In the courtroom, they are fighting to save their careers and lives. The last image i wanted to bring to your attention is a. There was a book fair in chicago 10 years ago. Those are wonderful things to go to. For historical research, you can get some great finds. There was, wrapped up in plastic, front page copy of the sinking, july 25. There was a wonderful cartoon that to me, after all the years of research, brings it in chilling fashion to life. The cartoonists blaming greed for the shipwreck. This is a pretty good representation. This has actually shipped the tipped the ship the wrong way. But, the point is well made. That brings to a close the image portion of the presentation. I would be happy to take some questions. We have some books. Some questions . I was in chicago for a few days and took an agricultural tour of the smell river. It is in the middle of chicago. Smale river. It is in the middle of chicago. I get on my boat in south michigan. You were very close. You were at m
Report with sally. Panic on the high street it was britains first bank run in 150 years. But a decade on, have the lessons of Northern Rock been learnt . Plus, the oil age may be ending, but what comes next . Toyota is betting on hydrogen. We will be hearing from the european boss at the frankfurt motor show. Hello and a warm welcome. I am sally bundock. This is World Business report. We start with an uncomfortable anniversary for the financial industry here in the uk. Exactly ten years ago today the bbc broke the news that high Street Lender Northern Rock had been forced to ask the bank of england for help. What happened next was an early sign of the Global Financial crisis to come. It had huge implications for the industry and led to major changes, but some say not nearly enough. So if we have a look at the scenes that were all over the screens. These were Northern Rock branches all around the uk. The news sparked the first run on a british bank in 150 years, with savers queuing to t
If you look at caucus night just by the numbers, matt strong was right. By the numbers theyve gathered, romney did win by eight votes. So he was technically correct at that point. The challenge for them is that because it was so so close, the closest it has ever, ever been in the history of the caucuses, that could change once they go through the certification process. So it took a couple of weeks and then this is where the campaigns were fighting because matt strong, acted with the certification process, he and his staff were essentially saying it was a tie and the intricate in the santorum to because theres a way to minute, when it was an eight vote margin and romney was obvious that mitt romney was the winner. Now digitized the process and to count the votes you can find because they seem to have lost eight precincts somehow, and they showed santorum was up by 34 votes, using its basically a guy. How the heck can that be . If we are up by 34, we win. So theres a state Central Commit
Stories like that that wraps the anecdotal around a kind of analytical strands so the book is the bright continent breaking rules and making change in modern africa, dayo olopade, thank you for being here today. Is a brilliant book. If you want to understand the continent better, you will buy it. Thank you, good to be here. [applause] thank you for attending todays session. Thank you to our moderator, doug foster and our great author, dayo olopade. Ebook the bright continent breaking rules and making change in modern africa on sale now in the main lobby. She will be signing copies just outside the auditorium for anyone interested. Thank you very much, enjoy your afternoon with the bit fast. Cspan2 providing live coverage of the u. S. Senate floor proceedings and keep Public Policy events and every weekend booktv, for 15 years the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 created by the cabletv industry and brought to you as a Public Service by a local, cab
I know that some of you came here because you heard there is going to be a reading and i know that some of you are angry that i havent read any name. So i will read a bit for you at this time so you are disappointed and furious. In 1921 a young woman named catherine was told she was not long for the earth, but soon she would die. Catherine decided to spend the rest are reduced to the rest of her days to wife of one per page, chicago chicago billionaire as old as her daddy and live out west on the paid family ranch, which lay in a desert of lavender loopers sincere between the pecos river in the same great decrease dismounted and peer name for the sunsets at the peak snowcapped both corporeal and msn. The following year it aylmers was such a serious cost his doctors suspect to tuberculosis, but not his chainsmoking, showed up to say at the reaction she taught them how to ride a horse through the canyon and every kind of weather. A few seasons later by returning to new mexico with his br