Bomb shelters were being built around the country. I made the joke all the time that the actual material that school desks were made of could actually stop a nuclear holocaust. [laughter] rob not true, but we used to joke about it. What happened was the cold war ended. Had,ber of administrations for a short period of time become a window where we all felt kind of ok, where the world is moving in the direction weve all wanted it to move, and a democratic direction where democracy was now starting to take hold, even in the former soviet union. It was very shortlived. We saw a man named Vladimir Putin, who was a former kgb void,al, fill a essentially taking over in a lot of chaos and an inability to make that transition to a democracy. He moved in, took advantage of the chaos, and started an authoritarian state, which meant ,imiting the freedom of speech clamping down on dissidents, even murder. We, and the cold war, had basically got to a point where the Nuclear Arms Race had buried them
Bomb shelters were being built around the country. I made the joke all the time that the actual material that school desks were made of could actually stop a nuclear holocaust. [laughter] rob not true, but we used to joke about it. What happened was the cold war ended. Had,ber of administrations for a short period of time become a window where we all felt kind of ok, where the world is moving in the direction weve all wanted it to move, and a democratic direction where democracy was now starting to take hold, even in the former soviet union. It was very shortlived. We saw a man named Vladimir Putin, who was a former kgb void,al, fill a essentially taking over in a lot of chaos and an inability to make that transition to a democracy. He moved in, took advantage of the chaos, and started an authoritarian state, which meant ,imiting the freedom of speech clamping down on dissidents, even murder. We, and the cold war, had basically got to a point where the Nuclear Arms Race had buried them
Thank you for making time on the program for this conversation about the future of our profession i am Randy Shepard i ended up spending most of my adult life in the supreme court. I now sit doing senior service. And i have an appointment over at the mccain school of law. To my right is rebecca corliss. Spent more than decade on the colorado supreme court. She left their ten or 11 years ago. She does all sorts of research and programmatic work. On the improvement of courts into the improvement of Legal Education and the legal profession. And then professor anderson certainly a man of circuit if there ever was one after his Legal Education at the university of chicago became a clerk despite his recent career i will say theres nobody has done more intriguing work. I will begin with the words was setting the stage. Not necessarily know about in detail. They provide considerable foundation for evaluating the current state of law schools both now and in the future. You could actually descri
And she can correct me in a few minutes. So tourism in new england began in the colonial era. Ford was the first great tourist city, followed by a city near boston. Beginf tourism cannot until the 1840s, coinciding with industrialization. Salems tourism lagged. We were not a Tourist Destination. If we wanted to, we went to the scenesn a lighted that 1879, there was a Steam Railway which was in salem. There was also a horse drawn trolley that went down at six street essex street. There,ere gazebos down the methodist summer camp changed over to be secondhome ownership. The wealthy of salem lived there. A small secondtier tourism destination in the 1880s. It is not lost that this was the home of the witchcraft hysteria in 1692. It was always part of our history. Apparently, in the 1880s, both the witch house, and the old goal of the basement remained. It was on federal street. Now since gone. Theyre both private residences. And you can arrange to visit both places. And that was perhaps th
A gathering held last month in pasadena, california. Hello, everybody. Im terry mccarthy. I am not getting my microphone working. Thank you. Of the 72 events we do every year, a substantial portion are about the middle east. I hope i do not have to prove that the middle east is a mess. I think we can take that as given. What we want to look at tonight is how we got here and where we can move forward. We are seeing a problem that cannot be contained within the middle east. It is spreading to europe and our own shores. I will start with david horowitz, who was dubbed by the New York Times as the intellectual godfather of the Trump Administration and has written a number of books. David, you have some strong views of how we got here, and also some strong views on how we get out. The floor is yours. First, a look at what we are talking about. In the eight years of the Obama Administration, 500,000 people have been slaughtered. Christians and muslims have been slaughtered by isis, all in th