Dollars in constitutional studies, economics, Foreign Policy and so on but perhaps our most anguished scholar at least if we can agree but it depends on what the meaning of distinguished is is our Hl Mencken Research fellow p. J. Orourke. I always say ive grown up with pj. When i was in college most popular magazine on campus was National Lampoon which he edited and i remember funny bits from National Lampoon i cant quote them as i think they all involve drug use, ethnic stereotypes or gender relations and theyre all forbidden now. He then moved on to Rolling Stone where he was Foreign Affairs desks chief which was totally cool because they paid him to travel wherever he wanted. But why you wanted to travel to beirut and to a televangelist retirement village was always kind of mystifying. And as he moved out of the rock n roll stage and into the age of sober reflection he became a correspondent for the sober us magazine in america, the atlantic monthly. He wrote soberly about medicare
Taking action against Climate Change a new round of global protests kickoff ahead of the un climate conference. Ok a breaking story for you this half hour iraqs Prime Minister Abdullah Abdullah marked he says hell resign in the face of the growing protests against his governments mr abdul mahdi who took charge last year says he will submit his resignation to parliament his decision comes after iraqs top shia cleric the grand ayatollah Ali Al Sistani called for a change of leadership protesters whove been calling for political change in iraq have begun celebrating well in 400 people have died in 2 months of antigovernment protests in a statement he said ill submit my resignation to the house of representatives in order for the council to. Its options may gold protect iraq and its people live to baghdad and correspondent mohamed jump to mohammed are we any clearer on when he might actually do this then. Peter no clarity yet on that point and its something that a lot of the demonstrators