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	In the News November 25, 2019 Shola Lawal and others win big at TFAA 2019 Olamide AyeniPulse.ng CIS Neuffer fellow, Shola Lawal, won The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) Prize For Journalism. For thirteen years, The Future Awards Africa has been a catalyst towards building a new tribe of citizens who are bound by their potentials, relentless, hard work and united by their soaring achievements.
	In the News November 23, 2019 BOOK REVIEW \| ‘Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community’ by Richard J Samuels June Teufel DreyerJapan Forward Author Richard J Samuels, director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has combined his impressive knowledge of Japanese history with a deep understanding of intelligence operations to produce this critical yet sympathetic treatment of Japan’s intelligence community.
	In the News November 20, 2019 SMA debate: Why shouldn’t South Korea pay more for its defense? Doug BandowThe National Interest Vipin Narang quoted: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Vipin Narang tweeted: “Nothing says I love you like a shakedown.”
	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.”