GW IN THE NEWS Week of January 14 - 18, 2002   ·             Elliott School’s Ambassador Karl Inderfurth, Raymond and Juliet Bland Professorial Lecturer, was interviewed on CNN and NPR’s "All Things Considered" about Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden.  ·             Jonathan Turley, professor of law, was quoted in The Atlanta Journal and Constitution about whether John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," should be charged with treason.  ·             Lynda M. Maddox, professor of marketing and advertising, and her MBA marketing class were featured in The Washington Post as an innovative way to apply classroom knowledge in a real-life advertising scenario.  ·             David Powers, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was interviewed on WTTG-TV's (Channel 5) segment "High-Tech Healthcare" about methods of diagnosing abnormal cervical tissue and treatments for early invasive cervical cancer.  ·             Lawrence Mitchell, professor of law, was interviewed by CNBC, PBS' "Nightly Business Report," Nikkei News (Japan), Associated Press Television, Reuters Television, and Radio Free Europe about the fall of Enron.  Mitchell also had an op-ed published in The Chronicle of Higher Education highlighting American corporations.  ·             Elliott School's Gordon Adams, director of the Security Policy Studies Program, was interviewed by James Dao of The New York Times for an article titled “Pentagon Seeking a Large Increase in Its Next Budget.”  ·             John Bazhaf, professor of law, was interviewed on NBC's "Dateline" on a hidden camera investigation on repairmen with gender and racial bias.  Banzhaf was also quoted in The Baltimore Sun about the latest details in Maryland's tobacco suit.  ·             Elliott School's Ronald Spector, professor of history and international affairs, was quoted by The Washington Post about al Qaeda and the United States' military objectives in the war on terrorism.  Spector’s book “At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the 20th Century” was listed in a recent Washington Post Book Raves column as “monumental,” and unique in its scope.  ·             Stephen Saltzburg, professor of law, discussed the arrival of al Qaeda prisoners in Cuba with The San Francisco Chronicle and The Los Angeles Times.  ·             Elliott School’s Ambassador David Shinn was interviewed by Brit Hume for "Fox News Hour" on the topic of Somalia and terrorism.  ·             Bill Halal, professor of management science, was interviewed by PBS's "Nightly Business Report" for a "Then and Now" series on the top technological innovations in the past 25 years.  ·             John C. Brunson, Jr., director of interventional neuroradiology, was interviewed on WTTG-TV's (Channel 5) segment "High-Tech Healthcare" about using a state-of-the-art X-ray camera that provides a 3D image of the spine.  ·             Nancy Gaba, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was interviewed by Reuters TV about a "New England Journal of Medicine" article on the link between oral contraceptives and myocardial infraction (heart attack).  ·             Robert Shesser, professor of emergency medicine, was interviewed by Cox TV on the topic of choking.  ·             James Starrs, professor of law, was quoted by The Christian Science Monitor about fingerprint evidence in the courtroom.   ·             Mary Cheh, professor of law, was quoted in The Dallas Morning News about the charges against John Walker Lindh.   ·             William Bratton, professor of law, was interviewed on CNBC about the fall of Enron.  ·             Arnold Reitze, professor of law, was quoted in The Kentucky Courrier Journal about the Clean Air Act.  ·             Cheryl Block, professor of law, was interviewed on WJLA-TV (Channel 7) about tax law and Enron.   -GW-     ©2002 The George Washington University Office of University Relations, Washington, D.C. Contact gwnews@gwu.edu with questions and comments.