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Their later years a study of former professionals raises concerns about the long term consequences of playing the sport at the highest level. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program we begin with a meeting that could decide the fate of syrias kurds turkish president recha type heir to juan and russian president Vladimir Putin are currently holding a joint press conference in the black sea resort of sochi following talks on the future of Northern Syria after the withdrawal of u. S. Troops from the area turkey launched an offensive to clear the area of Kurdish Militias and carve out a socalled safe cell. The kurds who were backed by the u. S. And then turned to the army of syrian president Bashar Al Assad and his main ally russia for help erica won and who is meeting ....
The worlds oldest breaded tarried monarchy. Im sorry kelly walk into the Program Russia and turkey have reached an agreement on the future of Northern Syria and of meeting in the black sea resort of sochi letter reputing and wretch of type the president s of russia and turkey say that they are adding another 6 days to a cease fire that was due to expire this evening turkey wants to establish a 30 kilometer wide safe zone along the syrian Turkish Border which Kurdish Forces would be excluded but the announcement came just as the kurds insisted they had already pulled out of the border regions. We have Team Analysis our correspondent you are shadows in moscow dorian jones is in istanbul and yuri id like to begin w ....
book that year and confederate goliath earned the prestigious award for civil war history given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. let s give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] rod: thank you. rod: thank you. it is a pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. and i appreciate that. before i begin, if you don t mind, i d like to tell you the story about the young history major who decided after he got a bachelor s degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. [laughter] rod: so he was accepted, enrolled in a distant prestigious school of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. now, the professor was notoriously irascible, he came in after ....
[inaudible background conversations] good evening. i am the associate director of the leon leavy center for biography. which is supported by a generous grant from shelby white and the leon leavy foundation. the writing of biography is a famously argue extend lengthy process and each year we award for fellowships of $72,000 each to working biographers to help them across the finish line. over the past 11 years we have given out 44 of these grants and our fellows have produced 21 biographies to date. thanks to a grant from the sloan foundation we recently added a fifth fellowship also for $72,000 which will support biographies about figures and science and technology. the first winter is working on a biography of oliver sacks, laura snyder. another new feature of the center is unique two-year ma in biography and memoir which will train students in our historical research interview technique in narrative form and history of biography and memoir and how the forms have evolv ....