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African embassy. >> my father names cantor was one of the accused at the trial. and my mother was pregnant with me at the time. and my father passed a note down the dock to madiba to say as an adjunct of the more dubious roles youve held it would be a great honor if you could be our babys godfather. he passed the note back saying the honor would be all mine and then they dare not hang me. so it was quite an extraordinary thing to have him for those days. >> i had the pleasure of meeting him many...

>> it does seem to me there are reasonable and ethical ways to use adjunct labor as part of a college education. so again, you know, when i was finishing my ph.d. it gave me great skills to learn teaching. it makes sense someone is a professional, perhaps a congressman who is going to teach a class, right. but they are not making their living doing that. what are the labor practices that are problematic versus the reasonable use of adjunct? >> part of what we say is that it shouldnt be the -- wh...

That legislators are willing to put into the institution. so what happens. what happens is someone who has gotten their education, gotten a higher degree, developed a lot of experience in their field, ends up cobbling together three or four jobs at the city university at different locations trying to maintain benefits and which is something that shouldnt be lost. the uncertainty you talked about. for an adjunct they may go from the end of august to december and they have a job and they are eligi...

Vernence, people who are adjunct faculty almost never have a vote on the decisions being made. >> this is an example of one of the institutions, higher education and seeing the walmartization, i made that up, but seeing the walmartization of higher education, jobs. what were seeing in terms of the economy is affecting every kind of institution. so greater reliance on part-time, and adjunct faculty with no benefits. it does affect student learning conditions. if you are running around trying to p...

You were telling me you think maybe this incident might be coincidental to the chinese actually cracking down on visas for journalists. >> its related in time. its part of one big concern that is connected which is chinese government at a time when its opening economic reforms at home is much tighter on foreign criticism of all kind. theres a sense which the bloomberg story seems to fit into of the fear of self-censorship and biting tongues on the part of foreign media and universities too. >> i...

Thank you for having me. >> greta, obviously, many on capitol hill were pointing at senator ted cruz and senator mike lee, and using this term "tea party," because a lot of them consider themselves an adjunct of them, do you consider yourself a part of this move? >> no, it was the tea party who helped elect them. they definitely are conservatives. we are all in this together. you know, the attacks are coming at us. but greta, it is nothing that were not used to. it has been going on for four yea...

Thank you for having me. >> greta, obviously, many on capitol hill were pointing at senator ted cruz and senator mike lee, and using this term "tea party," because a lot of them consider themselves an adjunct of them, do you consider yourself a part of this move? >> no, it was the tea party who helped elect them. they definitely are conservatives. we are all in this together. you know, the attacks are coming at us. but greta, it is nothing that were not used to. it has been going on for four yea...

Focusing on wasteful spending at the i.r.s. and the lavish junct, should they focus on the e.p.a. and the warehouses? one e.p.a. contractor setting up a man cave in one with tvs, work-out equipment and pinup posters. got to go to john. >> my man kay would look better than that. i would have a sports channel at least! >> brenda: were paying for it. >> nothing worse than nonrhythmic people dancing except for when taxpayers pay for it. the e.p.a. is an abomination in this country. they have stalled...

Czar said, the tobacco companies have set up model programs. you said its not big tobacco, about this becoming either an adjunct of actual existing big tobacco or the next version of big tobacco. who is investing right now? wheres the money coming for the industry in colorado in its nascent state? >> well, quite frankly, i am not seeing any sort of big tobacco involvement. but if the folks at big tobacco would like to ditch cigarettes and start selling a product that wouldnt kill anyone, i think...

The administration wants to have everybody know about. the government sometimes likes it. >> you would think that capacity might be something we want to keep secret. this is a great secret. this ap story we want to use this as a vehicle for intimidating future government sources. >> you do -- every administration its in their interest to control information and use the press as an adjunct to their own communications department. its what they all want to do. congress has a role. i wish we had a c...