Excessive too prevalent and insufficiently investigated. I thought that it would be interesting to write a book built around the six categories of identity were conflict is often a major way in which the past is written about, to say hold on this is indeed part of the story, but theres another story to tell as well. Ive tried to make the case for getting more attention to in this book. Seems to me that very often, more often than not, i think, the world is actually a more complicated place than that, and it seems to me that its maybe the job and its certainly the predilection of pundits to say the world is simple. It seems to me that part of the job of professors at princeton and elsewhere is to say the world is a very complicated place, and you ignore that complexity not only at your peril but maybe at ours as well. Host page 264 you write the history of humankind is at least as much about cooperation as it is about conflict. Can you give an example of that . Guest well, the book is f
The regulators and the federal agency a few weeks ago said youre not taking enough risks on mortgages. You have been insisting they make down payments and that is weak. We want you to accept 3 down payment that will lead to overtime for a lot of people have mortgages who thought they cannot sustain. They have the same effect on Financial Institutions and will have something close to a financial crisis. We should have understood from the beginning that its the role and then we could have reformed the government rather than try to impose restrictions on the private sector. Host does it look any different than the last one . Guest there will always be some differences but if we keep going this way with the government in charge of mortgage standards we are bound to have a financial crisis again. This is not something that is irrelevant to them. If it is a loyal back if the mortgages in your neighborhood have the value of your home is to decline expected whether your neighbors can sustain t
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Museums are magic places. They can take you back into history or forward into an artists imagination in just a few steps. This is the National Gallery of art in washington, d. C. Are many worlds to explore at the National Gallery. You can imagine yourself to be almost awhere. You have centuries to choose from. You can be in any mood. You can be any age. Theres Something Wonderful here for everyone. Im julie harris. I love to come here. Art is always an adventure for me. It makes me see people and places with new eyes. There was no such thing as a Public Art Museum 200 years ago. The only people who could explore art were the people who owned it. Sometimes in the gallery, i imagine that im walking in my own house. Well, in a way, it is mine and yours, too. All of this belongs to all of us. Ive picked some special things to show you. Each has something quite important to tell you. Art just doesnt happen, you see. It isnt created out of nowhere. Art reflects its own time, and it changes w