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Spring 2004 NEWS ‘The United States rediscovers the world’ Sen. Richard Lugar delivers 2004 Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture Despite continued difficulties faced in rebuilding Iraq, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said there are rea- sons to be optimistic for a more peaceful Middle East. Lugar delivered the 2004 Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture, titled “The United States Rediscovers the World,” on Jan. 14. Displaying a nimble and wide-ranging analysis of the pre- and post-Sept. 11 political landscapes, Lugar addressed a capacity crowd in the Institute’s Fleishman Commons. Since Sept. 11, 2001, both the Bush administration

and average U.S. citizens have become increasingly Karen Tam Please see Lugar, p.4 Sen. Lugar addresses a full house in Fleishman Commons. Soros assails U.S. foreign policy Institute co-hosts D.C. health policy forums U.S. involvement in The Institute is co-sponsoring a new series of cross- Iraq has actually weak- sectoral health policy forums for policymakers in ened the United States, Washington, D.C., to offer timely insights into complex according to billionaire topics for policymakers, agency personnel, and NGOs. international investor, “Duke is blessed with a wealth of resources in philanthropist and health services and health policy,”said Frank Sloan, direc- author George Soros, tor of the Institute’s Center for Health Policy,Law who led a wide-ranging & Management, and professor of public policy studies discussion of U.S. for- and economics.“These forums provide an opportunity eign policy and the for scholars at Duke to share information with practi- presidential campaign tioners in the policy world, as well as with other before an audience of researchers who are located in the D.C. area.” Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., and Rep. David Price, D- more than 700 people Karen Tam on Feb. 17. George Soros responds to a question N.C., co-hosted the most recent Duke forum,“Intellectual Soros’ daylong to Duke visit was co-sponsored by Please see D.C. Forums, p. 6 the Institute and the Duke Center for International Development (DCID), along with the Office of the Provost, the Center for International Studies’ Program on Inside Globalization, Equity and Democratic Governance, and Joel Fleishman’s 70th birthday ...... pp. 8-9 the Kenan Institute for Ethics.The visit was initiated by New faculty ...... pp. 2-3 Robert Conrad, associate professor of public policy studies and economics and DCID director. Through his Hartman lecture ...... pp. 4-5 tax policy work in Russia and a number of other coun- Faculty books ...... pp. 10-11 tries, Conrad has worked closely with Soros. Please see Soros, p. 5 Alum with Dean campaign ...... p. 15 Institute Updates New Faculty and Research Fellows Join Sanford Institute

Dr. Anthony So,a 2003 Before joining the Rockefeller professor of public policy studies Fleishman Fellow in Civil Society, Foundation, Dr. So served as a senior and distinguished research fellow joined the advisor in HHS’s Agency for Health in the Duke Center for International Institute in Care Policy and Research, as a White Development. Gillis joins the March as House fellow under HHS Secretary Institute for the 2004-05 academic director of the Donna Shalala, and as senior medical year, his first sabbatical in 35 years new Program research associate for the American as a faculty member at three institu- on Global College of Physicians. He earned an tions. Gillis, whose research and Health and M.D. at the University of Michigan teaching activities fall generally into Technology (Ann Arbor) and a master’s in public the areas of fiscal reform and envi- Access and affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow ronmental policy,also plans to work Dr.Anthony So a senior Wilson School. closely with the Nicholas School research fellow in public policy Rice University President of the Environment and Earth and law. Malcolm Sciences. The new program is a joint Gillis,who His first faculty post was as an venture among the Institute’s Cross- is stepping assistant professor of economics Sectoral Public Policy Program, the down at the at Duke, followed by 15 years at Law School’s Center for the Study end of the Harvard. He returned to Duke in of the Public Domain, and the Duke academic 1984 as a professor of economics Institute for Genome Sciences & year, plans to and public policy studies, and in Policy’s Center for Genome Ethics, return to the 1990 was named Z. Smith Reynolds Institute as Distinguished Professor in Public Law and Policy. Malcolm Gillis “I am delighted to join the Duke visiting Policy. He held several Duke admin- University community and look forward to working with students and faculty,”Dr. So said. Dr. So’s appointment is being supported by a major grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, where he was associate director for health equity since 1998. The Program on Global Health and Technology Access will support research, policy meetings and teaching on issues of intellectual property and the owner- ship and control of knowledge and how it is harnessed to improve the health of the poor. Karen Tam

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2 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University istrative posts before becoming Noah Pickus was named Service Program Selects 16 president at Rice in 1993. associate director of the Kenan Bernard Avishai joins the Institute for Ethics in March and Hart Leadership Program selected 16 Institute in the fall as a senior will begin serving as an adjunct participants for its 2004 yearlong research fellow in the Cross- faculty member in public policy Service Opportunities in Leadership Sectoral Public Policy Program studies beginning this fall. Pickus, Program.The group of eight women and as a visiting faculty member a former Institute faculty member, and eight men includes a Duke in the Institute and Fuqua School most recently was founding direc- Chronicle columnist, three Eagle of Business. Avishai currently tor of the Institute for Emerging Scouts, a sexual health peer educator, a is professor of business and gov- Issues at N.C. State University. fraternity president, a playwright, two ernment at The Interdisciplinary Among other responsibilities, A.B. Duke Scholars, a University Scholar Center, Herzliya, Israel, with he is an advisory board member and a Robertson Scholar. prior faculty appointments at for the Institute’s Program in MIT,University of Toronto and Cross-Sectoral Public Policy. During their high school and college elsewhere. Through his work with the careers, they’ve been involved with death He also has served as the tech- Emerging Issues Forum Pickus penalty litigation, antiwar campaigns, nology and strategy editor for the has developed expertise on a HIV/AIDS awareness and education, liter- Harvard Business Review.Avishai wide range of ethical and policy acy training, and research on health holds a Ph.D. in political economy issues concerning biotechnology, inequalities.Their written work has been from the University of Toronto. His economic innovation and the published in The Talking Drum, The research and writing focus on creative economy,as well as an Chronicle, Saturday Night,and Thread, public-private partnerships, corpo- interest in issues of ethical and with articles pending publication in the rate social responsibility,and busi- civic leadership in the 21st Journal of Infectious Diseases and the ness and society.He will hold a Century economy. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. two-year appointment. Combined the group speaks eleven languages, including Tamil, Portuguese, Malayalan, and Cantonese, and is com- Social policy attracts master’s applicants prised of people with hometowns as close as Greensboro, N.C., and as far The Institute’s new social policy concentra- away as Brazil, Hong Kong, and tion helped attract the highest number of U.S. Singapore. applicants to the MPP program this year, said Fritz Mayer, director of graduate studies. “This is the first year that we’ve advertised TV News Executive the social policy concentration” and a large to Lecture number of applicants expressed interest in it, among them some Teach for America partici- Rick Kaplan, who oversaw pants, Mayer said.The number of social policy coverage of the Iraq War as senior students is expected to equal the number in vice president at ABC News, was Fritz Mayer the global policy track that was launched two scheduled to give the Ewing Lecture years ago.The admitted class averaged 3.5 years of work experience. on Ethics in Communications, The total number of applicants declined to 303 from last year’s titled “Journalism and the War on record high of 351, driven by a precipitous drop in international Terrorism,”on March 23 at the applications, Mayer said. Similar declines have been experienced at Institute. Kaplan has been a promi- graduate and policy schools nationwide, in part due to new barriers nent figure in television news as that make it harder for international students to obtain visas. president of CNN, an executive As a measure of the quality of the accepted students, Mayer said, producer at ABC News, and a four were offered James B. Duke Fellowships.This is the first year producer at CBS. He has won MPP students have been eligible for these awards administered by numerous awards including 34 the Graduate School. Emmys, Peabodys and Polks. He is currently president of MSNBC.

3 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University Institute Events Hartman accepts Futrell Award for Excellence in Communications David Hartman, founding host of 12,000 interviews with people from all ABC’s “Good Morning America” and walks of life, and the show became the currently a documentary producer nation’s top-rated morning news and for PBS, accepted the Futrell Award information program. for Excellence in Communications Since leaving the show,Hartman and Journalism on Feb. 25 at the has been a documentary host, writer Institute. Hartman also spoke on and producer. He currently co-writes “TV News Interviewing ’04: and hosts a public TV documentary Entertain? Inform? Inspire?” series about New York City.In 2003, The Futrell award is named for he hosted an hourlong documentary Ashley B. Futrell Sr., publisher of the on the Wright Brothers in celebration Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington of the centennial of powered flight. (N.C.) Daily News. It is given by After earning a degree in economics Ken Rogerson the Institute’s DeWitt Wallace Ellen Mickiewicz, director of the Dewitt at Duke, Hartman served three years Center for Communications and Wallace Center for Communications active duty as an officer in the U.S.Air Journalism to Duke alumni working and Journalism, presents the Futrell Force, Strategic Air Command. Among in the field of journalism. Award to David Hartman Hartman’s professional honors are two Hartman is best known for his national news and documentary Emmy 11 years as host of “Good Morning America,”launched Awards, the Aviation/Space Writers’ Journalism Award, the in 1975. During his tenure, he conducted more than Silver Apple Award and the Cine Golden Eagle.

Lugar (from page 1)

A senator since 1976, Lugar helped forge a bipartisan partnership with then-Senate Armed Services Chairman Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) to secure and dismantle weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union. Since its ratification in 1991, the Nunn-Lugar program, also known as the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, has secured and dismantled nearly 6,000 nuclear warheads. The Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture was endowed by a gift to the university from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust in honor of the late Terry Sanford, who served as Duke president for 16 years, and Karen Tam Sen. Lugar talks with students, while Fritz Mayer, director of graduate studies, listens. founded the Institute. Previous lec- turers include former Israeli Prime aware of the historical precedents Lugar also fielded questions from Minister Shimon Peres, former Costa contributing to current global the audience, including issues of Rican President Oscar Arias, former unrest, said Lugar. However, he con- human rights in Uzbekistan, his opin- Secretary of Defense Robert ceded that “our understanding of the ion on the “questionable justifica- McNamara, former Harvard President world is incomplete; we must do a tions” for invading Iraq, and the Derek Bok and U.S. Sen. Joseph better job.” feasibility of democracies in coun- Lieberman. tries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia. — By Bridget Booher

4 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University Soros (from page 1) Soros’ talk focused on his latest book, The Bubble of America Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power. U.S. administration has based its foreign relations on unilateral- ism and military might rather than on principles of interna- tional law,the book states, a stance that has proven ineffective. Rather than dis- missing flawed international institutions such as the United Nations, the United States should use its influence to strengthen them, he asserted. Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, as well as founder and chairman

of the Open Society Institute Karen Tam (OSI), is known for his Public policy grad students, from left, Kelsey Blakely, Cindy Wang, Erika Dempsey, network of philanthropic and Alexandra Molnar (at right edge), talk with George Soros. foundations, and for his leg- science professor, offered commen- community had this opportunity endary success in international tary on Soros’ book and a range of to engage with him.” financial markets. responses to Soros’ positions. Audio of Soros’ address, the panel However, his current stint in Although Soros’ views are contro- discussion and the Q&A session is the limelight stems from his political versial,“he has long has been a lead- available on the Institute’s Web site views. He is a vocal critic of the ing figure in international affairs and at www.pubpol.duke.edu. Bush Administration, has donated the world of philanthropy,”Jentleson — By Karen Kemp millions to political organizations noted,“and we are pleased the Duke such as MoveOn.org, and pledges to spend more to help persuade American voters to reject President George Bush in November. Calendar Although it is “desirable to ➤ April 15: Joel Fleishman Birthday Celebration (see pp. 8-9). reduce the influence of money” in U.S. politics, Soros said, he acknowl- ➤ April 15-16: “U.S.–Canadian Security Relations: Partnership or Predicament? ”A edged his special status.“Most rich two-day conference. For details or to register, please go to www.law.duke.edu people have positions that don’t ➤ April 17: “Brown v.Board of Education: Conversations across Generations,” allow them to speak out,”Soros Hillside High School, Durham, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. For details, see said.“I am privileged that I can.” www.pubpol.duke.edu Following Soros’ remarks, ➤ April 23: Professor Leslie Clark of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Provost Peter Lange moderated a lectures at the NIDA Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center. For details, panel discussion of foreign policy see www.childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu and fielded questions from the audience. Panelists Peter D. Feaver, ➤ April 27: Professor Linda Collins of Pennsylvania State University lectures at the political science professor; Bruce W. NIDA Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center. See www.childandfami- Jentleson,director of the Terry lypolicy.duke.edu for details. Sanford Institute of Public Policy; ➤ May 8-9: Sanford Institute and Duke graduation ceremonies and Robert O. Keohane, political

5 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University Social & Health Policy News Director Named for New Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention Center

Billions of dollars have been on Drug Abuse (NIDA) created the and Duke professor Philip Costanzo, spent over the past three decades to research center, one of 10 NIDA- a leading social psychologist of peer reduce and prevent substance abuse funded centers across the United influences, are co-leading a group of among America’s children, yet mil- States.Alexander is the former 34 scholars from the disciplines of lions of adolescents abuse tobacco, director of South Carolina’s Center economics, psychology,sociology, alcohol and other drugs every day. for Safe Schools and earned her neuropharmacology,public policy, Susan Alexander has been Ph.D. in counselor education from statistics, psychiatry,epidemiology named director of a new abuse pre- the University of South Carolina. and health behavior at Duke vention research center, which will “The Trans-Disciplinary University and the University identify peer influences associated Prevention Research Center has of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. with adolescent substance abuse a tall task, but this award provides Three research programs within and seek to change the way sub- a terrific opportunity for Duke the new Center include adolescent stance abuse prevention messages University and the Center for Child social cognition and self-regulation; are presented to young people. and Family Policy to identify and to interpersonal processes of peer Alexander was selected to implement innovative, creative solu- influence; and institutional peer head the Duke Trans-Disciplinary tions to the pervasive problem of effects, such as those associated Prevention Research Center, estab- adolescent drug abuse,”said Kenneth with school placement.The Center’s lished under the auspices of Sanford A. Dodge, director of the Center for administrative, data and policy Institute’s Center for Child and Child and Family Policy. cores will support each of these Family Policy. A $6 million, five-year Dodge,William McDougall three programs of research. award from the National Institute Professor of Public Policy Studies,

D.C. Health Policy Forums (from page 1)

Property and the Innovation Process,”on March 19. dialogue about the challenges of implementing the Robert Cook-Deegan,direc- recently enacted Medicare prescription drug legislation. tor of the Duke Institute for Kevin Schulman,professor of medicine and business Genome Science & Policy’s Center administration, moderated a panel of speakers: for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy, ➤ David Ridley, assistant professor in the Fuqua moderated the forum. James School of Business, spoke on the effect of changes in Boyle,William Neal Reynolds prescription copayments on prescription drug use. Professor of Law at Duke, spoke on Ridley’s research yields estimates of the elasticity of “Four Ways to Ruin an Intellectual demand for prescription drugs as well as estimates of the Property System” while Arti Rai, Robert Cook-Deegan effect of prescription drug advertising on expenditures. law school professor, addressed “Why Open Research is Not an Oxymoron.” ➤ Lesley Curtis, assistant professor in the School The forum addressed consequences of changes in of Medicine, discussed her research into the effects of intellectual property protection in an information-based insurance on prescription expenditures among elderly economy,pointing to unintended effects on the national people who are currently uninsured. innovation system. Boyle and Rai emphasized the value of ➤ a robust “scientific commons”where knowledge and Henry Grabowski, economics professor, technologies are widely available at low cost, and also addressed the expected effects of the prescription pointed out pitfalls in the spirit of “friendly amendment.” drug legislation on research and development. About 35 people attended the first forum in the A third forum is planned for May. The sessions are series on Jan. 13, titled “Frontiers in Pharmaceutical co-sponsored by the Institute, its Center for Health Policy, Research.”The session created an opportunity for Law & Management and the Duke School of Medicine.

6 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University Cook advises on ballistics, violent death databases Conover testifies on Hill A detailed cost-benefit analysis Phil Cook,ITT/ Terry Sanford ernment in conjunction with other of regulation in health care shows Professor of Public Policy Studies, interested governments. The NGOs that the nation professor of are working on programs to reduce spent $128 economics and demand for guns in developing billion in 2002 professor of nations. Cook assisted the groups in on unneces- sociology,has identifying countries to include in a sary regula- been named project to document the effective- tion, enough to a National ness of various nations’ programs for to cover health Academy of reducing demand for guns. insurance for Sciences study In addition, Cook is serving nearly 5 mil- commission as co-chair of a Durham committee Chris Conover lion uninsured Phil Cook examining created to advise state health depart- Americans, the potential for a national ballistics ment officials on development of Chris Conover told the U.S. Senate database.The Committee to Assess the North Carolina Violent Death in January. the Feasibility,Accuracy,and Technical Reporting System. Conover, assistant research pro- Capability of a National Ballistics The new reporting system, fessor of public policy studies, testi- Database held its first meeting Feb. funded by a grant from Centers fied before the Senate Committee 18-19 in Washington, D.C.The group for Disease Control, will compile on Health, Education, Labor and is charged with making its final report existing data from district attorneys, Pensions during its Jan. 28, 2004, by December 2005. medical examiners and crime reports hearing titled What’s Driving “Gun fingerprinting” programs, into a database that can be linked Health Care Costs and the as they are commonly known, require with the National Violent Death Uninsured? that before being sold, new handguns Reporting System. Three areas account for the must be fired, the shell casings Cook’s committee will advise lion’s share of the burden.The med- scanned and the images retained in the state health team – led by Kay ical tort system, including litigation a database. Maryland and New York Sanford, epidemiologist with the costs, court expenses and defensive have ballistics databases, but no Division of Public Health’s Injury medicine, totals $81 billion; FDA reg- national program yet exists. Prevention Branch – on ways to ulation adds another $42 billion; and Cook also traveled to Geneva disseminate and apply the data. It also health facilities regulation adds $29 March 12-13 in his capacity as advi- will develop models for collaborative billion.Thus, the states and federal sor to the Quaker UN Office and the law enforcement and community- government both have roles to play Small Arms Survey,an organization initiated injury prevention strategies. in findings way to trim regulatory initiated in 1999 by the Swiss gov- excess, Conover said. His estimates are based on pre- liminary results of more than two Korstad book wins award years of research conducted in part Robert Korstad’s book, Civil Rights Unionism: under contract to the Department Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy of Health and Human Services. in the Mid-Twentieth Century South (UNC Press, 2003, 576 pp.), has been selected co-winner of the 2004 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award. Korstad is Sanford Institute News associate professor of public policy studies and his- is available online at: Robert Korstad tory. The award was to be presented at the March www.pubpol.duke.edu. 27 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) in Boston.The award honors the best book on any To receive the historical aspect of the struggle for civil rights in the United States newsletter by e-mail from the nation’s founding to the present.The March-April 2004 issue please send your request of Duke Magazine features “Striking Out Against Big:Tobacco,”an inter- to [email protected]. view with Korstad and discussion of the book.

7 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University Focus JoelO Fleishmann: — A Cause for Celebration

The official biographical summary of Joel L. Fleishman is impressive indeed: ➤ Director of the Institute’s Samuel and Ronnie “… What is the utterly indispensable Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy,and the essence of great leadership? It is the Professions, and a professor of law and public policy studies since 1971. ability to evoke from those whom ➤ Legal Assistant to Governor Terry Sanford, 1961-65. one would lead the willingness — ➤ First director of the Sanford Institute; Fleishman pro- vided the academic leadership and raised funds to the eagerness — to seek to achieve get Duke’s public policy program off and running. the objectives that they do not believe ➤ Distinguished university leader, he has served Duke — and have never believed — they in many administrative capacities, including senior vice president, vice chancellor, and capital campaign have the capacity to achieve.” chairman. — Joel Fleishman ➤ Talented fund-raiser, helping raise $200 million in endowment as part of a $450 million campaign. ➤ Member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences, elected in 2003 along with other distinguished Americans such as Walter Cronkite and Bill Gates. ➤ President, from 1993 to 2001, of The Atlantic Philanthropic Service Co. Inc., a N.Y.-based philanthropy that uses its $3.9 billion in assets to improve the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people. ➤ Respected scholar, with scores of book chapters, papers, arti- cles and reviews to his credit. His latest work, a book on the role and impact of founda- tions in American society,is due for completion by the end of the year. ➤ A long record of service, Raleigh News and Observer including membership on the Fleishman selects a wine from his collection in this photo taken at his home in 1986. boards of the Urban Institute, He inspires people. the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, the Jewish “He changed my life,”said Susan Tifft, Eugene C. Theological Seminary of America, the Artscroll Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Mesorah Heritage Foundation, the American Hebrew Public Policy Studies,“and there are 5,563 other people Academy and the Partnership for Public Service. who could say the same thing.” It’s an amazing list of accomplishments.Yet it fails to Tifft met Fleishman when she was a Duke under- capture what many friends and colleagues say is Joel grad. She had wheedled her way into visiting journalist Fleishman’s most important contribution. Eugene Patterson’s class, and a perk of the course that

8 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University term was an invitation to a reception for Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko — You’re invited at Fleishman’s It will be a 70th birthday bash like no other, to home.Tifft, who celebrate an inspiring individual and his creative grew up in contributions to the Terry Sanford Institute of Public small-town Policy.Institute friends, faculty,staff and alumni will Maine, stepped gather on April 15 to honor Joel L. Fleishman, found- inside and felt ing director of the Institute and director of the transported to Joel Fleishman talks with Sen. Richard Lugar Institute’s Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center for another world. during Lugar’s February visit to the Institute. Ethics, Public Policy and the Professions, as he Classical music, an international literary figure and a begins his seventh decade of life. roomful of bright, earnest people who shared a passion “So much of what is great about the Sanford for making the world a better place all combined to Institute traces back to Joel’s work as our founding create a new vision of what life could be. Fleishman Director,”said Director Bruce Jentleson.“It’s a real was the catalyst.“Immediately,”Tifft said,“I knew I privilege to have the opportunity to build on what wanted to be part of that world.” he so ably started.This celebration gives us a chance Over the years,Tifft would learn of Fleishman’s to express our appreciation for Joel as a colleague annual Beethoven birthday parties, his love of wine, and friend.” theater and opera, and the surprising, almost magical Events begin at 6 p.m. with a reception for way that — no matter where on Earth he travels — invited donors at Duke President Nan Keohane’s he encounters someone he knows. home. Other guests arrive at Duke’s Wilson “It’s not a question of what you could crassly call Recreation Center for a festive reception with networking. He has enduring relationships with a great live music from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., followed by the many people,”Tifft said. seated dinner, birthday cake and a short program. Fleishman thanks his parents,Albert and Ruth In keeping with Fleishman’s lifelong dedication Fleishman, for instilling the spirit of service in him. to service, the event will raise money to support the Both were active continued growth of the Institute’s Joel L. Fleishman in the Jewish Fellows in Civil Society Program and for Duke’s community in Freeman Center for Jewish Life. Fayetteville, where Begun in 2002 with generous seed funding from Fleishman grew The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA), the Fleishman up. Fleishman Fellows program so far has brought 12 leaders from remembers stand- domestic and international non-profit organizations, ing on a street non-governmental organizations, foundations and corner as a grade other civil society groups to Duke for four-week schooler, collecting mini-sabbaticals. Fellows’ research projects have money for the dealt with combating corruption in the South In this photo from the mid-1970s, March of Dimes. Caucasus region,AIDS/HIV in Africa, globalization of Fleishman talks on the phone in his office Although Duke philanthropy,responses to humanitarian emergen- in the Old Chemistry Building, the origi- cies and other aspects of global civil society. nal location of the public policy program. President Nannerl Keohane praised Duke’s 17,000-square-foot Freeman Center for his “legendary fundraising skills,”Fleishman said he has Jewish Life opened in 1999 to provide a place for never relished the task. Jewish students to explore and celebrate their “But when you see an important need — improving Jewish identity. race relations, providing opportunities for disadvantaged Tickets for the Joel Fleishman 70th Birthday kids — you screw up your courage and ask because you Celebration are $100 for faculty and staff and can’t build an institution otherwise.” $250 for others. Please contact Randy Pratt at [email protected] or (919) 684-1976.

9 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University Sanford Institute Books ‘All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News’ Everyone arise from the impact of this eco- knows that nomic logic on news judgments. market forces This is the first book to develop drive the an economic theory of news, ana- news.Whether lyze evidence across a wide range of a story appears media markets on how incentives in print, on affect news content, and offer policy television, or conclusions. Media bias, for instance, James Hamilton on the Internet was long a staple of the news. depends on Hamilton’s analysis of newspapers who is interested, its value to adver- from 1870 to 1900 reveals how tisers, the costs of assembling the nonpartisan reporting became the details, and competitors’ products. norm.A hundred years later, some But in All the News That’s Fit partisan elements re-emerged as, for example, evening news broadcasts tried to retain “This is by far the best book in a new and grow- young female viewers ing field — economics of the media, one of with stories aimed at their the most important and neglected parts of eco- (Democratic) political nomics. James Hamilton, the leading authority interests. in the area, has produced a seminal analysis.” Examination of story development of norms that stress selection on the network hard news reporting and the defin- — Tyler Cowen, author of Creative Destruction: How evening news programs Globalization Is Changing the World’s Cultures ing of digital and Internet property from 1969 to 1998 shows rights to encourage the flow of how cable competition, news. Ultimately,this book shows to Sell,(Princeton University Press, deregulation and ownership that by more fully understanding the 2004, 344 pp.) economist James changes encouraged a shift from economics behind the news, we will Hamilton,Oscar L.Tang Family hard news about politics toward be better positioned to ensure that Professor of Public Policy Studies, more soft news about entertainers. the news serves the public good. shows just how this happens. Hamilton concludes by calling Furthermore, many complaints for lower costs of access to govern- — Reprinted with permission from Princeton University Press about journalism — media bias, soft ment information, a greater role for http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7604.html news and pundits as celebrities — nonprofits in funding journalism, the

Symposium, Talks Foster Policy Discussions “News in the Public Interest:A Free and Subsidized Press,”a symposium based on policy suggestions in James Hamilton’s February 2004 book, All the News That’s Fit to Sell,is scheduled to take place March 19-20 at Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Communications. Hamilton, Oscar L.Tang Family Professor of Public Policy Studies, will moderate, along with Manship Dean John M. Hamilton. Hamilton’s book also was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal (“Jim Lehrer vs. Janet Jackson,”Feb. 4, 2004) and on Feb. 11, Hamilton and John Dancy,visiting lecturer at the Institute, discussed the economics behind news decisions on WUNC-FM’s “State of Things.” Since October 2003, Hamilton has given book talks on campus at the Duke Law School and the Fuqua School of Business, at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and at University of California, San Diego. In February, Hamilton presented a related paper,“The Marketplace and the Media” at the Annenberg Foundation Trust’s Commission on the Press meeting in Palm Springs, Calif.

10 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University ‘After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation’ The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Second, despite this change, four landmark decision, Brown v.Board of main factors prevented even larger Education, set into motion a process increases: white reluctance to accept of desegregation that would eventu- racially mixed schools, the multiplic- ally transform ity of options for avoiding such American public schools, the willingness of local offi- schools. After cials to accommodate the wishes of Brown:The Rise reluctant whites and the eventual and Retreat loss of will on the part of those who of School had been the strongest protagonists Desegregation, in the push for desegregation.Thus (Princeton decreases in segregation within dis- Charles T. Clotfelter University Press, tricts were partially offset by grow- 2004, 216 pp.) ing disparities between districts and provides a comprehensive and up- by selected increases in private to-date assessment of how Brown’s school enrollment. most visible effect — contact among Reprinted and edited with permission from students of different racial groups — Princeton University Press has changed over the fifty years http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7768.html since the decision. Using both published and unpublished data on school enroll- ments from across the country, author Charles Clotfelter,Z.Smith Events examine effects of Brown decision Reynolds Professor of Public Policy The resegregation of American schools explored in Charles Studies, law and economics profes- Clotfelter’s forthcoming book is among the discussion topics at confer- sor, and director of the Institute’s ences and seminars planned for the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Center for the Study of Philanthropy Board of Education decision. On April 2, Clotfelter will present a paper & Voluntarism, uses measures of titled “Private Schools, Segregation, and the Southern States” at a confer- interracial contact, racial isolation ence at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. On May 17 at 7 p.m. and segregation to chronicle the Clotfelter will read from the book and discuss the topic at The Regulator changes. Bookshop in Durham. Clotfelter goes beyond previous On April 17, Clotfelter will join Institute faculty members William studies by drawing on heretofore “Sandy” Darity,research professor of public policy studies,African unanalyzed enrollment data covering American studies, and economics, and Helen Ladd, Edgar T.Thompson the first decade after Brown, calcu- Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies and economics professor, lating segregation for metropolitan as well as Daniella Cook of the N.C. Child Advocacy Institute and john areas rather than just school dis- powell of Ohio State University (who does not capitalize his name), to tricts, accounting for private schools, discuss the issue at a symposium at Durham’s Hillside High School. presenting recent information on The panel is one of many offered during the free, daylong sympo- segregation within schools and sium — “Brown vs. Board of Education: Conversations across measuring segregation in college Generations” — which aims to assess Brown’s significance and its enrollment. meaning now and for the future. Other participants include Julius Two main conclusions emerge. Chambers, former NCCU chancellor; John Hope Franklin of Duke; and First, interracial contact in American Elaine Jones, president of NAACP Legal Defense Fund.The event is co- schools and colleges increased sponsored by the Institute’s Center for Child and Family Policy,University markedly over the period, with the of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University and most dramatic changes occurring North Carolina State University.For more information and to register in the previously segregated South. online, go to www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/brownvboard.

11 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University International Connections International Media Fellows Selected Jentleson appointed Six journalists were selected pieces are centered around peo- to Middle East panel for the DeWitt Wallace Center for ple and how they are influenced Bruce Jentleson, Institute director Communications and Journalism and affected by political, social and professor of public policy studies Media Fellows program Feb. 9 - and economic changes. and political science, has been March 5.They were: ♦ Sonja Sagmeister,TV journalist, appointed to a prestigious 2004 ♦ Eva Maria Kaiser, editor, Austrian Broadcasting Corp., Presidential Study Group.The blue- Current Affairs,Austrian Vienna. Sagmeister started her ribbon, bipartisan panel organized Broadcasting Corp.,Vienna. Kaiser career in newspaper and radio, by the Washington Institute for Near is a journalist for the weekly TV and seven years ago moved to East Policy is charged with generat- magazine “Report,”and covers television. She has worked in ing a blueprint for the next U.S. Austrian politics and EU affairs. Namibia, China, Iran, Russia, Administration’s approach to Middle ♦ Anja Kretschmer,journalist, Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia, East policy. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg Slovakia, Hungary,the Czech “In an unprecedented way,2004 RBB, Berlin, Germany.Kretschmer Republic and as a correspondent is likely to be the most sensitive and has researched, edited and pro- in Rome. important Study Group effort ever duced radio reports and TV docu- ♦ Jeffrey Smith,national inve- undertaken,”wrote co-convenors mentaries for 15 years. stigative correspondent, The Dennis Ross and Robert Satloff.“It is ♦ Dominik Lessmeister,freelance Washington Post.Smith, a 1976 the first study group of the post-9/11 reporter, SR German Radio and TV, Duke public policy graduate, has era.Thanks to the war on terrorism Saarbrücken, Germany. been at the Post since 1986 and and the campaign in Iraq, Middle East Lessmeister covers political stories has covered the Pentagon, the issues, writ large, are at the heart of and presents the radio news. State Department, the White U.S. foreign policy for the first time ♦ Nils Rode,reporter, Current House and the intelligence in history.” Affairs, German Public TV, community,and also served The group’s first meeting took Channel WDR, Duesseldorf. His bureau chief in Rome. place Feb. 12-13 in Washington, D.C. It will continue to meet privately every six to eight weeks and pro- duce its final report shortly after the DCID offers foreign trade training to Chinese officials November election. Jentleson also served on the 2000 Presidential Duke Center for International Development (DCID) held an inaugural Study Group, in his capacity as for- training program from February 16 to March 5 for 40 officials of the Tianjin eign policy advisor to presidential Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA). candidate Al Gore. TEDA, established in 1984, is one of China’s first state-level development The Washington Institute for areas. More than 3,500 businesses operate there, an investment of $10 billion. Near East Policy,founded in 1985, TEDA benefits from preferential government policies as it works to attract is a public educational foundation both domestic and international investments, especially in the high-tech arena. dedicated to scholarly research and informed debate on U.S. interests The program,“Decision Making and Management Tools for Foreign Trade,” in the Middle East. was directed toward middle- and senior-level officials from all sectors of TEDA. On March 8, Jentleson met with Four concentration areas were presented: Economic Analysis for Decision members of the Atlanta Journal- Making: Learning the Tools; International Trade: Theory and Policy; Finance: Constitution editorial board to dis- Public and Corporate; and Managing the Public Sector With Business cuss foreign policy issues, and also Management Tools. delivered a related talk to about 200 members of the Atlanta Rotary Club Professors from DCID, the Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute of Govern- during their International Day.He ment and other experts represented a wide variety of disciplines and perspec- had been invited to speak by John tives during the three-week program. DCID anticipates continuing the program White, Sanford Board of Visitors once annually for the next two years. member.

12 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University the Low Standards in Broadcast News by Teaching the Next Faculty Notes Generation to Buck the System.” John F. Ahearne, visiting professor in public policy studies, William “Sandy” Darity,research professor of public policy gave an invited talk,“E3: Energy,Engineers, and Ethics,”and studies,African American studies, and economics, was honored moderated a session on Ethics in Engineering Education at a with a 2003 distinguished teaching award from the Southern National Academy of Engineering Workshop in Washington, Economics Association at the group’s annual meeting in San D.C., Oct. 14-15, 2003.Ahearne also presented an invited paper, Antonio,Texas. During a January on-campus discussion cele- “Report on the Burning Plasma Assessment Committee”at the brating the life of the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr., Darity Forum on the Future of Fusion, Nov.20, 2003, in Washington, presented a talk titled “Realizing the Dream:Where Do We D.C., and participated as a panel member to discuss Russian- Go From Here?” Darity also was invited to present the American Fissile Materials Disposition Programs on Nov.19, keynote address on reparations for African Americans at the 2003, at GLOBAL 2003 in New Orleans.Ahearne was appointed Southwestern Social Science Association meeting March 18 chair of the National Research Council Committee on the in Corpus Christi,Texas. Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator Weapon and Other Oscar L.Tang Family Professor of Public Policy Studies James Weapons; a member of the University of Chicago Advisory Hamilton presented a paper titled “Media Coverage of CEOs: Committee on Nuclear Non-Proliferation; and a member of Who? What? Where? When? Why?” at the Stanford Graduate the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Advisory Council. School of Business in March. Co-author on the paper is Alma Blount,director of the Hart Leadership Program Richard Zeckhauser of Harvard. (HLP), along with Kenan Institute for Ethics Director Elizabeth Alex Harris,professor of the practice of public policy studies, Kiss, and Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences Bob is exhibiting his photographs of the Experience Corps Program Thompson, presented a panel titled “Scholarship with a Civic at the offices of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Mission: Implementing a Research Service-Learning Model,” Princeton, N.J., through December 2004. The Foundation at the January 2004 annual meeting of the Association of engaged Harris to document the program in Boston, San American Colleges and Universities (AACU).Their talk focused Francisco, New York, and Portland, Oregon.The school- on a new model for research service-learning that Duke is based mentoring program engages older adults in inner-city implementing with support from a grant from the Department environments. of Education. Bruce Jentleson,Institute director, and professor of public Four current or former students of Tony Brown,director policy studies and political science, co-chaired an on-campus of the Hart Leadership Program’s Enterprising Leadership conference Feb. 6-7 with Duke Political Science Professor Peter Incubator and a professor of the practice in public policy Feaver on “Wielding American Power: Managing Interventions studies and sociology,are nominees for Duke’s 2004 Truman after September 11.” On March 22, Jentleson also delivered the Scholarship.Also, in December, Brown led a daylong session keynote address, titled “Two Talons of the Eagle:America in a at the American Theological Schools Leadership Conference Post-Cold War and Post-9/11 World,”at N.C. State University’s attended by 34 divinity school presidents and deans. In January, weeklong series of seminars and workshops,“US and the World Brown was the keynote speaker at the Literacy Center’s Board in the Wake of September 11.” of Directors annual retreat. Helen Ladd, Edgar T.Thompson Distinguished Professor of Allen Buchanan,professor of public policy studies and phi- Public Policy Studies and economics professor, discussed edu- losophy,spoke March 3 on “North Carolina’s Eugenics Program: cation finance during a time of fiscal stress at the March 11 An Ethical Autopsy,”at the Duke University Medical Center. annual conference of the American Education Finance Buchanan discussed the results of the governor’s task force on Association in Salt Lake City,Utah. Ladd reviewed North which he served, which recommended reparations for the vic- Carolina’s experience with educational accountability at the tims of North Carolina’s eugenics program. March 5 Symposium on Education Finance and Organizational Robert Cook-Deegan’s review of James Shreeve’s book, The Structure in New York State Schools, in Albany,N.Y.She also Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of was scheduled to present an update on March 25 about joint Life and Save the World appeared in the March 2004 issue research with Institute faculty members Charles Clotfelter (Vol. 36, No. 3) of Nature Genetics. Deegan, Institute faculty and Jacob Vigdor into teacher quality and student achieve- member, and director of the Duke Center for Genome Ethics, ment at the University of Connecticut. Law and Policy,calls the book the first to tell Celera’s side in Shari Miller-Johnson,a research scholar within the any detail. He notes,“The fundamental story line is sound and Institute’s Center for Child and Family Policy,has received the quotes are delicious, but details are shaky … (with) errors a five-year, $730,000 career development award from the of science and misunderstandings of law.” National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) to continue her research on girls and aggression. Miller-Johnson’s research John Dancy,visiting lecturer in public policy studies with the focuses on understanding the nature, antecedents, course Institute’s DeWitt Wallace Center, is a scheduled panelist at the and mechanisms of aggression and antisocial behavior in Broadcast Educators Association’s April 16 annual meeting in girls. Details at www.childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu Las Vegas. Dancy and other panelists were slated to discuss: “It’s Up To Us: How Former Broadcast Journalists Can Subvert 13 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University Silverman, University of Michigan economics professor.A Faculty Notes (continued) $275,000, two-year investigator award supports Sloan’s work Lecturer Bruce Payne,director of Hart Leadership Program’s on a forthcoming book,“Crises in Medical Malpractice,” Leadership and the Arts Program led a Duke Alumni Association an analysis of policy reactions to malpractice crises. weekend in March that included tickets to Don Giovanni and Jonathan Wiener,professor of law,public policy,and envi- Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera; tickets to the Paul Taylor ronmental policy,received the Young Risk Analyst Award Dance Company at the City Center Theater;lectures by Bruce from the Society for Risk Analysts (SRA) at its annual meeting Payne; and educational video and readings prior to the trip. in December 2003. Frank Sloan,director of the Institute’s Center for Health Susan Tifft, Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Policy Law and Management, has received two grants from the Journalism and Public Policy Studies, spoke Feb. 15, 2004, on Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for health policy research.A “The Social and Cultural Roots of Student Dishonesty” at the $400,000, three-year award funds research on why mature National Conference on Law & Higher Education in Clearwater smokers don’t quit.The study will collect data on smokers in Beach, Fla. She also attended the second meeting of the Seattle, St. Louis, and North Carolina’s Research Triangle area to Annenberg Sunnylands Trust’s Commission on the Press, get a nationally representative sample. Partners in the work are of which she is a member, Feb. 5-8 in Palm Springs, Calif. Ahmed Khwaja, Duke economics professor, and Dan

Institute scholars’ research into peer Vigdor’s research on urban gentrification was featured in arti- influences on student achievement has cles in the Nov.17, 2003 New York Observer and in the Jan. 19, received significant funding support 2004 edition of U.S. News and World Report.Vigdor, assistant through a series of recent grants. Jacob professor of public policy studies and economics, also appeared Vigdor, assistant professor of public Jan. 15 on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation”to discuss policy studies and economics, and the practice of legacy admissions in higher education, based Tom Nechyba, economics department on current research with Duke economist Peter Arcidiacono chairman and public policy studies on the relation between college admissions policies and the professor, received a $300,000 National quality of higher education. Jacob Vigdor Science Foundation grant to study peer Vigdor also gave research seminars at the University of influences on achievement in North Carolina elementary Michigan and the University of Virginia in December, as schools.The research also is supported by a $300,000, 5-year well as shorter presentations at the APPAM annual meeting, grant from the William T.Grant Foundation, which named the North American Regional Science Council annual meeting, Vigdor a William T.Grant Scholar.The research will analyze and the american Economic Association annual meeting. state education data to determine how characteristics of child’s familial and social environments may affect learning.

Faculty publications Frank Sloan,director of the Institute’s Center for Health Policy Law and Management, was lead author on the paper,“The Effect John Ahearne’s paper,“Radioactive Waste:What is it? Where is of Dementia on Outcomes and Process of Care for Medicare it? Why is it a Problem? (Or is it?)” was published in Proceedings Beneficiaries Admitted with Acute Myocardial Infarction,”in of The Symposium on Energy and the Environment, University of the February 2004 Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Michigan, October 2003. (52: 2, pp.173-181). Co-authors were Duke colleagues Justin “Tough Love Multilateralism,”by Institute Director Bruce W. Trogdon, Lesley Curtis and Dr. Kevin Schulman. Jentleson,was published in the Winter 2003-04 issue of The Jacob Vigdor’s article “Residential Segregation and Preference Washington Quarterly (27: 1 pp. 7-24).An in-depth critical exam- Misalignment,”published in the November 2003 issue of the ination of multilateralism’s strengths and weaknesses, the article Journal of Urban Economics (54: 3, pp. 587-609) studies the role was among the Top 20 articles ever accessed on the journal’s of disparities in neighborhood composition preferences in perpet- Web site, with 3,000 hits in three months. uating residential segregation. Evidence from the multi-city study The American Journal of Preventive Medicine devoted its of urban inequality (MCSUI) suggests that it would be impossible January issue [ 26(1S), 1-81] to the Multisite Violence Prevention to simultaneously sort white, black,Asian, and Hispanic house- Project, a 5-year Centers for Disease Control project in four states holds into neighborhoods that match their stated ideal. to compare the effects of several types of interventions intended Principles of Cash Flow Valuation:An Integrated Market-based to reduce aggression and violence among middle-school students. Approach,a book by Joseph Tham,visiting assistant professor Principal investigator for Duke David L. Rabiner,senior for the Duke Center for International Development, and Ignacio research scientist in the Center for Child and Family Policy, Vélez-Pareja, Politéchnico Grancolombiano, was published by served as an editor for the issue. Shari Miller-Johnson,Donna- Elsevier Academic Press in January. Marie Winn and Ken Dodge,all of the Institute’s Center for Child and Family Policy,contributed to papers in the report, as did Steve R.Asher, Duke psychology professor.

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Trina Hedrick (MPP/MEM), Jennifer Nevin, (PMI), Bureau Renee Sewchand (MPP/JD), First Positions of Arizona Department of Game for Europe and Eurasia, USAID, Clerk, Hon. Franklin Van MPP Class of 2003 and Fish, Phoenix,Ariz. Washington, D.C. Antwerpen, Eastern District, Jenifer Hlavna (MPP/MBA), Autumn Newman McCain, Easton, Pa. MAXIMUS, Indianapolis, Ind. New World Health, New York, Katie Tedrow Astrich,Office Susanne Adcock, Master of N.Y. of Information and Regulatory Laws (LL.M.) in European Law, Kevin Hutchinson,Office of Affairs, Office of Management University of Edinburgh, the Governor, Raleigh, N.C. Bridget O’Connor (MPP/JD), and Budget,Washington, D.C. Scotland. Jamie Klima (MPP/JD), Clerk, Clerk, Hon. D. Brooks Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals,Altoona, Pa. Jim White (JD/MA), Moore & Chuck Anderson,Vietnam U.S. Federal Court, Erie, Pa. Van Allen, Raleigh, N.C. Veterans of America Foundation, Heather Lee,Howard Sarah Rankin, Self-Help, Nuclear Threat Reduction University School of Social Durham, N.C. Ilse Wiechers, Duke University Campaign,Washington, D.C. Work,Washington, D.C. Tracy Robinson, Department Medical School, Durham, N.C. Ann Broeker (MPP/JD),Wiley, Ivan Lenoir, Barry University of Homeland Security, Michael Yankovich, United Rein and Fielding,Washington, School of Law,Orlando, Fla. Washington, D.C. States Military Academy,West Point, N.Y. D.C. Mike McBrierty, SAS Global Janet Rosenblad (MPP/JD), Nick Cornelisse,Office of Government Affairs, Cary,N.C. U.S. General Accounting Office, Marshall Jun Yuan, Bank of Washington, D.C. China, New York, N.Y. Senator Russell Feingold, Meaghan Muldoon,Office of Washington, D.C. Management and Budget, Emily Schilling (MPP/JD), Yan Zhang (MPP/MBA),The Nicole Crawford (MPP/JD), Washington, D.C. Akin, Gump, Straus, Hauer and World Bank,Washington, D.C. Feld,Washington, D.C. Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Amy Murphy,TATC Humphrey and Leonard, Consulting,Washington, D.C. Greensboro, N.C. Jason Derousie, Kaplan Test Prep Center, State College, Pa. MPP alum manages Dean presidential campaign budget Michael Dombeck (MPP/MBA), DarPharma Inc., Susie Powell credits the late Terry low-dollar contributors and grassroots Chapel Hill, N.C. Sanford with opening her mind to the supporters.All were major financial man- positive potential of politics — a perspec- agement challenges Powell had to address. Andrea Ervin Howard, (PMI), Veterans Administration Medical tive that indirectly led to her current job “The campaign grew quickly from a Center, Philadelphia, Pa. as budget director for the 2004 Howard $100,000 to a multimillion dollar operation, Neal Fann, (PMI), U.S. Dean presidential campaign. and the challenge was to create a manage- Environmental Protection “I had my political awakening at Duke,” ment structure to do that,”she explained. Agency,Office of Air Quality said the 1994 MPP graduate.“As an under- Her job was not to make strategic spending Planning and Standards, graduate, I was interested in public policy decisions, but to ensure the campaign Emission Standards Division, because it seemed to be an unbiased could reliably project and account for Risk Exposure and Assessment approach to decision-making, without the expenditures. Group, RTP,N.C. horse-trading and occasional sliminess of Powell, 35, landed the job in part Tillman Finley (JD/MA), Clerk, politics. I had this view that politics was because of previous work as a budget Hon. Curtis L. Collier, too messy and maybe did not accomplish analyst in the 1996 Clinton/Gore campaign. Chattanooga,Tenn. that much.” She also worked as deputy chief of staff for Eileen Fleck,Joint Legislative During her stint as Sanford’s teaching Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., operations chief Audit and Review Committee, assistant, conversations with the Institute’s for the Washington, D.C., Department of Virginia Legislature, Richmond, namesake made her realize,“Political leaders Public Works, and program manager for Va. really can make a difference, and although the Council for Excellence in Government. Gustavo Flores-Macias, the political process can be chaotic, it’s an After Dean’s withdrawal from the race, Procuraduria Federal del important part of our democratic system.” Powell faced several months of campaign Consumidor, Unidad de Powell joined the Dean camp in part closeout work, to ensure all bills get paid Comunicacion Social, Mexico because she saw the possibility to join an and correct financial data were available for City,Mexico. administration that she thought would Federal Election Commission reporting. She Robin Gelinas,Alliance for make positive changes. It also presented planned to leave headquarters in Burlington, Excellent Education, great opportunities to manage and prob- Vt., with fresh experience in shoveling Washington, D.C. lem-solve — her strong suits.The campaign snow and working 14-hour days, return Amanda Glover,Peace Corps. had expanded rapidly,with an extensive home to Washington, D.C., and seek a new Craig Harper (MPP/MEM), field operation, an unprecedented Internet position, perhaps in the private sector. Office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, presence, and an ever-growing number of Washington, D.C.

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plaints and trains employers on Ryan Lordos (MPP ’96) John McManus (MPP ’93) has MPP Alumni Notes compliance issues. has returned to D.C. and his left his position as the staff Laura Carter Whiteley (MPP Holly Barkley Depaul (MPP former employer, the Board director of the Health ’02) and her husband, Sean, ’97), and her husband,Tom, wel- of Governors of the Federal Subcommittee of the House announce the birth of their comed their son, Ian Scott, on Reserve System, after a Ways and Means Committee to daughter, Emma Taylor Whiteley, Dec. 3, 2003.The Depauls live in brief stint in Indiana state form his own consulting firm, on Jan. 9, 2004.They live in the D.C. area, where Holly government. The McManus Group. McManus Richmond,Va., where Laura works with American Kirk Odegard (MPP ’96) was the lead staff negotiator of works at the Joint Legislative Management Systems (AMS). is on a two-year rotation from the recent Medicare legislation, and will focus on its implemen- Audit and Review Committee. Peter Brown (MPP ’97) and his job at the Federal Reserve tation in his private company. Muhammad Hutasuhut his wife, Michele, announce the Board of Governors with (entered with Class of 2002; birth of Joshua Dylan Brown on the Bank for International Kara Smith Blakeslee on leave of absence) has left Nov.22, 2003.The Browns live Settlements in Basel, (MPP/JD ’92) has a new his post as a senior foreign pol- in the D.C. area where Peter Switzerland, beginning position with American Land icy advisor to House Homeland works in Accenture’s Office of in February 2004. Conservancy in San Luis Security Chairman Christopher Government Relations. Anne Scharff (MPP ’95) Obispo, Calif. Cox (R-Calif.) to work for a year Randy Chambers (MPP ’97) is happy to announce her Mark Carlson (MPP/MD ’88) with Ambassador Paul Bremer and his wife, Heather, welcome engagement to Mark Bacon, has a new appointment as at the Coalition Provisional their second daughter,Alexa with a wedding planned for Associate Vice President for Authority in Iraq. Hayden Chambers, on Dec. 29, late fall 2004. Government Relations at Case Tim Saintsing (MPP ’02) has 2003.They live in Durham, Caroline Davis (MPP ’94) has Western Reserve University and a new position as policy and where Randy works at Self left the California Department Associate Dean of the Case research associate at PENCIL Help. of Health Services for a new School of Medicine. (Public Education Needs Civic Liz Rossin Laats (MPP ’97), position as program officer Gene Conti (MPP/Ph.D. ’78) Involvement in Leadership) in and her husband, Andy,wel- with the California HealthCare is taking a leave from his posi- New York, N.Y. comed their new daughter, Foundation in Oakland. tion at transportation consult- Amy Hepburn (MPP ’02) Margo, born Sept. 29, 2003. John Giambalvo (MPP ’93) ing firm PBS&J in Raleigh, N.C., and her husband, Matt Fore, The Laats live in Cardiff by the has left his legal career in New to manage the U.S. Senate announce the birth of Juliette Sea, Calif. York City for a new position campaign of Erskine Bowles, Democrat from North Carolina. Hepburn Fore on Oct. 24, 2003. Danny Werfel (MPP/JD ’97) with the Broadcasting Board of They live in Philadelphia. has a new position as chief of Governors in Washington, D.C. Tanya Scobie (MPP ’00) and the new Financial Integrity and her husband,Wolfgang Köhling, Analysis Branch, part of the U.S. welcomed their daughter, Ella Office of Management and Marie Scobie Köhling on Oct. Budget’s Office of Federal 30, 2003.They live in the D.C. Financial Management. area, where Tanya works at the Jeremy Citro (MPP ’96) International Finance Corp. has a new position with the Reid Chisholm (MPP ’99) has Corporate Executive Board in a new position as project man- Washington, D.C., focusing on ager for customer information human capital and workforce with publisher R.H. Donnelley development issues. Jeremy NEWS is published five times a year by the in Morrisville, N.C. also announces his marriage to Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University Susan Timberlake (MPP ’99) Susan Matulaitis on Memorial Box 90239 and her husband, Geoff Cohen, Day weekend, 2003, with class- Durham, NC 27708-0239 announce the birth of a son, mates Patrick Prickett (’96), www.pubpol.duke.edu Sawyer Eliot Timberlake Cohen, Angel Zambrano (PIDP ’97), on Sept. 28, 2003.They live in Jon Rosenwasser (’95), Mike The Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy is a national and international the Boston area, where Susan Daulton (’97), and Jill leader in public policy studies. Its mission is to educate tomorrow’s leaders works at the Museum of Hyland (’95) in attendance. and improve the quality of public policymaking through research, profes- sional training, and policy and community engagement. The Institute is Science. Ric Lawson (MPP/MEM ’96) named for its founder, the late Terry Sanford, who served his state and the Valeria Balfour (JD/MPP ’97) and his wife, Kathy,announce nation as governor of North Carolina, United States senator, and Duke recently left private law practice the birth of their second child, University president. Los Angeles to begin work as a Althea Stocking Lawson, on Oct. Institute Director: Bruce W. Jentleson human resources consultant 20, 2003.The Lawsons live in Ann Arbor, Mich., where Ric is Editor: Karen Kemp with Employment Practices Layout/Design: Duke Publications Group Solutions, where she investigates a project manager for the Great employee discrimination com- Lakes Commission. For more information, please contact [email protected].

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