Lead to success but there is one major hurdle hugh have very little influence over and thats your social and ethnic background an equal opportunity as our topic today on made in germany dont fool yourself the old fashion class system still exists in germany it might not be as evident as an england where the elites can easily be spotted by sending their kids to eton but trust me money and pedigree count for a lot in germany 2 kids from wealthy families have better Career Opportunities if only because they have better contacts to people who matter people who can pave the way into company boardrooms of course there are exceptions to the rules theyre few and far between but we met someone who made it still spite not fitting the elitist bill. There are a 1000 people taking the Big Decisions in this country. Sociologist michiru hartman has conducted Extensive Research into elites and more specifically germanys business elites the captains of the dax listed corporations lots of men just a sin
People have been ordered to stay home to slow the spread of covert 19. Adding to new cases of covert 900 in the us state of new york skyrocket the World Health Organization now expecting the u. S. To become the new epicenter of the pandemic as that recession leaving new york city has been asked to sell warranty. I merely phenomenon welcome the 2020 tokyo summer olympics has been postponed on tuesday japanese Prime Minister shinzo abi announced that the games will be pushed back into a 2021 the decision follows months of discussion and pressure from athletes across the bloke. The tokyo lympics are all. The decision came suddenly but was not unexpected after weeks of debate and speculation in order to safeguard the health of fleets and everybody involved in the Olympic Games that we have to postpone the olympic and Paralympic Games so talk you were 2022 the year of 2020 year one with the aim to her feet there or at the latest in summertime 21. 00 its such a decision that was not taken li
Again. I was never interested in it at all. A few years ago im a reporter for the New York Times i wrote an article for the times about really miraculous discovery. He was reporting in a technical journal. He managed to get the lung tissue. In that lung tissue there was still in fragments of the virus that had killed him. When i interviewed this man he told me about the influenza pandemic of 1918. And i was stunned. Ive just never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic. It killed 70 people. If Something Like that came by today. It would kill more people than the top ten killers. I just found out by looking at the papers. 99 percent of the email that died in this pandemic were under the age of 65. It was an astonishing devastating epidemic and what made the story for me was this idea all of these years later. They have actually have some lung tissue. What was this virus. How could it become such a killer. And could it happen again. If so would you reco
Good evening. My name is deirdre cross, director of the Public Programs at the national africanamerican s aim of history and culture and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to this Wonderful Program and introduce these speakers in our discussion entitled historically speaking, Thurgood Marshall, a life and American History, evening with spencer crew and paul think of it. Paul finkelman. For those streaming the tag ision, our twitter historically speaking. We are also thrilled that this program will be broadcast through cspan book tv to be aired at a later date. Begin this compelling new biography, we are introduced to the constant battles for inequality faced by africanamericans through a study of Thurgood Marshalls extraordinary courage and his belief in the power of the law to change society. Thurgood marshall, a life in American History follows his career from his youth in baltimore, maryland, to his days. T Supreme Court justice his inspiring story illustrates how pervasive rac
Good evening and thank you to Justice Ginsburg for joining us tonight. I was looking at your record and i notice you have had a lot of name changes over the years. You were called kicky bb when you were little then ruth and then professor ginsburg and then judge ginsburg. Then finally Justice Ginsburg. Most would stop there but then you have a new moniker notorious rvg can i call you Justice Ginsburg quick. You can call me ruth. [laughter] with the Georgetown Law School thank you for being here. And to have a Long Association to celebrate the 100th anniversary your career has focused on the quality very broadly for cholesterol about the amendment you said at one point he wished your mother lived in age where women could achieve and daughters were equally to sons. And to be cherished. So is it clear for the 19th amendment quick. Yes. With that became part of the constitution and to take part in the parade. And to ask what they would have done. And my mother was one of the brightest peop