Acceptance speech in new york city. Good evening. Thank you stephen in the book critics circle for inviting me for Toni Morrison for the Lifetime Achievement award although she certainly doesnt need an introduction with celebratory tributes to the great novelist of their time. You have to rattle off her accomplishments to you tonight by and large you are deeply familiar and then to recognize the rising star in 1977 and that is from her book song of solomon. You dont need me to remind you hear the honorees and those other works. And i assume you dont want me to whittle away moments at the podium with the recitation of previous awards although it is tempting the 1988 Pulitzer Prize National Humanities metal and 2000 and the honorary doctorate from oxford among many others with the president ial medal of freedom. So literarily evil halle is heavily weighted in the favor and then has the crime see front and center with that poetic sensibility and the influence on discourse and the vernacul
I believe jonas salk refused a patent on the polio vaccine. Right. And got the pharma boy charging 1 million for a lifesaving drug. I dont know the specifics but thats how you be achievement. Become a youtube sensation, get rich, and thats the crux of this book. Theres millions of americans, not just this latest generation. Theres a lot of people that dont know what were needed for anymore. Yeah. Walking around like im going to make some money today and spend it tonight. Well, thank you for that and thank you for reading my book, and, the gentleman you were mentioning was named gregory gomez. From the apache nation, and he was a vietnam era veteran. He was in the marines in fort recon, and an intense unit, and they would spin behind enemy lines in groups of four. Didnt even have a medic, incredibly intense guys. He said he joined the military during vietnam, he sad i had nothing again the vietnamese and no allegiance to the u. S. Government. They killed most of my family, it just wante
The start of her career she cover the first palestinian and since then fifth, i had the 87 y said the 90s. N [laughter] n since then she has reported on complex wrote the mill east and beyond. N her latest book the morning that came for rushy chronicles though warwick is syria using seven different perspectives of a ravaged nation as experienced by citizens. N may a doctor in physician and student conveying the realities of modern urban warfare, to the herb return of vanquished diseases such as typhus and polio, next to her is the chief Foreign Correspondent for the sunday times. N her introduction also cave in the late 80s but in pakistan and afghanistan. N has taken her far and wide to brazil, a south africa, and zimbabwe, iraq, but since mid 11 she has been quite a bit of time in afghanistan she cowrote curve book with of Nobel Peace Prize winner and her new book highlights the errors and miscalculations made by United States did allies with the war in of industry and it argues that
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Reviews so why is everyone involved in the case upset about the portrayal . But we begin with look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Authorities arrested a suspect who they think is responsible for four shootings on the i10. New developments in the freeway attacks in arizona. 21yearold leslie merritt, jr. , is arrested in a Walmart Store in glendale. Over the last two weeks, arizonians have been terrified. Are there others out there . Are there copycats its possible. Well continue to investigate. Donald trump under fire for failing to correct a supporter who said that president obama is a muslim. If someone says theyre a christian we accept that. And a wrong way freeway driver has died after being shot. Deputies were following the Home Invasion suspect. And tornadoes wiped out homes in kansas city. It moved on to illinois where winds caused damage. Pope francis is scheduled to arrive in cuba before heading to the United States where hell visit washington, new york and phi