1960 to the present. The change good afternoon. I am in the a and i am here with gail collins. I dont think i have to introduce everyone. She was the columnist for the New York Times, among many illustrious points in her career, and time at the end for questions. I want to start by saying this panel, i titled it, it is called dancing backwards and come from joe russells house, dont know if you remember bill russells house. He was in the nixon administration, and his wife was a policymaker and woman of some fluids. It occurred to me when i was 13 and going to Getting School that dancing school, and what you have to dance backward all their lives. Speaking about Hillary Clinton i knew we would get to Hillary Clinton. Host i want to start with journalism, you started in the early 70s, you have said you did not have to break down the walls, and a few years ahead of you have taken their backss coronation style lands gotten in, started covering the connecticut state house. Had to be mostly m
I think i just got an f from you actually. applause Margaret Atwood welcome. Thank you. Very nice to have you here. Lovely to be here. So interested in this new book, congratulations on it. May i say nobody does dystopian like you do dystopian. laughs is that a compliment . Oh my god its the biggest compliment in the world. I mean the world that youve created in this book will come back to the handmaids tale at some point here soon reminiscent to my mind of the dystopia in that book. But i love the plot of this story, i love the characters and i think it goes in odd places that make it a very compelling read. It goes in very odd places. Very odd places. My read on this was it was 1984 crossed with the truman show with a little of masters of sex in there. laughter others may have their own equation. What was the genesis of this book and of this story . Once upon a time. Yes. Long long ago. [evan] were gonna go all the way back good okay yes. Once upon a time i worked with an editor call
[ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and today im on old route 66 in central illinois. Im heading to the small farming town of lincoln, where the strangest of inheritance stories unfolded. On a monday morning in july 2012, farmer bob pharis heads out to mow hay on some land he leases from an old friend named ray fulk. And it was very uncommon for ray not to come out and talk to me. And then i smelled something. I happened to look over and the bin door was open and that was not a good sign. I just went over there, and then i found him. And then i called 911 and. The county coroner, acting on info from a neighbor, contacts attorney don behle to inform him his 71year old client has died of heart failure. Behle cannot even remember fulk. I hadnt seen him in 15 years, and so i had no idea who theyre talking about. How strange is it that were here right now talking to you about this guy you barely remember . [ laughs ] its very strange. Don checks his files and realizes he indeed worked with someon
[ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and today im on old route 66 in central illinois. Im heading to the small farming town of lincoln, where the strangest of inheritance stories unfolded. On a monday morning in july 2012, farmer bob pharis heads out to mow hay on some land he leases from an old friend named ray fulk. And it was very uncommon for ray not to come out and talk to me. And then i smelled something. I happened to look over and the bin door was open and that was not a good sign. I just went over there, and then i found him. And then i called 911 and. The county coroner, acting on info from a neighbor, contacts attorney don behle to inform him his 71year old client has died of heart failure. Behle cannot even remember fulk. I hadnt seen him in 15 years, and so i had no idea who theyre talking about. How strange is it that were here right now talking to you about this guy you barely remember . [ laughs ] its very strange. Don checks his files and realizes he indeed worked with someon
San francisco board of education San Francisco Unified School District for tuesday, october 11, 2016, is now called to order. Roll call ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton thank you ms. Wynns mr. Haney ms. Sing thank you. Please join me for the pledge of allegiance. Thank you we want to welcome everybody who is joined us for for those of you who dont know to address the board of education we want to ask you to fill out speaker cards theyre available in the hallway and please give them to ms. Casco before the item a called item a approval of the minutes no approval tonight item b sprurnts report superintendant lee. Thank you mr. Haney last wednesday im happy to announce that mayor ed lee joined Dianne Feinstein Elementary School students and families for subconsciously walk and role to city hall rec and park Phil Ginsburg joined us and sfmtas ed reiskin greeted the students it was estimated for 17 thousand students walked or rode their bikes to school sfusd t