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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

"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

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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The Best Thing You Can Have Is Bad Intelligence

Simon Sinek | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Walmart, Leaders, Intelligence, Inspiration, Start With Why, General Motors, Microsoft, Entrepreneurship, Motivation, Thought Leaders, Competitive Analysis, Corporate Culture, Wal-Mart, Culture, Business News

The greatest threat any organization can face is not its competition but its own success. With great success comes complacency -- the false belief that you are the best and that you don't have to worry.

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El Museo del Barrio: Fifth Avenue on Fire

Jim Luce | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Agnes Gund, Central Park, Robert Motherwell, The Suicide of Dorothy Hale, El Barrio, Latin American Culture, Global Citizens, Peru, Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries, New Workers’ School Cycle, Yale University Press, Wilfredo Lam, Dominican Republic, Fifth Avenue, Metlife, Michael Bloomberg, On View - Voces Y Visiones, Miguel Sal, Mexico, Caribbean Culture, Miguel Covarrubias, Museum of the City of New York, Lenin, Brazil, JuliáN Zugazagoitia, Ecuador, Art, Frida Kahlo, Man at the Crossroads, Latino Culture, Diego Rivera, Cuba, Bolivia, Upper East Side, Salvador Dali, Thought Leaders, Henry Luce Foundation, Dorothy Hale, East Harlem, Michelle De Leon, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, John Lee, El Museo Del Barrio, Rockefeller Center Mural, Raphael MontañEz Ortiz, Latino Traditions, Mexico City, Rockefeller Discovering the Rivera Murals, Rockefeller Family, Marcel Duchamp, Nexus New York - Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, Elvira Moran, Chile, Terra Foundation for American Art, Daily Kos, Opponent of Fascism, Empire State Building, Deborah Cullen, Art Commission of the City of New York, American Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, Museum Mile, TaíNo, Pre-Columbian, New York News

Forty years ago, El Museo del Barrio was a dream contained in a single classroom so far north that “sophisticated” Manhattanites would not...

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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

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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The Rubins on "What is Cuban Art?"

Jim Luce | Posted 10.26.2009 | Style

Read More: Richar Bruff Bruff, Alicia Leal, Abelardo Mena, Cuban Hip Hop, Cuban Avant Garde, African Slaves, Sandra Levinson, Mabel Poblet, Donald Rubin, Carlos Estevez, Instituto Superior De Arte, Global Citizens, Alex Rosenberg, ¿What Is Cuban Art?, Zaida Del Rio, Howard Faber, Shelley and Donald Rubin, San Alejandro Art Academy Havana, Alejandro Lazo, Sandra Ceballos, José García Montesbravo, Elsa Mora, Rma, Rubin Museum of Art, Cuban Culture, Marilyn Zeitlin, Chinese Laborers, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Center for Cuban Studies New York, Yamilys Brito, Orlando Justo, Ben Rodriguez-Cubenas, Fundacion Amistad, Cuban Cinema, Cuban Artist Fund, Dr. Gail Gelburd, Luly Duke, Manuel Mendive, RocíO GarcíA, New York City, Shelley Rubin, Alberto Barral, Spanish Colonials, Contemporary Cuban Art, Oglethorpe University, Himalayan Art, Cuban Embargo, Alberto Magnan, Donald and Shelley Rubin, Rachel Weingeist, Thought Leaders, Tibetan Art, Style News

Both the island and the art are an unusual mix of the traditional and the modern, of the ordinary and the special, of simplicity and incredible complexity.

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Black Like Me? The Missing Faces in Technology and Innovation

Robin Caldwell | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology

The real question is where is the diversity of thought leadership in technology? Technology is viewed as an incubator for innovation, but if the same people are always included in that incubator then they are recreating more of the same and reproducing themselves.

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Support Doesn't Always Mean Saying, 'You're Wonderful'

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Lisa Earle McLeod, Leadership, Triangle of Truth, Who's Got Your Back, Thought Leaders, Keith Ferrazzi, Business News

A true lifeline relationship -- one designed to catapult your personal or professional growth -- possesses four qualities: generosity, candor, vulnerability and accountability.

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Helping Women: Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Facebook, Mexican National Institute of Health, Ronald Reagan, Myspace, “Global Gag Rule”, Women’s Health, Pregnancy, Thought Leaders, Vaginal Fistula, Global Citizens, South Africa, Clinton Global Initiative, Roe v. Wade, Argentina, World Health Organization, Abortion, Uganda, Bill Clinton, Developing World, M.D., Roman Catholic Church, EngenderHealth., Mexico, Twitter, AIDS Prevention, Barack Obama, Ana Langer, Women, Population Control, Reproductive Health, Smith Barney, India, Obstetric Fistula, Orphans International Worldwide, Frances D. Alleman-Luce, Usaid, Pep Far, Engenderhealth, World News

EngenderHealth focuses on far more than fistula repair and prevention. They are dedicated to improving the overall health and well-being of people in the countries where they work.

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Indian-American Med Student on Malaria and Poverty in Nigeria

Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, Indian-American Community, Thought Leaders, Sudha Parikh, Global Citizens, Sudhir Parikh, Baptist Medical Centre, Vanderbilt Medical School, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Medical Student, Canby Robinson Scholar, Nigeria, Indian Consulate, Poverty, Ravi Parikh, Indian-American, Ogbomoso, World News

I had to help cut off patients clothes, try to secure IV lines, and patch their burns all while trying to stomach the constant screams and the distinct fragrance of burnt flesh.

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Israeli Film: Unmistaken Child in Tibet

Jim Luce | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nati Baratz, Dalai Lama, New York Film Forum., Israel Film, Tibetan Master, Thought Leaders, Reincarnation, Unmistaken Child, Buddhism, Tenzin Zopa, Global Citizens, Entertainment News

The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most Westerners to grasp. A new film from Israel is out to change that.

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Meet the U.N. Secretary General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide

Jim Luce | Posted 07.08.2009 | World

Read More: U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, The Man Called Deng Majok, Father Miguel Brockman, U.S. Library of Congress, United Nations General Assembly, Office of the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, United States Institute of Peace, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Nobel Peace Prize, Center for International Studies at MIT, Conflict Resolution Studies, Global Citizens, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Sadako Ogata, Sudan, Ban Ki-Moon, Ngok Dinka, City University of New York, David Hamburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Thought Leaders, Brookings Institution, U.N. Under-Secretary General for Genocide, Francis M. Deng, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Peter Yarrow, General Romeo Dallaire, Arc-Bishop Tutu, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Yale Law School, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Gareth Evans, World News

Sudanese Diplomat Francis Deng believes genocide can be anticipated and even stopped before it begins.

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Shalita O'Neale Pays it Forward

Timothy Cooper | Posted 06.28.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Leadership, Shalita O'Neale, Leaders, Run DMC, Child Abuse, Child Watch, Children, Adopt, No Child Left Behind, Rock, Thought Leaders, Foster Care, Children's Health, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Adoption, Eyes & Ears News

Youth should be sitting around the table with the policy and decision-makers, as no one knows the foster care system better than the youth who've lived in it.

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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

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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Endorsing a Haitian-American Candidate in Brooklyn

Jim Luce | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: West Indian Culture, Toussaint Family, Jimmy Toussaint, Tax Hikes, Charter Schools, Politics, Brooklyn, 45th District, Thought Leaders, New York City Council, Middle Class, Global Citizens, Haiti, New York City, Flatbush, Rick Perry, Politics News

'The word "politician" is derogatory to me. I am running because I want to protect my community from politicians.'

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Sri Lanka Triumphant At Last

Jim Luce | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelamis, Al Qaeda, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Taliban, European Union, Thought Leaders, International Committee Red Cross, Orphans International Worldwide, Global Citizens, Terrorism, Canada, Tsunami, Tsunami Thailand, World News

In spite of the slaughter, of using their own people as human shields, of creating the largest, bloodiest hostage drama of modern times, the Tigers have at long last been defeated.

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Bleecker Street Bar Crawls for Kids in Cambodia and Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 06.18.2009 | Local

Read More: Thunder Jackson’s, Orphans International Tanzania, Scott Knoll, Northeastern University, Thought Leaders, Orphans International Haiti, Facebook, Haiti, Global Citizens, 1849 Bar, Bar Crawl, Elvis Presley, Lindsay Mure-O'Neill, Columbia University, The Cambodia Project, Jean-Michel Tijerina, Cambodia, Bleecker Street Bar, Wicked Willie’s, Orphans International Worldwide, Carleton College, Bleecker Street, Linda Stanley, Africa, Local News

"Everyone can relate to Elvis and we hope to leverage this for great causes like Orphans International Haiti."

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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

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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U.S. Border Policy: How To Fix What's Broken

Jim Luce | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Funding would be better used to investigate and sanction U.S. employers who habitually hire undocumented migrants. This would not only be cheaper, but more humane.

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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

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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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

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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AFS: World Peace Begins in High School

Jim Luce | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: E.E. Cummings, Brian Atwood, French Fellowships, Ernest Hemingway, A. Piatt Andrew, Youth for Understanding, United Nations, Jaroslava Moserova, World Peace, Cady Coleman, Harvard, AFS Intercultural Programs, Facebook, American Hospital in Paris, Global Citizens, Rotary Exchange, CéSar Gaviria, W. Somerset Maugham, Hans Schlegel, Afs, Council on Foreign, Fulbright Scholars, American Field Service, Eduardo RodríGuez Veltzé, World War I, Orphans International Worldwide, American Red Cross, Tadatoshi Akiba, R. Nick Burns, Thought Leaders, Grayson Kirk, World News

I would not be who I am today -- and the organization I founded, Orphans International Worldwide -- would not exist, if it were not for my life-impacting experiences with AFS.

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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

"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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2,870 Mayors for Peace: Does Yours Belong?

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weaponry, Atomic Bomb Dome, Delhi, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, United Nations, Takeshi Araki, Sri Lanka, Boston, World Peace, Thought Leaders, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Denver, Global Citizens, Seattle, Nagasaki, 2020 Vision Campaign, Prague, Mayors for Peace, Tanzania, Tadatoshi Akiba, Aaron Tovish, Philadelphia, Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Santo Domingo, Mathew Luce, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Haiti, Japan, New York, Hiroshima Peace Park., Federation of the American Scientists, Tipping Point, Thousand Origami Cranes, San Francisco, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, Orphans International Worldwide, Senbazru, Lome, Galle, Moshi, Manado, Jacmel, World News

It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.

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