Current Events - The Morning Forum of Los Altos

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February 3	Michael McFaul, Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Helen and Peter Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute. Russia's Drift Back to Dictatorship: Implication for U.S. National Security.
February 17	John Arquilla, Professor, Defense Analysis, U.S. Naval Post Graduate School. How We Could Lose the War on Terror
March 2	Bill Schustik, This Renaissance Man has Performed on Broadway, Television and Written Scores for Classical Ballet. Cross the Wide Missouri
March 16	Dr. Michael Longaker, Director of Children's Surgical Research, Dept. Of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine. Regenerative Medicine
April 6	Eavan Boland, Bella Mabury and Eloise Knapp Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. Irish poet. Eavan Boland: A Poet's Life
April 20	Brian Watson, Special Agent Department of the Treasury; Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation. How to Protect Yourself from Financial Crimes (I.E. Identity Theft, Telemarketing Fraud and Investment Scams)
May 4	John Podesta, Chief of Staff to President Clinton from 1998-2001. A View From Washington
May 18	Kit Armstrong, 11 Year Old Pianist and Composer. One of the Youngest Students to be Accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music. Original Compositions, Beethoven, Mozart and Lizt
June 1	Michael Watts, Director of the Institute of International Studies and Professor of Geography at U.C. Berkeley. The Relationship of Oil to Imperialism and the Making of the Modern World