I am pleased to introduce tonight speaker Professor Emeritus at virginia, the university he chairs the History Department the editor of a five volume collection of letters as well as the author of dissent of the Supreme Court and the nations constitutional dialogue the lies in the state for affirmativeaction is part of the national dialogue. Many of us have struggled to explain the policy and how it works. In his new book the affirmativeaction puzzle traces to through the present day with Historical Context how affirmative action takes on racism. On the cover Orlando Patterson rates it is a comprehensive account for this nonwhite version of affirmativeaction and in the challenging historical task that no other issue divides americans more it is meticulously researched and honestly crafted work to draw their own conclusions about the value of this experiment. Please join me to welcome Melvin Urofsky to harvard bookstore. [applause] thank you. As a historian my mentor always told me to s
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Is making another move to try to get the judge on the case thrown off. Lets get straight to cnns paula. Paula with the breaking news. What exactly are trumps lawyers attempting . Here . Which i were less than two weeks out from the beginning of this trial and hear trumps lawyers are asking the judge to allow them to file a motion for the judge, juan to recuse himself. They are arguing that he is conflicted by his daughters work as a Democratic Political consultant. Now, last year they made a similar similar request which was rejected by the judge. Im saying that it would not be in the pu inrest for him to recu hielf. Ut nowrumps lawyers are arguing sce this should be reconsidere because the judges dahter they argue is in a position to potentially financially benetf unclear if this will succeed, jake, but again, this is just another effort by the trump team. It appears to if nothing else delay this trial further. All right. Paula reid, thanks so much from trump, the defendant to trump,
The hearing will come to order. Welcome to the committee on the president s fiscal year 2019 budget. Today we will hear testimony from directo the director of the of management and budget, the honorable nick o mulvaney. During the hearing well hear directly from the director and we appreciate you being here with us today. Your insight will be very helpful in our understanding. The president s budget marks the beginning of the federal budgeting process or budget season as we like to call it in the white house officially kicked off on monday. The budget request is important for both makers to consider along the way. Each fiscal year the administrations budget documents and spending priorityg priorities. These recommendations to congress are important for the Budget Committees in both chambers to consider as work crafting the budget resolution begins in earnest. Without question there are plenty of worthwhile ideas included in the president s budget this year. First i am encouraged that t
Now. Most recently, what we have had is that entertainment piece. We have posted at the National Film festival starting last year from china with ministry support. We brought over six producers. They are bringing another group this march the National Film festival. In turn, we are looking at going over there. We had a great asset in tennessee with our music and film industry. Abigail has been working with china bringing music to tennessee and taking our focus is it going there. We are engaging in some of these activities going on unofficially and kind of crystallizing them and same these are true opportunities for crosscultural relationships developing business between the two. John i am mindful of time and i am afraid we have to wrap things up. Thank you so much for this rich discussion. We heard a lot about talent and development. We also heard about process. You need to align up all of the players internally to make sure you attract properly. We also heard about longterm partnership