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Thank you. Mic on . Oh, yes. Sorry for that. I want to get started. We run as tight a ship as we can for world affairs. Welcome to session 2164 of the conference of world affairs, entitled the political crystal ball. How appropriate, given what is coming in the next couple years. Today is tuesday, april 8, and we are in umc 235. Ime is suzi addicks m have the pleasure of moderating this panel today. We will have each of our panelists give some comments, roughly 10 minutes. Them an opportunity, if they wish, to comment on each others comments. Up tonviting you to come the microphones on either ...

That you have. We do this out of respect for our panel and each other. We do not want these things going off in the middle of our meeting. I am when to start by introducing our four panelists in the order in which they will speak. On this, socided there is no significance to be read into the order in which they will speak. Our first speaker is to my immediate left, david bender. He is well known to many Conference Attendees for his involvement in public issues and political activities. He also has been a broadcaster and an author. One of the things you may not know about david is that his inte...

And he, in seventh grade, took a leave of absence to participate in bob kennedy, Robert Kennedys president ial campaign. So [applause] [laughter] it is called truancy. [laughter] i was trying to be diplomatic, here. Leave of absence. Second is mary hughes. Mary is a seasoned political strategist and author, who has focused her efforts on increasing the number of women in congress and state legislatures, especially california. [applause] fromhould know that 19842008, in the nine bay area counties in california, they sent six women to the house of representatives, 2 to the u. S. Many of us know,...

The dynamic duo will head to Western Australia in October.

The dynamic duo will head to Western Australia in October.