good morning. welcome to worldwide exchange. we have two hours together. right now on the wires, we are just looking at the ecodata hitting. and just a note from my producer, my wire has just gone down, so we are looking at the german business climate falling for the month of august. revisions to july indices are seen as well, but the expectations index coming in at 101.7 for the month of august. the consensus forecast was for 102. so the expectations index a little bit light. they are stating no revisions to the july indices. and again, the expectations index coming in just slightly light. current conditions, 111.1. which means that we re also looking at that particular reading being a bit light as well. not by much, but we are still seeing a bit of a drop there. let s talk a little bit about the markets. we are seeing the euro/dollar at 1.31, just shy of where we have been the last few sessions. down the line we are at the hag hague. good morning this morning, how are you
if you can see i cannot do anything about the space. there s some room on the floor. feel free to make yourself comfortable. this is our session on public intellectuals, and i am delighted to be here for this panel. i apologize ahead of time if i have a little less energy than usual. my appendix did not quite make it to the new year so i am just recovering from surgery. this has been a big debate, ongoing debate about public intellectuals in the academy. there was an article by nicholas kristof which triggered a conversation. he wrote an article professors we need you are cope he argued that many people in the academy have in some ways render themselves irrelevant for various reasons using languages fall of jargon or revocation or not asking questions that were relevant to the public, and in some ways fostered a disconnect with the public that is unnecessary and is also unfortunate. he did not say this was true of all intellectuals, but he did argue that public intellect
ivy steal the show with an emotional moment at the vmss. i thank god for this moment, love y all so much. today is monday, august 25th, 2014. announcer: from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer with tamron hall, willie geist, and dylan dreyer. alice al is in los angeles and savannah on maternity leave. we have breaking news as you mentioned. the top story, fort lee army basin virginia on lockdown among reports of an active shooter. jim miklaszewski is at the pentagon. reporter: there was report of active shooting incident at fort lee, virginia, near richmond. it was in or in the vicinity of command headquarters. u.s. military officials can t give the details of what may or may not have happened. according to u.s. army officials, the lockdown has now been lifted. now, it is not unusual at any report of any gunfire on a military
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