War on drugs. Where does your name come from . I was born in czechoslovakia. Is not czechoslovakian. Wanda with a w is a fairly common polish name. The one that i was named after, is the inventor of orchids. It is interesting because a lot of my work is based on working on endangered species and conservation. I guess i was born to this name. My last name is arabic even though i was born in czechoslovakia. Brian you thank your mother in your books. Vanda essentially, those letters are the female endings. It can mean belonging to the man. For simplicity, and also because i did not want the connotation, i dropped those letters. Brian how long have you been in the United States . Vanda about 30 years. I came in high school. I started high school in the czech republic. I won a scholarship to a private, american high school. It was extraordinary. I loved every moment. I was very grateful. I never went back. I did all of my undergraduate work and graduate work in the u. S. Brian describe the
Each weekend on cspan2. Here are some of the programs look out for this weekend. In light of the recent sale of the Washington Post to the founder of amazon, we will have an encore presentation of the 1997 book notes interview with katharine graham. This happened during a tenure that spanned 20 years and she died in 2001. Tomorrow booktv brings you a collection of programs that discuss the cost of higher education. All of these programs can be viewed at booktv. Org or tune in for the topics and more all weekend long here on booktv. For complete schedule, visit booktv. Org. Started now on booktv, Robert Kaiser across the struggle to pass the doddfrank bill after the 2008 collapsed. Tranfive covers a legislative process for the Washington Post and talks about the Major Players who passed the legislation and discusses what he learned about the workings of the u. S. Congress. This is about an hour and 40 minutes. I think we will get going. I would like to welcome everyone here today. I am
Small gardens replace in our classrooms or our homes. One thing i did was i endeavored when there was an issue of conflict between a muslim and Christian Community, i had the Muslim Community school right down what they felt would be the ideal garden, the shapes and sounds and images that warmed them and brought a sense of peace. Then i had the Christian Community to the same. Then i had them actually create each others garden, literally tending each others garden. I think that kind of work is very valuable and can be a tremendous source of healing. You think about any kind of trauma, not simply war, but natural disasters, the idea of bringing aspiration to action and doing things for others i think is very important. One thing i wanted us to brainstorm together in addition to some external places and spaces we can create, i think there is some internal spaces that we can that we can build and nourish through things like spoken word, giving victims and the people around them restored s