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	In the News November 19, 2019 Greater Boston: Vindman testifies about Trump's Zelensky call and Volker revises his testimony WGBH Greater Boston Carol Saivetz, senior advisor at MIT’s Security Studies Program, joins Jim Braude on Greater Boston to discuss the latest developments with the impeachment hearings and recent testimony from top Ukraine expert Lt Col Alexander Vindman, Vice President Pence adviser Jennifer Williams, National Security Council official Tim Morrison, and former special Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker.
	In the News November 19, 2019 Lamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future MIT News Serenella Sferza, MIT-Italy Program co-director, praises the MIT-Italy-Lamborghini partnership as a perfect example of how MISTI opens avenues for research and innovation that include meaningful student experiences.
	In the News November 19, 2019 Impeachment spotlights vulnerability of acting federal watchdogs Michaela RossBloomberg Government Joel Brenner quoted: “We now have an administration that’s deeply hostile to the civil service in general and to anybody who can second guess anything that they might do, lawful or unlawful,” Brenner said. “So these are important positions, especially important to fill now.”
	In the News November 18, 2019 Trump and South Korea: ‘Nothing says I love you like a shakedown’ Steve BenenMSNBC Vipin Narang, an associate professor at MIT who follows the Korean peninsula, summarizing South Korean uncertainty about the US, was quoted saying, “Nothing says I love you like a shakedown.”
	News@E40 November 18, 2019 Jeanne Guillemin, sociologist of science and national security The Center announces today that its longtime colleague Jeanne Guillemin Meselson passed away peacefully at her Cambridge home on November 15. In her memory, the family has requested gifts to be directed to the Jeanne E Guillemin Fund. The fund was created by Dr Guillemin for women scholars at MIT just several months ago.
	In the News November 18, 2019 Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again Laura CarterMIT School of Science For Mgcini "Keith" Phuthi ’19, spending a summer in Africa through MISTI's MIT Africa Program was more than a trip back to his home continent after graduation. It was an opportunity to directly impact national policy regarding education in the country of Sierra Leone.
	In the News November 17, 2019 Washington and Seoul postpone military drills in bid to boost stalled diplomacy with Pyongyang Jesse JohnsonThe Japan Times Vipin Narang quoted: “Kim may see this as weakness, a Trump desperate to get a deal,” he said. “That may lead him to harden his position or miscalculate, on the belief that Trump wants and needs the perception of a ‘win’ more than Kim does. So even if this increases the odds of a working-level meeting, it may decrease the odds of an actual deal.”
	In the News November 15, 2019 Heginbotham speaks about war games at inaugural Applied IR Speaker Series Matthew McGovernThe Tufts Daily Research scientist and specialist in Asian security issues Eric Heginbotham spoke at the Cheryl Chase Center in the first installment of the international relations (IR) department’s Applied IR Speaker Series. His talk was focused around wargaming and war simulation, which have developed into integral tools in modern warfare.
	In the News November 12, 2019 Abe's mission unaccomplished: pushing to revise Japan's pacifist charter Linda SiegReuters “There is not much left of the post-war constraints. It was under his (Abe’s) administration where the fastest progress was achieved to get more distance from Article 9,” said Richard Samuels, who is heavily quoted in this article.
	In the News November 12, 2019 Saudi Arabia listed feminism, atheism, and homosexuality as forms of extremism. Then they (sort of) took it back. Miriam Berger The Washington Post Hala Aldosari quoted: “It’s trying to reshape the regulations and laws inside Saudi Arabia in a way to control public movements,” she said. “The whole idea is trying to control the narrative, making sure that feminism is owned by the state or the agenda-setting power is in the hands of the leadership rather than the women’s activists."