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Four decades or even more, its a little short of remarkable that were marking 25 years since the fall of the berlin wall. Its remarkable because on the one hand we can recall that event so vividly, but on the other hand, it sometimes seems like it took place a lifetime ago. Its also remarkable because for those of us who pursued our degrees and published our first books during the preceding decades, in some cases before the construction of the wall [ laughter ] its collapse seemed so unimaginabl...

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...

Mr. Carper mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper thank you mr. President. Well mr. President Congress Says here we do a lot of oversight, oversight thats focused on what is going right and also what is going wrong in our government. Theres a lot of each actually. That oversight is critically important work. Sometimes overlooked but cr...

Beaming this offense to places far and wide and we have an overflow room as well because the Wilson Center is truly honored to host this event. I am welcoming some of our nearest and dearest supporters pretty thank representative jim himes of connecticut will be here or is here. I am jane harman the president and ceo of the Wilson Center. 15 years ago a disgruntled australian contractor hacked a sewage control system in queensland spilling millions of gallons of waste onto public lands it into p...

Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . Is. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell could we have order. The presiding officer there will be order in the senate. Mr. Mcconnell for the information of all senators, the next vote the presiding officer the senate is in a quorum call. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell for the information of all senators, the next vote will be monday at 5 30 p. M. The democratic...

Tradition, service honor, fiscal responsibility, courage, and freedom. Lieutenant colonel west says that these values are under attack by the far left and the obama administration. This is about on hour. Thanks so much. It really is an honor and pleasure to be here with you all at Liberty University. Theres only one thing im kind of upset about. Someone did not pay the heating bill up here. This morning when i woke up at 5 00, i went for a nice little run, and i had a tshirt and shorts on. When ...

Infrastructure on the routine basis. Further our adversaries are probing Critical Infrastructure whether chemical plants stock exchanges any type of important infrastructure. And our partner countries that can inflict damage to the Global Economy as well as exacerbate instability in the security environment. What are your specific recommend ages with arerd to increasing cyber capability and specifically how do we compete with the private sector to get the brightest minds and the best engineers a...

Off the coast of the northwest us the earthquake risk which is a very large risk command i think that we can show where we are going and tell you what we think is the path to get us there and then that will give you an opportunity to look at additional tools that you could give us. The stafford act was often times a constraint. In the past year we have responded to haiti which is traditionally the role of usaid. We were asked to support usaid command we did. We were asked to support unaccompanie...

Scholarship about the causes for the fall of the wall but the proximate causes, the short term events are not wellknown in the nongerman speaking world and so i decided for the anniversary to try to put together that story as best i could and then of course as always happens when you start researching something it becomes more complicated than you expected. It ended up being a fascinating rg 31 so let me just gallop through some of the ideas in my book and then if we have questions we can talk m...

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