Winter 2009 Bulletin

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This issue contains the following features:

1. Calendar of Events



2. Academy News
   
   -Academy Inducts 228th Class of Members
   -Humanities Indicators Prototype Launched
   -Scholar-Patriot Award
   -The Rumford Prize
   -2008 Induction Ceremony
     James Simons, Peter S. Kim, Susan Athey, Earl Lewis, Indra Nooyi
   -2008 Induction Photographs
   -Projects and Studies
   -Fellowship Programs
   
   
3. Academy Meetings
   
   -Challenges to Public Universities
     Robert J. Birgeneau, Mark G. Yudof, and Christopher F. Edley, Jr.
   -Judicial Independence
     Sandra Day O’Connor, Linda Greenhouse, Judith Resnik,
     Bert Brandenburg, and Viet D. Dinh
     Welcome and Introduction by Richard L. Revesz,
     Martin Lipton, and John Sexton
   -The Invisible Constitution and the Rule of Law
     Laurence H. Tribe, Frank H. Easterbrook, and Geoffrey R. Stone
     Diane P. Wood, Moderator
   -The Nuclear Future
     Richard A. Meserve, Robert Rosner, Scott D. Sagan, and
     Steven E. Miller
   -A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
     Sidney D. Drell, William J. Perry, Sam Nunn, and George P. Shultz
   -Reflections: Three Moles
     Paul A. Samuelson
   
   
4. Noteworthy
   
   
5. From the Archives
   

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