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Monday: Tilda Swinton Monday, February 6
Tilda Swinton was born in London and performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre before launching her film career, with roles in arthouse films like "Caravaggio" (1986) and "War Requiem" (1989). In 1992 she starred in Sally Potter's adaptation of Victoria Woolf's novel "Orlando," which brought Swinton's interest in gender and androgynous style to a wider audience. She went on to develop performance art pieces for galleries in London and Rome, and has collaborated with avant-garde Dutch fashion house Victor & Rolf. In the 2000s Swinton gained more mainstream exposure with roles in major Hollywood films like "Vanilla Sky" (2001), "Constantine" (2005), "The Chronicles of Narnia" (2005) and "The Deep End," for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Her supporting role in 2007's "Michael Clayton" earned an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award; she was nominated for another BAFTA for her work in the
Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" (2008). In 2011 she starred in Lynn Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin," which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Swinton's performance was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe Award.
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Week of January 30th
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Monday
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Kathleen Sebelius
U.S. Secretary of Health & Human ServicesKathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius became the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services in 2009 after nomination by President Barack Obama. A native of Cincinnati, Sebelius graduated from Trinity Washington University and the University of Kansas, then spent the late 1970s and early 1980s as executive director and chief lobbyist of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association. In 1986 she set her sights on elected office, winning a seat as a representative in the Kansas legislature. In 1994 she waged a successful campaign for Kansas' Insurance Commissioner, a position that had not been held by a Democrat in over a decade. She became the state's first female governor in 2002 and was re-elected in 2006. Her father, John J. Gilligan, was governor of Ohio from 1971 to 1975, making the pair the only father and daughter to serve as U.S. governors. Sebelius and her husband, federal magistrate judge K. Gary Sebelius, have two sons.
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January 23, 2012
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July 15, 2009
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Tuesday
24
Elizabeth Warren
Bankruptcy Expert, Harvard Law ProfessorElizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren is the former Special Advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and served as Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel in the wake of the 2008-11 financial crisis. In September 2011 she declared her candidacy for Massachusetts' junior Senate seat, running against incumbent Republican Scott Brown. Warren, an attorney, received her law degree from the Rutgers School of Law-Newark and has taught at several law schools, including the University of Michigan, the University of Texas School of Law and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1995 she was named the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard, where she has taught contract law, bankruptcy and commercial law. Warren is the author of eight books dealing with economic issues, including credit, bankruptcy and debt. She was the first academic member of the Federal Judicial Education Committee and advised the National Bankruptcy Review Commission on its work in the 1990s, drafting reports and opposing legislation that aimed to limit consumers' ability to file for bankruptcy; she went on to become a member of the FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, a position she held from 2006 to 2010. In 2009 and 2010 Warren was been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine. She has also been named one of the National Law Journal's 50 Most Influential Women Attorneys in America.
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January 24, 2012
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April 26, 2011
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January 26, 2010
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April 15, 2009
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Wednesday
25
Paula Broadwell
Author, JournalistPaula Broadwell
Paula Broadwell is a journalist, author and former U.S. Army officer with more than fifteen years of military service. She has worked with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, the U.S. Special Operations Command and other members of the U.S intelligence community, focusing on geopolitical analysis, counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations. An honors graduate of West Point, Broadwell has written for the Washington Post/Foreign Policy "Best Defense" blog, The New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor and the International Herald Tribune; she is also a PhD candidate in the War Studies Department of the University of London's King College and a research associate at Harvard University's Center for Public Leadership. She spent most of 2011 as an embed in Afghanistan, researching her book "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus" (co-written with Vernon Loeb). Broadwell and her husband Scott live in Charlotte, North Carolina with their two sons.
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Tilda Swinton
ActorTilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton was born in London and performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre before launching her film career, with roles in arthouse films like "Caravaggio" (1986) and "War Requiem" (1989). In 1992 she starred in Sally Potter's adaptation of Victoria Woolf's novel "Orlando," which brought Swinton's interest in gender and androgynous style to a wider audience. She went on to develop performance art pieces for galleries in London and Rome, and has collaborated with avant-garde Dutch fashion house Victor & Rolf. In the 2000s Swinton gained more mainstream exposure with roles in major Hollywood films like "Vanilla Sky" (2001), "Constantine" (2005), "The Chronicles of Narnia" (2005) and "The Deep End," for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Her supporting role in 2007's "Michael Clayton" earned an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award; she was nominated for another BAFTA for her work in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" (2008). In 2011 she starred in Lynn Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin," which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Swinton's performance was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe Award.
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January 26, 2012
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Monday
30
Lou Dobbs
Host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight"Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs hosts "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on the FOX Business Network and is a columnist for Money magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Dobbs started at CNN in 1980, the year the network was founded, serving as its chief economics correspondent and the host of Moneyline. He has been named "TV's Premier Business News Anchorman" by the Wall Street Journal, and is the recipient of several broadcasting awards, including a Cable Ace, a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award and a Peabody Award, which recognized his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash. Dobbs is the author of three books: "Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas" (2004), "War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business and Special Interest Groups are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back" (2006) and "Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit" (2007). He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Debi Lee Segura, a former CNN sports anchor.
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January 30, 2012
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November 18, 2009
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January 10, 2008
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Tuesday
31
Jonathan Macey
Corporate Law, Corporate Finance & Securities Law Professor at YaleJonathan Macey
Jonathan Macey is the Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale University and a professor at the Yale School of Management. He has written extensively on the subjects of financial regulation and corporate governance, publishing scholarly articles and contributing to POLITICO and the Wall Street Journal. Macey received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was article and book review editor of the Yale Law Journal. After clerking for Judge Henry Friendly on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals he taught law at the University of Chicago and Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Business. He has co-authored two casebooks and wrote a two-volume work on corporate law, "Macey on Corporation Laws."
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January 31, 2012
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Wednesday
01
Brad Pitt
Actor, Philanthropist, ProducerBrad Pitt
Brad Pitt is an award-winning actor who has made over a dozen films, including "Moneyball" (2011), for which he received a Best Actor Academy Award nomination. His other films include "Thelma and Louise" (1991), "Legends of the Fall" (1994), "12 Monkeys" (1995), "Fight Club" (1999), the "Ocean's Eleven" series, "Babel" (2006), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008) and "Inglourious Basterds" (2009). In 2006 Pitt was involved with the creation of two charitable organizations: The Make It Right Foundation, created in response to Hurricane Katrina, organizes the financing and construction of new homes in New Orleans; the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which he co-founded with partner Angelina Jolie, aids global humanitarian causes. Pitt is also a co-founder (with Matt Damon, George Clooney, Don Cheadle and Jerry Weintraub) of Not On Our Watch, which works around the world to stop and prevent genocides.
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February 1, 2012
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Thursday
02
David Agus
Doctor, AuthorDavid Agus
A physician and writer, David Agus is a co-founder of Navigenics, a personal genetic testing company; high-tech medical research firm Applied Proteomics; and oncology.com, a leading online cancer resource. He previously served as Research Director of the Prostate Cancer Center, Director of the Spielberg Family Center for Applied Proteomics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cornell University and UCLA. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, Agus completed his residency at Johns Hopkins University and his oncology training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. His research studies focused on the application of proteomics and genomics in the study of cancer, culminating in the publication of his first book, "The End of Illness" (2012). Agus serves as the director of the USC Center for Applied Molecular Medicine and the USC Westside Prostate Cancer Center and is a Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. His awards in cancer research include an American Cancer Society Physician Research Award, a Clinical Scholar Award from the Sloan-Kettering Institute and an International Myeloma Foundation Visionary Science Award. Agus is married to actress Amy Joyce Povich and has two children, Sydney and Miles.
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Tilda Swinton (repeat)
ActorTilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton was born in London and performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre before launching her film career, with roles in arthouse films like "Caravaggio" (1986) and "War Requiem" (1989). In 1992 she starred in Sally Potter's adaptation of Victoria Woolf's novel "Orlando," which brought Swinton's interest in gender and androgynous style to a wider audience. She went on to develop performance art pieces for galleries in London and Rome, and has collaborated with avant-garde Dutch fashion house Victor & Rolf. In the 2000s Swinton gained more mainstream exposure with roles in major Hollywood films like "Vanilla Sky" (2001), "Constantine" (2005), "The Chronicles of Narnia" (2005) and "The Deep End," for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Her supporting role in 2007's "Michael Clayton" earned an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award; she was nominated for another BAFTA for her work in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" (2008). In 2011 she starred in Lynn Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin," which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Swinton's performance was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe Award.
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January 26, 2012
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Tuesday
07
Lou Dobbs (repeat)
Host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight"Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs hosts "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on the FOX Business Network and is a columnist for Money magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Dobbs started at CNN in 1980, the year the network was founded, serving as its chief economics correspondent and the host of Moneyline. He has been named "TV's Premier Business News Anchorman" by the Wall Street Journal, and is the recipient of several broadcasting awards, including a Cable Ace, a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award and a Peabody Award, which recognized his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash. Dobbs is the author of three books: "Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas" (2004), "War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business and Special Interest Groups are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back" (2006) and "Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit" (2007). He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Debi Lee Segura, a former CNN sports anchor.
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January 30, 2012
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November 18, 2009
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January 10, 2008
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Wednesday
08
Jonathan Macey (repeat)
Corporate Law, Corporate Finance & Securities Law Professor at YaleJonathan Macey
Jonathan Macey is the Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale University and a professor at the Yale School of Management. He has written extensively on the subjects of financial regulation and corporate governance, publishing scholarly articles and contributing to POLITICO and the Wall Street Journal. Macey received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was article and book review editor of the Yale Law Journal. After clerking for Judge Henry Friendly on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals he taught law at the University of Chicago and Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Business. He has co-authored two casebooks and wrote a two-volume work on corporate law, "Macey on Corporation Laws."
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January 31, 2012
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Thursday
09
Brad Pitt (repeat)
Actor, Philanthropist, ProducerBrad Pitt
Brad Pitt is an award-winning actor who has made over a dozen films, including "Moneyball" (2011), for which he received a Best Actor Academy Award nomination. His other films include "Thelma and Louise" (1991), "Legends of the Fall" (1994), "12 Monkeys" (1995), "Fight Club" (1999), the "Ocean's Eleven" series, "Babel" (2006), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008) and "Inglourious Basterds" (2009). In 2006 Pitt was involved with the creation of two charitable organizations: The Make It Right Foundation, created in response to Hurricane Katrina, organizes the financing and construction of new homes in New Orleans; the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which he co-founded with partner Angelina Jolie, aids global humanitarian causes. Pitt is also a co-founder (with Matt Damon, George Clooney, Don Cheadle and Jerry Weintraub) of Not On Our Watch, which works around the world to stop and prevent genocides.
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February 1, 2012
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Brad Pitt
Actor, Philanthropist, ProducerBrad Pitt
Brad Pitt is an award-winning actor who has made over a dozen films, including "Moneyball" (2011), for which he received a Best Actor Academy Award nomination. His other films include "Thelma and Louise" (1991), "Legends of the Fall" (1994), "12 Monkeys" (1995), "Fight Club" (1999), the "Ocean's Eleven" series, "Babel" (2006), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008) and "Inglourious Basterds" (2009). In 2006 Pitt was involved with the creation of two charitable organizations: The Make It Right Foundation, created in response to Hurricane Katrina, organizes the financing and construction of new homes in New Orleans; the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which he co-founded with partner Angelina Jolie, aids global humanitarian causes. Pitt is also a co-founder (with Matt Damon, George Clooney, Don Cheadle and Jerry Weintraub) of Not On Our Watch, which works around the world to stop and prevent genocides.
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February 1, 2012
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Jonathan Macey
Corporate Law, Corporate Finance & Securities Law Professor at YaleJonathan Macey
Jonathan Macey is the Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale University and a professor at the Yale School of Management. He has written extensively on the subjects of financial regulation and corporate governance, publishing scholarly articles and contributing to POLITICO and the Wall Street Journal. Macey received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was article and book review editor of the Yale Law Journal. After clerking for Judge Henry Friendly on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals he taught law at the University of Chicago and Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Business. He has co-authored two casebooks and wrote a two-volume work on corporate law, "Macey on Corporation Laws."
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January 31, 2012
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Lou Dobbs
Host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight"Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs hosts "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on the FOX Business Network and is a columnist for Money magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Dobbs started at CNN in 1980, the year the network was founded, serving as its chief economics correspondent and the host of Moneyline. He has been named "TV's Premier Business News Anchorman" by the Wall Street Journal, and is the recipient of several broadcasting awards, including a Cable Ace, a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award and a Peabody Award, which recognized his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash. Dobbs is the author of three books: "Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas" (2004), "War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business and Special Interest Groups are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back" (2006) and "Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit" (2007). He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Debi Lee Segura, a former CNN sports anchor.
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January 30, 2012
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November 18, 2009
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January 10, 2008
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Tilda Swinton
ActorTilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton was born in London and performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre before launching her film career, with roles in arthouse films like "Caravaggio" (1986) and "War Requiem" (1989). In 1992 she starred in Sally Potter's adaptation of Victoria Woolf's novel "Orlando," which brought Swinton's interest in gender and androgynous style to a wider audience. She went on to develop performance art pieces for galleries in London and Rome, and has collaborated with avant-garde Dutch fashion house Victor & Rolf. In the 2000s Swinton gained more mainstream exposure with roles in major Hollywood films like "Vanilla Sky" (2001), "Constantine" (2005), "The Chronicles of Narnia" (2005) and "The Deep End," for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Her supporting role in 2007's "Michael Clayton" earned an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award; she was nominated for another BAFTA for her work in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" (2008). In 2011 she starred in Lynn Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin," which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Swinton's performance was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe Award.
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January 26, 2012
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David Agus
Doctor, AuthorDavid Agus
A physician and writer, David Agus is a co-founder of Navigenics, a personal genetic testing company; high-tech medical research firm Applied Proteomics; and oncology.com, a leading online cancer resource. He previously served as Research Director of the Prostate Cancer Center, Director of the Spielberg Family Center for Applied Proteomics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cornell University and UCLA. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, Agus completed his residency at Johns Hopkins University and his oncology training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. His research studies focused on the application of proteomics and genomics in the study of cancer, culminating in the publication of his first book, "The End of Illness" (2012). Agus serves as the director of the USC Center for Applied Molecular Medicine and the USC Westside Prostate Cancer Center and is a Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. His awards in cancer research include an American Cancer Society Physician Research Award, a Clinical Scholar Award from the Sloan-Kettering Institute and an International Myeloma Foundation Visionary Science Award. Agus is married to actress Amy Joyce Povich and has two children, Sydney and Miles.
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Paula Broadwell
Author, JournalistPaula Broadwell
Paula Broadwell is a journalist, author and former U.S. Army officer with more than fifteen years of military service. She has worked with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, the U.S. Special Operations Command and other members of the U.S intelligence community, focusing on geopolitical analysis, counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations. An honors graduate of West Point, Broadwell has written for the Washington Post/Foreign Policy "Best Defense" blog, The New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor and the International Herald Tribune; she is also a PhD candidate in the War Studies Department of the University of London's King College and a research associate at Harvard University's Center for Public Leadership. She spent most of 2011 as an embed in Afghanistan, researching her book "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus" (co-written with Vernon Loeb). Broadwell and her husband Scott live in Charlotte, North Carolina with their two sons.
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Elizabeth Warren
Bankruptcy Expert, Harvard Law ProfessorElizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren is the former Special Advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and served as Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel in the wake of the 2008-11 financial crisis. In September 2011 she declared her candidacy for Massachusetts' junior Senate seat, running against incumbent Republican Scott Brown. Warren, an attorney, received her law degree from the Rutgers School of Law-Newark and has taught at several law schools, including the University of Michigan, the University of Texas School of Law and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1995 she was named the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard, where she has taught contract law, bankruptcy and commercial law. Warren is the author of eight books dealing with economic issues, including credit, bankruptcy and debt. She was the first academic member of the Federal Judicial Education Committee and advised the National Bankruptcy Review Commission on its work in the 1990s, drafting reports and opposing legislation that aimed to limit consumers' ability to file for bankruptcy; she went on to become a member of the FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, a position she held from 2006 to 2010. In 2009 and 2010 Warren was been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine. She has also been named one of the National Law Journal's 50 Most Influential Women Attorneys in America.
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January 24, 2012
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April 26, 2011
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January 26, 2010
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April 15, 2009
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Kathleen Sebelius
U.S. Secretary of Health & Human ServicesKathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius became the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services in 2009 after nomination by President Barack Obama. A native of Cincinnati, Sebelius graduated from Trinity Washington University and the University of Kansas, then spent the late 1970s and early 1980s as executive director and chief lobbyist of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association. In 1986 she set her sights on elected office, winning a seat as a representative in the Kansas legislature. In 1994 she waged a successful campaign for Kansas' Insurance Commissioner, a position that had not been held by a Democrat in over a decade. She became the state's first female governor in 2002 and was re-elected in 2006. Her father, John J. Gilligan, was governor of Ohio from 1971 to 1975, making the pair the only father and daughter to serve as U.S. governors. Sebelius and her husband, federal magistrate judge K. Gary Sebelius, have two sons.
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January 23, 2012
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July 15, 2009
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Elizabeth Banks
ActorElizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Banks graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received her MFA from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She made her film debut with "Surrender Dorothy" (1998), then joined the gang at Camp Firewood in "Wet Hot American Summer" (2001). Banks went on to appear in several big-budget films, including "Spider-Man" (2002), "Catch Me If You Can" (2002), "Seabiscuit" (2003) and "Spider-Man 2" (2004). She broke out with her role as bookstore clerk Beth in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (2005), and the following year began a series of guest appearances on the hit television show "Scrubs." In 2008 Banks starred in Kevin Smith's "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" and portrayed First Lady Laura Bush in Oliver Stone's "W." In 2010 she was cast as Jack Donaghy's love interest, Avery Jessup, on "30 Rock" in 2010, a role for which she received an Emmy Award nomination. Her film career continued with "Our Idiot Brother" (2011), "Man on Ledge" (2012) and "The Hunger Games" (2012). Banks, who has directed shorts for Funny or Die and the Go Red Campaign for Women to Fight Heart Disease, lives with her husband, sportswriter Max Handelman, and their son Felix.
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Joe Nocera
JournalistJoe Nocera
Joseph Nocera has been a columnist for the New York Times since 2005. He is also a business commentator for NPR's "Weekend Edition with Scott Simon." Prior to joining the New York Times, Nocera worked at Fortune magazine, and was a columnist for GQ and Esquire. He won three Gerald Loeb awards, three Hancock awards and was a 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. Nocera is the author of the books "A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class," and with Bethany McLean, "All the Devils Are Here," about the 2008 financial crisis.
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January 18, 2012
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November 16, 2010
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March 4, 2009
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Liam Neeson
ActorLiam Neeson
Liam Neeson was born in Northern Ireland. He studied computer science and physics in Belfast, where he subsequently began his acting career with the Lyric Players' Theatre. He made his film debut in 1977, playing Jesus in Ken Anderson's "Pilgrim's Progress." He went on to roles in "Excalibur" (1980), "The Bounty" (1984) and "The Mission" (1986) before starring as Oskar Schindler in "Schindler's List" (1993), a role for which he received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. In 1996 he was nominated for another Golden Globe, for his titular role in "Michael Collins." He received his third Golden Globe nomination in 2004 after playing famed sexuality researcher Alfred Kinsey in Bill Condon's biopic "Kinsey." In the 2000s Neeson's films included everything from romantic comedy to blockbuster action, with roles in "Love Actually" (2003), "Batman Begins" (2005), "Taken" (2008), "Clash of the Titans" (2010) and "The A-Team" (2010), directed by Joe Carnahan and produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott. In 2012 Neeson re-teamed with Carnahan, Scott and Scott for the action thriller "The Grey." A resident of Millbrook, New York, Neeson became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2011.
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January 17, 2012
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January 22, 2009
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Jodi Kantor
Author, NY Times CorrespondentJodi Kantor
Jodi Kantor is a New York Times correspondent who has written extensively about political players, including Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Eric Cantor, John McCain, Mitt Romney and, most recently, President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. Since 2007 she has covered the Obamas' time in the White House, culminating in the publication of her new book, "The Obamas." She graduated from Columbia University and was enrolled at Harvard Law School before leaving to become associate editor of Slate in 1998. She joined The New York Times in 2003 as Arts and Leisure editor, one of the youngest people ever to edit a section of the newspaper. As a political correspondent she covered the 2008 presidential campaign and co-wrote the story of Michelle Obama's slave roots, which ran as a feature in the Times. A recipient of the Columbia Young Alumni Achievement Award, Kantor was named to Crain's "40 Under Forty" list of New Yorkers in 2004. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Times columnist Ron Lieber, and their daughter.
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January 16, 2012
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