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• A Brookings Briefing: Redistricting Reform After the Ohio and California Initiatives

  - 2005-11-10

  NEWS ADVISORY: WHEN: Tuesday, November 15, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. WHERE: The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC On Tuesday, November 8, voters in California and Ohio rejected state constitutional amendments that would reform the process for redrawing congressional and legislative districts. Opponents of the...

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• Asking personal questions.(oral history interviewing techniques)

  - 2002-06-22

  You might say I was grandmothered into the Regional Oral History Office at UC Berkeley as an interviewer-editor in 1970. In those days, there were few courses in oral history methods. The idea of a graduate oral history program was just a glimmer on the horizon. It...

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• Berkeley, Calif., Professor to Design Wall of Steel for Skyscrapers.

  - 2001-10-19

  By Curtis L. Esquibel, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 19--BERKELEY, Calif.--UC Berkeley civil engineering professor Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl has built his career on finding ways to protect American skyscrapers during colossal tragedies. Before Sept. 11, car...

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