Pleased to have with us Toni Morrison for indepth conversation about her lifes work. Toni morrison, as he began, ive seen several citations that you told people that its easiest best most apt to describe you as a black woman novelist. Is that correct . Absolutely. What are we the public to take away from your choice of those three words . I think it was an attempt on my part to choose to be given the status of honorary white male writer. Generally speaking, womens work has been reduced to regional or merely or people complement ethnic writers by saying or implying that they are as good as mainstream writers and whereas i understand the complement, i thought it would be better for me to, at least in the late 60s early 70s to establish once and for all that all three of those things play, and black, i am a woman, and im a writer and they go together. Youve also always been a teacher. Yes. Why is that important to who you are and what you do . Edit quite know what else to do when i gradua
His work has appeared in the New York Times, salon and many other publications. He is the Elizabeth Morris Political Science at Windsor College in oregon in portland, tonight he presents his new book the fire is upon us, James Baldwin, William Buckley junior and the debate over race in america. Please join me in welcoming nicholas buccola. [applause] thank you. Really appreciate that introduction. I want to start by saying how special it is to me to be with you. I live 3 blocks from here for 5 years when i was in graduate school and i would come to romans every wednesday with my mom kathy who is sitting here and my late cousin kathy martin and we would go to lemley and see a movie and it is special for me to be here tonight. Tonight i am going to talk to you about something that happened in this space, february 18, 1865. February 18, 1965, 54 years ago. This space was filled with 700 people. Every spot on the benches was taken that people sitting on the floor in deep violation of the f
[indistinct conversations] thank you for representing the people. Ive had several people come up and tell me i did an amazing job. I know i did an amazing job, but its so great to hear it. Theres some people saying we need to set a magic threshold to get a welfare check. Infiltrating the party and fighting over the money. And 2012 they had three state affiliates, all of which had a different president ial candidates on the ballot. I do not want that happening to this party. I want this party to stay libertarian for my entire life and beyond. More room tomorrow, to the white house coverage with the libertarian nomination process from florida. Secretary, we proudly votes tof our delegate the next president of the United States [cheers and applause] each year, nancy pelosi holds a womens History Month reception at the capital. This year, Michelle Obama, joe biden, and Cathy Mcmorris rodgers joined her honor Women Veterans. This is one hour. The thank you for joining us for this annual cel
Thank you. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you all for your presentations. We have 20 minutes now for questions. Im sure that our panel can give us some great insights and answers to questions. My question really would be this. You have all kind of been there, done that as governors. What tip, what piece of advice would you give to us all as governors that would help us become more effective in our jobs in our respective states . Lets start reverse order. Senator warner, we will start with you and go that way. Will that be okay . I think one of the things that is never going to get you very much attention but if you can keep pounding at home, i think the kind of argument we have between Big Government and small government is false choice. People want effective government in trying to jack markel did a great job when he was treasurer of delaware and helped teach me. Finding ways where you can deliver more Efficient Government and squeeze out efficiencies whether purchasing power, whether
Meaning. While trying to enhance competition in the settop box market, the item shoots miles beyond that narrow frame on its very first page redefining statutory terms referencing to hardware such as navigation device, interactive communication equipment and other equipment to mean hardware or Software Including apps. I dont know how much clearer the terms device or equipment could be in their intent to reference tangible, physical hardware. If those words dont work to restrict the commission, are there any that could . I dont think that anyone here believes for a second that stellar could have made it out of a single congressal committee if the members knew it would be interpreted to allow the fcc to force them to stream all of their content for free to any app developer willing to jump through a few hoops. Getting back to the original question, why this proposal . The rational stated is to achieve parity among competing interfaces and first glance anyone can see that the opposite wou