CPU Newsletter

March 28, 2006

CPU EVENTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. CPU VIDEO: David Rees, "To Hell in a Handbasket" -- Now Available!

2. The CPU Presents: "A Nuclear Iran? Implications of Iran's Nuclear Development for International Security" (Wednesday, 04/05)

OTHER EVENTS:

3. The Taiwanese American Students Association Presents: "Taiwanese Politics & Current Events" (TODAY, 03/28)

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1. CPU VIDEO: David Rees, "To Hell in a Handbasket" -- Now Available at http://www.cupolitics.org/videos !

Description:

The videorecording of "To Hell in a Handbasket," with DAVID REES, is now available on our website at: http://www.cupolitics.org/videos. We are currently in the process of archiving videos from 2005-2006 on our website, so stay tuned!

David Rees began his online political cartoon "Get Your War On" in October 2001. The profane satire about the war on terrorism now appears in every issue of Rolling Stone. David is also the author of "My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable" and "My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable," which appears in The Guardian(UK).

Rees has donated nearly $100,000 of the sales of "Get Your War On"and "Get Your War On II" to a crew of deminers in western Afghanistan. He has read at numerous festivals and institutions, including the HBO Comedy Festival, 215 Festival in Philadelphia, Texas Book Festival, Blue Metropolis Literary Festival, Harvard University, Princeton University, and Yale University.

His comics have appeared in GQ Magazine, Middle East Report, JANE Magazine, Blender Magazine, Punk Planet Magazine, The New York Observer, Bizarre Magazine, New York Press, and the Chicago Reader.

His cartoons are available online at http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/home.html.

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2. The CPU Presents: "A Nuclear Iran? Implications of Iran's Nuclear Development for International Security"

Date: Wednesday, 04/05
Time: 7:30PM
Location: Satow Room, Alfred Lerner Hall

Featuring:

ALI MIRSEPASSI, Interim Dean of the Gallatin School at NYU and Professor of Middle Eastern Studies

LIONEL BEEHNER, Journalist and Affiliate of the Council on Foreign Relations

PATRICK CLAWSON, Deputy Director for Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Stay tuned for more information!

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OTHER EVENTS:

3. The Taiwanese American Students Association Presents: "Taiwanese Politics & Current Events"

Date: TODAY, 03/28
Time: 5:00PM
Location: Lerner E569

Description:

Professor Andrew Nathan will talk about current relationships between China-Taiwan and the US and what the future holds for Taiwanese
independence.

Andrew J. Nathan is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of political participation and political culture, and human rights. Nathan was chair of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch, Asia, 1995-2000, and continues to serve on this committee and on the board of Human Rights in China. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the Association for Asian Studies, and the American Political Science Association.

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