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•    Does TV make kids kill? (James Hamilton)
•    Questions about a national tragedy (Kenneth Dodge)
•    The fallacy of war without casualties (Theodore Triebel)
•    Leadership (Joel Fleishman)

•    Six new faculty members join the Sanford Institute
•    New Research:
•    Gunshot wounds cost $2.3 billion in one year (Philip Cook)
•    Superfund cleanups not worth the costs (James Hamilton)
•    Why governments waste natural resources (William Ascher)
•    Decentralizing public services in Vietnam (William Ascher)
•    Goal-setting is key to innovation (Robert Behn)
•    Regulating decency on the airwaves (Colin Shaw)
•    The impact of lottery fever (Charles Clotfelter/ Philip Cook)
•    Faculty Notes
•    New assistant director takes the helm

Graduation News
•    Bob Behn says "Be unreasonable!"
•    Anti-sweatshop leaders share the Sanford Award
•    Jeff Horwich earns Fleishman Award
•    Brandon Busteed named Young Trustee
•    Mary Elizabeth Spiers writes outstanding paper
•    Nate McGovern has best honors thesis
•    PPS majors earn service awards
•    PPS majors make Phi Beta Kappa
•    Susan Timberlake named outstanding grad student
•    Graduation Day 1999- photos

• Generation X voices come together

•    Scheeler aids Senator Schumer
•    Rising fast at the State Department
•    Studying poverty down under
•    MPP alumni notes

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•    A great internship experience at CBS
•    In the nonprofit trenches
•    Board endows grad internships
•    New program coordinator relates to student needs
•    New classes on muckraking, the Internet, children, race and economics

•    Voorhees Kraemer Scholars go to Washington
•    Bob Conrad is new director of undergraduate studies
•    New classes on muckraking, the Internet, children, race and economics

•    Alumni Notes

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Center for International Development Research
•    Rotary funds Center for International Peace Studies
•    Taiwanese government officials get training
•    Studying land conservation effort in Nicaragua
•    CIDR hosts NATO Caspian Sea Workshop

DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism
•    A Kosovo Diary
•    David Halberstam on the tabloidization of the news
•    Vienna Commission to address globalization

Hart Leadership Program
•    Harts endow leadership training

Center for Child and Family Policy
•    Two new research scholars

Board of Visitors News

•    Cynthia Sulzberger and Bill Shore join the board

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