like everyone else who has been on this stage perhaps myself excluded, joe s credential joe joe s credentials are so varied, and joe has just told me hey has public service announcements to make. so i m going to before you ask any questions, i do have a few public service announcements to make. first of all, since we re kind of coming to the end of the roa here i just want to compliment the people who put this thing on. it s it is. [applause] it has been pure joy every minute of it. i mean, the endorphins are just crazy in my brain, and also i am just so honored to have been on the same stage with so many brilliant and wonderful ride cash writers and want to do a special outshout oh joyce carol oats who defended against the idiot hordeses and in 20 years after they were coming after me after i wrote primary colors she defended me, too, andnd defended the act of writing anonymously. don t screw up my questions, joe. guest: i also want to thank the four young co
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and technical journals are the end-all, but will has received four showdown for stars, they are from journals and magazines across this prestigious literary world. star reviews from publishers weekly, kirkus review, the library journal and booked list. the atlantic magazine said it best, will hagood has rehabilitated thurgood marshall with showdown. hagood s decision to focus on marshall s confirmation hearing proves ingenuous. we at the lincoln theater conducted well as our first inductee into our walk of fame. boy, were we smart. will also did our first fundraiser for the lincoln with the publication of the sammy davis junior book. patrick laszewski in the library, we met, i can t remember at the office about four or five years ago, i do recall. but, i think what the library has done in addition to this one city, one book and bring the community together is extraordinary. will and i were talking about family members who traditionally have not read and each of us gave our br
light drizzle this morning. let s head over to meteorologist daniel bogbs. can we expect this through the day? . light rain, drizzle. rain rain chances increasing. visibility has been improving so far this morning the right now we have visibility about 10 miles in columbia i don t, 5 in sumt,r, 8 orangeburg, 6 up toward rockhill, where visibility is 2 miles. visibilities slowly increasing. 47 degrees in columbia. right now we ve warm up a couple degrees. 50 degrees in the capital city. 50 sumt,r, orangebr,g, 54 degrees in charleston, am i right the beach. toward rockhill, 45 degrees. 47 degrees in greenville and in greenwood, but we ve got some colder air starting to spill into portions of the great plain states. single digits for omaha to minneapolis up to billings, montana. some of this cooler air will be spilling its way toward us. not going to be quite this cold. as that colder air moves n you ll notice a difference, it looks like, by monday. high pressure building from
[inaudible] the role that [inaudible] have had in strengthening the iraqi kurdistan? you repeat that? yes. if you could please comment on the role that exxon, the oil company exxonmobil. yeah, sorry. okay. thank you. exxon is one of a number of large international oil companies that have signed exploration and production agreements with the regional government. they did that under threat from baghdad, that they might lose their positions and privilege to develop oil fields in parts of iraq. p.m. .. they need a banking sector they need to be involved in regional trade, but oil is king, and exxon has played a leading role. seems like a good place to leave these things. david, once again, you have given us a comprehensive sweep of the kurdish issue as well as the politics of the entire region. again, the book is o the kurdish spring: a new map of the middle east. and here with author david phillips. please join me in thanking him for his insights today. [applaus