258 research outputs found
Defending Democracy: A Conversation with Liz Cheney
No full textLiz Cheney served as the U.S. representative for Wyoming\u27s at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2023. She chaired the House Republican Conference, the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership, from 2019 to 2021, and served as the Vice Chair of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. She was also a member of the House Armed Services Committee, China Task Force, Natural Resources Committee, and the House Committee on Rules.
Cheney served previously at the State Department as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, and in positions for USAID and the Department of State working in Poland, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine. Cheney practiced law with White and Case and at the International Finance Corporation. A specialist in national security and foreign policy, she is the co-author, along with her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, of Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America.
Cheney received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College, and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School. In 2022, Cheney, along with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, received the the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library\u27s prestigious Profile in Courage Award, with a commendation for her "consistent and courageous voice in defense of democracy.
Lynne V. Cheney: Saving Our Schools
No full textLynn V. Cheney (born August 14, 1941) is an American author, scholar, and former talk-show host. She is married to the 46th vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney, and served as the second lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
As chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1986 to 1993, she published American Memory, a report that warned about the failure of schools to transmit knowledge of the past to upcoming generations. A system of education that fails to nurture memory of the past denies its students a great deal, Mrs. Cheney wrote: the satisfactions of mature thought, an attachment to abiding concerns, a perspective on human existence. Currently, as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, she particularly emphasizes the value of knowing our nation\u27s history. One of the important lessons we can learn is that freedom isn\u27t inevitable, she says. This realization should make the liberty we enjoy all the more important to us, all the more worth defending.
Cheney is author or co-author of eight books, including Kings of the Hill (second edition, 1996, Simon & Schuster), a book about political figures, among them Henry Clay and Sam Rayburn, who played powerful roles in the House of Representatives. She wrote this book with her husband, who was a Congressman from Wyoming from 1979 to 1989. Mrs. Cheney\u27s 1995 book, Telling the Truth (Simon & Schuster), analyzed the effect of postmodernism on study in the humanities
Cigales, Grasshoppers, and Ants
No full textThis is a well bound miniature book (2 7/8 x 2 1/8) with a colophon page at the back. This is apparently Volume 1 of a two volume set. It has a green frontispiece grasshopper illustration. The book is printed in black and green inks. The covers are gilt-stamped green cloth, and the binding is square and tight. The foreword by Glen Dawson reviews the history of Dawson's Book Shop, including the part played by William M. Cheney. It closes with this memorable sentence: Making and selling miniature books is a fun way of making very little money. Then an introduction presents William Cheney, who made forty-seven miniature books. The body of the book is, surprisingly, a letter from Cheney to Dawson on cigales and grasshoppers. A publisher's note tells us that the frontispiece grasshopper is Cheney's drawing for Trois Fables de La Fontaine, also in this collection. This strange little book is complemented by an even stranger companion volume, described by John Howell for Books this way: Volume 2 unpaginated, with a loosely laid in title page which denotes 10 pieces of Miniature Ephemera printed by William M. Cheney and mounted on 10 blank pages in mylar sleeves attached to the pages, additional pages allows the owner to add Cheney ephemera as they add to their collection.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Limited edition of 100 copiesWilliam M. Chene
Cheney, Matthiessen, and Me
No full textEssay about life partners Russell Cheney, the painter, and Harvard professor F. O. Matthiessen. The author, himself a gay man who grew up close to the Kittery home Cheney and Matthiessen shared, reflects on their lives and the relationship they had to hide from much of the world
Postcard to Ralph L. Cheney (April 19, 1918)
No full textA postcard to Ralph L. Cheney, dated April 19th, 1918. The front of the postcard has the address of both men on it. On the back, the author of the postcard, only identified as Henry due to inability to read name, tells Cheney about the arrival of a Springfield man named Wyer, who is taking a special course on war work. He also promises to send prospective students names in response to a letter he received from Professor Berry.Ralph L. Cheney served as the head of Springfield College’s Secretarial Department from 1907 to 1924. Before taking this position, he worked as a YMCA secretary in Albany and Niagara Falls, New York
John Cheney : of Plaistow, New Hampshire, Orange County, Vermont, and Monroe County, N. Y., and his descendants /
No full textIncludes index."Revised in 1959 to include the descendants of Samuel D. Cheney - #319."Mode of access: Internet
Book review: we are data: algorithms and the making of our digital selves by John Cheney-Lippold
No full textIn We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves, John Cheney-Lippold examines how algorithms increasingly interpret and influence our behaviour. With the author concluding with some pragmatic suggestions for challenging the digital status quo, Daniel Zwi welcomes the book for both capably elucidating the problem of algorithimic regulation and forearming us to tackle this issue
Republican National Convention 2000
No full textThe 2000 Republican National Convention highlights with James (Jim) Nicholson, Patricia (Pat) Harrison, John Dennis Hastert, Condoleezza Rice, John McCain, Trent Lott, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush. Topic discussed: nomination of George W. Bush for president and Dick Cheney for vice-president in the 2000 presidential election
The Second Generation: Ednah Dow Cheney Carries Margaret Fuller\u27s Feminist Transcendentalism into the Early Progressive Era
No full textoai:journals.psu.edu:article/59125In the nineteenth century, the Transcendentalist and women\u27s movements combined to alter the discussion on the politics of womanhood, developing creative space for progressive individuals to actively make change in the expansion of human rights. Ednah Dow Cheney, a young widow and single mother in the mid1850s, merged the spirit of Transcendentalism that she inherited from her family and friends and her burgeoning passion for social activism to become a dedicated public servant. An early attendee of the Conversations of Margaret Fuller, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century and a pioneer in the field of feminist Transcendentalism, Cheney borrowed Fuller\u27s radical ideas and translated them into real action. Throughout the second half of the 1850s and into the early twentieth century, Cheney founded the New England School of Design and the New England Women\u27s Club and managed the New England Hospital for Women and Children, the Boston Education Commission of the Freedmen\u27s Aid Society, and lectured for the New England Suffrage Association and the Concord School of Philosophy. More significantly, she continued through the century to become a feminist intellectual in Fuller\u27s vein
Identity theft: do definitions still matter?
No full textDespite a statutory definition of identity theft, there is a continuing debate on whether differences among the financial frauds associated with identity theft warrant further distinction and treatment, not only by lenders and financial institutions but also by consumers and regulatory and law enforcement agencies. In this Discussion Paper, Julia S. Cheney examines four types of financial fraud – fictitious identity fraud, payment card fraud, account takeover fraud, and true name fraud – that fall under the legal term identity theft to better understand how criminal behavior patterns, risks for consumers and lenders, and mitigation strategies vary depending upon the sort of data stolen, the type of account compromised, and the opportunity for financial gain. Three areas key to developing effective solutions that, in the view of the author, would benefit from further definitional delineations are identified: measuring the success (or failure) of efforts to fight this crime, educating consumers about the risks and responses to this crime, and coordinating mitigation strategies across stakeholders and geographies.Identity theft ; Fraud ; Credit cards
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