Ellen karel has written a book called force. Whats on the front of starbucks . It is a motorcycle deleted or not and it is in the middle of nowhere in the southern south america actually. It is a bmw because i took that motorcycle for three years alone and with it all over the world. We have passions and dreams. I always wanted to travel around the world. My passions have been certainly writing and motorcycle riding and i find myself at a fork in the road, unemployed and recently divorced. So, i decided that instead of just scrambling to try to find the next job i sold everything that i had, and i hopped on a motorcycle to visit and experience different cultures and different people all over the world. We come to forks in our lives and they are the things on the motorcycle that keep us going in the right direction and what we share and eat food with and finally, you know if you are a musician and you know what a tuning fork is in that brings harmony and resonance to that so there is a
Disagreements with the view ultimately to thinking for ourselves about what are the or the most reasonable ans to the fundamental questions and it seems to me that strauss does explicitly actually indicate that this is exactly what he is doing. That its a new kind of philosophical dialogue he is constructing, and i just want to read you a passage from his liberalism and ancient and modern, what is liberal education. He says the greatest minds utter monologues. We must transform their monologues into a dialogue. Theyre sid by side into it together. The greatest minds utter monologues even when they write dialogues. When we look at the platonic dialogues we observe that there is never a dialogue among minds of the highest order. All platonic dialogues are dialogues between a superior man and men inferior to him. Plato apparently felt one could not write a dialogue between two men of the highest order. We must then do something which the greatest minds were unable to do. Since the greates
Torture. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Hector tobar is a guest. Here is the book, kind of hard to see that title but it is deep down dark. Hector tobar, what is your book about . Its about the famous chilean miners who were trapped 2000 feet underground for 60 days in 2010. Win in 2010 did that happen . And october 2010. They were trapped at the bottom of this copper and gold mine, trapped beneath 700 meters of stone. The first two weeks they were slowly starving to death and then they were righteously found that they had to spend another 10 weeks waiting to be rescued. So where is the mine in chile located . And why did they get trapped . A mine is located in northern chalet a town that is 500 miles north of santiago in the desert which the price desert on earth. This minute been operating for 120 years. They work at the bottom of the spiral highway from the bottom of this mine 98 degrees 90 humidity. This mine just 120 years of being exploited collapse and trapped them. The only way out
Good evening. Im tom putnam director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum, and on behalf of the kenibrar and my of the ceo of the Kennedy Library thank foundation and all of my all library and foundation collects and i thank you for coming. Welcome all those watching on cspan. And acknowledge the generous underwriters of the kennedyth Library Forum lead sponsor bank of america, raytheon, bostonion, an our capital, the Boston Foundation and our mediart partners the boston globe, viacom. X you are for me with the story. Its th the late 1950s idential candidate scion to fortune, oneman force field of celebrity good look and charms, fresh all victory in his home state in the middle east and impatient under president eisenhower itching to get the country moving again and encountering his main impediment to the white house in the form of richard m. Nixon. The description applies to john f. Kennedy also fits nelson a. Rockefeller. The resemblance is more uncanny when compar
Television for serious readers. Im now happy to introduce you to tonights guest speaker. Robert house has been a visiting professor at, among other institutions harvard law school, tel aviv university, the Hebrew University of jerusalem and the university of paris. His books include the regulation of international trade, the wto system law, politics and legitimacy and outline of a femmenology of rights. Professor house has been a frequent consultant or adviser to agencies including the Interamerican Development bank. Professor house is also a member of the board of advisers of the nyu center for law and philosophy. He serves on the editorial Advisory Boards of the london review of International Law, the journal of World Investment and trade, transnational legal theory and legal issues of economic integration. He is cofounder of the new york City Working Group on International Economic law and is a former ihouse resident. Please join me in welcoming him to international house. [applause