. we are so excited to be hosting pamela for her book. she will be speaking before i turn it over to them i have a couple of housekeeping things. please take this moment to turn off or silence your cell phones and also note we are grateful to have c-span here for booktv. please be aware you may be on camera and passing around a microphone during the q-and-a. we have flyers available at the register as well. the other people we marry and most recently the novel modern lovers which has been named the best book of the year by npr entertainment weekly among othet authors. her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the news york times . most recently she along with her husband michael stroud opened the bookstore which is open for business.s she will be speaking with pamela paul the editor of the news york times book review anddyort overseas books at the news york times and choose a host newo york times and host of valaika podcast inside the news york times book r
senator howard baker jr. senator baker passed away today. howard baker served this country well, and he served it in a fashion that was worthy of admiration, from both parties, all people because he was an american first, a tennessean second and a republican third. he served three terms in the united states senate, served as majority leader and minority leader. he served as united states ambassador to japan. served as chief of staff to president ronald reagan. he was a private practicing attorney as well at the firm of baker-donaldson, which was a firm his grandfather started and practiced law at one time with his father who served as a united states representative from tennessee. howard baker s been recognized since his retirent from the senate many occasions and received the presidential medal of freedom and has received other awards. his was a life well lived and a life to be demonstrated to others as a role for legislators to work with both sides of the aisle and work for
offenders. in addition these lines can go to help subsidize it costs for enforcement area directly into victim services. no fines were levied. schools cannot truly be held accountable. secondly, congress must compel the department of education to continually release a list of school with complaints. they may be deprived of affirmation surrounding their own complaints. the university was under investigation when i was raped there were still under investigation and i still did not know. had i known, i could only about what have chosen another school to attend. i only wish i had known they were under investigation when i began going through my campuses silicon and that a modicum of preparation for this humiliation the wooden door. they did not protect the. i was thrilled to see that ocr recently released a list of schools currently under investigation, but that must become the norm. compel them to continuously been publicly released surabaya experience can become a now wire . he
pay artists for radio air play. she thought, perhaps, finland was an exception in paying artists and that the rest of the world didn t pay artists. their radio royalties. but it turns out that it was the other way around. the u.s. was the exception in not paying radio royalties. there are two other countries, iran and north korea. well, last summer, yanita proudly became a u.s. citizen but in doing so she s now a citizen of a democratic country that doesn t honor am/fm radio pay for its artists and she suffers a loss of significant income. this is not the american dream that she envisioned. her story shows that we need to fix the disparities in the current music licensing system to make sure artists are fairly compensated. if we don t, we risk losing the innovation from creators like her because they will no long very the incentive to create for the public. and so, i d like to ask a question to paul williams. one area of agreement between you and the music licenseees on the p
home coming parade but what we are told is that an adult male was stabbed in the stomach here somewhere in the 6,000 block of georgia avenue. he was taken to a local hospital conscious and breathing. not much more information on that. th last night there were several events. yesterday was the yard fest seen at a watershed event for a lot of up and coming performances. we don t know if this was after that because there was another location or what have you but nonetheless the howard university home coming parade will get under way. street closures will begin about 309 this morning from fairmont street on the north down to florida avenue on the south. if you head down this way or you re heading across town just expect delays and closures because of that. a parade gets under way due to be over about 1:00 p.m. and then you have the home coming game and later a post home coming game event as well. so several other events that have been going on for the past couple days. of course