This is about an hour. At the end our staff would appreciate it if you would pull the pin chairs to put them up against the wall. With a rather unusual situation hosting events guantanamo diary without the author because the author Mohamedou Slahi is still in president guantanamo. He has been there since 2002 and that is where you wrote the book in the summer and fall of 2005. He is there even though he is never actually been charged with the crime and even though the federal judge awarded every these five years ago but we have members we have the legal croupier moderating the discussion among them. But my mom did as he and in the account at the guantanamo with deal the diary of the dtb it is immensely revealing and also ironic and hubris at times but he said he holds no the greenwich to corrected it contains any errors and maybe one day around a cup of tea having learned so much from one another. If the path he completed his degree in Electrical Engineering had worked for most of the
Bought with taxpayer money now disappeared. The news 4 iteam tracking them down. And renting out a room in your house. The local county that wants to tax it like a hotel. The man who was punched by a teenager in a metro station last month says he is relieved that his attacker has been locked up. The video is disturbing. Albert langeberg says he blacked out and doesnt remember getting hit that day, but he does remember the confrontation before the punches. News 4s shomari stone is at the Eastern Market metro station where all this happened. Shomari . Reporter good evening. That 69yearold man was attacked behind me at metro station. Tonight he cities down and shares his story. To listen to the birds. Reporter at 69 years old albert likes to sit on his porch and listen to chirping. Thats nice. Reporter and its peaceful the opposite of what he experienced on the Surveillance Video at the Eastern Market metro station last month. It was an unfortunate incident and i think i was just a random
Today we know that these three writers are gifts to the english language. This morning, the first author that i will be introducing nonother than dave barry. Lets give him a round of applause before he comes out. [applause] we all know that you cannot do justice to his talents and there he is. [applause] you just cant do justice by reading has lengthy biography or saying that his new work, insane city, his first adult novel in more than a decade. He is an individual for over 25 years have appeared in 25 newspapers, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and its pretty cool. Like every other kid in the 305, i grew up relishing reading him and today we are hearing from a hometown favorite in dave barry. In our next author is roy blount. Come on out and lets give him a round of applause. [applause] a master of language and the humorist to boot. He has authored 22 books in a wide range from robert ely to the Pittsburgh Steelers if you are an npr nerd, and you may also know him as a regular panelist
There he found an exclusive campus he. It he resented it as an undergraduate and came to resent it as a professor there. He then became president of the college. And it was at this time he decided now i have the ability to change what this college is. Wilsons predecessor in the presidency of princeton was a man who used to brag he ran the finest country club in america. [laughter] he did. There was no question about it. It was an enclave for the sons of the very, very rich. Wilson tried to tear that down. It was in doing that, he began writing about what he was doing and speaking about what he was doing. This is how the most immediate oric rise in American History occurred. People began to look at wilson, who used the princeton campus as a great metaphor for america. He believed Higher Education should be the great catapult for people. Anybody from any class in a country that has no classes but in such a country, anybody who is educate and works hard should be able to leapfrog. It shou
She is the author of textbooks as well. Including vice and virtue and a booklet as well. Thanks for being with us on booktv. Thank you very much. Comprise, thawl be talking about the development of the united. Joining us now on the host joining us now on the set here at miamidade colleges susan herman day job him is president of the aclu also author of the book taking liberties the war on terror and the erosion of sorican democracy. Where do we stand with the patriot actde today . Guest with the patriots back to people dont understand it is enacted after 9 11, 2001. They did not yet know what was going what liberty as we gave the government to try to prevent terrorism. So it has been defective and is solely directed to doh surveillance over two things but when george of the bush left the white house people were saying what you have to do now that there is a big the door that is Mission Accomplished . Prospect for change. Where . Guest one thing that happened. I started writing this wea