Comparison of Abraham Lincoln and jefferson davis. The two wartime president s. He also wrote lincoln the lawyer, which probably everyone in this room has read. He wrote lincoln and the constitution, and lincoln and white america. He will be talking about his new this book coming out in lincoln in indiana. February,he will talk about lincolns indiana years. Thats where he spent from seven to 21, his formative years. He is going to tell us how important it was to his life. Please welcome dr. Brian dirck. [applause] prof. Dirck is my powerpoint oh. It is on. It is good to go. In my powerpoint. Let me try that nothing is happening. While he is working on that, thank you for inviting me back. I was sitting at dinner this evening. This is actually my third visit to the lincoln group. I have very fond memories of you guys. I dont know if any of you were here the first time i was here way back, i want to say in the year 2000. I was a freshly minted professor at my university with my first boo
Only the official photographer is permitted to take photographs. It is my pleasure to introduce Justice Stephen breyer. He has had a distinguished career, starting as a law clerk to goldberg and going on to have many important positions in the department of justice and working for the Senate Judiciary committee. In 1980, president carter appointed him to the first appeals and hef served 14 years and was the chief judge of that court. Clinton tapped him to be a justice here and he turned out to be one of six people who, during their career, served both as a law clerk at this court and asked a justice at this court. When he got here, he said at the sat at the far end of the bench for 11 years. It was the secondlongest time that anybody has sat as the most junior justice for the long a period. Now, he has had 11 more years and he has moved around on the bench. We are pleased to have him here tonight to host this evenings lecture. Justice breyer. [applause] Justice Breyer i think i missed
Welcome to al jazeera america. Im stephanie sy. Thanksgiving thursday is the new black friday. Well, at least thats what major retailers are hoping in 2013. Some of the nations biggest chains started the biggest shopping season. Kmart welcomed shoppers at 6am. Retailers say they needed to make the the the change because of the short span between thanksgiving and christmas. The earlier start meant shorter time at the skinner table. Jennifer glass has the story. The Christmas Shopping season is shorter this year because thanksgiving falls so late in november. So some shoppers and retailers are happy to get an early stamp for several years retail erts have been intruding on the thanksgiving holiday. It was a first for bignamed like j. C. Penney coles and macys. Shoppers are pouring in as the shopping season begins. Across the shopping the shopping started before the turkey was in the oven. Some kmarts opened at 6am. Bargain electronics was the best buy. What are you shopping for . I dont
In the chaos, in brazils world cup venue. Happy thanksgiving. We hope you had a great day. Families across the country are celebrating with friends and loved one, some bundled up to face 30 degree weather. Others are shopping, taking advantage of extended store hours. Major retailers like kmart opened early. Some are taking time to volunteer, giving to those in need. Shopping seemed to crowd into a lot of peoples holiday. Men are not waiting until black friday. Now we call it black thursday. Jennifer glass is at macys. What have you seen so far tonight . Macys opened its doors for the first time in 155 years, shoppers flooded in. They came in huge numbers, and its supercrowded. We were in there earlier tonight. Its wall to wall people on every floor. They are trying to manage people on and off the escalators. We talked to a couple of shoppers. Including a number of women that cant do this in their home state. We are from massachusetts, the stores will not open on thanksgiving. Theres n
Welcome and a happy thanksgiving to you. Across the country, family and friends are celebrating and shopping. Well bring you more on the holiday festivities at home and abroad but now we want to start in egypt, where alah fatal has been arrested, in defiance of a new law. Earlier Egyptian Security forces used water cancan on killing one student. Sentenced up to 11 years in prison. Hoda amil has more from cairo. Certainly there was an uproar across the board. People were angered seeing this 14 girls standing in that cage in the court and being treated as if they were highrisk criminals. Now these groups do belong to a group called the 7 00 a. M. Movement, that is a movement that does support the anticoup alliance and former president mohamed morsi. But typically what they did before going to school or university they stood in the street for about half an hour sometimes carrying balloons with the sign of their anticoup loins on it. On the day they got detained they were forming a human c