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December 1999

Center For Civic Innovation Forum--TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
Speaker: John S. Gardner, Citywide Director, Milwaukee Public Schools
December 16, 1999 | New York, New York

    Mr. Gardner spoke about Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s pioneering school-choice program and his efforts to reform Milwaukee public schools from the inside. Mr. Gardner’s efforts are guided by the philosophy that public education does not imply governmental monopoly. Rather, any school that all children can attend free of charge provides public education. The Milwaukee program, under which 8,400 children receive vouchers worth up to $5,100, is the largest of its kind in the country and allows families to select public, charter, private, or parochial schools.

    Since Mr. Gardner’s slate of reform-oriented candidates captured seven seats on the nine member school board in April, 1999, the district has secured $173 million in state aid for an ambitious program of school construction and rehabilitation, and several new private and parochial schools have opened to serve special-needs and underprivileged students.

Center For Legal Policy Forum
Topic:“The Microsoft Monopoly: Where to Go from Here”
Speakers: Thomas M. Lenard, Vice President for Research, The Progress & Freedom Foundation; Stanley J. Liebowitz, Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Dallas
December 9, 1999 | New York, New York

Center For Legal Policy Seminar--TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
In collaboration with The Federalist Society
Topic: “Medical Monitoring: Gateway to Unlimited Liability or Just Reimbursement?”
Panelists: Mark Behrens, Crowell & Moring LLP; E. Donald Elliot, Yale Law School; Duane Freese, USA Today; Gene Locks, Greitzer & Locks; Arvin Maskin, Weil, Gotshal & Manges; The Honorable Elliot Maynard, West Virginia Supreme Court; Victor Schwartz, Crowell & Moring; Ronald Simon, Simon & Associates; Tyson Shofstall, Adams and Reese.
December 1, 1999 | Washington, D.C.

November 1999

Center For Legal Policy Forum--TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
Topic: “Punitive Damages and the Public Interest”
Speaker: W. Kip Viscusi, Jr., John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law & Economics,
Harvard Law School.
November 30, 1999 | New York, New York

Annual Economic Forecasting Award Presentation
[Co-Sponsored W/Blue Chip Economic Indicators]
November 18, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Breakfast Forum
Speaker: Charles Kadlec, Managing Director, J. & W. Seligman & Co., Inc. and
Author,
Dow 100,000: Fact or Fiction, (Prentice Hall Press, 1999)
November 16, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Lecture
Topic: “The World Economy at the Close of the Millennium”
Speaker: Robert Mundell, Nobel Prize Laureate & Professor, Columbia University
Intro. Remarks: Robert Bartley, Editor, The Wall Street Journal
November 16, 1999 | New York, New York

Center For Civic Innovation Forum
Speakers: William J. Bennett, Former Chairman, National Endowment of the Humanities & Former U.S. Secretary of Education; & Chester E. Finn, Jr., John M. Olin Fellow, MI & President, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation—Authors of (with John T. E. Cribb, Jr.) The Educated Child: A Parent’s Guide from Preschool Through Eighth Grade (The Free Press, 1999)
November 9, 1999 | New York, New York

    Mr. Finn and Mr. Bennett discussed their newly published book, The Educated Child: A Parent’s Guide from Preschool Through Eighth Grade, which was co-authored with John T.E. Cribb, Jr. The book outlines model curricula for each grade level based in part on E.D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge program, and explains strategies that parents can use to improve the quality of education that their children receive--in both satisfactory and unsatisfactory schools. Mr. Bennett and Mr. Finn argued that every child can learn, regardless of socio-economic background, and that while it is incumbent upon parents and educators to work cooperatively toward clearly stated academic goals, parents are their children’s most important teachers.

3rd Annual Gesu School Symposium on Inner City Education--TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
Topic: "The Urban Child in Peril: “Can Literacy Change the Outcome?”
Panelists: Win Churchill; Checker Finn; Rev. Dr. Floyd Flake; Marciene Mattleman; Acel Moore; Sister Ellen Convey, Moderator: John DiIulio
November 1, 1999 | Gesu School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

October 1999

Center for Civic Innovation’s Mayors’ Education Summit--TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
Speakers: Indianapolis’ Stephen Goldsmith, Milwaukee’s John Norquist,
Jersey City’s Bret Schundler, MI Fellows Chester E. Finn, Jr.
and The Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake, et al.
October 26, 1999 | Washington, D.C.

    The Mayor’s Education Summit addressed several approaches to meaningful education reform with panel discussions of: “Are Vouchers Part of the Answer?”; “The Charter School Movement”; and “Holding Educators Accountable”. The mayors drew on their on their experiences in government to explain why permitting competition in the education marketplace is best way to improve schools and empower parents. Charter schools, vouchers, and institutional reforms to the existing system are all parts of a “menu of options” available to policymakers. Other speakers drew on their backgrounds as educators, philanthropists, and scholars to urge increased parental oversight of the educational process and rigorous testing to accurately measure student achievement. Mayor Anthony Williams of Washington, DC, delivered the keynote address. Thousands of District students have been enrolled in charter schools during his tenure as mayor.

1999 Wriston Lecture
Topic: “Political Principals of the Telecosm”
Speaker: George Gilder, President, Gilder Technology Group & Author,
Wealth and Poverty
October 21, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: The Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
and Author (with Donna Marie Williams),
The Way of the Bootstrapper: Nine Action Steps for Achieving Your Dreams (Harper Collins, 1999)
October 19, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Breakfast Forum
Guest: Jean Strouse, Author, Morgan, American Financier (Random House, 1999)
Introductory Remarks: Richard Gilder, Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. LLC
October 14, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Forum & Reception
Speaker: Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution & Author, The Quest for Cosmic Justice (The Free Press, 1999)
October 13, 1999 | New York, New York

Center For Civic Innovation Forum
Topic:
“School Finance Reform: Let’s Try Vouchers”
Speakers: Thomas Nechyba, Associate Professor of Economics, Duke University; Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research; Michael Heiss, Assistant Professor of Law, Indiana University
October 12, 1999 | New York, New York

    This event marked the release of School Finance Reform: A Case for Vouchers, which contains the results of Mr. Nechyba and Mr. Heiss’s study of what the effects of a voucher-based remedy for school finance lawsuits might be. They found that offering a $2,500 voucher would help reduce income segregation by 29% by inducing middle-income families to move back to or remain in lower-income areas. $5,000 vouchers would have an even more favorable effect. Under the worst case scenario, the computer model predicted that some public schools would suffer small declines in quality. A more realistic set of assumptions indicates that school quality might improve across the board, while affording parents the ability to select the best schools to meet their children’s needs. Mr. Nechyba and Mr. Heiss do not advocate litigation to ameliorate school funding inequity, but suggested that judges consider school choice as a remedy.

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Kay S. Hymowitz, Contributing Editor, City Journal; Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute & Author, Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future—and Ours (The Free Press, 1999)
October 7, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Forum--TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
Topic: “The Future of Educational Reform”
Speaker: The Honorable George W. Bush, Governor of Texas
Welcoming Remarks: The Honorable George E. Pataki, Governor of New York
Introductory Remarks: The Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake, Pastor, Allen AME Church, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
October 5, 1999 | New York, New York

September 1999

Center for Civic Innovation Luncheon Forum
Topic: “Charter Schools in New York: A New Era”
Speaker: Aaron Dare, President & CEO, Urban League of Northeastern New York and Founder, New Covenant Charter School, Albany, NY
September 30, 1999 | New York, New York

    Mr. Dare described his experiences in founding a charter school to serve Albany’s Arbor Hill neighborhood. Although they wanted to send their children to good schools, the residents of Arbor Hill felt that the local school board ignored their concerns and offered them no opportunity to play an active role in improving their children’s education.

    Mr. Dare concluded that only avenue for reform is to establish an alternative to the government school system. The goal is to help children, he said, not attack public school teachers and administrators. The New Covenant School received 850 applications for 550 slots within the first ten days of its operation—demonstrating the strength of community support for change.

Manhattan Institute Symposium
Speaker: Francis Fukuyama, Hirst Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University & Author, The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (Free Press)
Commentator: Alan Wolfe, Professor, Boston University & Author,
One Nation After All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Think About God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, The Right,The Left, and Each Other (Penguin, 1998)
September 28, 1999 | New York, New York

Center For Civic Innovation Forum
Speaker: Dr. Michael S. Greve, Executive Director, Center for Individual Rights, Washington, DC, & Author,
Real Federalism: Why It Matters, How it Could Happen
September 23, 1999 | New York, New York

    Dr. Greve described the prospects for a revival of federalism and explained what a return to America’s founding principles might mean in terms of policy. He argued that allowing states to create their own regulatory regimes would diversify the economy and culture, offsetting the homogenizing effects of centralized power in Washington. Presented with a broader selection of approaches to governance, citizens could choose according to their personal priorities which jurisdictions to live and do business in. Dr. Greve also noted the recent encouraging trend in Supreme Court decisions reinforcing state sovereignty.

New Urban Vision Lecture Series
Topic: “Why Is Any Nation a Democracy?”
Speaker: Prof. James Q. Wilson, Prof. Of Management & Public Policy, Graduate School of Management at UCLA
September 15, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Breakfast Forum
Guest: Todd G. Buchholz, Author,
Market Shock: 9 Economic and Social Upheavals That Will Shake Your Financial Future—And What To Do About Them (HarperCollins, 1999)
September 8, 1999 | New York, New York

August 1999

Center for Civic Innovation--Breakfast and Press Briefing--TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
Topic: “Broken Windows” Probation: The Next Step in Fighting Crime
Participants:  Mario Paparozzi, American Probation and Parole Association President; Ronald Corbett, past president of the National Association of Probation Executives; and William Bratton, former New York City Police Commissioner.
August 19, 1999 | New York, New York

    This event marked the release of CCI’s latest Civic Report, “Broken Windows” Probation: The Next Step in Fighting Crime. This report, authored by Institute Senior Fellow John DiIulio and thirteen longtime practitioners in the probation field, contends that reforming probation can lead to significant reductions in the crime rate. Among the reforms offered are requiring probation officers to supervise their wards frequently in the community rather than once a month in their offices, enforcing conditions to probation (like staying drug free) by immediately sanctioning violations, and building partnerships with community groups. The breakfast release included speeches of endorsement from American Probation and Parole Association President Mario Paparozzi, past president of the National Association of Probation Executives Ronald Corbett and former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton.

July 1999

Center for Civic Innovation Jeremiah Project Event--TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
Topic: ”Faith-based Approaches to Saving Washington, D.C.’s At-risk Youth”
Participants:  Bill Bennett, Rev. Eugene Rivers, John J. DiIulio, Jr., Amy Sherman
July 14, 1999 | Washington, D.C.

    Co-sponsored by the Manhattan Institute’s Jeremiah Project and Empower America, this event highlighted the work that small, faith-based youth ministries are performing throughout the nation’s capital. Moderated by Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow John DiIulio, the event featured speeches by Rev. Eugene Rivers, Tom Lewis of The Fishing School, Manhattan Institute Adjunct Fellow Amy Sherman and Empower America President Dr. William Bennett.

Center for Civic Innovation Forum-- LISTEN IN [REALAUDIO] OR [MP3]
Speaker: Hon. Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida.
July 6, 1999 | New York, New York

    Governor Bush described the Bush/Brogan “A+ Plan for Education,” which effectively establishes the first state-wide school choice program for students in chronically failing schools. The legislation, which was recently signed into law, requires that public schools be graded on an ‘A’ through ‘F’ scale based on the academic progress a child makes each year. Students in schools that receive an ‘F’ rating for two out of four years will receive educational opportunity scholarships to attend the public, private or religious schools of their choice. Educational excellence is also awarded by providing grants to schools who have either improved their rating from one year to the next, or received an ‘A’ rating, in the amount of $100 per student.

June 1999

Center for Legal Policy Studies Conference
[Co-sponsored w/Federalist Society, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform & U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.]
Topic: “The New Business of Government-Sponsored Litigation: State Attorneys General & Big-City Lawyers”
June 22, 1999 | Washington, D.C.

Manhattan Institute Seminar--Topic: “The New Urban Paradigm”
Keynote Address:
Tom Wolfe
Speakers, introduced by Myron Magnet:
Peter Reinharz, Heather Mac Donald, Sol Stern
Question/Answer Session with above speakers
Luncheon Address:
Hon. Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor of New York City, introduced by Roger Hertog
June 21, 1999 | New York, New York

Tom Wolfe [REALAUDIO] [MP3]
Peter Reinharz [REALAUDIO] [MP3]
Heather Mac Donald [REALAUDIO] [MP3]
Sol Stern [REALAUDIO] [MP3]
Q & A Session [REALAUDIO] [MP3]
Hon. Rudolph W. Giuliani [REALAUDIO] [MP3]

Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: “Creating A Neighborhood Guidance Office (GO Center)”
Speaker: Ralph Nunez, Founder & President, Homes for the Homeless
June 16, 1999 | New York, New York

    Dr. Nunez described the purpose and operation of his new agency to assist the poor, the Neighborhood Guidance Office. Also known as the GO Center, this agency is located in the South Bronx and provides assistance in obtaining private sector employment, housing, day care and education programs for the less fortunate people living in the neighborhood. Over 1,000 people were helped in the Center’s first year, providing many people with what they needed to move toward self-sufficiency.

Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: “Why School Vouchers Can Help Inner-City Children”
Speaker: Hon. Kurt L. Schmoke, Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland
June 8, 1999 | New York, New York

    Mayor Schmoke explained why he believes school choice–including school vouchers–is a necessary part of any education reform. He described how his efforts to improve Baltimore’s education system were ultimately unsuccessful because the system is a monopoly and is resistant to change. The Mayor stated that education would improve when accountability is instilled, and that can come only through breaking up the monopoly and injecting competition into the system.

Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: “The New York City Teachers’ Union Contract: A Constraint on Principals’ Leadership”
Speaker: Dale Ballou, Associate Professor, Department of Economics,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
June 3, 1999 | New York, New York

    Professor Ballou presented the findings of his Manhattan Institute report, The New York City Teachers’ Union Contract: Shackling Principals’ Leadership. His research led him to conclude that the teachers’ contract places many obstacles in the path of principals who truly want to manage their school. Contract provisions make it very difficult for a principal to hire the teachers they want, fire incompetent teachers and even work with teachers to produce a collegial and harmonious workplace. Dr. Ballou cautioned that efforts to make principals more accountable for educational results by removing their tenure would disappoint unless principals are also given more authority to manage their schools.

May 1999

Manhattan Institute/Bear, Stearns Breakfast Meeting
Speaker: Michael A. Ledeen, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute & Author, Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli’s Iron Rules are as Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago (St. Martin’s Press, 1999)
May 26, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: “Bilingual Education:  Results and Implications of Prop 227”
Speaker: Ron Unz, Chairman, English for the Children
May 25, 1999 | New York, New York

Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: “Transforming American Education”
Speaker: Lisa Graham Keegan, Superintendent of Public Education, State of Arizona
Intro.: Diane Ravitch, Adjunct Fellow, Manhattan Institute
May 19, 1999 | New York, New York

    Superintendent Keegan explained why parental choice–strapping the money to the kids’ backs, as she put it–is the best model for educational excellence. Schools will respond best when they have to compete for students, and that will happen only if the current district-based model of funding schools is replaced with a child-based model of funding education. Superintendent Keegan also discussed the role that setting challenging academic standards and requiring yearly student testing should play in improving the quality of public education.

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Danielle Crittenden, Founding Editor, Women’s Quarterly magazine &
Author,
What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
May 5, 1999 | New York, New York

April 1999

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Hilton Kramer, Editor & Publisher, The New Criterion, and
Author,
The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War, (Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, 1999)
April 28, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Dr. Michael Sanera, Director & Senior Fellow, Center for Environmental
Education Research (A Project of the Competitive Enterprise Institute)
April 21, 1999 | New York, New York

Center for Civic Innovation Welfare Conference--TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
Topic: “Next Steps in Welfare Reform”
Participants: Gov. Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin), Dr. Lawrence Mead (New York University),
Mayor Stephen Goldsmith (Indianapolis), Charles Murray (Author of
Losing Ground; American Enterprise Institute), Eloise Anderson (Former Dir., California Social Services Dept.), Jason Turner (Commissioner, NYC Human Resources Administration)
April 14, 1999 | New York, New York

    Program administrators, academics, private sector businessmen and public officials joined together to present a wide-ranging discussion of what works in welfare reform and what further issues need to be tackled. Speakers included Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, Dr. Lawrence Mead, Dr. Charles Murray, Jean Rogers, Jason Turner, Eloise Anderson, Amy Sherman, Peter Cove and Richard Schwartz.

Manhattan Institute Education Conference--TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
Co-Sponsored with the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI)
Topic: “Fresh Thinking about Federal Education Policy”
Participants: Lawrence Mone, Will Marshall, E.J. Dionne, Jack Jennings, Marshall Smith, Chester E. Finn, Jr., Stuart Butler, James Traub, Diane Ravitch, Sandra Feldman, William Taylor, Jennifer Marshall, Andrew Rotherham, The Rev. Floyd H. Flake (Keynote Address)
April 13, 1999 | Washington, D.C.

    Co-sponsored with the Progressive Policy Institute, this event featured a wide range of opinions on what, if anything, Congress should change as it debates reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Proposals were offered to give states more freedom in determining how federal aid dollars can be spent in exchange for committing to improving student achievement (“Super Ed Flex”) and to permit states to use Title I money to provide vouchers for low income students. Speakers included Marshall Smith, Jack Jennings, Chester E. Finn, Jr., Will Marshall, Stuart Butler, Diane Ravitch, William Taylor, and Floyd Flake.

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Chester E. Finn, Jr., John M. Olin Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, & President, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
April 12, 1999 | New York, New York

March 1999

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor, National Review, & Author: Alexander Hamilton: American (The Free Press, 1999)
March 30, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: W. Michael Cox, Co-Author (with Richard Alm),
Myths of Rich & Poor: Why We’re Better Off Than We Think, (Basic Books, 1999)
March 24, 1999 | New York, New York

Center for Legal Policy Luncheon Forum
Topic: “Mass Torts and Bankruptcy”
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Warren, Harvard University Law School
March 18, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Amity Shlaes, Editorial Page Writer, The Wall Street Journal & Author, The Greedy Hand: Why Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to do About It, (Random House, 1999)
Intro. Remarks: Malcolm S. (Steve) Forbes, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, President & CEO, Forbes
March 10, 1999 | New York, New York

February 1999

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Wendy Shalit, Contributing Editor, City Journal and Author of A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue (Free Press, 1999)
February 24, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Norman Podhoretz, Editor-at-Large, Commentary and Fellow, Hudson Institute and Author of Ex-Friends: Falling out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Dana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer (Free Press, 1999)
February 18, 1999 | New York, New York

Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: “School Choice: One Year’s Perspective”
Speaker: Professor Paul Peterson, Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University
February 11, 1999 | New York, New York

    Professor Paul Peterson outlined the first year results from the ongoing study of New York City’s privately funded school voucher program. This study is of particular import for the national debate concerning school vouchers because the structure of the voucher program–voucher recipients are selected from applicants by lottery–enables the use of randomly selected study and control groups. Professor Peterson’s research found that fourth and fifth grade children who received the vouchers are scoring higher in tests for reading and math than those children in the control group who are still attending public schools.

Manhattan Institute and Union League Club Lecture
Topic: “Reforming CUNY, Raising Standards, Restoring Excellence”
Speaker: Honorable Herman Badillo, Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, CUNY
February 9, 1999 | New York, New York

Center for Legal Policy Forum
Topic: “The Future of the Law and Economics Movement: From the Ivory Tower to the Country Courthouse”
Speaker: Professor Henry Butler, Director, Law and Organizational Economics Center, University of Kansas
February 3, 1999 | New York, New York

January 1999

Honorable Stephen Goldsmith, Mayor of Indianapolis
Center for Civic Innovation, hosted by the National Press Club
Topic: “A 21st Century Urban Agenda”
January 29, 1999 | Washington, D.C.

Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Speaker: Clint Bolick, Vice President and Director of Litigation, Institute for Justice and Author of Transformation: The Promise and Politics of Empowerment (Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1999)
January 27, 1999 | New York, New York

    Clint Bolick, Vice President and Director of Litigation at the Institute for Justice, talked about the opportunities which await our nation’s poor if public policies are changed to permit more them to exert more choice over their economic and educational futures. He outlined how most cities have erected a host of legal barriers to entrepreneurship by the poor, and how people have enhanced their lives when those barriers are removed. Bolick also explained how school vouchers in Milwaukee and Cleveland are already improving the education received by those fortunate enough to receive the vouchers.

Center for Legal Policy Seminar and Conference
Topic: "Order in the Court: A Fresh Look at Litigation Reform in America"
Speakers: Judyth Pendell, Director, Center for Legal Policy, Manhattan Institute
Peter Huber, Senior Fellow, Center for Legal Policy, Manhattan Institute
Topic: "From Breast Implants to Super Fund: Junk Science and Public Policy"
Lester Brickman
, Professor, Benjamin N. Cordozo School of Law
Topic: "Partnership Between Contingency Fees and States' Attorneys General: Private Gain or Public Good?"
Walter Olson
, Senior Fellow, Center for Legal Policy, Manhattan Institute
Topic: "Employment Litigation: What's a Small Business to Do?"
Roger Hertog, Chairman, Manhattan Institute and President, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc.
Topic: "Pandering to Fear" (Keynote Address)
John Stossel, Correspondent, ABC News “20/ 20”
Topic: "Resurrecting Personal Responsibility" (Luncheon Address)
Honorable Richard Thornburgh, Former United States Attorney General and Former Governor of Pennsylvania
January 20, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: “The Use of Animals in Biomedical Research”
Speaker: Frederick K. Goodwin, MD, Director, The Center of Neuroscience, Medical Progress and Society, George Washington University
January 6, 1999 | New York, New York

 


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