Justice thomas has been wonderfully generous and giving of his time to the society when we called upon him. I want to thank him for taking the time away, particularly this first week of october when things are humming here in the court. We are also grateful to the court at large for allowing us to have this series here in the courtroom. It is my particular pleasure to to introduce Justice Thomas this evening because in the 11th circuit, we refer to him as our judge. Our justice. He was born near savanna on june 23, 1948, and graduated from college at holy cross in 1971 and got his law degree from yale college in 1974. He was promptly appointed after finishing law school as an attorney assistant general and was working under thenattorney general john danforth. When danforth was elected senator, our host this evening followed him to washington and worked for senator danforth. He was appointed assistant secretary for civil rights in the u. S. Department of education in 1981. In 1982, pres
Reproductive health at georgetown millions of dollars to look at the efficacy of fertility beads for Family Planning purposes and there has been evidence now that those do work, they are efficacious and we can fund those as a tool to use to reach our goals in Family Planning. Obviously were going to have a whole lot of other tools. But that particular tool is acceptable by many religious groups opposed to the other tools. And so i think that is one positive story that we might look at replicating. Do we have other questions from the audience . Right here in the middle. Hi. My name is jana carp, im hear from the state department. And it has come up a couple of times in terms of the ebola crisis in west africa but i was wondering if you could speak more generally about the role that faithbased groups could play in pandemic preparedness and response and sort of Lessons Learned from ebola in the past year, two years. Other questions . Again, my name is rosemary, i just go back to the coope
I very much welcome the tone of the foreign secretarys remarks. This now opens the way for iran to play a constructive role in regional shares and noting that we have a profound common interest in defeating dinesh and the reactions from reality. Will we do not use the opportunity to employ the full british diplomacy to force intelligent, effect incorporation between riyadh and tehran towards a common strategy to defeat daish appeared he is quite right it is to achieve a measure reconciliation between saudi arabia and constructive engagement between those two important regional powers in addressing many challenges facing the region. That will not happen overnight. Hes absolutely right the measured tone of the response we heard from saudi arabia in stark contrast to the last measured response was heard from elsewhere in the region and is promising and i spoke last night we will maintain our engagement doing two things. Encouraging allies in the arab countries around the goals to be willi
My last question i want to ask you guys and youre going up to the hill later this afternoon to testify on a different topic, how do you see the lack of action in terms of congress on authorization of the use of force . Just the stasis and stalemate, whats your evaluation all of you, what does that mean in where the u. S. In these campaigns and campaigns coming up on the 15th your anniversary of the 9 11 next year. How do you sort of see the politics here at home. This may be over cynical but i think its a reflection of the fact that the body politic to include people on the hill ultimately do not regard isis as that serious a problem. Definitely a problem. Something worth effort but not something where theyre getting phone calls every day saying the United States needs to do something about this. I think we have seen over the last ten years for understandable reasons, a real sharp decline in public enthusiasm for American Intervention and thats reflected on the fact that people on the
The blue apron ceo discusses a transition from unicorn to publicly traded company, life after an ipo, and the Meal Kit Companys strategy for fending off growing competition. But first, to hourly. Apple ushered in a new era for the iphone tuesday at the new steve jobs theater in cupertino, california. Ceo tim cook unveiled a suite of new products, with the muchanticipated iphone x grabbing the headlines. Iphone x, the most advanced iphone we have ever made, with incredible new design, face id, true death camera system, and more powerful technologies than we have ever put in an iphone before. It really is the future of the smartphone. Emily apple also rolled out an updated watch with Cellular Connection and a settop box that supports Higher Definition video. We spoke with mark gurman and our editor atlarge cory johnson to get their First Impression of apples new products. Its really its a nice phone, edge to edge. Im said that it doesnt go on sale until november, as a fan of the product,