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, September 1998) Im often asked: Why do I bother writing about racial gaps in test scores? How can such an arcane subject be of any importance? And yet test scores are at the heart of what may be the most important upcoming Supreme Court case, Ricci v. DeStefano. The issue: reverse discrimination against white firemen. Ricci provides a valuable window onto what affirmative action imposes upon American organizations. Typically, the contortions our institutions go through to avoid federal d...

>> good afternoon. welcome to the library of congress. i am john cole, the director of the center for the book in the library of congress which is the reading and book promotion arm of the library. we are very pleased to be cosponsoring this program with the libraries photographs division. it was created to help the library of congress we are private public partnership with the library of congress but indeed we have raised private funding from the beginning to help support o...

farber. this is 40 minutes. >> good afternoon. welcome to the library of congress. i am john cole, the director of the center for the book in the library of congress which is the reading and book promotion arm of the library. we are very pleased to be cosponsoring this program with the libraries photographs division. it was created to help the library of congress we are private public partnership with the library of congress but indeed we have raised private funding from the beginning ...

mike >> good afternoon. not so long ago i had a knee replacement which some of you will know something about that promised me that it would be a full recovery after a year. what better i dont have to wait two years. so, it is also likely to be out of the cold and the wind of new york city for a while. i woke up this morning feeling as if my knee was all better. its the second time that ive spoken here and my wife and i spoke to get the last time because we had written a book together a...

the head of the liberal party in the u.k., nicholas clegg, is a former intern. ? , mj lee views the latest job numbers. -- >> tomorrow, mj lee reviews the latest job numbers. and the voting process for active-duty military personnel serving in the u.s. and abroad. washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. see the only presidential debate thursday night live on c-span, seized and radio and c-span.org. watch and engage. next, a discussion about google operations and antitr...

because i finished working on it now. >> why this book? how important is this book? >> i have done that a bunch in the past. this is the first time i have tried to pull together all of the interpretive causes that i consider important. no use of legislative history. i have discussed with the opposing theory is of interpretation. most important of all, most difficult of all, i have gone through the steps that a textualist has to take in order to produce the correct reading of the text. ...

+g:ry![8+oe-6]>l[d34 said i will give you the job but you cant tell my clerks. i had to go out and he to not fumble for the nextçú?dyi hours before my plane left. i hear that six months later, clerks came in and said justice you need to hire your fourth clerk. he said i did hire my fourth clerk. they were outraged that he would have hired someone who was not of the party. >> true story. if he said so. it did not make as much an impression upon me as it did upon him. >> how...

because i finished working on it now. >> but why this book? and how important is this book? you have done a bunch in the past. >> i have done a bunch in the past, but this is the first time i have tried to pull together all of the, what you might say, interpretive clauses i consider important -- pastoralism, our regionalism, -- texturalism, originalism, and opposing theories. most important, or maybe most important, and certainly most difficult of all, have gone through the steps that ...

their work visit invisiblehistory.com. >> we ask what are you reading this summer? heres what you had to say. send us a tweet at booktv using the tag summer reading to let us know what you plan on reading this summer. e-mail us at booktv/c-span.org. up next author and professor eric posner. the university of chicagos kirkland and ellis professor of law will speak on international law and the difficulty of a climate change treaty and the balance between security and liberty. mr. posner ...

the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. coons: madam president, i rise today to continue to express my views in support of the nomination of professor goodwin liu, a nominee, as you know, to the ninth circuit court of appeals. many different things have been said on the floor here in recent hours, and i rise to offer my comments on some of the concerns that are being debated. for once, it is great to actually hear debate on the floor of this chamber. i have been here, as ...