To a kenyan teacher whos dreams of a Better Future bank shattered. Im rebecca rate is welcome to the program although coronavirus cases around the world are now close to the 3000000. 00 mark more and more nations are beginning to lock down restrictions including here in germany but the gradual moves to reopen the economy are not enough for around a 1000 people who took part in a demonstration in berlin on saturday the protesters have been had protests have been gathering in the city center every week i believe the restrictions limit their freedom and infringe on Constitutional Rights and police say they arrested more than 100. 00 people at the un authorised protest. Germany has allowed smaller nonessential shops to reopen we take a look at how people are reacting. Here in berlin more people are Wearing Masks but there are also a lot more people on the streets and not everyone is abiding by the social distancing requirements. It was right what the politicians did and what is being done
Continents. And were at the scene of an airstrike in libya that left at least 5 people dead in. The battle against drug crime in mexico has taken a deadly turn for the worse the countrys just not stopped the most homicides in a single day since records began in 1997 after 127 people were killed on december 1st many are now questioning the president s strategy of hogs not bullets in tackling Drug Cartel Violence as alan fischer reports from mexico city. It will take a while to repair the damage to be in your own city hall the memories of what happened here will last much longer. Than saturday afternoon a convoy of vehicles covered in the. Initials of the local drug cartel c d n drove into town and began fighting this the authorities believe was sending a message to the Regional Government to. Security forces surrounded the turn 60 kilometers south of the texas border by the time the gun battles ended on sunday 22 were dead 16 gunman 4 Police Officers 2 civilians pictures of local politi
Contemplating a biography. I had done a biography of my grandfather. I was guessing about for another idea. I am a field fiction writer and poet. Create, but i could explore and explain. I was talking with a friend of mine who said i keep running across his name. 1970professor back in published the first of what was supposed to be a twovolume of Arthur Vandenberg. The world does not need to w o two biographies of vandenberg. My friend said i have to thought my agenda. Why dont you come and talk about some episode in Arthur Vandenbergs life. I gave a little lecture on the debate over the repeal of the arms embargo in 18 in 1939, before world war ii. Eight weeks later, i get a call from the daughter of this professor who is said to be working on the second volume of his biography. Turns out he had a difficult life, had been very ill, and had died. His adult daughter was responsible for selling his house. He was teaching in chicago. She did not know what to do with all of his research for
First time you ever thought about writing a book about this man . 1989, i was contemplating a subject for a biography. I am a field fiction writer and poet. I could not create, but i could explore and explain. I was talking with a friend of mine who said i keep running across his name. Some professor back in 1970 published the first of what was supposed to be a twovolume of Arthur Vandenberg. The world does not need to w o two biographies of vandenberg. My friend said i have to thought my agenda. Why dont you come and talk about some episode in Arthur Vandenbergs life. I gave a little lecture on the debate over the repeal of the arms embargo in 18 in 1939, before world war ii. Eight weeks later, i get a call from the daughter of this professor who is said to be working on the second volume of his biography. Turns out he had a difficult life, had been very ill, and had died. His adult daughter was responsible for selling his house. He was teaching in chicago. She did not know what to do
Particularly the cochair mr. David rubenstein. You can become a donor or sponsor for the festival. The instructions for donations or in your program. Also, on your phone app and online. Before we begin, just a few announcements. If you have your cell phone, turn them off and at the conclusion of the program, we will be taking questions from the audience at one of the microphones. This afternoon, it is a distinct pleasure of mine to be joined onstage by doctor ronald whyte, the author of american ulysses. Previously, hes written many books on Abraham Lincoln, on lincolns leadership and also on the rhetoric. But today, we are going to talk about ulysses s. Grant. If you have not read the book yet, i can commend it to you. It is 827 pages. I was telling him before hand, i read through all 827 pages, and you do not hear about very often. That very often. Given the recent conversations about the legacy of the civil war, i cant think of a better person to hear from this afternoon at the Nati