granted, we won t know the answer to that question until november the fifth, but on monday, iowa was the first state in which voters could choose who they thought should be the republican candidate. and their decision was pretty clear. like the cat that got the cream, or maybe the king regaining his crown. donald trump was practically inhaling the adoration. knowing he d won support beyond his usual base, including women, college graduates and younger voters. but with a long time to go before we know who will be occupying the white house next. andy buck watched some of the extensive coverage this week and wondered. and peter towers added. well, there will certainly be more coverage to come next tuesday, as that s when the second primary contest for the republican nomination takes place in the state of new hampshire. and next week, we ll be speaking to the north america editor for bbc news sarah smith. so if you ve got any questions or comments you d like to put to her, please
Tells her story to middle school days with kindness of teachers and staff helped succeed in difficult times to later efforts to build an environment. So please welcome nadia lopez. [applause] good evening, thank you so much for having me. Can everyone hear me in the back . But i was able to succeed. And it was really because my parents, prior to them separating, who come from guatemala and honduras, believed in the power of education, and when they came to this country they didnt come with way. Wealth they found each other on the dance floor in the bronx. Once i came into the world my mother felt like the only thing she could provide me was a solid education. So in new york city we are zoned by stricts, and so my mom she was clever shed the district we lived in wasnt going to provide me with the excellent education that she felt was going to give me the pathway to success. So what he did was go to a neighbor, literally three blocks away, and ask him if it was possible to get a rent rec
Can we think of ourselves as a Democratic Political system compared to other democracies and other advanced wealthy democracies in the United States. To that extent can we think of ourselves as democratic and inclusive women have a low level of womens representation in the office and inner judiciary as well. Even within state legislatures where the numbers have stagnated. Thats a serious questions. Can we position ourselves as the nation, as a leader in terms of being democratic and inclusive and womens representation is so loved despite the participatory management and how does the mass politics level. The other thing i would want people to take away from the book is to think again about my minimum for diversity in terms of age, employment, social class and certainly in terms of great tennis this day. We are diverse as a large group of people. There are some strong shape preference is and participation. So that means it that means again that politically women, especially for u. S. Dem
Myself, a young kid in the suburbs, going down south to mississippi every summer. That was my childhood experience. Host who happened to be africanamerican guest exactly. And i never saw that. So then i started writing because i was forced to take a graduate class in writing as part of my requirements. And my first writing teacher said you need to be a writer. Forget the scholar. [laughter] you need to be writing, its for important. And she turned me into a writer. She forced know keep writing over and over again. Because then i moved to new york pause thats what youre told to do, and i got another degree. Fine arts in writing for children at the new school. And really tried to learn the business and realized, oh, theres a lot of [inaudible] and theres a lot of rewriting x theres a lot of, you know, trying to figure out that this game is based on relationships too and how youre perceived. So then i really started writing a lot and launched a packaging company, because i realized that i
Good evening. Welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and a very special event. I think we are all delighted the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america helping out tonight. In particular, loaned us james tanton who i will introduce in a minute. My name is john ewing, i am president of math america. I am a mathematician. [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. Every professional mathematician those mathematicians and their subjects have a certain reputation. A worldfamous mathematician walking in the countryside one day comes upon a huge flock of sheep. Being a worldfamous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. 100 against one of your sheep and i could tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. The shepherd, knowing there are an awful lot of sheep says okay, i will try it. The mathematician looks around and says there are 937