Legendary teacher of constitutional law and related subjects he himself argued many cases before the United States federal courts including the Supreme Court. A frequent public commentator on issues and perhaps the most gifted translator legalese into plain english. [laughter] which the public oppose him a huge debt of gratitude. Caller. Thank you. Let me start by thanking the tucson festival of books for having me and for all of you for coming it is enormously gratifying for me as an author but to see so many people on a beautiful afternoon coming to hear about sreme is really wonderful. Thank you. [applause]s i will tell a story the book begins with. I will tel i was teaching a case that you are very familiar with borland charlottesville virginia. By all accounts she had a normal childhood, went to the Public Schools through Junior High School always received passing grades. Her father left her mother, her mother was destitute, her mother had no choice but her sister in foster homes
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Ever, i dull into nate than ever i sort of began realizing i was going to be gay. Theres no verb about it at this time it was only a noun or an adjective. So the response i get from people now and i think its one of the exciting things about writing for young people is when you write for young people, you dont just write for them you write more their parents and aunts and booksellers and librarians. And so what i hear just like you said, ellen is people who write to say im a 70yearold gay man, and if i had had this book when i was in middle school, i wouldnt have maybe have been in the close earth for the clottest for the or 12yearold boys who say im the only boy in my dance class in utah and it was so cool to read a character like nate. Whatever that boys going to grow up to become, i dont know but its exciting to know that there are voices on the shelves that are being published, by the way, so many publishers that are doing this. And simon and suiter has really put it out there for
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Environment it. Melissa thank you. Thats all we have today. O. C. You back here tomorrow. The willis report is next. Gerri hello. Im gerri willis. Despite of fiscal cliff deal, there are still many financial challenges our nation faces this year. As a result many say 2013 will be a year of fiscal difficulty. Maybe even a recession. Still to be addressed, the debt ceiling tax an entitlement reform, even the ballooning Balance Sheet of our nations Federal Reserve. As released from the december meeting suggesting even likely end this year. I am pleased to welcome steve forbes and chairman and editor. I will get you to the Federal Reserve second. I want to talk to you about this fiscal cliff legislation. I no youre not happy. Each other but have been better to go over the cliff and negotiate from there. What it is about this legislation you dont like . What it does is remove capital from the economy, punishes risk takers and punishes Small Businesses that are still going to get caught by t