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A crucial supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. The Central Question being decided this time is should Affirmative Action continue forever In The Name Of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on Asian American students . This is the most important civil Rights Case of our era. I dont think its an overstatement to say theyre f...

Up next Lawrence Odonnell talks about his book playing with fire. And the transformation of american politics, which recalls the turmoil of the 1968 president ial election. We recorded this in washington to d. C. In 2017. This 1968 election, was the first when i was alert for. I was in high school, i remember zero of the 1964 election, just the one right before that. And i remember just flashes of 1960, because it was a giant deal for Irish Catholic boys in boston. And one of us was on his way t...

[inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome those newcomers and repeat offenders. If you look around you notice in impenetrable books are out there in the world. That being the case it is always refreshing to find one whose impact with the proportion to the length and have to and the Tipping Point is one of those books with from time to time a work appears that acts as a decongestant for the brain , one strong spray and the intellectual passages clear up even if they were blocked in the f...

That we are looking at, much like we did yesterday where we were talking a great deal about the possibility of a new record even intraday or all time on the s p. Yesterday it was that bizarre russian vaccine news and i think we can all term it bizarre, but today its moderna signing a deal with the u. S. Government which is signing a lot of deals to make sure that there is manufacturing capacity in place to deliver a lot of doses of a vaccine if and when it does get through phase three trials int...

Book blink the power of thinking without thinking which looks at how people make splitsecond decisions. Hello . If everyone can hear me my name is henry center, editorial director of the new yorker magazine i would like to welcome to you to the fifth annual new yorker festival. The message here to say please turn off any cell phones or pager devices. Malcolm will be speaking for about 40 minutes, we will have 20 to 30 minutes of q a after that. During the question period there will be microphone...

Sends a very clear message on behalf of the british people those with blood on their hands the thugs of despots the henchmen of dictators who will not be free to once into this country to buy a property on the kings or a kings right to do their Christmas Shopping in knightsbridge or frankly to siphon dirty money through british banks rather Financial Institutions the new regime of sanctions targets 49 individuals and organizations from russia saudi arabia me and ma and north korea designed to en...

Thank you so much for joining us tonight. My name is kate brouns and on behalf of Harvard Bookstore i am so pleased to introduce this event tonight with robert reich, his new book the system who rigged it, how we fix it. Harvard bookstore brings authors and the book to a committee and our new virtual committed during this unprecedented. Our Event Schedule appears on a website where you can sign up for a newsletter and you can browse our bookshelves. This evenings discussions going to conclude wi...

Had a fever that raged 38 degrees thousands of protesters have tried to storm serbias parliament angry about tough coronavirus restrictions president alexandrovitch put a weekend curfew back in place after the countrys worst day of the pandemic with 13 deaths alexy obrien reports. Prices does in place beso on the streets around say be as parliament was i. Tried to storm the building some briefly managing to get inside before being pushed back. Theyre angry at president aleksander of the church a...

Expand testing in fact its tested 10000000 people testing 300 every day and what the worst hit states are doing is that they continue to test more people. And their facilities here and. The results of the. Spread the virus we also heard from delhis chief minister a few hours ago and he was positive about the situation despite the fact that delhi has reached nearly 100000. 00 cases and thats because he says that only a 3rd of the regions 15000 beds a currently in use do you remember a few weeks a...

A Weapons Development base big has more from to horizon on the significance of the announcement about the facility. Significant in the sense that were beginning to have an understanding of the extent of the damage has caused like the Financial Impact now the head of the Irans Atomic Energy Organization he now he made these comments when he was meeting the National Security and Foreign Policy commission and he said that the financial damage was considerable but he also said that the investigation...