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Bestselling author Janice Kaplan and her fascinating book the genius of women from overlooked to changing the world. She will be in conversation with the ceo of central ohio and this will be on eliminating evening. I want to thank our venue partner and our Wonderful Community partners, all these organizations that helped us get the word out. I will introduce janice in a moment but let me ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers you have with you tonight so that we can hear everyth...

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Thank you for that too kind introduction. Im delighted to be back here at mary washington. I was threatening when i was here last that i might not go home. If i had known 14 months ago, i would not have told you all my funny stories. Its probably best that we just move forward with our talk about liliuokalani. I am anglo. Im a mainland writer. And so my the times i will have to speak in hawaiian, its thick. We will talk a bit about the hawaiian language, the first thing i need to do is make some...

Celebrate killer high. As a student of Chinese Affairs are hardly have to be told about the important of the relationship between drugs and war. Of course i know the intensity of feelings in china about the century of humiliation that begin with the opium war but at the same time, it is easy for a lot of people including myself to think of Something Like the opium war as in the mom and we or something very particular to a time and place and i have to say im guilty of thinking about the opium war...

Why . Guest we were running around covering humanitarian crises and then we would periodically go back to my beloved hometown of yamhill where my mom is still on the family farm. We saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my old Number Six School bus are now gone from drugs and alcohol and suicide. Sheryl and i tried to process that. The kids got on the bus right after me were the napa kids. Smart, talented kids. One died of drug and alcohol abuse. Another di...

Good afternoon and welcome to the theater here at the national archive. Im the archivist of the United States and it is a pleasure to have you with us this afternoon whether youre here in the theater for joining us on facebook and Youtube Channels and a special welcome to the cspan audience. Before we hear from william junior i would like to tell you about two other programs coming up next month. On tuesday september 10 at noon, Sidney Blumenthal will tell us about the recently released volume t...

Less attainabletoday the later , Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof and sheryl wu dont report on the issues facing the working class in rural america. An enjoyable tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Great to sit down with you and your book, dont be evil is contained plenty on a timely subject given the political times we are in , given the heights that the stocks of apple, amazon, google and facebook and others have reached but you normally have a pretty broad scope to your c...

Want to book this week and every weekend here on cspan2. I am very delighted to welcome you to our event today but is on the conservative case for class actions, a book written by professor fitzpatrick that galvanize this debate. We got three outstanding speakers, panelists, i should say. Our first is the head of the class action practice, he has litigated and defended countless class actions including over 20 dismissals of class action cases. You may have a sense for his position on match. He i...

Time you come from and i come from a small little town in oregon and i just ponder how, and your traveling the world, youre living in a different environment completely but you have reported on World Affairs from all kinds of Different Directions in the worst tragedies on the planet but you chose to really focus on small town in oregon, wife . We were running around the world, covering crises and free would periodically go back to my beloved hope town on the family farm and we saw a humanitarian...

Cspan. Org coronavirus. [background sounds]. Good morning everyone. More people are expected to arrive but i think i saw Michael Waller come i dont know where he is, hes in the back now. He is becoming shy. Is the Wilson Centers supporter best supporter of the planet predict and we are giving him a name tag. But welcome michael and welcome everyone else. I am jane harman, president ceo of the wilsonso center. It is the best job on the planet because i get to talk to geniuses every single day. On...