just such a city. in 1998 at the age of 29 he was elected to the newark city council where he focused on cleaning up neighborhoods. some of his methods were unorthodox. in one of the best-known examples he went on a hunger strike and camped out in the middle of a drug-ridden housing project, an act that prompted dozens of neighbors to join him because they were concerned about his safety. and it worked. the newark mayor, sharp james, who had opposed earlier reform efforts, agreed to increase police patrols in the area. in 2002 booker decided to take on city hall, literally. he ran for mayor against the four-term incumbent. after losing in a campaign later chronicled in street fight, an academy award nominated documentary, he withdrew from the public eye but not from public service. he remained focused on transforming his city and four years later he ran for mayor again. in 2006 cory booker was elected the 36th mayor of newark by a huge margin. currently serving in his secon
total control of the committee, we went out for two pitchers of beer and the came back and said the us a tax bill with 25% tell. he said you have to give it a mortgage interest deduction. i said what about 26%? you could make the ban just to homeowners much more aggressive. what we did was to convert the home mortgage deduction to a tax credit that are lower rate. exchanging the tax code, yesterday and today. current and former lawmakers at the bipartisan policy center on the battles won and lost. find it on line at the c-span video library. now, discussion on professional journalism and the impact social media on news reporting. stanford university hosted the discussion with social media editors and journalists in silicon valley, including the creator of mobile news, the executive editor of yahoo! news, and a special media strategist for national public radio. this is 90 minutes. welcome to the symposium. i am the director of the journalism fellowship at stanford. i wi
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good evening, and welcome. i am happy to introduce a brand and just a note but we are being taped by c-span, so when we get questions at the end, we will want to entertain them, so i will call you at that point. he is the director of french studies at nyu. he is the author of five other books. in 1999 he received the distinguished teaching award. we are particularly lucky to be one of the sites to discuss his new book, and this is something we have been looking forward to for over a year now. he has been indelibly linked with the poem at the statue of liberty. good he has worked on the exhibition on display until the end of 2012, and i am pleased he here to share his inside. one reason we decided to do this is this is a big year. we are into the year 125 years into the dedication, so it is a perfect time for your book to come out, and i think very few people really know where the idea came from for the statue, so give us some insight into how it came into being. it came i