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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the early sunday morning to the brooklyn book festival being hosted here at Brooklyn Law School. Our dean nick allard is here to welcome you. That dean has been a really wonder for bridge between the law school in brooklyn and the brooklyn book festival. Its on like to introduce nick allard to you all. [applause] thank you, professor. Well, welcome to all of you. Were so proud to be able to host part of the largest free letter very festival in new york city in one of ...

Good afternoon, welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our lewis letterman auditorium. We, of course, welcome those for joining us on cspan. We would ask a going here in house if youll be so kind to check that cell phones are turned off as we prepare to begin. And, of course, the program will be hosted on the heritage homepage following todays presentation for your future reference as well, and our internet yours are always welcome to send questions or comments simply emailing speaker heritage. ...

I know and i said under the marijuana licenses we needed to do a better job. I will do a better job on that. The Health Connector is on its way to being fixed. That was an error and we need to do better with technology. Moderator thank you. Falchuk is easy to describe the things have gone wrong and said i wouldve handled it perfectly, differently if i were the governor. Limited powers and we have been following a model of intrusive Big Government that is doomed to failure. Doesnt matter who is a...

This is the best of this institution of how it performs. It has been embodied in the Public Service of carl levin for 36 years here. What you have heard is the testimonies on both sides of the aisle that because of how he has conducted himself as an individual and how he has conducted himself as a Public Servant and how he has conducted himself as a leader in this senate is exactly how this institution is supposed to function. Isnt it rather symbolic that on the last couple of days of the sessio...

Next encore booknotes. Jill krementz was a guest on booknotes in 1997 to talk about her book the writers desk a collection of authors and photos photos. Cspan jill krementz, photographer, you have a book out called the writers desk. Whats it all about . Guest its a collection of my photographs over it period of 30 years of writers and i photographed over 1500 rider so of course its not all the writers. My favorite pictures of a lot of the writers at their desks but they are all writers that ther...

Performing students to help prepare them for college. We read philosophical tests ranging and wrote revised College Level essays. At the same time i worked with the lowest performing students who had yet to pass the state tests of the with them we did mindless test prep. Even though i was really good at it getting 100 of those students to pass their exams in my final year doing it i was doing the students no favors. I think about a senior who could hardly write and struggled to read. Sure she pa...

Let me me before you keep thinking about your answer to do something else. To frame the question we are talking about questioning and accountability and that goes off into education and i have to refresh myself with 15 minutes even though ive been fooling about it for years. The federal government under no child left behind requires 17 standardized tests today to seven tests, seven in reading. Grade three through eight and once in high school. And then three tests in since i intend once in grade...

Over scarce resources between different racial groups and can include such aspects how different racial groups attempt to define you know what race is and how it works and how they ended up, how through that definition end up creating a dynamic where some groups have a lot of resources and some groups have fewer resources. If you, black politics, think about racial politics as competition between different racial groups black politics becomes for me, the competition within black communities abou...

Inalternativement camp. Booktv, 48 hours of books and authors. Television for serious readers. Next on booktv from the gershman y in philadelphia Matthew Christopher presents photos from his book, abandoned america. Mr. Christopher spent ten years documenting ruined institutions throughout the country from schools and churches to factories and military installations. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [inaudible conversations] all right. Sounds like the mics on. Thank you so much for coming ...

Friday night for a couple hours and welcomed the director of the hartford Va Regional Office as well as the director of the Va Connected Health care system to listen to our veterans, and not just about the delays, but the more fundamental gaps in care that we have right now that we are all working hard to fill. Just one example, k. Robert lewis, a veteran Service Officer from the veterans of foreign wars, shared with the audience very compellingly his understanding that many veterans with the vf...