Booty. How about 700 extras, more than four months on set and a budget that hit 230 million. Do you think robbing a bank is easy . Something huge happening every day. It had an energy and a force that i have never experienced before. Reporter it was overwhelming for brendan dwayne. So he turned to the 25yearold who takes over for Kyra Knightley who takes over. We were in awe of all the actors and sets and things and turn to each other going its crazy. Thursday they invaded hollywood for their premiere. And since johnny is often said he and jack sparrow have a lot of similarities, he tests the cast with jack or johnny. Who is naughtier . Jack. Jack. Who is the biggest prankster. Me. Johnny. Who takes longer to get ready in the morning . Jack is never ready. Who likes the rum better . Jack. Johnny would kill me if i tell the truth. Johnny. Jack still got him. I want to be him. You are in your head. Its scary in there. Well be talking to jack and the pirates crew next week on e. T. But le
Example, we spoke about the tea party panel last yesterday. I dont know how many people were there for that, but you already see that a lot of those push button issues that fomented that anger within the tea party were issues that are now being coopted by the Establishment Republican Party, you know . Fiscal responsibility, school choice, issues like that. But now were going to see that the major parties are going to start to adopt it and so are the candidates. Theyre going to adapt a portion of that. And its very understandable. People, unemployment is still rather high. Corporations are making a lot of money because they are more productive, but theyre being more productive with fewer people. So theyre not hiring back a lot of the people that were let go during the recession. So on the economics front, how our candidates are going to address these issues is going to have a major impact. You know, im glad you brought up immigration, mary. The Immigration Reform, this is why you have p
Communities was corn as well as vegetables like squash and peas. Growing rice requires a kind of hydraulic system with canals and guides and gates and its probably not something maroons would have been in a position to construct. They were small plots. That was one of the things also. They were rather small so again when you grow rice it has to be even more extended. The final question. I havent read your work but im looking forward to it. I have a question. In relationship to the maroons looking at louisiana want to focus on that before the Louisiana Purchase and being in haiti there was a lot of transfer between slaves from haiti and louisiana to this through the French Connection and also being that in 1793 the first refugee crisis in america when the french planters came to louisiana and their words a lot of interconnections and in haiti there is a Large Population of maroons. So being there would you think that is also something that could have led to the spread of the marans . Im
Thank you. Mic on . Oh, yes. Sorry for that. I want to get started. We run as tight a ship as we can for world affairs. Welcome to session 2164 of the conference of world affairs, entitled the political crystal ball. How appropriate, given what is coming in the next couple years. Today is tuesday, april 8, and we are in umc 235. Ime is suzi addicks m have the pleasure of moderating this panel today. We will have each of our panelists give some comments, roughly 10 minutes. Them an opportunity, if they wish, to comment on each others comments. Up tonviting you to come the microphones on either side of the dais. We will give preference to students. If i see students in line, do not feel upset if i call them to the microphone ahead of you. That is the focus of the conference. I want to start this morning by reminding all of you to turn off your cell phones, any other elect rick Electronic Devices that you have. We do this out of respect for our panel and each other. We do not want these t
That you have. We do this out of respect for our panel and each other. We do not want these things going off in the middle of our meeting. I am when to start by introducing our four panelists in the order in which they will speak. On this, socided there is no significance to be read into the order in which they will speak. Our first speaker is to my immediate left, david bender. He is well known to many Conference Attendees for his involvement in public issues and political activities. He also has been a broadcaster and an author. One of the things you may not know about david is that his interest in politics goes way, way back. And he, in seventh grade, took a leave of absence to participate in bob kennedy, Robert Kennedys president ial campaign. So [applause] [laughter] it is called truancy. [laughter] i was trying to be diplomatic, here. Leave of absence. Second is mary hughes. Mary is a seasoned political strategist and author, who has focused her efforts on increasing the number o