Struggle for equality in education. Without further ado, would you welcome Anne Gardiner perkins, the author. Can you get us started by telling us a little bit about your book, yale meets women. Absolutely. And the history of coeducation in this country. Coeducation in the ivy league in particular. Terrific. Thank you so much, mark. This is so exciting. Over the next hour we are all going to explore together that moment in americas history when yale and its peers, when americas most prestigious colleges, finally admitted women students. For those of you who havent read the book yet, that moment was just 50 years ago. Close enough that we can touch it, which is why we are so lucky tonight to be able to include elizabeth spawn and connie roster, two of yells first women undergraduates, in our program. But before i begin, two thanks are in order. First of all too mark schmidt and the museum whove been terrific sponsors. Its delightful to work with you, mark. I know that in my community ho
Washingtons bureau chief. Up next on the presidency, we will see that interview and hear president reagan talk about his hollywood days as the Screen Actors Guild president. The challenges he faced including the 1983 bombing that killed u. S. Marines in beirut lebanon. This video is courtesy of the Ronald Reagan president ial library. We would be via her i will need that. Ahead of you a was now the Readers Digest yes. And then the head of chief without it would be more effective one on one. So he deferred to me. I remember once have you ever seen them headquarters . Its kind of a beautiful country, how spacious the president absolutely captivated the founder for that four and a half hours, and he finally had to leave to go make a speech that was a memorable lunch. We would like to do here is to ask you some questions so that our readers here and abroad and a bottom million of them could have a better idea of president reagan, the man. I would like to start off by asking what has surpri
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Start to screen passengers from china as fears grow over the spread of a new virus. With the top stories from europe including people. Refugee crisis. At breaking point. And. Chrono mcgregor makes his much anticipated return to action the irishman is taking on american donald surrounding later on saturday with the hopes of winning for the 1st time in 3 year. We begin with breaking news from lebanon where police have been firing tear gas and water cannon the protesters who are demanding a speedy resolution to the financial and economic crisis that these are pictures from close to the Parliament Building in the capital beirut hundreds of protesters have been involved in running battles with Security Forces the demonstrators are angry over plans by the ruling party to form a government from the current Political Class lets go live to beirut. Has been out of on the demonstrators for the last 3 hours now weve seen these running battles zeta bring us up to speed with the situation than now.