Long friendship with convicted murder and inmate. Thats just a few of the programs youll see on book tv this weekend. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Book tv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. Now we kick off the weekend with Nobel Prize Winner author, joe ve discussing the most recan he be the book the euro. [inaudible conversations] good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to barns noble web sighs. Has written for vanity fair, politico, harper. He brings us today his new book the euro, how a common currency threatens the future of europe, can the euro be saved. After laying there the european inflation mandate and explaining how policies specially towards crisis countries have further exposed the zones flaw design, mr. Stiglitz outlines steps forward, a well managed end to the single Car Insurance you euro experiment or a bold new system dubbed the flexible euro. Reviews call this urgent of compelling interest to economists
Professor of international law, presenting this program, please join me in welcoming them. [applause] thank you. Without further ado i thought i would plunge into a question for the judge and the biographer. Richard posner, when you were the age of some of the people in this room you were fabulous yates scholar interested in literature. What made you decide to go to law school . Law school was always the default graduate choice. I give some thought to graduate school, decided, not for me. I dont think i can stay. Harvard law school has a formative impression on you, i suppose . It launched your trajectory in many ways. Tell us about the academic experience. It is mixed, but they did something clever. They stacked their best teachers the first year in law school. Very nice. Got a good start. Second and third year, like all the professors i realized thinking about this, i skipped my last year of high school, only 16 when i went to yale college and only 20 when i went to law school, young
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Work in both print and broadcast. The print winner is peter baker of the new york times. [applause] and the broadcast winner is peter mayer of cbs news. [applause] the next award recognizes coverage of news or national and regional significance. The judges chose to winners this year. Oney at reuters. [applause] and the center for public and brian ross of abc news. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we have one more award. We normally just award those three, but as part of the centennial of our association, i am happy to announce that we have created the president s award. It is an honor for Exceptional Service to the members and groups of the White House Correspondents Association and i am delighted to announce that this first recipient will be George Condon junior. [applause] thank you. I want to talk for a minute about the video we are going to show. Over the years, we have had a lot of very funny videos. They have all been a lot of fun. Our centennial, i made a different choice. I wan
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