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Thank you. [applause] on the half of Mechanics Institute and asia society thank you for coming and we look forward to seeing you at our next [applause] please come up. Next on booktv from the 18th annual texas book festival. A discussion with authors on mexico. Ere this is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon, thank you for coming tonight. Were happy to be here. Here at the texas bookernoon. Festival. Ng tonit. A few notes of business they asked me to tell everyone to please turn off your cell phone...

The federal governments job to determine what your mission may be. And certain if youre a private forprofit, were not here to dictate your organizations mission. But a forprofit institution has no special right to federal funding. And if youre going to receive billions of dollars in federal subsidies, we think its reasonable as we endeavor to reauthorize the Higher Education act that we tie some reasonable Public Policy strings to those dollars. And all we are saying is that we want institutions...

Chance to make that the center of your research, and we cover just about everything. Its just like any other class where you take exams and write papers. Host what do you do with a womens study major . The short answer is law school. Many of my best students gone on to be title ix lawyers. Many go abroad. They work with women Birth Control the issue of violence against women in regions ranging from Northern Africa to bosnia. Many students do development in term of nonprofit. They do programming ...

Preparation for the opening of these museums or, excuse me, for these restaurants the original neon sign for mintons mayhouse was taken off and given to the play mouths was taken off and given to the yet to be opened africanamerican museum at the smithsonian. And i would just like to ask both of you if you really seriously think that harlem can avoid becoming a praise where the schomburg a place where the schomburg is sort of like a synagogue in china town. [laughter] real. Yeah, thats very real...

Wrong with looking at half the worlds history. And i have negotiated many of these things throughout my teaching career. The idea is that i wanted to talk back but in a cheerful way. A cheerful and playful way. And i wanted to be the smiling face of womens studies and womens history so that as a diplomat from academic feminism i am approachable and i love my students, but enough with being rude to the professor. People would come by and say that i love your class. You not at all this way. And so...

Cleared and green conditions across the roadways so you are moving along at top speeds. We have plenty of construction and this will last until 6 00 and if you are traveling along westbound highway 4 you will find construction crews and you can see yellow out there. The speeds are dipping eversoslightly. It will take 16 minutes from antioch to concord from tracy to dublin is under 30 minutes. 101 is in the clear and from the emeryville camera to the bay bridge, the traffic is attractive making i...

Your house . No, just my pride, my dog got out had to chase her while she was laughing at me. What is it looking like out there . Looking dry. Theres live doppler, good news for the morning commute, the fact that we just had mainly cloudy conditions outside this morning. 10 to 20 cooler than yesterday, a lot in the 30s and 40s, by the around in the upper 50s with3c÷ a light breee at the coast, dry today around the bay low to mid 60s, low to mid 60s inland, no rain, well see increasing sunshine...

Friday after the 60 day coolingoff period ends. Project sides will be back at bargaining table this morning. This morning, we expect to learn the results of a contract vote by a. C. Transit worker would have been work without a contract since june 30. They voted yesterday on a proppal offering 9. 5 percent pay raise over three years and reject add similar pay raise in august but this offers lower employee contributions to health care. Day two of the government shut down and the budget battle sho...

Riverdale, maryland to attempt service on a temporary protective order. Reporter the order was meant for a man neighbors identify only as frank. His mom opened the door. A male subject appeared from the rear of the house displaying a firearm. Reporter thats when the Deputy Sheriff shot the 39year old man. I heard the ambulance. Reporter frank died at the hospital. He had problems with police before. Reporter the Deputy Sheriff wasnt hurt. Hes now on temporary administrative duty. The Sheriffs Of...

Audience across the country. The only official duties i have far to open the literary season of the congress in the fall by giving a reading in the closing lecture in maine to end the literary season and to choose the two poets were the one in some years who is to receive from the award and introduce them. Do you get a salary . There is a stipend that comes with it but it isnt funded by the american public. There is an endowment that does that. What is the scholarship that you referred to . The ...