Children at a park. A political faction of taliban claiming responsibility. The park was crowded with christians on an Easter Sunday outing. A spokesman said the attack deliberately targeted the christian community. Many muslim among the dead as well. The explosion injured more than 300 people. Among todays top stories we had a couple of things. Microsoft reportedly in preliminary talks with private equity firms to help finance a bid to buy yahoo . This is according to several reports. Executives from private equity firms approached microsoft to gauge its interests. After its auctioning off its core business. Microsoft has had a partnership with yahoo for quite some time. Take a look at shares right now up marginally. Yahoo shares as well. Second time around. This will be the second time around, youll call when Steve Ballmer, they had meeting in airport hangars. What a mess that was. Dell is now selling its i. T. Services unit to ntt data corp. Part of efforts to raise capital and pay
Allowed, and i think that the best answer to it is for them to know that the United States is going to keep its commitment. I agree completely. Where people want to be free, under soviet or cuban domination, the United States should be willing to provide weapons to any men that want to fight for their freedom against those hostile forces. The 1980 texas republican primary debate between former california governor Ronald Reagan and george h w bush. At 6 00 on american artifacts the last ofing is the classical building. It is very near lot neoclassical. The dirksen building is nearly a mirror image of a classical building. Some people have compared it to a large ice cube tray, a very different looking building. Us insidechie takes the three Senate Office buildings. Senate Office Building to learn about its construction and place in construction history. On the presidency at 8 00, Senior Historian david ward chronicles Abraham Lincolns life through photographs and portraits. Lincolnher ex
Panel. Hairing this basically keeping everybody more or less on time although we are starting a little bit late. So i just want to introduce our panelists and the weight will get started. I think we will go in the order. Isted in your program weo this panel is on are going to so, this panel is on radio and National Heritage and we are going to hear first from jane gilden and a member of npr who will talk about how they created the npr historical archive. Good morning, everybody. This is jane, my colleague. We are from the Research Archive and Data Strategy team at the National Public radio. We are known as rad. In our company. Several of our colleagues are also in attendance in the conference, so please make sure and introduce ourselves to them and say hi to them. Our chief officer sitting in the atnt will also be presenting the interdisciplinary session, so please make sure you attend her talk as well. We are here to tell you about historicalted nprs archive in 2013 from scratch while
Year, cspans touring cities across the country, exploring American History. Next, a recent 11 our recent visit to long beach, california. Youre watching American History tv on cspan3. This is from the townsend letter on september 30, 1933, to the long beach newspaper, the Long Beach Press telegram. Saying, our attitude toward government is wrong. We look upon government as something entirely foreign to ourselves as something over which we have no control, and which we cannot expect to do us a great deal of good. We do not realize that it can do us infinite harm, except when we go to pay our taxes. But the fact is, we must learn to expect and demand that the Central Government assumed the duty of regulating business activity. When business begins to slow down and Capital Shows signs of timidity, National Government in the form of additional capital. When times are good and begin to show signs of a speculative debauch such as we saw in my can 29, the brakes must be applied. Thousands of
Are watchinggh American History tv, 48 hours of programming on American History every week and on cspan3. Cspanus on twitter at cpanhistory. The communicators, executives of the american cable association, board chair, robert gessner, and matthew coco talk about the future of the cable industry and the issues it faces, such as whether consumers would choose skinny bundle packages over the bigger bundles. And the regulation of the internet. And all of their networks will require them be carried on the most widely distributed level of service. And so does everybody else. Really, what we end up with is this bundle of bundles that everybody has to take. And as an operator, i would love to disaggregate that bundle insult the people as they wish and sell it to people as they wish. Of course, must consumers dont recognize, if that happens, the price of the individual or individual channels or even a bundle of channels will. Kyrocket you they arect is the providing settop boxes and committed o