And reunited again, iran and the u. K. Reopen their embassies. I am here with all the sports as usain bolt is officially still the fastest man in the world. He wasnt the favorite this time, but the jamaican is still good enough to win a third world title in the 100 meters. Some of them havent eaten or slept in days. They have been cramped together in the rain, waiting in uncertainty, only to face Police Batons and stun grenades. The 2,000 refugees who finally made in it to macedonia, their journey has finally begun. They have boarded trains and buses to the take them to the bd of sear by a. They are aiming to get to hungary. They have headed to a packed Refugees Center where they have to apply for asylum. And the time pressure is on, hungary is building a razor wire fence on its border with serbia to prevent people from coming in. Andrew simmons has this report from the Macedonian Border. Reporter there is no end it seems to the suffering, the exhaustion. Its a different place, a railw
At the tmp and everybody here at busboys, welcome. Thank you for coming. We are very fortunate this evening to have with us eric lou to talk about his new book youre more powerful than you think. A citizens guide to making change happen. What a timely work. In the wake of last novembers election, my staff and i the bookstore have been approached many times by customers concerned about the course of events have taken and wanting to know what they can read to help them decide how to get more involved in civic life and effect change. Well, erics book is now a good place to start. He began writing it before donald trump launched his bid for the presidency trumps the election is one manifestation of a mounting turbulence in us political and civic life that weve all been seeing for some years now. Into a book about civic power, what is, how to practice it, and why anyone would actually want it. As as a writer, educator and cic entrepreneur, eric has been thinking about Democratic Values in t
Not willing to spend the money. They knew they could be skipped if they did not. We will continue questions downstairs. Also signings of the book. Lets continue downstairs. For our panelists. Robert, a tired, and john todd andrlik is a publisher of raglan did, it is always a treat to be in this store it is a wonderland. About five years ago a friend suggested that i share rightabout ms. Green. [laughter] i said to . She was called the which up on wall street. She was interesting but finance and wall street . Then it was 2008. And everything changed the stock market collapsed collapsed, realestate prices plunged and we were in a financial panic i started to think more about ms. Green and how shes survived ms. Green and how shes survived many financial crisis. There were no diaries then i remember something that was said that nice girls keep diaries. Bad girls do not have time last laugh and hetty green was bad. Now with men but many. She was consumed with money. Born in massachusetts 18
Dont have time. [laughter] and, hetty was bad. She wasnt bad about men. She was bad about money. She was consumed by money. Which was not sew dissimilar from the rest of her family. She was born in new bedford, massachusetts, in 1834 to a prosperous family of whaling merchants and in those days whale oil fueled the houses and factories not only here but around the world and whale parts were used for perfume, for paint, for corsets, for buggy whips and just about everything in between. So her family was extremely prosperous and they lived in what new bedford then was the most prosperous town in america. And they seemed like they embod i did her family embodied american values. They were rich. They were up standing citizens. Her father supported Abraham Lincoln later on and they were spiritual. They were quakers. And they had the new england values, the quaker values of thrift to the point of stinginess, particularly her father, and they believed in some policety and plain living. And to
2. 9 million. Things that lean to the right, people just respond to it. Twice i think that case could be made. Ok, thats i think that case can be made. Ok, great. [laughter] i think the point that fred made, lets call a closet conservatives. It is harder sometimes to talk about the many hallways then it is to watch it on your tv. I think that is true. I think that is something that starts unfortunately sometimes with education in this country, slanted in my opinion in a different direction then maybe i would want it, especially in higher education. Kind of people grow up afraid to maybe speak out for their values in an open session. It is like family films. Frozen just passed 1 billion in the box office. The family films, for the most part, they make a lot of money. If you are a businessman, it would seem to me that that is where you would apply your wares. Your finances behind more family films, but they are not there. I think we also see a lot of focused on that, but we also see stuf