Brief comments about justice brier cant begin to do justice to him, so im going to have to be unjust in right of time constraints im subject to. Justice brier has always been remarkably generous with his time in supporting society projects. And indeed in less than two weeks on june 6th at our annual meeting hell be delivering the societys 41st annual lecture. And of course hes doing these extra projects for the society at a tremendously busy time for him and for all of his colleagues on the court, so justice brier, thank you so much. Some background on justice brier. He was born in San Francisco. He eventually after stanford came east, farther east. Hes got a ba from Magdalen College at oxford, went onto clerk for Justice Arthur goldberg, this court he served with great distinction in the justice department. He serve said as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee at one point and served in other similar roles during that period of his career. He has taught at Harvard Law Schoo
Creates a literary and philosophical interview with Whittaker Chambers. In odyssey we see chambers again bear his soul. To young admirer, friend and colleague. I was struck, most of all by the deep emotional intensity and raw humanity that flows, of so many of these pages. Amen is trying to account to himself and two world how he made his choices, where he fell and where he blundered, but also there is no going back, doing the right thing can still mean anything, not just for his own soul but his family, couny and generation. Bill buckley as some of you know was a dramatic emotional man, very much so. It is not surprising to me chamberss odyssey moves bill profoundly. As my students know, bill buckley had many influences but the common in his life that was chambers certainly ranks as the most unexpected. The one to follow last year, at yale,. To help us get started today, who know much about the suspect. We had worked sitting in the middle, is distinguished fellow and conservative thou
Publication of Whittaker Chamberss witness. It is a little over an hour. Thank you. Thank you, Buckley Program at yale. Thank you for being here today. Last semester i had the privilege to teach a course on the intellect quote legacy of william f. Buckley jr. I dedicated a couple weeks to build buckleys and i communism with a principal and philosophical position. He once told me late in his life that his most important book may have been odyssey of a friend, the book in which buckley and characteristically barely says or write anything in which he creates a literary and philosophical interview with Whittaker Chambers. In odyssey we see chambers again bear his soul. To young admirer, friend and colleague. I was struck, most of all by the deep emotional intensity and raw humanity that flows, of so many of these pages. Amen is trying to account to himself and two world how he made his choices, where he fell and where he blundered, but also there is no going back, doing the right thing can
shopping sprees, but are still out there spending and that s good. the dow fell to the lowest level in 30 years, but we are not seeing the wild swings we saw all week. the dow closed down 600 on monday and up 400 on tuesday and down 500 points on wednesday and up 400 yesterday, and it was the first time in the dow s history we have seen closing numbers like this. drew? you could probably measure the heartbeat of traders the same way, up and down. tell us what happened in europe? they are trying to prevent the wild up and down swings. what they are doing is they are putting a temporary ban on short selling. what short selling is is when investors bet that a stock will go down in its price, and europe s version of our securities and exchange commission, it put a temporary ban for 15 days on several european countries, including france, italy, spain, and belgium to put a ban on this practice to stabilize the markets after we have seen the extreme moves over the past week, an