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Survivors' Voices in the Classroom
September 30, 2011The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education awarded stipends to three professors in USC Dornsife to support integrating video testimony from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses into their courses… more>
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A Light on Political Thought
September 7, 2011Beginning in Fall 2010, a small group of students and their faculty adviser, Anthony Kammas, gathered for meetings in a shady corner of the Carolyn Craig Franklin Garden on the north side of the Doheny Memorial Library. In… more>
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Firm Ambition
July 15, 2011The young attorney might have been standing solo before the omnipotent Wizard of Oz. No small and meek here before the great and powerful. Hair blond and unbridled, the lawyer faces the scrutiny of John Roberts, Clarence… more>
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Internationally Known Law and Politics Scholar Joins USC
May 2, 2011The University of Southern California has recruited Lee Epstein, an internationally renowned scholar of law and judicial politics at Northwestern University School of Law to USC. Epstein will hold joint appointments as the… more>
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In Memoriam: Kam Kuwata, 57
April 21, 2011USC Dornsife alumnus and political strategist Kam Kuwata, who worked for Senator Dianne Feinstein and late Senator Alan Cranston, has died. He was 57. Kuwata died in his Venice, Calif., home on April 11. His sudden death… more>
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From Mock Trial to Real Cases
April 19, 2011Seated at a counsel table in a Los Angeles County courtroom, Elvira Kras anxiously awaited the jury’s decision. After years of work, she listened as the jury awarded Mohammed Usman Chaudhry’s family $1.7 million in… more>
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March 21, 2011
At the Forefront of Change
Swapping jeans and graphic T-shirts for suits and ties, 21 USC Dornsife students ascended the steps of the California State Capitol. After months preparing for the final presentation, students in the freshman seminar “It… more>
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Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful)
March 18, 2011In a rural, poppy field-filled area outside Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Russell Todd Zink sat with village elders under a tent in the hot desert sand. It was his first shura — a consultation meeting —… more>
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A Passion for Fashion
February 4, 2011Brainy and beautiful, the elegant and edgy Mandana Dayani ’03 could pass for a high-fashion runway model. So many dream of casting a wide net in the fashion industry with hopes of creating the ever elusive perfect… more>
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Creating His Own Path
February 1, 2011It’s Monday at 6 a.m. and Arin Ghosh’s phone is already ringing. After all, while the day is just beginning in Los Angeles, for his business contacts in New Delhi, India, it’s 7:30 p.m. and they are eager for… more>
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