on tax reform that actually gets our economy moving again. if you look at what the president has been doing on taxes, he loves hiding behind straw men and calling taxes on millionaires and billionaires but if you look at the details it hits hard-working middle-class families in the gut. just last week the president was on billionaires row in san francisco raising more money from his millionaire and billionaire friends. when the president parties with million nares and rock stars he denies that same right to hard-working taxpayers and school groups. so what we re going to file again on monday is the buffet rule. i m going to file it in the house and the senator will file it in the senate. it says if people like warren buffet feel like they are not paying enough in taxes, put your money where your mouth is and there will be a check off box to send in as much money as you want. it will be used to pay down the national debt. we ll see if anyone wants to put their money with we re
x 5 l st. less than a block opposite the green. each of us has stories to tell about john morton blum. he touched each of our lives in a distinct and different way. that was his style. i can promise you that he has told me at least one story about almost everyone in this room. john blum came into the chauncey family s life 70 years ago. my father was charged by harvard to crisscross the united states looking for bright, able young men at that time. in order to change the traditional face of harvard which had been a bastion of the wealthy anglo-saxon northeasterners. my father and built bender discovered john and brought him first to handover and then to harvard. to say my father was proud of john is an understatement. my father believed that marriage was the only real test for admission to college and don deserved to be at harvard and proved it throughout his life. at my father s 90th birthday party aside from his own family, and and john were the only outsiders to be invited
competitive a coral process is and why that is. the reason that it exists is because people always act rationally and if you were a legislator, you would not want competition. the natural thing is to want to be able to go from alexian cycle to election cycle and move your way to president of the united states and not have to run the risk of being unemployed and going into the private sector which scares them esus out of the. there s no jobs. because of their actions, there is no jobs. they do what you expect them to do. they make sure that they do not have competitive races. as long as they are the ones that set the standards, i do not think you can expect much change. in new york, ed koch created an organization, if reelected, you will go and do fair, non partisan redistricting. i hope that they do what ed force them to commit to, but there is a long history of saying one thing before you get elected and say doing something different. is there any way you could ha
and airport pat-downs, these pale as security issues compared to the ticking time bomb in the nile basin. thank you. [applause] that was certainly scary. we have time for only a couple of questions. i want to be mindful of the next panel at 3:00 on yemen. perhaps we could take one or two questions and i also encourage you, if you do not get a chance to ask your question, i get in touch with the analyst directly. it will be here for the afternoon. the first question from this gentleman here. thank you. i m from the canadian government and thank you for your excellent presentation. i think my question is for jean- luc about the recent statement from aqim in which they informed the french public, they are often the cozy 84 hostages with osama bin laden directly. to me could you give your assessment on whether this is a sea change in aqim strategy moving to hostage-taking in support of global jihad? and could this lead to further tensions within the groups, those more focus
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