The European Unions breakfast negotiator Michel Bonney is says hes ready to intensify talks on a trade deal with the u. K. Last week british Prime Minister Boris Johnson said negotiations were effectively over the u. K. And e. U. Are trying to strike a deal by the end of the year. They have been new clashes between armenian and Azerbaijani Forces in the disputed region of nagornokarabakh despite a humanitarian ceasefire agreed late saturday both sides accusing each other of violating the truce it was the 2nd attempt at honesty is in a week hundreds have died and thousands have been displaced since fighting fled last month. This is deja news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at news of visit our web site d w dot com. Americans are turning out in Record Numbers in early voting standing in line for hours and that in the middle of a pandemic the polls show joe biden with a commanding lead over president would draw if trump were to pull ahead this late in the campaign and win i
Council i would like to think you offered joining with us. We would like to welcome ali khan and cspan book to be to this breakfast program. He will be discussing his book, the next pandemic, as a former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and t prevention, he isn the front line in the front to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. He is not the first to have done so. Throughout history, humans have beento fighting diseases, waging deadly and neverending word against contagious. In fact, there has never been at time when humans were not affected with microbes and fought against him. During his time as a selfdescribed disease detective, our speaker has had hise own viruses, Infectious Diseases and contagion. For example, 1995 he worked among red cross workers in that year for the first double crisis, after 9 11 he was called to washington to prevent the spreadntnt of anthrax in the see office building. In 2003 he was call
I am pleased to introduce tonight speaker Professor Emeritus at virginia, the university he chairs the History Department the editor of a five volume collection of letters as well as the author of dissent of the Supreme Court and the nations constitutional dialogue the lies in the state for affirmativeaction is part of the national dialogue. Many of us have struggled to explain the policy and how it works. In his new book the affirmativeaction puzzle traces to through the present day with Historical Context how affirmative action takes on racism. On the cover Orlando Patterson rates it is a comprehensive account for this nonwhite version of affirmativeaction and in the challenging historical task that no other issue divides americans more it is meticulously researched and honestly crafted work to draw their own conclusions about the value of this experiment. Please join me to welcome Melvin Urofsky to harvard bookstore. [applause] thank you. As a historian my mentor always told me to s
It is on sale, by the way outside the room here. John has long been one of the leading voices on the intersection of science and Public Policy. And make no mistake, however calmly, reasonably expressed, his is a very contrary invoice. It was johns New York Times column, the big city, which ran from the mid 90s until 2002, that first made me a fan of his work. There, he took on any number of prevailing myths about cities. From the efficacy of rent control to the root causes of homelessness to environmental policy. One remarkable column was his irritation at Rosie Odonnells relentless public criticism of mayer Rudy Giulianis use of Law Enforcement to get the homeless off of new york city sidewalks back in the 90s. So how would odonnells, hometown deal with a similar problem john wondered . So he let his beard grow for a few days, he did not shower, then he dressed himself up in dirty clothes in a torn parka and headed up where he plopped himself down on the sidewalk right in front of odo
Their work reflects on critiques, technology and law cover topics such as facial recognition, computer security, Online Harassment and freedom of expression. Theyre ask youing the new book lurking, a history of the internet that will resonate with anyone who goes online to listen and learn. Not shout and grandstands. Mcneil trait treyses the commercialization of the Digital World in unaccepted and playful ways revealing what has been lost, what stolen, and what you utonage utopian possibilities might still eaves. Join me in welcoming them. I have a really brief reading i wanted to do. Sigh read there or here or its up to you. I will just stand up. Its just a short passage that with give you a sense of the style of the book. This is in a chapter called sharing. Around the time of its first iphone launch in sorry around the time of the its first smartphone flank 2007, it was possible if unwise to talk about apple as an underdog, and adopt the corporations own narrative am holdover since