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they robbed the children. the new york new jersey school will try to get by with help from their friends. thanks for joining us. i m joie chen. was it an investment in the future or throwing good money after bad. the latest colossal bid to remake education. once again, the experiment in remaking new jersey s largest school system began five months ago, and as sara hoy found, 100 billion of facebook likes might not have been enough. i ve committed to starting the start-up education foundation, whose first projected will be $100 million challenge grant. $100 million. $100 million. five years ago facebook s mark zuckerberg went on the oprah show and planned to transform education in the city of newark. his $100 billion donation was new jersey s best kept secret. students and parents had no idea. newark s mayor heard about the gift like everyone else. it was a surprise to everyone, no one knew in the city what was happening. i think everyone was introduced to ....
spanish nurse contracts the ebola virus. the u.s.-led international coalition resumed air strikes against the islamic state of iraq and levant. the syrian town, kobane, near the border with turkey has been besieged by the armed group for for days. this is the scene. kurdish fighters say they have pushed back i.s.i.l. fighters to the edge of the town, to the edge of the town kobane on the south and east sides. threats go to this report. [ explosion ] reporter: from across the border in turkey it s clear the battle for kobane is more intense than it has ever been. fighters from the islamic state of iraq and levant have been battling to capture the town for days. they managed to enter kobane, it is under the control of kurdish fighters. that may not be for long. many are warning that i.s.i.l. will overpower the kurds, unless they are given support, which no country has been willing to give. it s the refusal to help militarily that has helped many kurds across turkey. o ....
seems like every two years. this is one of the most extraordinary scholarshiply things i have seen. i don t know how you do this bus that not story. i want to talk to you about your book because it is it s so definitive about violence and religion. but secondly, your thesis is really interesting. which is that religion may not necessarily be the cause of all violence, and i wondered what prompted you to do this book in the first place. guest: just abuse i m a writer about religion, i keep getting told by taxi drivers, psychiatrists, and teachers, that religion has been the cause of all the major wars in history, and it really jars because it s clear the not true. the first world and second world wars were not caused by religion. they were fought for secular nationalism, and i think that if we could keep on just casting religion in the role of the absolute villain, we are not looking at some of the other factors that military historians tell us are always involved in ....
basically she s how you got the book done. guest: she keeps me in shape. host: the bestsellers. she reminds you of that a lot. kit absolutely. host: thanks a lot. that was afterwards, book afterwards, book tv signature program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed. erring every entering every weekend on book tv at 10:00 p.m. on saturday, 12 & on sunday and you can also watch online. go to booktv.org and click on after words in the book tv series and topics list in the upper right-hand side of the page. next on book tv afterwords. this week acclaimed religion author. and it she argues the formation of every religion involved battles and bloodshed resulting in a permanent bond between war and faith. this program is about an hour. i am stunned that you managed to put out one of these books. it seems like every two years. one of the most extraordinary scholarly feats i have ever seen. i don t no no how you do this, but that is another s ....