Turnedones have been off. We will, of course, post our the heritage home page following our presentation today. Opening our session is jennifer marshall. Ms. Marshall serves as our Vice President for the institute for family, community and opportunity. Oversees our Research Areas that determine the character of marriage,ducation, family, religion and Civil Society. Andalso heads our Richard Helen center for religion and Civil Society. Manages our familyfacts. Org online source for the latest social science on those issues. Joining us here, she worked both at empower directornd as senior of family studies at the Family Research council. Please join me in welcoming marshall. [applause] jennifer . You, john. Ank and thank you all for being here for this conversation about in america. Were really pleased to debut this index of culture and onortunity, and here with me stage is David Azerrad, my colleague at the heritage foundation. Directs the simon center for principles and politics. And t
Now i am very pleased to introduce tonight speaker. Edward baptists associate professor of history at cornel university. Originally from durham north carolina, he is also the coeditor with the late stephanie camp of new studies in the history of american slavery and the louis hyman of american capitalism a reader ebook from simon schuster. The l. A. Times calls the half has never been told an ambitious new economic and social history of america and Peniel Joseph director of the center for the study of race and democracy at Tufts University writes that it is a true marvel. Groundbreaking thoroughly researched expansive and provocative able for scholars of slavery and its aftermath to reconsider longheld conceptions. We are pleased to bring to Harvard Bookstore tonight, please join me in welcoming edward baptist. [applause] im just going to turn this on as a stopwatch so i dont go on too long. I promise its silenced. Thank you all for being here to meet the economists favor favorite auth
[inaudible] the role that [inaudible] have had in strengthening the Iraqi Kurdistan . You repeat that . Yes. If you could please comment on the role that exxon, the oil company exxonmobil. Yeah, sorry. Okay. Thank you. Exxon is one of a number of Large International Oil Companies that have signed exploration and production agreements with the regional government. They did that under threat from baghdad, that they might lose their positions and privilege to develop oil fields in parts of iraq. P. M. They need a Banking Sector they need to be involved in regional trade, but oil is king, and exxon has played a leading role. Seems like a good place to leave these things. David, once again, you have given us a comprehensive sweep of the kurdish issue as well as the politics of the entire region. Again, the book is othe kurdish spring a new map of the middle east. And here with author david phillips. Please join me in thanking him for his insights today. [applause] booktv is on twitter and f
Achievement award to Toni Morrison and announcement of winners in several categories including general nonfiction awarded to David Ryan Davis author of the Nonfiction Book the problem of slavery in the age of emancipation. [applause] thanks louise and good evening to all of you. Its my pleasure to welcome you here tonight to the book Critics Award ceremony for the publishing year 2014. Where id have you join us this evening is now the most outstanding work of the past year in six categories, fiction and nonfiction biography poetry autobiography and criticism. Like i said in a gratitude to the others whove joined us here tonight as well as the editors editors publishers agents and publicists to help bring their work her attention to the National Book critics circle awards were founded in 1974 out of a conversation that took place at the out walk when hotel by grupo critters who want to establish a set of awards granted given by critics and sell them like other Literary Works are books t
We have seen a reinstatement of the dividends, francine. They have stuck to the tripling of the operating profit goal and they have increased it a little bit because of a new way of depreciating aircraft. I will be back a little later to tell you about why some are able to turn on the Inflight Entertainment. All right. Looking forward to that. Thank you. Ryan, you are following the ukraine. People are saying this is a game of russian roulette and we will see what happens. It is exactly where it was in 2009. The s p has risen. We are keeping a close eye on that. We are three days away from the referendum in crimea. This is important. Raises its cash offering for vivendi. It is an extra one billion on the table. Watching . Are we we are watching this whole movement in rhetoric from the u. S. And the ukraine is something that is on the back burner. New zealand raises rates and this is significant. Developed nations have to raise the rates. That is going to be in the midst mix. Performing