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And, of course, substance abuse. but there are lots of people from comfortable, well—off backgrounds, men, and they go on to commit horrific deeds? i think the trouble is that there arent lots. i mean, for example, if we think about the homicide numbers in england and wales, they havent changed in a0 years. and theyre about between 600 and 700 each year. thats far too many people, numerically, of course, thats 700, 600 lives lost every year, and thats terrible, but in a population of 60 millio...

An opportunity with my students to visit and in april, i was struck by how sincere of a conversation that he had with our two students when we released our harvard poll during that time and he spent 30 minutes directly talking to our students, asking them about their backgrounds, their dreams of the future. the things that kept them up at night. were all this meant for the future of america. so he is highly, highly curious and i think what we are seeing is this energy and its creativity to solve...

>> [speaking french] >> [speaking french] >> they destroyed the last building where i grew up to rebuild smaller buildings. these places for us a seat of creation. now, we are running a school across the street from it. it is not a school to teach you how to become a good photographer or painter, but how to survive as an artist. it is completely free. it is totally different. >> [speaking french] >> surrounding yourself that come from different backgrounds, different stories, different passed, t...

He could speak. he is now at the police station and he is being interrogated. australias prime minister anthony albanese has welcomed an offer by the former us basketball star shaquille 0neal to help the government give greater recognition to australias aboriginal peoples. speaking in sydney alongside the four—time nba champion, mr albanese said the star had a record in the united states of lifting up the marginalised. the prime ministers labor government has promised a referendum to amend aus...

Speaking in sydney alongside the four—time nba champion, mr albanese said the star had a record in the united states of lifting up the marginalised. the prime ministers labor government has promised a referendum to amend australias founding constitution to give indigenous people official recognition, and a stronger voice on decisions that affect their lives. we want to build the broadest possible support and we want to engage with people who can connect with young people in particular but with...

Sections of our society. shaq has that record, particularly when it comes to bringing people together of different backgrounds, which is consistent with our approach to a constitutionally—recognised voice to parliament and recognising that australian history did not begin in 1788. anthony albanese there. serbia and kosovo have reached a deal to allow free movement between their countries. its one of the issues that has fuelled recent antagonism between the balkan neighbours. in 2008, kosovo, w...

Biden at the end of the day. >> that played a big role in how this program was constructed. they decided to focus on people who were earning less than $125,000, or $250,000 for a couple, and really focus on pell grant recipients, who happen to be overwhelmingly people of color, and people of color who have been able to take advantage of the pell grant program. however, people that come from low income backgrounds and other people who are struggling with the biggest burden of this student debt lo...

What do you make of that, i guess, evolution in our history? >> well, its clearly been a long time since she aired on "star trek" that provided inspiration for a lot of african americans, females, people of diverse backgrounds. and to see it 50 plus years later, its taken a long time obviously. its great that we are getting to the point of doing that for real and putting a person of diversity on the moon and im excited about that. its unfortunate that she passed recently. i hope she realizes the...

What did i miss? what are you all laughing about? >> every time we have janet on, she has amazing backgrounds. i call her the snoceo of snazzy backgrounds. >> were not talking to you in space? i thought we were talking to you in space. now i know. i want to ask you this, it has been 50 years, that is a generation since we sent someone to the moon, right? but we have done this before. we know the technology that it takes to get to the moon. so, i mean, obviously it feels like a long time coming. ...

When it comes to bringing people together of different backgrounds which is consistent with our approach to a constitutional recognise voice to parliament and recognising that australian history did not begin in 1788. efforts to pass a global agreement to protect the worlds oceans and marine life has failed. a fifth round of talks to pass the un high seas treaty had been ongoing for two weeks in new york, but governments could not agree on the terms. despite international waters representing nea...