Publication of James Mcphersons the war that forged a nation, and louis masurs lincolns last speech. As i said before i really wanted to do this event because over the years i have been educated and stimulated by reading these two historians. And i also got an extra bonus on baseball from louis masurs book on the first world series in 1903. But as when you actually spent time lobbying the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of 65 and all the Voting Rights acts after that this book, these books in the work of these authors this isnt their only work as you know. Helps us to understand why the civil war, its causes, its aftermath and matters affecting raise, regional conflicts within our borders the boundaries between state and national authority, Nation Authority was a word that lincoln used, and with the the significance of the game change a, the postcivil war amendments, and how long it took, to have a way of making them real. So we are often a people who have trouble wi
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas ordered his foreign minister to file a complaint at the International Criminal court over the killing of an 18monthold baby. Thousands of people took to the streets in protest. In hebron some protesters clashed with the army and a palestinian teenager was killed during clashes with israeli forces. The u. N. Security Council Called for calm. In a statement that the u. N. Said members emphasised the importance of statements condemning the attack and acts of violence and encouraging sides to work to lower and rejects violence avoid provocation. The Widespread International condemnation is of little comfort to the people on the occupied west bank as Stephanie Dekker reports. Reporter the family share the only bedroom. They would have been fast asleep when their window smashed and the small place set on fire. They heard screens, this person saw the attacker standing over the parents. He went to get help. When he came back the two men were gone. Translatio
A veryk, you do have closely held economy, it is centralized. They have a lot of debt building effective shifted from one hand to the other. You can have a miniature kicking the can down the road but it will not become systemic and a horrible crime. This is a stability type question. You someone traveling around china doing a story. Cities relied on seal for their only out ports. People have taken pay cuts. They are being retrained. Is that going to happen quickly enough, or do you think there still is this sort of string of social unrest because the transition to the new economy is not happening fast enough . Unfortunately, the data we use to have about the social unrest is not recorded anymore. We know for sure there is a great amount of dislocation that is happening as china is beginning to move out of what it calls old industry. Moving its workers into the new economy and digital age. Plaster, there was a lot of talk coal laying off steel and workers and transferring them into a hi
Thats a look at some of the programs booktv will be covering this week and many of these are content events are open to the public. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening, everyone. My apologies for the slight delay, but im rick powell, the president wilshire boulevard, temple there were thrilled you here tonight but for security reasons we are a little slow getting people check into what you know each and everyone of you can appreciate. First let me wish all of you a very happy and most importantly a healthy new year. I would like to have our current trustees, our past trustees and our past president s at the time please stand up. [applause] that would you, howard. Thank you all for being here tonight. I am excited about this new year and all the wonderful things that this temple will be doing for our members and for our community as you see this evening here we are continuing to grow and we want to devote our purpose in our community. We want wilshire boulevard temple t
I can hauer austin, can you bring one home, dad, bring one home from the station. Did you bring one home . Right n2008 we got rufus, right here on good day philadelphia. See that . I know. So one is if you for us for now. You know what else it is, it is National Chip and dip day. Oh,. Winter coat, do not take a break from the winter coat yet. It is clear. It is cold. Bus stop buddy has his scar every and his gloves on, as women. 24 degrees, but with the wind factored in it feels like 16 out there this morning. Sun doesnt rise until 6 59. So still couple of hours left for that. Sixteen is our windchill here. Zero, mount pocono. Eighteen is what it feels like in lancaster. We have a windchill of 12 in wilmington, and 14 in wildwood, new jersey, what we dont have anything in the way of precipitation. Our numbers still going to be a six, because of how cold it will be. The good news it wont be quite as windy, as we head into our thursday. Fortyfive gross, will be the high. Sunny skies, jus