Take a moment of Upcoming Events that means one thing fiction friday for the rest r of august new fiction premises purchases would be 15 percent off for the frequent Buyer Program next monday we welcome jackie davis and then on the 15h will be in conversation with the book we are doomed now what with essays on war and Climate Change and with labor day just around the corner welcome authors like john kerry Walter Mosley and many others you can learn more about these and Upcoming Events on the website will have time for questions from the audience book tv is here today taping if you didnt notice stand up and speak loudly so they can pick it up. Please note you will be recorded following q a well have a book signing at the table. Reader come home is for sale in the next room and today only 20 percent off that is how we say thank you for buying your book at harvard book store. Your purchase makes tonights event possible so thank you. Also like to thank you in advance and remind you turn of
Good evening. I am claire and on behalf of Harvard Bookstore thank you for joining us sport event with Maryanne Wolf whos here to discuss her new book, reader, come home the reading brain in a Digital World. I would like to tell you about our summer events. Fiction fridays and for the rest of august in stored new fiction pervert purchases are 15 off every friday for members of our frequent Buyer Program and next line they we welcome jack e davis in his new book. Wednesday the 15th, roy scranton is in conversation with andrew to discuss scrantons new book. Both of these events begin at 7 00 p. M. And are here at the bookstore. Labor day is around the corner. We are thrilled to welcome authors like john kerry, deborah harkness, Walter Mosley and many others. You more about these in our Upcoming Events on a website harvard. Com. events or on the sale of flyers. After todays talks we will have time for questions. Cspan is here taping. As a request we ask that stand up and speak loudly so t
Happy Constitution Day. Welcome to the United States capital. My name is Beth Clements and im the ceo here at the visitor center. We are pleased to be hosting this event with our good friends the United States capital Historical Society. I cant think of a better way to mark Constitution Day than with a program devoted to citizenship. Our founders knew that our democratic system of government would depend on having an informed citizenry. John adams said that livery cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. His successor put it even more simply. Life and liberty go together. Of the reasons that the Capitol Visitors Center was established was to inform, involve and inspire citizens of all ages. We do that every day through our debt expanding series of Public Programs and educational programs. Ongoing contributions to achieving these Civic Education goals is the partnership of the we the people program. Share ourighted to constitutional system with so many students fr
Our second president john adams said liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. President ,or as Thomas Jefferson, said life and liberty go together. Light and liberty go together. One reason the center was established is to inspire citizens of all ages. We do that every day through tours and Public Programs and educational programs. One of our contributions to achieving the Civic Education goals is our partnership with the we the people program. We are delighted to share lessons on the role of congress and our constitutional system with students from the washington dc area. Our Education Team supports this partnership, but i want to give special thanks to the Education Program manager, larin lauren. Ren [applause] established the program that gives students an idea of what it is like to be a member of congress. We try to stay current with our programming and are always updating a developing and doing our part to strengthen the we the people program. Than
Be exchanged between the private sector. Weking about publicprivate, are talking about information sharing. When you are talking about the investigation, it is too late. To get to a point where we are , not in real time, in signaturesme, the that things are happening, we have to realize this is voluntary on the private sectors part. There is no law compelling them to do this. There probably should not be. Voluntary, we want to encourage the private sector to share information. Everyone agrees the sharing of this information is for the government to facilitate it. Reduce the hurdles and barriers to sharing the information with the government and with other entities. Better,ink security is if i am telling you what i am seeing and we are both telling dhs, the businesses that are doing that should not think there is going to be an antitrust violation if they share between each other or that dhs, which was designed to accept information from the private sector and disseminate going to publi