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Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and an expert on political rhetoric, spoke about the media's handling of race in the 2008 presidential campaign in an appearance last night (May 7) on The NewsHour. "If you look at...
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In an April 2008 review, Education World, Inc., a company devoted to helping make the Internet easier for teachers to incorporate into classroom learning, rated the Student Voices Web site "A+", the highest such honor given by the organization....
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Our new building will be a tremendous asset to the Penn campus and to the work we do at APPC. For those of you who have been tracking the building’s progress via our regular updates and photo galleries, the following video be another opportunity to see...
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Photo by Patrick Jamieson From Walnut Street and the 36th Street Walkway, the steel framework of the new Annenberg Public Policy Center building is visible behind Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall....
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Photo by John Vettese With erection of the main building steel nearly complete, it’s almost time to say goodbye to the big crane – and with it the ironworkers. But not before a few final touches. Next crew to arrive will be the concrete workers. Still...
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In the above photo, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and actress Amy Poehler share a laugh on last Saturday’s episode of SNL. So, what’s in the box? Among the books featured on the shelves to Senator Clinton’s right are the Annenberg Institutions of American...
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Photo by Bob Jamieson With extraordinary nimbleness, ironworkers have swarmed over the rising skeleton of the new Annenberg Public Policy Center, guiding massive beams into place and installing the decking that will become the building’s floors. Despite...
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There will be some special-interest spectators in the audience tonight as PennDOT displays its plans for repairs to the bridge over Interstate 79 in North Strabane Township: Students from Canon McMillan High School, whose classmates successfully lobbied...
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Photo by Bob Jamieson Ironworkers are wasting no time in assembling the skeleton of the new Annenberg Public Policy Center building. The steel beams are rising quickly above the concrete foundation and the silhouette of the building is now taking shape...
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The belief among many U.S. youth that they will die before age 30 and the consequences of such "unrealistic fatalism" was discussed today by Dr. Dan Gottlieb during "Morning Edition" on WHYY. Gottlieb, host of "Voices in the Family" on WHYY, cited the...
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In the aftermath of Super Tuesday and the shake-up in the Republican contest, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, will join Bill Moyers again tonight to talk about the 2008 presidential campaign. Jamieson, a regular...
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Annenberg Public Policy Center Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson makes a return visit to Bill Moyers Journal tonight on PBS to discuss the busy week in the 2008 presidential campaign. Viewers of the program also have been invited to submit questions for...
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Kyle Cassidy The footprint of the Annenberg Public Policy Center on the Penn campus has now become evident. Viewed from the roof of the adjacent Annenberg School for Communication building, looking east, the new policy center has started to rise from...
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FactCheck.org yesterday recorded its best day so far in terms of unique visits -- 82,000 -- a figure undoubtedly driven by the Florida primary, the State of the Union address and a tightening of the Democratic and Republican primary contests. Traffic...
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The University of Pennsylvania's Daily Pennsylvanian today profiles the Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org. In the interview, FactCheck's Brooks Jackson says the candidates are just getting warmed up in terms of misleading statements. "What...
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A prize-winning Student Voices project has caught the ear of two Pennsylvania lawmakers who now are pushing for hearings on a proposal to let 17-year-olds vote in the state's primary elections if they will be 18 (and eligible to vote) before the November...
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FactCheck.org, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s popular and oft-quoted political truth squad, launched a new video report today, hosted by FactCheck reporter Emi Kolawole. New reports will be posted each Friday morning. Find out more on the Annenberg...
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Photo by Kyle Cassidy It takes brawn and brains (and a little ingenuity) to construct a $41.5-million building in the midst of Penn's urban campus. Need to move this truck? No problem. * See the photo gallery...
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Photo by Patrick Jamieson With a wave, an iron worker signals completion of another phase: the final structural steel beam going into the shear walls of the loading deck. This steel will be filled with a rebar grid and imbedded in concrete for strength...
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Photos by Robert Jamieson Excavation for the new APPC building has been completed and the final pier poured to support the original footings of the existing Annenberg School for Communication on the west side of the construction site. Work on the outer...
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Photos by Robert Jamieson The unusually dry autumn may have wreaked havoc on gardens and lawns in the region, but it has been a boon for construction crews at the Annenberg Public Policy Center building site. On November 1, the first two panels of concrete...
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Photos by Robert Jamieson By September 20th, the footprint of the new Annenberg Public Policy Center was obvious to anyone traversing the 36th Street walk on the Penn campus. The $41.5-million structure will be located adjacent to the AnnenbergSchool...
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Photo by Allan Hurt, Hunter Roberts Construction Group By the end of the day Wednesday (July 31, 2007), the former Hillel House at 202 S. 36th Street had been largely leveled to make way for the new Annenberg Public Policy Center building on the University...
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By early next year, the steel beams framing the new Annenberg Public Policy Center building will begin to rise along the 36th Street walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Occupancy of the building, designed by noted Tokyo architect Fumihiko Maki,...
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