Good afternoon, im the director of the program, operating here on the west side for adults with flexible schedules and the time for leisure learning, today we welcome you to the 92nd Street Series in partnership with time stocks. Featuring noted New York Times journalist and authors. Our tuesday with the time series as well as with all of our daytime lectures provide a forum for discussion and debate on issues that affect us all. Todays discussion focuses on a topic that still remains greatly in our consciousness. We welcome journalist james dwyer and kevin flynn for discussing their recently published book 102 minutes the untold story of the fight to survive inside the twin towers. Jim dwyer and kevin flynn are native new yorkers and winners of many awards together and separately. James dwyer joined the New York Times in 2001 as a reporter for the metropolitan section, prior to joining the times he was a columnist for the New York Daily News and before that he was a columnist for new
Homeless and tear gas to break right Police Crackdown on refugees in less space. And a roadmap for a return to democracy malis military and the opposition agree on a transition after last months coup. Hello thanks for joining us the Afghan Government and the taliban officials have come face to face for the 1st time to negotiate a return to peace after decades of fighting there in the qatari capital to find a political solution to end nearly 20 years of war from doha heres a sama bin job. After decades of war and conflict of understand finally has a shot at peace. This is a former of the minister whose governments been fighting the taliban here is the cofounder of the taliban still a potent fighting force. Once on enemies they sit in the same room facing each other for the 1st time since the start of the nearly 2 decades long afghan war follows a futile we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and r
Director of the program, operating here on the west side for adults with flexible schedules and a time for leisure learning, today we welcome you to the 92nd Street Series in partnership with time stocks. Featuring noted New York Times journalist and authors. Of our as with all daytime lectures provide a forum for discussion and debate on issues that affect us all. Todays discussion focuses on a topic that still remains greatly in our consciousness. We welcome journalist james dwyer and kevin flynn for discussing the recently published book 102 minutes, the untold story of the fight to survive inside the twin towers. Jim dwyer and kevin flynn are native new yorkers and winners of many awards together and separately. James dwyer joined the New York Times in 2001 as a reporter for the metropolitan section, prior to joining the times he was a columnist for the New York Daily News and before that he was a columnist for new york newsday and previously a reporter for burkink and record recor
Ground. In the fact that this square in front of Government House in minsk is empty now in the rain is no indication that these protests are losing their dynamism their momentum from the beginning this has been very diffuse protests spread across and then spread across the whole country and people have been coming out for events in the evenings going back to work and theyve really made a conscious decision not to set up a central part of the government then surround and clear arresting people even from where im standing now i can see people walking with flags on the side of the road drivers beeping their horns in support of those protesters so its a very fast moving very diffuse situation here but things looking good for president. You get a sense of people theyve lost their fear of challenging the government out in the open i think that something will be very difficult for the regime here to dial back even if these protests words die out there are stories of policemen who are just ref
Barack obama. This is a 45 minutes. My name is steve crown and on behalf of the crown family its my pleasure to welcome you to the Second Annual leicester crown distinguished lecture on u. S. Foreign policy. For last your selection we hosted former defense secretary jim mattis in front of an audience of 900, a scenario which would be unthinkable today. Covid19 pandemic has transformed americas economy, society and international relations. And along with protest for Racial Justice there are questions about americas Global Leadership, image and power. These questions have elevated the importance of the work of the leicester crown center on u. S. Foreign policy and the Chicago Council which my siblings and i founded in 2018. The Center Serves as a forum for the discussion and elevation of diverse perspectives on the big global questions. They can be policymakers, military leaders, journalists and analysts on stage stop the year to discuss their insights with the public and others. The cen