121 points and s p declined. 5 and nasdaq advanced. Lots of people rang the register after four sessions of positive action yet we still saw two huge winners emerge. Starbucks up 5. 48 and honeywell up 3. This matters. Im a gigantic believer that a ceo can determine how well the company does by leadership and execution. Pete carroll from the seahawks and Bill Belichick can take their places where no one else has gone. Thats what they have done. These two companies delivered superior quarters, such great quarters that you know to many other in their leagues, you have to sit back and marvel. I sure wouldnt want to compete against these guys. Think of the coach when you consider buying or selling a stock, as you hear later when a call out a couple of suboptimal performers. Lets talk about the game plan for next week starting with the microsoft. The new ceo, i like this guy, in a position to make more changes, more to the cloud and bring out the value of skype and xbox and maybe even take
Party appeared in the journal of womens history radical teachers and many collections of essays on the 1960s. She is completing a book on gender and organizational evolution of the black Panther Party in oakland, rebuking the risk the press and starting a second book product on the intersection of the movement for black liberation and the anti vietnam war movement. Next to her is barbara winslow, professor in the womens and gender studies program, the department of secondary education at Brooklyn College and one of my oldest and best friends. Theres a little message involved in my selection, not because they are my friends but because i know them well enough that i know they write well they want to communicate with College Students and the general public and they are interested in womens history. Barbara is founder and director of the Shirley Chisholm project 1945present and she is the author of Shirley Chisholm catalyst for change. Next to her is lara vapnek the author of Elizabeth Gu
Pride in being both barbadian and being of african descent. Let me throw out another question. In the 1970s professor Laurel Thatcher ulrich coined the phrase well behaved women seldom make history. [laughter] tell me if you agree. What rules did your women break and what rules did they follow and why . [laughter] well, for angela davis i think despite the fact that her upbringing was really one of the ways in which she was influenced and became amenable to the ideals of communism and the left, her mother being an activist, and she was also politicized in college as well, angela davis sort of coming into her own, she was born in 1944 and so she was growing up at the time of the emergence of the civil rights and black power movements. And in a lot of ways she stepped aside from some of the ideals of nationalism, the strong black identity politics, and she infused that with a sense of deep class analysis. So she was very strong in terms of the connection between to oppression and class,
American history tv is featuring cspans original series. At 8 p. M. Eastern on sunday night throughout the rest of the year. In a moment, we look at Abigail Adams. Cspan produce a series in cooperation of the White House Historical association. Video tours of Historic Site and questions from the cspan audience. We tell the story of americas 45 first ladies. Now, Abigail Adams. This is about 90 minutes. Abigail would grow to be the equal of john adam as confidant and dearest friend. She has really revealed herself as an 18thcentury woman, but her concerns sound very modern to us today. John and abigail had become so prominent in the mind of americans because this collection of papers in the publications that have open them up to the world. Its a story of sacrifice commitment to country, and abigail rose to the occasion. Abigail was adamantly opposed to slavery. She was she wore her husband, we cant rule without including what women want and what women have to contribute. The backdrop is
Modern to us today. John and Abigail Adams have become so prominent in the minds of americans because of this collection of papers and the publications that have opened them up to the world. The story of Abigail Adams in the revolutionary war is a story of sacrifice, of commitment to country and abigail rose to the occasion. Abigail was adamantly opposed to slavery. She was quite behindthescenes dynamo, i think. She warned her husband. You cant rule without including what women want and what women have to contribute. The backdrop to the adams brief occupancy of the white house is one of political defeat and personal tragedy. She is worried about her husband and defends him against slander. She is concerned about her children, their upbringing their education. She could hold her own with anybody, in her own time and since. She was in every way her husbands equal. Susan swain born in 1744, Abigail Smith married john adams at age 19. Over 54 years of marriage, they have five Children Toge