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[applause] the National Book awards are a huge part of that mission, and it is a thrill to be here with everyone tonight recognizing exceptional literature and increasing the visibility of books which are among the most powerful weapons we have against what has lately felt like an often hostile world. I think this past year has felt overwhelming and disheartening to many people. Its also felt exhausting for women, for people of color, for immigrants, for muslims, for the lgbtq community, for so many groups. To remain on the defensive in nearly every waking hour takes its toll. For some of us, books provide a welcome escape into someone elses world. For others they serve as a valuable resource for arming ourselves with indispensabling knowledge of history. But all books offer something we need so desperately right now; broadened perspective. Books allow us to view circumstances through the eyes of someone else. They cultivate empath ....
Everyone to the 68 National Book award. [applause] like most people here tonight i have always been an avid reader and i come from a family of avid readers and i have birthed at least one avid reader, the jury is still out on the younger ones. As an only child and the daughter of two only children it wasnt uncommon in our house to find everyone in separate corners, each of us buried in a book. Huge nerds, you might have called us. Its a privilege to be in his room full of huge nerds. I feel right at home. My mothers father was a rare book dealer in chicago so the nerd gene goes back even farther in my family. One year there was a terrible fire and my grandfather store and the fire itself didnt reach the volume the fire hoses did. Water, water, everywhere. His whole inventory ruins and my grandfather felt he had no choice but to close up shop. My grandparents packed up and moved to the ozarks in the heart of missouri where my grandm ....
Least 14 days. We have team fox coverage, we have john roberts standing by on the north line. I wonder if you have a sense of timing of the senate vote and also why the house is not going to vote today . Great questions. And republican senators say theyve noticed of drafting our ohmic error. Tim scott, Lindsey Graham and ben sasse saying unless this bill is fixed theres a strong incentive for employees to be laid off instead of going to work. We must sadly oppose the fast tracking of this bill until this text is addressed. Once that gets fixed, this 2 trillion coronavirus package. When our nation comes through this and takes flight again on the other side, it will be because american heroes on the fight. And thats exactly what we are going to do today. Drafting errors can happen when we talk about a massive funding package that was agreed to in the middle of the night, one of the key provisions it looked like they got a lot of tha ....
Orders. She took an hourlong bike ride, a day after prompting a News Conference in which she promised she wont be hold up to a doc who says the nurse is out of line. She says is this is not about casesy. This is something bigger. What do you think of her behavior . I think her behavior has crossed the line. Seriously, she may not be contagious but the fact we say may not is reason enough for her to be quarantined. She also had she is setting an example or precedent. What is going to happen when 50 people if it ever gets to that are quarantined and want to take the law into their own hands. I was on her side in the beginning but now i think she is being afforded the comfort of her home and needs to follow the law. What is the risk that she could still have this and she is dallying around in public . This doctor is holed up in bellevue in this stage in that socalled incubation period he was not exhibiting signs of ebola. There is a ....