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Myself, a young kid in the suburbs, going down south to mississippi every summer. That was my childhood experience. Host who happened to be africanamerican guest exactly. And i never saw that. So then i started writing because i was forced to take a graduate class in writing as part of my requirements. And my first writing teacher said you need to be a writer. Forget the scholar. [laughter] you need to be writing, its for important. And she turned me into a writer. She forced know keep writing o...

What do you think about politicians that think we should return to water boarding . Some of that is the idea that isis and the other groups doesnt chop off the heads and we tie our hands with our ability to respond if we dont resort to these tactics soul even with the president ial Campaign Even a good portion of the public. If we talk about donald trump that has been played over and over again, this initiative matter of having the yearold son who comes off from schoolith the bad grade or report...

Good evening. Welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and a very special event. I think we are all delighted the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america helping out tonight. In particular, loaned us james tanton who i will introduce in a minute. My name is john ewing, i am president of math america. I am a mathematician. [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. Every p...

Hello, good morning welcome to the seventh annual gaithersburg book festival. My name is gene taft khedama Committee Member the festival and the policy manager of Johns Hopkins university press. Please have you here but if i did make a couple of announcements here. Gaithersburg is a wonderful city that probably supports the arts and humanities will you please to bring the stay of this event thanks in part to generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. Our if you see our sponsors and volunte...

Good evening welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and to a very special event. I think we are all delighted that the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted that they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america which is helping out tonight and in particular they loaned us james hansen tonight whom i will introduce in a moment. My name is john ewing. Im the president of math for america and i am a mathematician [applause] this was not ...

Order, scheduling, and installation and never have to talk to a human. So were going to make a leapfrog and have already begun to do so in the way we talk and communicate and transact with our customers, and i think thats going to be a big positive as well. We are out of time but the final question to bring it back to the olympics, how do you think peoples perception of comcast is going to change after seeing that kind of experience in terms of interacting with content . Well, were obviously so ...

The historians are looking for eyewitnesses to event that happened 60 years ago. Inall know if it happened these halls here, the only people still alive for the pages who were 16 years old at the time. We are come in handy if you times with a couple of the project and we hope to continue to do so in the future. Constantly amaze me. Meeting judge tracy was a page for eight years. Having the pleasure of driving over in his car with his Capitol Police man afterwards. Still has his badge and we got ...

It has been a very moving experience, and im sure that will continue with our panel right now, which is a Panel Focused on the radicalization of reconstruction. , will introduce our speakers as others have done all at the beginning here, and then they will come up and give you some more wonderful food for thought. Julie saville is associate professor of history at the university of chicago. She is a specialist in African American and caribbean histories and the author and editor of numerous book...

Sen. Sanders thank you so much for coming. And by the way, i am delighted to be here with the congressman from arizona. I think all of you know that raul has been, throughout his political life, one of the leaders in congress in the fight for immigrant justice, in the fight for racial justice, and the fight for economic justice, and social justice. Thank you so much for what you have done for our country. [applause] let me say a few words and we will get the panel going. I am running for preside...

He is also a man i would say, what is so refreshing about donald what explains the connection that he is literally made to millions of americans is because, even as he has built skyscrapers to the sky, to the summit of our largest cities, he has never forgotten the men and women who work with their hands, who grow our food, who build our roads, who attend our sick, who protect our families. To see him far off the campaign trail, among the people that have worked with him and for him for years, y...