Descripción: Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, a non-profit affiliated with the Center for Buddhist Studies at Colum...

Descripción: At 21 Alexandra Alexis can look back on a measure of success that would make many of her peers jealous. Having recently completed a one-year run with the hit musical Hairspray in Helsinki, for which she gave up her final school exam, she is now in New York to give her career an international dimension. The concept of moving is not new to this diplomatic, social Libra. Having grown up in New York, ...

Descripción: Hon. Carolyn Maloney 11-11-08 Air date Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney. Time Magazine has called her a tenacious, resilient legislator. The New York Sun said her entire career has been marked by a kind of personal courage. The Village Voice characterized her as a tiger in the House on every dollar due New York. And The New York Times said, New York's Congressional delegation stands out for the...

Descripción: Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 -- March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft. .......Parks is remembered for his activism, filmmaking, photography, and writings. He was the first ...

Descripción: Webster Griffin Tarpley: Historian, Iconoclast, Investigative Journalis is an activist and historian best known for his George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), which has become an underground classic on the Internet at tarpley.net. He co-authored American Leviathan: Administrative Fascism Under the Bush Regime (1991), which identified many tendencies which have become prominent today.An ...

Descripción: The Cal Payne Project Combine 2 parts jazz, 1 part r&b/groove, and a sprinkle of jam-band improvisation -mix well and serve while HOT and you have the recipe for The Cal Payne Project. Taking into consideration the instrumental nature of the compositions, the chops of the musicians playing them and the improvisational space contained within, it would be easy to call what they play jazz. However...

Descripción: I am an old fashioned girl. I still want music to be transporting and meaningful like it was for me as a child. I knew as a three-year-old, and announced to my family, that I would be a singer when I grew up. A girl on a mission, some things never change. My earliest memories are of playing records on my first little stereo with these giant headphones. I was barely eight when I was singing my...

Descripción: Ravi Batra Ph.D, # 2 Dr. Ravi Batra, a professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, is the author of five international best sellers. He was the chairperson of his department from 1977 to 1980. In October 1978, because of dozens of publications in top journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of...

Descripción: Reese Schonfeld has been in the broadcast and cable news business for more than thirty years, helping to change the direction of news and information programming in both media. He began his career with United Press Movietone News in 1956, advancing to managing editor before becoming Vice President of United Press International Television News. In 1975, Schonfeld founded the Independent Television...

Descripción: Eli Noam: Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School Eli Noam has been Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School since 1976. In 1990, after having served for three years as Commissioner with the New York State Public Service Commission, he returned to Columbia. He is the Director of the Columbia Institut...

Descripción: James H. Fetzer was born in Pasadena, California, on 6 December 1940. At graduation from South Pasadena High School in 1958, he was presented The Carver Award. He was magna cum laude in philosophy at Princeton University in 1962, where his senior thesis for Carl G. Hempel on the logical structure of explanations of human behavior won The Dickinson Prize. After being commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant i...

Descripción: Zenaiada Meanez is the Director of External affairs at Manhattan Neighborhood Network -- the Public Access Cable Television facility in Manhattan. She was Founder of the Dominican Women's Caucus, Racial Diversity Director for the National Organization for Women (NOW). Former Project Director for the Second National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit . Biographical information was ...

Descripción: Nassim Nicholas Talem PhD is an essayist, belletrist, & researcher only interested in one single topic, chance (particularly extreme & rare events, the "Black Swans" i.e. outliers); but it falls at the intersection of philosophy/epistemology (skepticism; knowledge about the dynamics of history; inferential claims), philosophy/ethics (stoicism facing random events; theories of nonhedonic happiness)...

Descripción: JON HAMMOND -- BIO - Musician / Communicator Instruments: Organ, Accordion, Piano, Guitar Attended: Berklee College of Music 1974, City College San Francisco Languages English, German - *Jon is currently Host of daily CBS radio program "Jon Hammond's Afternoon Slide" on KYCY 1550 AM. One-year Anniversary Aug. 1, 2006! *Performing in Hospitals, Nursing Homes & Prisons every month in addition ...

Descripción: Peter Riegert (born April 11, 1947) is an American actor, screenwriter, and film director. Born in The Bronx, Riegert grew up in Hartsdale, NY, graduated Ardsley High School in 1964 and later from the University of Buffalo and worked at a number of jobs, including teaching, waiting tables, and social worker before settling on acting as a career. He made his Broadway debut in the musical Dance wit...

Descripción: Ira Cohen (born February 3, 1935) is an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker born in New York City to deaf parents. During the 1960s, he traveled to Tangier, where he published the exorcism magazine GNAOUA. He also published The Hashish Cookbook under the name of Panama Rose. He continued to travel until 1980, when he returned to New York City, where he now resides. ....In his loft...

Descripción: Clayton Paterson. Born in 1948, in Calgary, Canada. Studies of art and design at various universities. Fights against the injustice of state-authorities. Since 1977 exhibitions in USA, Europe and Asia. In 1994 he organized the first NO!art show in his gallery after 20 NO!years. Took part in the NO!art-box multiple at Edition Hundertmark, 1996, and in the NO!art-show at Janos Gat Gallery in New Yor...

Descripción: Elder George Men's Action News: Podcast: A Message from Elder George: Member Editorial: I'm also the Chief of Men's Action to Rebuild Society, an organization that not only addresses the issues confronting you, but also takes action to resolve these issues. Issues that we address are: Two million men in prison One million youth in street gangs 10 million women suffering from depr...

Descripción: Steven Landau -- Experience Touch Graphics, President and Director of Research. 1997-present. New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Instructor, 2008 University of Arizona, Visiting Faculty, 2001-2002. New Jersey Institute of Technology. Adjunct Instructor, 1999-2001. Harvard Graduate School of Design, Instructor. 1986 -1987. Professional Architect, 1986-1997 Educa...

Descripción: Eliot Katz is the author of Unlocking the Exits (Coffee House Press, 1999); Les voleurs au travail (Thieves at Work) (Paris: Messidor Press, 1992, in French translation) and Space and Other Poems for Love, Laughs, and Social Transformation (Northern Lights, 1990). He is also a coeditor of Poems for the Nation (Seven Stories Press, 2000), a collection of contemporary political poems compiled by the...