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Univision, the premier media company serving the U.S. Hispanic community, announces that it will host a Historic Education Town Hall with with President Barack Obama that will be taped and then later aired as a television news special entitled Univision News Presents: The Moment is Now - The President, Hispanics and Education. The Town Hall will be held on Monday, March 28, 2011 and hosted by Univision's news anchor Jorge Ramos at the following location: Bell Multicultural High School 3101 16 Street, NW 9405 Washington, DC 20010 The Town Hall event will give President Barack Obama the opportunity to engage with students, parents and teachers about education and Hispanic educational achievement. The event will also focus on better preparing students for college and 21st century careers, greater parental engagement in education, and the politics of reforming the educational system according to a Press Release. The Town Hall will be taped at Bell Multicultural High School from from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. EDT and will air without commercial interruptions at 7 p.m. EDT/PDT, 6 p.m. CDT on the Univision Network, and closed-captioned in English on CC3 where available. The event will also be streamed online at www.EsElMomento.com in English and Spanish as well as simulcast on Univision Radio in Spanish. PRESS INFORMATION: Beginning at 8 a.m. EDT although subject to change, pre-registered members of the press are invited to cover and will have access to wi-fi, a mult box and feed to the Town Hall taping. In addition, refreshments will be served. It is asked that all media RSVP by Saturday, March 26. RSVP/CONTACTS: Carolina Valencia - (646) 673-6494, cvalencia@unvision.net Paula Alvarez - (347) 268-7408, pmalvarez@univision.net ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: In the lead up to the Town Hall, students, parents and teachers will have the opportunity to submit an education-related question for President Obama. Questions can be submitted to Univision until Sunday, March 27, 2011 thro

LOS ANGELES | January 29, 2012 The word "free" and its derivatives take on many meanings in the English language, and this gorgeous California Sunday with the sun shining in all of its splendor, the people are reminded of the many intended meanings of the word "freedom" and how it is interpreted by Americans, and in this particular case, by one Californian. During an ensuing investigation, Police on Thursday arrested Umar Khan, a 34 year old Glendale man, as he was driving around town in his blue, four-door 2004 Honda Accord, naked from the waist down because it gave him a sense of "freedom." They had earlier learned that Khan drove around the city at night or early morning hours naked from the waist down and looks for cul-de-sac or driveways of homes to masturbate in. Khan has previously been convicted of indecent exposure in 1998, according to Los Angeles County Superior Court records. Glendale officers caught Khan again with his pants down and officers arrested him about 2:23 a.m. Thursday on the 1300 block of Doverwood Drive, after patrolling officers noticed he failed to yield at a stop sign on Royal Boulevard, according to police reports. According to the reports, the officers had apparently attempted to stop Khan, but he fled. It must have been his sense of freedom, again. Moments later they spotted Khan and stopped him on Doverwood. As officers approached the vehicle, they noticed he was naked from the waist down. Surprise!

In these countries, the US must take concrete measures to promote human rights and reform. In conjunction with European partners, a far more detailed and extensive program of scholarships, technical expertise assistance, civic education, English language

Recent scholarship on governmentality promises to reinvigorate literary critical analysis of how novels, poems, and plays help to organize the world's populations as they interact. In turn, literary criticism helps to illuminate the global implications of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, published in English as Security, Territory, Population (2007) and The Birth of Biopolitics (2008). By privileging varied practice over unifying theory, Foucault's approach leads scholars to examine the circulation of governmental techniques in conjunction with the circulation of governable populations. An emphasis on mobility and exchange should appeal particularly to specialists in immigrant, imperial, and postcolonial literature. While considering a range of literary critical and social scientific scholarship on governmentality, this essay also shows how literature itself authorizes discrepant forms of administration. I contend that literature and literary criticism engage in imaginative reformulations and reinventions of the art of government, and in so doing contribute to debates about governing that are every bit as cross-disciplinary as they are transnational.

Certain Western cosmological assumptions have led to differences between Western intellectual tradition and philosophy and thus political thought currents in the Chinese tradition. Ru xue or rujia sixiang, although translated as "Confucianism" in English, does not contain any sense of "-ism" and indicates doctrine, theory, and system of principles. Confucianism preceded by "neo-" or "post-" only causes confusion and miscomprehension for the usage's Western implications. The exact issue is indeed "Confucianism in the Postmodern Era"; that is, an extension of influence from China to the West, suggesting that Confucianism go global in the global age in order to make its perspectives accessible as an important part of global culture.

Arthur Okun famously argued that "effciency is bought at the cost of inequalities in income and wealth". Okun's trade-off represents the antithesis to Karl Polanyi's view of the relationship that the more embedded markets are in society, the better the social and economic outcomes they produce. This paper refines both these views. We argue that not all forms of market embeddedness are created equal, and that the relationship between equality and efficiency can be both positive and negative. We show this by examining how different ways of embedding economic activity in society through market regulation produce different combinations of efficiency and equality. We identify empirically three broad patterns: market liberal regulatory frameworks that promote competitive markets without decommodifying institutions; embedded liberal regulations that allow markets to work efficiently, but within the framework of decommodification and equality; and embedded illiberalism, where regulations hinder markets in favor of powerful social groups and where decommodification undermines both efficiency and equality. Okun's trade-off emerges as a special case limited to the English-speaking democracies: other OECD countries tend to exhibit either efficiency and equality together, or inefficiency and inequality together. These findings suggest a corrective to both nave market liberal views of the incompatibility of efficiency and equality, but also to the more sophisticated Varieties of Capitalism framework, which pays insufficient attention to the ways in which markets can be embedded in stable but apparently dysfunctional institutional arrangements.

"European integration is interpreted in this paper as the route by which (West) Germany, profiting from close ties with the English-speaking West, was able to restore its full sovereignty and economic pre-eminence in Europe. Yet in shaping the actual integration process, it was France which played the key role. Most of the landmark steps towards the current EU were French proposals to pre-empt Anglophone-German collusion; creating European structures in which a resurgence of Germany (politically and economically) was made subject to permanent negotiation. German unification in 1991 removed the one reason why successive governments of the Federal Republic had gone along with this. Paradoxically, sovereign Germany today finds itself bound by the dense networks of consultation and decision-making which make the EU unique in the field of regional integration. The paper shows that between 1992 and 2005, German capital has moved to the centre of the network of corporate interlocks in the North Atlantic area. This helps to explain why in the post-1991, post-Soviet era of neoliberal, finance-driven globalisation, Germany is increasingly 'speaking for Europe', as its corporations have become nodal points in the communication structures through which the responses to the challenges facing the EU and the West at large are being shaped."

Indonesia's disasters - October's tsunami and eruption, the killing of suspected terrorists in Sumatra - get more media attention than its democratic elections. Yet these marked the direct re-election of the president last year and a cautious step away fr

The World Social Forum (WSF) and European Social Forum (ESF) processes represent a new platform for experimenting with multilingual practices of "deliberative talk." Activists come together in meetings that take place at the regional level between these l

In recent years new cross-European protests and movements have developed on global justice and within the loose platform of the European Social Forum (ESF). One of the major challenges for transnational communication and grassroots democracy within the So

This article attempts to problematise the conventional notion of dialogue, proposing 'utmost listening' as an alternative approach in International Relations (IR) dialogue. More specifically, I argue that we need to regard IR as a foreign language; I particularly explore the proposed approach in terms of feminist IR. Having a dialogue as a 'non-native' speaker demands hard work and consistent training. Most of all, a starting point would be to listen carefully to dialogue partners. This is different from the conventional approach in dialogue which presupposes that listening and speaking are situated almost equally in epistemological terms. In this sense, I reflect on myself as a 'provisional-straight man' researcher who engages with feminist IR. I also consider other men scholars, such as Robert Keohane. Finally, I introduce Momo - a fictional character in Michael Ende's novel - as an 'utmost listener'. What happens if we follow Momo in the IR community?