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Coach Kemper's Q&A's

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  • Bob Hormats' Welcome Return
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, September, 2009
    "Investment bankers are convenient scapegoats for America’s economic woes these days. We’re told that they’re ruthless in their pursuit of profit over people, and care little, if at all, about the consequences of that pursuit. Enter the vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, Dr. Robert D. Hormats."
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  • Finding Common Ground in Competition
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, July, 2009
    "Tiger Woods’s AT&T National Tournament, hosted at the historic Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., is all about excellence in competition. Tiger and his fellow PGA professionals don’t compete so much against each other as they do against a common opponent: the course — in this case, Congressional’s mighty Blue Course. I asked several of the players how that could be the case. How could they all be so sportsmanlike? How could they all respect and admire one another?"
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  • What Message Will this Year's Elections Send?
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, September, 2008
    "Political strategists are both fascinated with and befuddled by this year's election dynamics. There are at least three factors at play, and it's not clear at all how they'll interact..."
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  • Beijing's Design: Smart, Chic, and Green
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, August 24, 2008
    "China called upon the world community of gifted talent to build and design the most magnificent, green, tech-savvy buildings that you've ever seen, all done with Chinese thoughtfulness. There's no way that London will be able to have so many new sports stadiums built by so many renowned architects..."
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  • Hollywood's Love Affair with China
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, August 7, 2008
    "Three decades ago, China was a mystery to Americans. Its society and economy were closed, and we viewed it as an appendage of the biggest and baddest of them all, the Soviet Union. Today, the situation couldn't be more different..."
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  • Vietnam is Hot
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, August 4, 2008
    "There's a buzz about Vietnam, and I'm not talking about 24 million mo-ped engines.  Vietnam is hot, and the word is spreading fast..."
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  • America Cannot Get Complacent in Asia
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, July 29, 2008
    "When we play a role in Asia, people notice and listen. In such a fast-paced world, however, where opportunities are constantly being created and destroyed, we can't expect people to appreciate us if we're not there..."
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  • Woods Says He is Ready for U.S. Open
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, June 5, 2008
    "I had the chance to have talk with Tiger Woods last week in Washington, DC at the Congressional Country Club..."
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  • US Citizens to Vote!
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, July 3, 2007
    "Washingtonians celebrate the Fourth of July with a little bit of sorrow. We love being Americans. Growing up, we all recited the Pledge of Allegiance and studied the country's history... "
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  • The Best Game in Town
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, February 2007
    "One of the crowning achievements of Mayor Tony Williams’ tenure was his success in bringing the nation's pastime back to the nation's capitol... "
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  • Next up: 'Trading Spaces, Congress Edition'
    By Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin, The Examiner, 11/10/2006
    "Who knew that one of the hottest topics in the 2006 midterm elections would be ... drapes? The whole thing started ..."
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  • Producing Well Rounded Kids in a Flat World
    By Coach Kathy Kemper 8/26/2006
    "It’s back-to-school season: time to shop the sales for clothes, shoes, notebooks, and other supplies needed to send our kids on to the next grade. But the changing world makes us contemplate this annual ritual differently..."
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  • President with an activist agenda
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, 12/26/2005
    "...there is one Bush agenda that Americans from all ends of the political spectrum can get behind: Exercise... "
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  • Acing the Summers Debate
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, 6/22/2005
    "Not so long ago, I can remember a national controversy erupting when a prominent male figure suggested that women were inherently inferior to men... "
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  • More to Tony Williams than petition Fiasco
    By Coach Kathy Kemper, 8/28/2002
    "The evidences have pointed to mistakes, not malfeasance, which is far cry from the modus operandi of some of Mayor Anthony Williams’ predecessors... "
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  • Title IX Scores in Board Rooms as Well as Gyms
    By Coach Kathy Kemper
    "In the 25 years since it was enacted into law, Title IX - requiring schools to ensure equal opportunity for male and female athletes - has worked a quiet revolution in American women's and girl's athletics..."
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  • Healthy Kids 101
    By Coach Kathy Kemper
    "We hound them to do their homework. We remind them to behave in class. We pray that they'll stay away from the troublemakers who hang out in the parking lot... "
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"IFE has been ahead of the game for some time now – stressing civility and dialogue at the expense of knee-jerk partisanship. It works. The people who attend IFE events understand that they are absolutely expected to make their points without holding back, but they know that IFE is different – there is good humor, fellowship, and a spirit of collaboration. And IFE attracts the nation's leading officials as speakers, as well as an audience of who's who in Washington. IFE has been and continues to be at the forefront of "changing the way Washington works."

- Tom Friedman, New York TImes

"High powered speakers, stimulating discussion, informative topics all make IFE a great forum for finding out what is really going on in Washington and getting quality time with the worlds top policy makers."

- Secretary Robert Hormats, State Department