For that. Brief comments about Justice Breyer cant begin to do justice to him, so im going to have to be unjust in light of time constraints that im subject to. Justice breyer has always been remarkably generous with his time in supporting society projects. And indeed, in less than two weeks on june 6th, at our annual meeting, hell be delivering the societys 41st annual lecture. And of course, hes doing these extra projects for the society at a tremendously busy time for him and for all of his colleagues on the court. So Justice Breyer, thank you so much. Some background on Justice Breyer. He was born in san francisco. He eventually, after stanford, came east. Farther east. Hes got a ba from Magdalene College at oxford. He earned his law degree at harvard. He went on to clerk for Justice Arthur goldberg this court. He served with great distinction in the justice department. He served as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee at one point and served in other similar roles durin
Brief comments about justice brier cant begin to do justice to him, so im going to have to be unjust in right of time constraints im subject to. Justice brier has always been remarkably generous with his time in supporting society projects. And indeed in less than two weeks on june 6th at our annual meeting hell be delivering the societys 41st annual lecture. And of course hes doing these extra projects for the society at a tremendously busy time for him and for all of his colleagues on the court, so justice brier, thank you so much. Some background on justice brier. He was born in San Francisco. He eventually after stanford came east, farther east. Hes got a ba from Magdalen College at oxford, went onto clerk for Justice Arthur goldberg, this court he served with great distinction in the justice department. He serve said as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee at one point and served in other similar roles during that period of his career. He has taught at Harvard Law Schoo
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You to our event with the assistant secretary of defense for into security affairs. We have been fortunate to engage him on several aspects of our policy research over the past decade and while he is serving in the Administration Since 2017 and randy thank you for your service to our country an Important Role you play in the administration. Randall shriver was appointed as assistant secretary of defense i President Donald Trump on january 82018 previously having served as Deputy Assistant secretary for Pacific Affairs under which portfolio he covered china taiwan hong kong and australia all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of chief of staff to the deputy secretary of state from 2,122,003 and served as an activeduty nato Intelligence Officer deployed in operation Desert Shield and desert storm. Beyond his government career randy has been a leading thinker on wings of issues in u. S. China relationships over two decades and a robust voice on the future of that relationship asking
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining deadly violence has hit a remote part of indonesia this week violence that appears to have started because of a text message it happened in papa province which is next to pop in a guinea its a place ethnically and culturally distinct from much of the rest of indonesia and it intermittently sees tension the latest violence was apparently sparked by a text message from a student who said that a teacher had racially insulted a pop and student officials have called the text fake news in any case that message spread and angry crowds turned out torching cars shops and buildings more than 30 people have died in the unrest so far. Joining us is fed rianna fear dowse a journalist based out of jakarta who has been following the story this seems a really dramatic response to a text message whats going on this is actually in a coalition about what happened in best the spouse shape of the year so i think the root of the problem is still the se