Men of the Twentieth Century is the title king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Because it so aptly describes Adam Clayton Powell. He was smooth, he was cool, he was goodlooking, he was smart, and he always was a complete package that spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this is not long ago we had a student come in who was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell and there wasnt one. All the books about him were outofprint so it is a privilege to have king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Back in print. It is a privilege to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Welcome. [applause] welcome, thank you. It is always nice to be here at this bookstore. They do treat me like i live in the neighborhood which i do, treat me as if i come here and do my book shopping which i do. I also notice there are these posters advertising the authors for the month of february. My
Everything did not go according to plan, and then events began to develop in a strange way. As a result , investigators took over the case. Marchenko went to an appointment with the specialists of the center and tried to bring them to clean water. To meet with the doctor ilya protopopova, you have to go to dodges, sign up under a different name, and then sneak into the offices, but there is no new exit either. The one by whose fault he became blind in one eye stubbornly avoids meetings. You are generally adequate, and i am trying to understand what exactly went wrong six months ago in a moscow clinic. They brought him. It seemed like an ordinary intervention. Removal of polyps in the nose ilya is a doctor himself, so he understood the need and was almost not afraid. Here on this video he says that he is waiting for a satisfied smile. After all, he was waiting for this for a couple of minutes before that very operation, all the sinuses that we have in the upper through dreams , the fron
Followed. Good evening and welcome to a second look. Im julie haener. This month marks a devastating anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. We begin this second look with Dennis Richmond and a look at how this bridge collapsed when the earth moved on that fateful day. I was out here in the backyard and all of a sudden everything started rocking and rolling. I looked up the street and i could see the top freeway pancaking down on top of the other one. There was this very loud noise and there was like screeching. And i could see the road rippling in front of me. Almost like black ribbon coming at me. I couldnt figure out what was going on. And i thought we were being gone. I thought that, you know something had happened and that our country was being bombed. I could see guardrails going down. And cars going off to the side. And i thought this is really serious. I didnt know what to do. I kept trying to pull over to the right. I kept feeling these waves. I would go up one and then dow
International and domestic news is all on the table for you this morning as we open up the phone lines. Also, send us a tweet. Or post your comment on facebook. Or send us an email. We will get back to that New York Times story. First, some other headlines on the domestic front. Here is the Washington Times. Also, sticking with the senate, the Baltimore Sun reporting this headline in politics, here is the denver post open phones before the first 30 minutes. We have a short show because the house is coming in at 9 00. Steve in gaithersburg, maryland, a republican caller. Caller host when did the Republican Party become the party that restricts poor . I understand the tax cut for the rich is important to some people, but i feel the good thing would be unlimited in of government at the federal level. That has nothing to do with this. That would be more on the spending cuts. Host what do you make of the back a plan being reported by the New York Times saying if we cannot come to some sort
Request for potato salad turned into a huge fundraising campaign. We begin with a growing crisis on the border. President obama called the flood of unaccompanied children a humanitarian crisis. Hes asking congress for 3. 7 billion to deal with it. Libby casey has more. Half is to go to children to take care of basic needs, and a 9 million request to detain adults crossing the border, and hundreds of million to go to the state department to work with Central American counties, and 306 million going to Border Control to pay for overtime. Democrats are said to push the legislation through and get the emergency appropriations rolling. Republicans are offering pushback and they are fighting it on a couple of fronts. They want a lot of accountability of how the money is spent, and they are criticising and saying not enough money is being spent on border security. Republican reframe we have heard in the past. And here texas senator. Apparently the president has given up on an effort to protec