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Vigilance of the American Public. Host when you say managed and contained what do you mean . Guest if we had this conversation after 9 11 and the anthrax attacks and i predicted 45 americans would be killed by jihadi terrorist that would have seemed like an optimistic projection. But that is what happened and each of the 45 deaths is a tragedy but they are not on the scale of 9 11 1 or even the pars attack. You will not hear politicians saying we managed and contained the threat. You will not hear them say by the law of averages someone is going to get one through because both of those stateme...

His talk today will be on what he calls the law of amplification. So its a very interesting talk because, you know, here at mit our motto is let us build technology and, obviously, that will solve all of the worlds problems. [laughter] and its kind of a heresy in some way to have this talk, and the talk is aptly named geek heresy rescuing social change from the cult of technology, something thats very interesting because it provokes, you know, important conversations. Technology is important, but its also important to think about what is the impact of the technology and how do we design the te...

It has been 41 years. Since you and bernstein came out with all the president s men that chronicle the watergate scandal. And then your new book the last of the president s men it brings us back to that period. Looking at the Nixon White House with the chief of staff especially after he acknowledged today you think youre doesnt reporting on watergate . This isnt watergate but nixon and writing so many books on him. I thought i was done. It is a better one than you and i. The next time youre in washington with get together some have a few interesting stories that the Washington Post gives me on...

That lawyers play much too big a part in policymaking and it was a dreadful word strategy because they do everything on a casebycase basis. I think there is a distant, a physical distance between what he was viewing as the american skeptic schism. How thinskinned is he . Period. to commit more crimes with glee and relishes every death this caricature monster figure is something you can get past and the way to do that i thought was for all of humanity including the teenage jinxed that was part of the story to give them the motivation and that is the story of a relentless drive to be involved in...

Average american. It was forced into place in a society hadnt had before. Boris yeltsin was the president , drinking and dying and spreading along the way. He was worried about communism coming back so is idea was if we can quickly privatize, force capitalism by handing a way most of the assets of the country to private people we can create a hedge against communism. It cant come back if it is a private thing. So that was really his idea. They handed the country to these ambitious men who came from nowhere. The main father of this book was the godfather of the kremlin, he was a mathematician, ...