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Beyond Morality
A New Fight Against Poverty
by Susan Rice

Despite the misery and suffering of billions of people worldwide, very few of today’s political leaders have evinced much interest in the subject of global poverty. This is a departure from America’s past, when in the 1960s, leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., and President John F. Kennedy called upon our nation to rise up and wage a war on poverty and build a Great Society.
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A Review of Torture
A FRANK Interview with John Yoo.
John Yoo is a law professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. A key contributor to the USA Patriot Act, Yoo previously worked in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, assisting the Attorney General in his function as legal advisor to the U.S. president and all the executive branch agencies from 2001 to 2003. Read more

PROFILES IN PUBLIC SERVICE

PROFILE: Spirit Trickey
Clinton School of Public Service Student
Spirit Trickey was an eighth grader growing up in Ontario, Canada, when she first learned about her mother’s story. Until then, Minnijean Brown Trickey hadn’t told her daughter the tale of her historic childhood in Little Rock, Ark., where she and eight other black students braved an angry mob to integrate all-white Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957. Read more

PUBLIC SERVICE IN REVIEW

Public Service In Review:
Engaged in Service
It is not just happenstance that President Barack Obama has asked Americans to stand together to meet the challenges we face. The president’s call to service is rooted not in an emphasis on our individual abilities, but rather in the powerful change that can be generated out of our relationships with one another. Read more

WEB EXCLUSIVES

A Houston Rocket Mini Documentary
The role of sports in public service.


A Frank Interview
with Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour

Frank: What values do you see inherent in public service that are also applicable to journalism?

Amanpour: Public service means different things to different people, depending on your profession. To me, journalism is de facto a public service: particularly, the fact-based reporting that involves traveling to the scene and being the eyes and ears for your audience, who otherwise couldn't be there. Read more



MIX-IT-UP

Public Service Goes Global
Interview with YAO MING
Yao Ming is a professional basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets of the NBA. After an 8.0 earthquake struck Sichuan, China, in May 2008, Ming founded the Yao Ming Foundation to assist in the recovery efforts. Read more

VOICE

Branching Out: A Creative Guide to Public Service
by John Lithgow
The lessons I’ve learned basically boil down to four succinct phrases: be CREATIVE, be USEFUL, be PRACTICAL and be GENEROUS. And now for the adventures. Read more

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