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Jim Luce

Itzhak Perlman to Perform at Lincoln Center to Help Rotary Eradicate Polio

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Pakistan, Asia, Nigeria, Avery Fisher Hall, India, Southeast Asia, New York City, Afghanistan, Europe, Rotary International, Indian National PolioPlus Committee, Global Citizens, Western Pacific, Jim Luce, World Health Organization, Uttar Pradesh, Islam, John Kenny, New York Philharmonic, Africa, Unicef, Lincoln Center, Itzhak Perlman, Karen F. Dimanche Davis, Polio, Eastern Mediterranean, Ulema Council for Polio Eradication, Concert to End Polio, Carol Pandak, Thought Leaders, Gates Foundation, Bopv, Polioplus, Americas, New York News
Jim Luce

"Polio is only a plane ride away." So began my sobering interview with Carol Pandak, Manager of PolioPlus for Rotary International about polio, a cr...

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NBC's Brian Williams: Changing the World for the Better

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: New Orleans, White House, Council on Foreign Relations, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Bono, Thought Leaders, Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, Columbia University School of Journalism, Global Citizens, Msnbc, Cnbc, Yitzhak Rabin, Jim Luce, Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World., Hurricane Katrina, Nigeria, Jane Stoddard Williams, Bill Clinton, Kabul, New Canaan, Ghana, Ohio State University, Making a Difference, Paul Stevers, Bates College, Facebook, Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, HIV/AIDS, Andeisha Farid, Tom Brokaw, Mali, Afghan Child Education and Care Organization, Walter Cronkite, Afceco, Disease, Jimmy Carter, Afghanistan, Orphans International Worldwide, Poverty, New York News
Jim Luce

Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...

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U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers

Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York

Read More: India, Aterciopelados, Summer Olympics Beijing 2008, U.N. Department of Public Information, Emmanuel Jal, U.N. Day Concert 2009 a Tribute to Peacekeeping, Humanitarian, Shankhar Mahadevan, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, The War Against War, Angelique Kidjo, Cnn International, Jayashri Wyatt, Sierra Leone, Global Citizens, Wyclef Jean, Lauren Saffa, U.N. Secretary General, Norway, Lang Lang, Salman & Samina Global Wellness Initiative, Earth Wind and Fire, Xian Song & Dance Troupe, Africa, Zahir Hussain, Senegal, Leonardo Dicaprio, Cotonou, U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operation, Oslo, Education Sans Mutilation, Wikipedia, Rwanda, Melissa Etheridge, Sting, South Asia, Berlin Philharmonic, Entwined Twins, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Pakistan, Isha Sesay, Culture Project, You Are Not Alone, Amnesty International, Blood Diamond, Shrinivas Uppalapu, Julianne Hoffenberg, John Mahavishnu McLaughlin, Benin, New York, Junoon, Barack Obama, Time 100, Colombia, Killing Me Softly, Ghatam, The First Time Ever, General Assembly, Salman Ahmad, Fisher Stevens, Interfaith Dialogue, Thought Leaders, Steven Lawrence, China, Bbc, Allan Buchman, National Geographic, Day-O, United Nations, Jim Luce, Harry Belafonte, Paris, Injustice, Vienna Philharmonic, Sudan, She Mama Africa, Selvaganesh Vinayakaram, Malaika, Cancion Protesta, John Lee, Sister Fa, Samir Chatterjee, Blue Helmets, Roberta Flack Singing, War Child Film, Berlin, Grammy-Award, Mridangam, Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Nile Rodgers, Indi-Jazz Fusion, Afghanistan, Kanjira, Eleanor Roosevelt, Freedom of Expression Award, Nobel Peace Prize, We Are the World, Alain Le Roy, God Grew Tired of Us, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, The Price of Silence, Two Sheps That Pass., Female Genital Mutilation, Emma McCune, Orphans International Worldwide, Haiti, New York Times, U.N. Peacekeepers, Swahili, Alicia Keys, Hutu-Tutsi Conflict, Sufi Rock, Remember Shakti, Michael Owen, USA for Africa, New York News
Jim Luce

Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...

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Reflecting on the Gates Arrest

Jim Luce | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Driving While Black, Immigration & Naturalization, Gates’ Arrest, David Gilfix, Jim Luce, D.W.B., Racism, James Crowley, Orphans International Worldwide, Flying While Muslim, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, Media News
Jim Luce

The Gates arrest uncorked pent-up emotions and helped reveal a dirty national secret: racial profiling is real, it violates the highest ideals of our country, and it demeans the daily experiences of too many people.

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Ethiopian-American Lawyer on Conflicts Along the Nile

Jim Luce | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Uganda, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Lawyer, Thought Leaders, Global Citizens, Ethiopia, Fasil Amdetsion, Lake Victoria, Harvard University, Jim Luce, Yale University, Water Rights, Sudan, Tanzania, Mediterranean, River Nile, Ethiopian-American, World News
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Fasil Amdetsion, an attorney from Ethiopia, thinks the Nile basin will be the most likely site of a future "water war" because the Nile embodies "all the challenges that transnational management of fresh water could possibly present."

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News
Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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Indian Film Director to Open Orphanage

Jim Luce | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: Tribeca Cinema, Orphanage, Oregon State University, Orphans International India, Suspense Thriller, Eternal Mind Productions, “Slumdog Millionaire”, Marche Du Film Market, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Jim Luce, Mumbai, M. Night Shyamalan, Indian Film Director, Global Citizens, Alfred Hitchcock, “Where Are You Sophia?, Brad Pitt, Independent Film, Wall Street, Orphans International Worldwide, Shekhar Kapur, Thought Leaders, Cannes Film Festival, Nagendra Karri, Mira Niar, India, World News
Jim Luce

Karri believes that as an Indian national he will be particularly adept at guiding OI India towards successfully raising 'global citizens' in India.

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Jules Verne's Kip Brothers Translated into English after 100 Years

Jim Luce | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Extraordinary Voyages, Thought Leader, Stanford L. Luce, The Begum’s Millions, French Guiana, Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Dreyfus Affair, Victorian France, The Mighty Orinoco, Jim Luce, Yale University, Emile Zola, Devil's Island, Global Citizen, Wesleyan University Press, Alfred Dreyfus, The Kip Brothers, Crime Drama, Dreyfusards, Anti-Dreyfusards, Entertainment News
Jim Luce

The book, a crime drama, celebrates the fraternal bonds of brotherhood, written shortly after the death of Verne's brother and best friend, a French sailor.

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When Is a Lawyer Not a Lawyer? When She Acts

Jim Luce | Posted 06.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Internet Movie Database, Sydney Pollack, Jim Brill, Film, Tort Liability, Travel, Thought Leaders, Diane Keaton, Lawyer, Intellectual Property, King’s College in London, Pardon My French, Global Citizens, Robert Duvall, Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Compliance, Creativity, Open Door, Tony Randall, Cate Blanchett, Grace Kelly, Jim Luce, International Organization, University of Paris Sorbonne, Anouk Dutruit, Without Judgment, Johnny Depp, Broadway Theater, Sanford Meisner Technique, Eli Wallach, Gregory Peck, Off-Broadway Theater, Stanislavski System, James Caan, Litigation, 15 Waffles, Sitcom, Acting, Youtube, David Mamet, Style News
Jim Luce

Making a career in acting is a challenging prospect. What makes Anouk Dutruit's ambitions even more invigorating is her other career. By day and international lawyer, by night an actor.

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Fonkoze: Haitian Diaspora Unites Across U.S.

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Anne Hastings, Overseas Remittances, Organized Poor, Thought Leaders, Western Union, Global Citizens, Jimmy Toussaint, Haitian Students Association of Long Island University, Jim Luce, Port-Au-Prince, Father Joseph Philippe, CNB New Jersey and UMASS, HEC Montreal, University of Massachusetts, Alianza International, Barbara Magnoni, University of Fondwa, Ministry of Haitians Living Abroad, Haitian Diaspora, Haitian American Business Network, Inter-American Development Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, “Dollars and Diaspora”, Haiti, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago., Katleen Felix, University of Montreal, Latin American & Caribbean Center, Jennifer Ching, National Association for the Advancement of Haitians, Youtube, Appleseed, Moneygram, Fonkoze, Haitian-American, World News
Jim Luce

"The Diaspora is the driving force for the economic development of the country, but in order to reach that objective, overseas Haitians need to be organized locally, state-wide, and nationally."

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Wall Street Lawyer on "The Positive Presumption"

Jim Luce | Posted 05.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Richie Davidson, Korean-American, Corporate World, Pygmalion Effect, Communication Skills, Tibetan Buddhist Monks, Global Citizens, Eugene Lee, The World Is Flat, Peru, New York University Law School, Dale Carnegie, Jim Luce, Viktor Frankl, Soft Skills, Body Language, Pygmalion in the Classroom, Dog Whisperer, Eastern Thought, Thomas Friedman, Dalai Lama, Wisdom Traditions, Man’s Search for Meaning, Robert Cialdini, Holocaust, Law Firm, Facial Expressions, Robert Rosenthal, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, New York City, Paul Ekman, Lenore Jackson, Gregorian Chants, Emotions Revealed, Positive Presumption, Wall Street, Social Graces, Spirituality, World Trade Center, Wall Street Lawyer, Thought Leaders, Economy, Krishnamurti, Business News
Jim Luce

Meet Eugene Lee, a mid-level associate at a Top 40 law firm on Wall Street who succeeds in business by being real, honest, and kind. Good news.

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Mountaineers Climb Up so Kids with AIDS Can Grow Up

Jim Luce | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Uganda, Facebook, Zimbabwe, Thought Leaders, Climb Up Kilimanjaro, Climb-a-Thon, Global Citizens, Climb Up the 50, HIV/AIDS, Climb Up the World, Children With AIDS, Mountaineering, Jim Luce, Tanya Weaver, American Alpine Institute, Mount Kilimanjaro, HelpChildrenWithAIDS.Org., Kenya, American Foundation for Children With AIDS, Orphans International, Living News
Jim Luce

To raise funding and awareness for children living with AIDS in Africa, the tallest mountain peak in every state in America will be scaled this spring.

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Spotlight on the Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater

Jim Luce | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Harkness Foundation for Dance, James Cobb, Luis Montes, Jim Luce, Modern Dance, Mexican-American, Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, Maxine Steinman, Matthew Ferry, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Fund for Creative Communities, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Youtube, Dance Education, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Agdt, Joseph Papp's Latin Festival, Max Lifchitz, Elisenda De FáBregas, Carnegie Hall, Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater, Jennifer Downing, Annabella Gonzalez, Latin Classicism, New York-New York, Entertainment News
Jim Luce

Annabella is known for having an eye for movement that conveys the essence of emotional situations. This shines through in "Primavera."

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Madonna, Mercy and Malawi

Jim Luce | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Adopted Children, Dr. Jane Aronson, The Orphan Doctor, Adoption, Raising Malawi, Madonna, Unicef, Jim Luce, Malawi, Mphandula Childcare Center, Family Care, Save the Children, Orphans International Worldwide, Worldwide Orphans Foundation, World News
Jim Luce

Jane and I love our adopted children more than anything else in the world. We would both rather have them raised by Madonna than grow up where we found them.

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Park Avenue's Nichibei Exchange - and the Japanese Flute

Jim Luce | Posted 05.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, Kaufman Center, L Things Considered, Brooklyn Museum, Nichibei Exchange, Lincoln Center, Park Avenue, Shakuhachi, Philadelphia Museum, Edo Period, Diane Simpson, SONOS Chamber Orchestra, Metropolitan Museum, James Nyoraku Schlefer, Keiko Tsuyama, Jim Luce, Mujuan Dojo, Zen Buddhism, Michael McKenna, Youtube, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Merkin Concert Hall, Kyo Shin an Arts, Meiji Restoration, Japanese Flute, Kennedy Center, Japanophile, Honkyoku, Japan, Entertainment News
Jim Luce

The Nichibei Exchange tries to bring interesting people from all facets of the U.S.-Japan relationship together with a group of people who are intimately familiar with the other.

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