Latest incident. And the number of men remain missing, raising fears that the death toll from this brutal attack could still rise. And it every so west africa correspondent, funny fish are, says this attack follows government airstrikes, targeting the hardest insurgents in the countrys north. It remains unclear just how many people have been killed in this horrendous massacre on saturday in borno state in the north east orphanage area. The state governor there speaks of at least 70 people killed. And regardless of the actual death toll, one thing is certain. This is one of the worst attacks in recent years. He nigeria, a country that is suffering because of violence because of jihadism because of the uprising that began in borno state in 2009. Now, so far, no group, no militant group has claimed responsibility for this attack, but it definitely does carry to trademark the signature of or of its splinter groups that associate themselves with isis. The Nigerian Army has actually carried
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Test garfield figures this out, goes up to new york and suddenly saves millions of dollars in his first week as president. Lots of appointments we dont have time to go into. The one that i think is one of the more fun ones, we talked about him last week because he was one of the judges at the lincoln conspiracy trial and that is general lou wallace. Garfield appoints him to be the ambassador to turkey. Lou wallace wrote about the ben hur. And he tells lou wallace, im appointing you to be an ambassador to a Muslim Country so you can write another book. He gets involved with an ohio senator by the name of George Pendleton to try and draft civil supervisory form. Sadly, it only passes after garfields death. Good point for us to stop here and shift to the second character in our story. And there is nothing more different than this absolutely brilliant latin and greek scholar, president of the university, lawyer who argues ex parte militant, architecture, designs his own house, mathematicia
Publishing with the age of Political Polarization we are recorded by cspan so we will introduce each speaker so let me change the plan so then ill ask a question to have them jump in as they see fit and then we will be off and running at that point. The editor freemans journal the leading rider from around the world and is the author of several books and the tale of two america is. We have directly to his right michael has worked for the nexus of the literary cultural and political world between 1985 and 95 publisher and ceo of a german Publishing Company and then jumped the atlantic headed the new york belt publisher base he was involved of the satanic verses. In 1988 appointed commissioner for Cultural Affairs the chief editor than publisher since 2012 served as a director from the academy writing about Cultural Affairs and politics. So to his right joining the paris review as editor in 2018, before that at the southern review publishing many stories the best american short stories a