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The American Movie Hero
Summer Film Series
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
5:30 PM
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
5:30 PM
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Ethics and Public Policy Center
1015 15th St. NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
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Follow the evolution of the American Movie Hero from Gary Cooper's Sergeant Alvin York to Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones. EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman, film critic of The American Spectator and The New York Sun and author of Honor: A History, will host a summer film series with commentary by Leon Kass (of the American Enterprise Institute and the University of Chicago) and Amy Kass (of the Hudson Institute and the University of Chicago).
The series will take place on successive Tuesday evenings between June 19, 2007 and August 7, 2007 from 5:30 to 9:00.
Movie Series
June 19: Howard Hawks's Sergeant York (1941), starring Gary Cooper
June 26: Allan Dwan's Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), starring John Wayne
July 3: Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952), starring Cooper
July 10: John Ford's The Searchers (1956), starring Wayne
July 17: Hawks's The Big Sleep (1946), starring Humphrey Bogart
July 24: Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964), starring Clint Eastwood
July 31: Peter Yates's Bullitt (1968), starring Steve McQueen
August 7: Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), starring Harrison Ford
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TO REGISTER AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
E-mail your name and phone number, along with a list of the dates you would like to attend, to events@eppc.org. Or call 202-682-1200.
Please note: Attendance is limited. Preference will be given to those who plan to attend all eight weeks.
Snacks and beverages provided!
More Information
Shawn Mayo-Pike
1015 15th St N.W., Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 715-3515
Fax: (202) 408-0632
E-mail: smayopike@eppc.org
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| Technology and Society |
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The Age of Neuroelectronics
For decades, experiments at the border between brains and electronics have led to sensationalistic media coverage, vivid science fiction portrayals, and dreams of cyborgs and bionic men. But recently, this area of science has seen remarkable advances -- from robotic limbs controlled directly by brain activity, to brain implants that alter the mood of the depressed, to rats steered by remote control. In this New Atlantis article, EPPC Fellow Adam Keiper explores the peculiar history and present directions of this research, and considers the challenges of staying human in the age of neuroelectronics.
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Blogging on the Courts
EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.
Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:
 From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."
From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog: "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."
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