in the late 1980s, Pawlenty was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1993. He became the Majority Leader of the House in 1999 and served in that position until he became [...]
On Monday, March 22, Vanderbilt hosted the first night of its annual IMPACT Symposium with Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post and Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard as guests and Ben Smith of Politico as moderator. The theme of the night was, “How Does the Media Speak to the Middle Class.”
Night two of IMPACT contained an unforeseen opportunity: the chance to see an almost-certain presidential candidate in action. On Monday, March 21, Tim Pawlenty, former governor of Minnesota, announced the formation of an exploratory committee, positioning himself as the first Republican certainly in the running. And just a day later on Tuesday, March 22, Pawlenty [...]
Throughout the first evening of Vanderbilt’s IMPACT Symposium, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright spoke to a fair many weighty topics — unilateralism, humanitarian aid, NATO, climate change, genocide — but answered the one frivolous question with equal interest: How did she end upon on Gilmore Girls? Albright immediately admitted she had been a fan [...]
Madame Secretary will be espousing her Clintonian views in t-minus two hours and I will be liveblogging on this fine post. Also, getting that Gilmore Girls question answered. No really, game on. Anyway, we’ve had some hiccups in the video situation; hopefully we’ll be able to get some of Natan Sharansky’s press op on YouTube [...]
First off, IMPACT’s upon us. Tonight I’ll be liveblogging Madeleine Albright’s speech on global commerce and just how she found herself on Gilmore Girls. We may even get into why she’s wearing so much, as Nina Garcia once termed it, matchy-matchy jewelry up there. As previously mentioned, we’ll be recording the event, and hopefully posting [...]
Here are the first two parts of my video of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s powerful speech here at Vanderbilt last night. Hers was the first of three nights of the Vanderbilt University Speakers Committee’s IMPACT Symposium, which has the theme "Middle East Meets West." I’ll post the first two videos, which is a good part of [...]
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