Joyce was appointed by governor perry to serve as the representative of the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of texas and she is honored to have been the first non lawyer appointed to serve on the board of directors of the Innocence Project of texas. I will ask her not to come to the podium and take over for a while. Thank you for being here. [applause] a good evening everyone im so glad to see so many of your faces i havent seen in years. Some of you are new to me altogether so im very glad to be meeting you for the first time tonight. I want to thank the doctor and the entire staff at the Dallas Institute for being so supportive of my work over the years whether it was in the form of books, manuscripts, screenplays, columns and magazine pieces. Doctor allen is always a friend i could call and i could get his opinion and he was always and is very supportive. Thank you. The Dallas Institute is great because you are here. Before we start i would like to dedicate tonights book readin
Gets 8. 3 billion buyout. Roach and intermun on the buyout . New alltime highs driven by the possibility of more stimulus in europe. Just a few points shy of s p 2000. First up, tax inversions in the spotlight, not talking about europe. Burger king in talks to buy canadian coffee and doughnut chain timms. Both Companies Say a combination would create the Third Largest Quick Service chain, a deal structured to shift burger kings base to canada, which has lower overall Corporate Tax than the United States but some thinking this morning is that taxes may not be the driving force on this one. Look, i think that theres always going to be anytime, its a hot button, especially walgreens not doing the alliance and president and treasure secretary saying weve got to stop these. This United States a deal that makes a lot of sense. Burger king challenged at breakfast, tim horton doing fath f fantastic. Burger kings last few numbers, doing okay, theyre not as bad as they used to but flattish comps
Inversion. They would operate as a standalone brand. Two points on the burger king deal, even though it is an inversion, this deal likely a little bit more like a real deal in terms of strategic merit, both in terms that 50 of the company would be based in canada. There are reasons to keep it there, but more importantly from a 3g perspective, the guys that own burger king, we saw what they have done with inbev and heinz. This is sort of their approach at taking a Restaurant Company and using it as a platform to buy a lot more. I would argue to everybody that this is just the beginning. We should see the transaction cross the tape later this week, probably tuesday more likely wednesday. Well talk more about that in a moment, but for now well send it over to michelle. Im dying to talk burgers and donuts. I think it has more to do with fries. They finally said, you know what . The fry situation, the fry problem was too big for us at burger king. Youre right. Tim hortons has a track record
We are here to get to know one another and also to celebrate the publication of a very special book by joyce king exonerated. Many of you have already read that so you know whats in it and some of you have lived through something similar to that so you know about the life that is depicted in it and we are very honored to have joyce at the institute. Im going to turn it over to her and i will reappear later. For those of you that dont know joyce came i want to introduce her. Shes a native texan whos traveled the world over with a message of justice, hope and healing. Shes an awardwinning veteran broadcast journalist and was a news anchor. The story of the dragging in jasper texas. We probably remember that if we have the book and its a powerful look in the end it is published in 2,002. It received widespread coverage and discussion everywhere from good morning texas to the Oprah Winfrey show and shes also written a memoir growing up southern white men i met along the way is the subtitle
Henry wade was the da . He was the longtime dallas da for almost three decades, and a lot of people remember him from roe v. Wade, of course. I call them in the book the prosecutor who was denied because while the polish off the ruby. A lot of people have a great a fight for every week. Im sure the legacy he left was due to him being a man of his time. Times change. There needs to be equal justice more so in the state. I just want to mention what were talking about justice, dont you believe that america is crying out for justice in some form or another all over, whether its ferguson, missouri . Whether its isis and beheadings . You see americans crying for justice. They want justice in some way or another, and that brings me to my longtime thesis, justice can open the door to even but we have to get it first. What was kings great quote, the arc of justice know, the arc of history is long but it tends towards justice speed back thank you. Nobel peace prize winner from 50 years ago octob