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Good afternoon. I am delighted to welcome you to the brookingss decision Brookings Institution. I am even more delighted to welcome sylvia burwell, burwell, tolvia this event at brookings. I have known sylvia a long time. Over 20 years. Sylviafirst encountered in the clinton administration, i thought of her as that friendly, competent young woman who worked for bob rubin at the National Economic council. I learned that sylvia was the go to person and a cando person. That was a useful person to have around. I also learned that she liked to keep in touch with real people out around america, not ...

Up next, Laura Auricchio recounts the life of marquis de lafayette and wil the role he played in the american and french revolutions. This is about one hour. Okay. Im tim marshall, provost of the new school and im delighted to welcome everyone here for this wonderful event to launch Laura Auricchios new book which is right here. [applause] the Marquis Lafayette reconsidered which came out this month published by this has been research over the course of seven years its a major biography that dont into the personal life of the passionate french hero of the American Revolution over several tumul...

Facebook. Follow us on twitter in September Harvard universitys institute of politics in the Internet Association hosted a conference on internet policy and it included a panel of executives from google yahoo facebook yelp tripadvisor and ebay along with federal and local government professionals. Topics covered include Consumer Privacy and government regulation of the internet this. Is three hours well, good morning good morning i feel like we should vote on something but we are not going to do that. My name is jonathan zitran and on behalf of the Harvard Kennedy school of politics and center...

Inspection is the rapid disappearance of tropical forests and grass lands and other habitats where most of the diversity of life exists. With these global changes going onto say, we are needlessly turning the goals we have inherited from forebearers into straw. For that we will be despised by our descendents california has the most far reaching environmental laws of any state, and the most integrated policy to deal with Climate Change of any political jurisdiction in the western hemisphere under the law thats you have enacted we are on track to meet our 20 20 goal of a third of our electricity...

In your book about al gore and the gridiron dinner. What was it . In the last year of the clinton presidency, bill clinton, the president , decided he would bag the gridiron dinner, where the president usually goes to speak. And he didnt like it much. It was the second time he didnt. And taking his place was al gore. I got a phone call just a few days before the dinner, wondering if id help in Vice President gores speech. I got a call from my friend, bob shrum, who was a media guy for gore. And what they wanted me to do was have a phony interview with him, where i would ask all kinds of questi...