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I came up with this in about 2002 when i was creating this course at Temple University for honor students called dissent in america. Of the Honors Program asked me to create a course on a topic. What topic interests me . Im from the 60s. Dissent. It made sense to me right away. I started teaching the course. The students got into it. Teachings grew out of it. We would start meeting on fridays after class talking about the historical background of contemporary issues. At the time we started the t...

Start to september. Stocks were pummeled to the tune of about 3 today as a new month did little to quell concerns about china and the Federal Reserve. You know that story. Lets take a look at the damage. The dow industrials fell 469 points to 16,058. Nasdaq shed 140 and the s p 500 gave back 58. Its the worst start to a september in 13 years. Bob pisani has more on todays selloff. We fell 2 in the open and we stayed down. You can blame it on chinas pour manufacturing numbers if you want, but the...

Start to september. Stocks were pummeled to the tune of about 3 today as a new month did little to quell concerns about china and the Federal Reserve. You know that story. Lets take a look at the damage. The dow industrials fell 469 points to 16,058. Nasdaq shed 140 and the s p 500 gave back 58. Its the worst start to a september in 13 years. Bob pisani has more on todays selloff. We fell 2 in the open and we stayed down. You can blame it on chinas pour manufacturing numbers if you want, but the...

Start to september. Stocks were pummeled to the tune of about 3 today as a new month did little to quell concerns about china and the Federal Reserve. You know that story. Lets take a look at the damage. The dow industrials fell 469 points to 16,058. Nasdaq shed 140 and the s p 500 gave back 58. Its the worst start to a september in 13 years. Bob pisani has more on todays selloff. We fell 2 in the open and we stayed down. You can blame it on chinas pour manufacturing numbers if you want, but the...

I have been satisfied with the report ever since. , to is a personal note myself, i feel like i can rely on this personal opinion. I wanted to share that with you all. Thank you very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. After what i think was an extraordinary first session, and a truncated break, for which i apologize, we will begin the second session with five additio...

Two leaders. This event was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute annual summer conference. It runs about an hour. Ok, good evening. I and peter carmichael, professor of history at Gettysburg College and also director of the Civil War Institute. My guest is noted historian gordon ray. He 20 years ago published the battle of the wilderness with lsu press. This would be the first of 4 volumes to cover the 1864 Overland Campaign. Gordon was the first historian to ever attempt to write ...

Weve seen all evening is starting to fall across the bay. It is a weak cold front thats pushing through. Its producing some sierra snow. Winter weather advisory in effect through 9 00 tomorrow morning. Three to sich six inches of snow expected above 6,000 feet. Here at home light sprinkles as we feet. Zoom in closer anywhere from fairfield seeing light activity down towards martinez as the cell moves through. Concord, san ramon and danville. The heavier pockets denoted by yellow there. Dublin. A...

Then to the left in front of the parking lot gates, you see the protesters who are chained to each other. Its happening today because its just past the oneyear anniversary of alex nietos death. This protest began just after 7 00 this morning with protesters blocking the shuttle you see here on valencia between 17th and 18th. They were holding signs. Later in the morning, they held a mock trial against the four officers accused of shooting and killing nieto. Last month it was announced they would...

But then it becomes a committee platform. Joining the publishing power of the web with the Committee Power of the internet, that forming of online, you no virtual communities is where the power lies in the future. And that is clearly what twitter is. Very much the information spreading mindset. I think originally it was looked up more. That that looms in the something is very powerful. And i think if you look at any major platform today it obviously combines those elements. We didnt have comment...

Whats right for the economy when it sees fit and may or may not be patient depending on whether patience is required or warranted. The dow gained and the s p gained 2. 22 and the nasdaq. So we go back to what brought us up here profit outlooks opportunity, and most important, pentup demand. No not pentup demand for laborer sales or new homes. Pentup demand for stocks. As so many Portfolio Managers wanted to be sure the fed wasnt going to create another they know nothing moment and crash stocks l...