the most formidable people i have seen in my life have that balance. the ioc sports as the be all were involved in another part of their life the tunes you cannot out compete them. there is a way but when you build $16 million stadiums it is hard and not fair and to expect the kids to concentrate. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] .. we re kicking off a full day today with the new book, and president reagan talking about president interjects and present bush and the science behind but the whole the of civil-rights and the relationship between the u.s. and israel in the american space program. that is all, being applied today from boston for you can get the full schedule on line and follow us on twitter and facebook as well to give scheduled updates. here is h.w. brand from the 20th annual texas book festival live coverage on booktv from austin, texas. good morning, good morning, and thank you so much for joining us at the 20
that s how many germans feel about a four-day national rail strike that is disrupting europe s biggest economy. the strikes spelled chaos for many commuters and industry. there are concerns that production shortages have slowed many cars on the road. the train drivers walked off the job after union and management talked collapse. they want more money, and they want to work less. national railroad operator is seeking a court order to stop industrial action. i m at berlin s alexander plant station, one of the main traffic hubs here in the german capital. it is rush-hour, supposedly, but most people seem to have given up hope of reaching any public transport today. while that s true for the trains up here, down here, thousands of berliners are trying to get the public s transport that is still running because the underground is not affected by this strike. make no mistake millions of passengers are stuck all across the country, and increasingly, they are running out of
and in our series one hundred german must reads we plunge into. oppressive tale of seemingly random injustice and impenetrable authority the trial. well in two thousand and five germany was shocked by the murder of twenty three year old how to shoot a young turkish kurdish woman who had dared to leave a forced marriage and defy her strict muslim family while she was shot point blank in on the street by her youngest brother a so-called on or killing german director sherry harman s new film a regular woman tells the story a new and gives the victim back her voice. thousand and five. and the regular woman is a true story i know grew up in the berlin district court spoke but was sent to
marry a cousin in a forced marriage after fleeing the abusive marriage and returning to germany she begins to assert independence. day easy. for me i know it s a kind of joan of arc of the berlin backyard. the because she was brought up in a strict religious family we don t need to say a strict muslim fa
and in our series one hundred german must reads we plunge into. oppressive tale of seemingly random injustice and impenetrable authority the trial. in two thousand and five germany was shocked by the murder of twenty three year old . a young turkish kurdish woman who had dared to leave a forced marriage and defy her strict muslim family while she was shot point blank in on the street by her youngest brother a so-called on or killing german director sherry harman s new film a regular woman tells the story a new and gives the victim back her voice. and . and a regular woman is a true story i know grew up in the berlin district court spoke but was sent to
turkey to marry a cousin in a forced marriage after fleeing the abusive marriage and returning to germany she begins to assert her independence. and they want to leave her. for me i know is a kind of joan of arc of the berlin backyard. the because she was brought up in a strict religious family we don t need to say a strict muslim fam
the night watch by rembrandt is right now being restored under the watchful eye of well anyone who wishes to see the painstaking restoration process the painting is a 400 years old and it was lost restored after a knife attack on it in 1975 that restoration has started to discolor a bit the rice museum in amsterdam has decided it is such an important painting that the public should be allowed to see it as its current renovation precedes. operation night watch cutting kerner is allowed to get right up close to the rembrandt painting the chemist is in charge of a team of 20 researchers restoring the night watch is the chance of a lifetime. many other one hind of pigments did he use 400 years ago with and how has the condition changed i m certain that it will gain a lot of information from these investigations and that will be able to dive deeply
into the analysis of this art work the painting is famous for several things its size measuring 16 square metres and weighing 170 kilograms t