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Know a great deal more about this family than i do at least half of you do who work year. And if you like a cousins come to tell you about your family, uninvited. So we all have our opinions. My utmost since you arrived at even if you dont think im right at all. So i will begin right now. Thank you. The question i am asked most often about this book is simply this, why John Quincy Adams . And my answer is just this. I met it in the course of getting to know his parents, with whom he corresponded...

I feel like a cousin who has come to tell you about your family uninvited. Even if you dont think that i am right at all. Thank you. I am asked most often about this book John Quincy Adams my answer is just this. In the course of getting to no his parents with whom he corresponded safely and lengthily and with enormous affection. Go ahead. Okay. And lastly as it may seem i came i came to abigail and john adams as has just been said the New York Times and was riding. Go ahead. Try again. All righ...

Only a kron 4 tonight kron 4 scott rates spoke to a woman who helped pull the children to safety. His live in Childrens Hospital in oakland with the young victims are being treated. Reporter the stabbing treated here at the hospital and one moment took action and your own hands when she saw the crash. It was a nasty mess afternoon crash near was gone i 80. The tax saying carmen the key attics seen. Velazquez jumped into action as people with the coming of taking video. will try and get a small s...

From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Ethan good evening. Im ethan bronner. Im a managing editor at bloomberg news. Im filling in for charlie rose who is on assignment. Joining me now is geoffrey robertson, a distinguished british barrister. He has argued many landmark cases in human rights, as well as criminal and media law. He is currently part of the legal team representing armenia at the European Court of human rights. The case will determine whether denying the genocide o...

From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Ethan good evening. Im ethan bronner. Im a managing editor at bloomberg news. Im filling in for charlie rose who is on assignment. Joining me now is geoffrey robertson, a distinguished british barrister. He has argued many landmark cases in human rights, as well as criminal and media law. He is currently part of the legal team representing armenia at the European Court of human rights. The case will determine whether denying the genocide o...

General ham let me start with you. Sort of going in proposition with africom in many ways is youre not going to have large amounts of american troops under your command on the ground, if any. Did you feel at times that you were a general in charge of the contractor army . No, not at all. There is a proper role i think for the contractors but theres also a proper role for the uniformed military. Like the other Combatant Commanders and the Service Chiefs i was part of a discussion with the chairma...

Super interesting to one the biggest differences there are no ghettos in switzerland and portugal. But they couldnt do is act like the people who were attics were others. In switzerland if you are an addict in switzerland switzerland the semis picture postcard you have in your head. Its a nice little place with lovely ordered parks and if youre a heroin addict people see you are a heroin addict reader have the equivalent of words shot away. That was really importance of part of the job offers th...

Democracy or its ideals. Just wondering from critiquing american decisions, how did we do what mistakes we make and how would you do it differently . I dont have time to tell you all the mistakes that were made here. The basic problem has been not having a strategy, not having an idea and reacting. The arab uprising countess off guard here three months later what was our response . We still didnt have one. One year later, what do we want . Still dont have one. That goes on today. Pacific the u. ...

Opinion. The shift to the favorable side. Twenty years, 15 or 20 years from now, maybe 20 of the people in favor of legalization, now at Something Like 50 . Given the evidence we havent written why this is a bad idea. But the other thing is, and this is relevant, that as Public Opinion has softened on the subject of marijuana maybe 60 of people in favor, the Scientific Evidence is overwhelming against it. Eightynine, 90 we didnt have these Research Studies done. But now it is overwhelming with w...

Ramifications of passing which included greater rights and opportunities but also isolation and disregard from the greater africanamerican community. Or topic for today is a chosen exile a history of racial passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs. Allyson hobbs is an assistant professor in the History Department at stanford university. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received im sorry from Harvard University and she received a ph. D. With distinction from the universi...