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[applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] Cory Doctorow that talks about the cross between copyright laws and Creative Industries around the world. This is about an hour and a half. [applause] thank you all very much. Thank you are coming tonight and thank you for hosting me. My father worked in our radical bookstore when i was a young person, sort of four, five six years old e4 he went to become a teacher. I grew up going around on the floor of stories like this it is always wonderful to come back especially two stores like red and those who are thriving so visibly. The l...

Of questions that feel a little complementary to me. One may even partially answer the other. First one is how do you balance religious freedom against islams desire to take over the world . The second one is, given your description of what islam is and does, how can it be considered a religion . Thats a very good question. Number one, i think we should define in america what a religion should be. And ill tell you what my definition will be. A religion will be given the respect in america to be practiced only if it respects human basic human rights. [ applause ] any religion any religion we ha...

In government, chris served as a staffer on the House Foreign Affairs committee, under representative lee h. Hamilton as the Deputy Assistant secretary of state in the bureau of intelligence and research and as Deputy Director of the 9 11 commission. He was also the president of the 9 11 Public Discourse project, the commissions follow on Public Education organization. He served as a Senior Adviser to the iraq study group. Please welcome professor chris kojam. Its a real honor to be here tonight, and this is in the very best traditions of this school. A very erudite, accomplished policymakers ...

Thomas pickering was ambassador to india and russia under the clinton administration. He spoke at George Washington University Last month about u. S. Efforts to promote democracy. This is about an hour and ten minutes. Thank you all for coming to this event. Were all very excited to hear from the honorable thomas pickering. The panel the conversation is going to be moderated by chris kojim who is a visiting professor of the practice of International Affairs after serving as the chairman of the National Intelligence council at the Elliot School he was previously the director of the mid career m...

Thats one of the areas in which they had the least support, and theyve gotten the least insight. Theyre struggling with, how do i deal with whose kids native language is not english. That is a weak zone ive seen in my reporting. Not to mention kids with special needs. Kids far behind academically. Absolutely. Chris, is this your experience as well . Yeah. Its my experience with whatever state standards weve had in the past as well. I do think that we have a real challenge as a condition tri about what do we do with kids that are below grade level, our current testing structure tests at grade l...