better educated than the asians, south asians, they don't come with a lot of money, but a lot of education. in fact, families educational aspirations they do very well. i think they are going to have a big impact in years to come. the other component of the group is biracial americans. we forget only in 1967 in the decision from the supreme court ruled that law outlawing what used to be -- where i came from in south carolina rahm thurman used to may it. we didn't know at the same that strom of guilty of it himself. [laughter] [applause] >> but that was only in 1967. this was in the middle of the '60s and '70s. at a time when social barriers between white people and black people were rumbling. i know in the generation of my sons, it's tumbling. it's not just there. they have grown up in integrated settings. they have gone to school where diversity has been taught as a good thing. the growing number of biracial americans. and it's hard to give specific numbers, actually, but what interests me is something that president obama who was one of the groups, he belonged to several of the groups ac

better educating the asians, the south asians, the europeans, anybody. the best educated regional group. they don't come with a lot of money but they come with a lot of education, intact family, educational aspirations, and they do very well. i think you'll have a big impact in years to come. the other component of this emergent group is biracial americans. we forget that it was only in 1967 in the decision, loving versus virginia, the supreme court ruled that laws outlawing what used to be called miscegenation. where i came from south carolina, from start to set it is not a dirty, miscegenation, sounded like that. [laughter] we did know at the time that he was guilty of miscegenation himself. [laughter] [applause] >> but those only in 1967, and that was in the middle of the '60s. and the '70s, the time and social barriers between white people and black people were tumbling, and i know in a generation of my sons were 27 and 20, jenna, they have tumbled. it's just not there. or they don't feel it is there. they grew up in in a great -- integrated sense th

a lot of my asian friends feel very, very angry, how can the two country, america and china, get together and discuss issues related to south asia? and a communique from nixon making making exactly the same points. so the reference point has changed. and so i'm not sure how much the rhetoric has changed or is it the perception of the power and the power itself, obviously, have changed. and i think this was a new reality, t a new reality that both sides -- it's a new reality that both sides have to come to some sort of a consensus about how to deal with. it is, it is tough. >> it is. we're virtually out of time, but i want to give tarun, and i want to give dambisa a chance for a very quick final comment in case we said some things that you think need to be responded to. why don't we start with you. >> yes, coming your way. >> i just want to underscore the fact that everything has to be on the table. i don't think we can outright dismiss certain things because we have, it's an emotional attachment to the status quo. i do agree that having an open society where capital and trade, you know, m

the book is about africans and asians. but there's plenty of that if somebody wants to read af little -- you know, i was also in some very bad shelling in somalia, but just to be -- wheny we hear these statistics, ilia mean, somalia, for example, is the most dangerous place on earth for journalists.us the reality is that statistic means local journalists.a everywhere i went i worked with local people, and it's those people who end up paying the price should i do somethingu wrong. >> host: what's the takeaway on this book?t what do you want people to take away on this book? >> guest: i really want people t to take away the idea that it is this clash within that we have to pay attention to.t i want them to take a little ho air out of this overlyy simplified narrative because itf does no one any good, and that kind of martial rhetoric can actually lead to people dying. >> host: eliza griswold, "tenth parallel." first-time guest on booktv. thank you for being with us here in miami. >> guest: thank you for having me. >> host: j

we are an asian of a connected billion so we need to think differently. ten years ago we were a nation of a billion unconnected so how do you strategize for the future with this connectivity? so my job now is to really look at public information infrastructure. spec what we come back to that. that's chapter to and i want to first wrapup chapter 1. there is at first glance when listening to you this is not too difficult to one year of 900 million people and so long. there were all sorts of obstacles you had to overcome some of which is a sociological and some are penal, some hour infrastructure and so on. go over some of the things you had to get to where india now we is to respect first of all, i had to decide that i wanted to build a nation and not build a business. so i had to give up everything. i spent lots of money going back and forth. i had to take a ghandi approach. central sacrifice, love for everybody, simplicity, openness and transparency. there were stories in india that the cia planted a man and the prime minister's office told me to. you had

guest: because wall street induced them to do so, these european, asian banks. you are right, and different circumstances, you have universal banking model where you do not have a glass-steagall separation. but you also had, traditionally, a lot of supervision and oversight over the activities they were getting into. these banks also got involved in buying up these dubious securities. one of the most famous cases we saw in recent months involve goldman sachs. it created a collateralized debt obligation, these complicated instruments built on mortgage assets, which were designed to fail. made up of securities that were based on bad mortgages, designed to go down, so that short sellers on that side of the transaction could win. of course, on the other side of the transaction was, among others, a german bank that did not seem to realize it was being played for a patsy. so you had a lot of things like this occurring at these wall street firms. these so-called quants were former physicist that were simply creating products that no one could understand. it is true, th

is not only obviously a central player in its own region of south asia, but it's very much in east asian country as well participating with us in east asia summit. increasingly engaged with its partners in east asia at the recent meetings between prime minister in japan and prime minister singh so amply illustrate. and for it's not coincidental therefore that we have seen an increase in our security engagement with india. it's not true that for india the united states as a country has the most military exercises with. we deepened our necessary partnership in many ways and it's something i think contributes broadly to the security of the region as a whole. so we welcome the increasing role in the region and see it as a partner there. of course, the second and obviously but equal important part of our challenge in dealing with neo-systemic powers as are engaged with china as you well know in this past year, china has surpassed japan as the worlds largest economy and surpassed germany as the largest exporter. on almost all global issues, china has an important role to play. .. while the pat

so as asian, you know, to talk -- or to criticize of that man, person, for us is not the right thing. >> but you did criticize him in the book. >> i can answer your question, but please don't force me to go in length, you know, to talk about him, what he did or his personality. but i can say that i'm the only one that understand and know him. he -- you know, every time talking with me, he always expressed the fear that if we do something against the will of america, you know, they will do overthrow and kill him. that's something he always scared about. >> can i stop you and just ask you, did the americans -- were they responsible for the assassination of zim? >> the assassination, i am not sure, but the coup against zim, yes. i know all those vietnamese general, you know. without the support from, yeah, from america, they are to stage a coup against mr. zim. but now to kill the brother, i don't know, because, you know -- >> zim's mother. >> yeah, zim's mother. i don't know -- >> zim's brother. >> yeah, zim's brother. i don't know whether they or the vietnamese themselves took that dec

including all of the european and asian banks and economies like ireland. the caller is right. different circumstances in europe. you have universal banking models who you don't have glass-steagall separation. you also have traditionally a lot more supervision and over sight of the kind of activities they were getting into. during this period, these banks as well, got involved in buying up a lot of these very dubious securities. and one the famous cases that we saw in recent months was the case involving goldman sachs. and the way it created the collateralized debt where the products built on the idea of mortgage assets. that was designed to fail. it was put together with bad mortgages or securities that were based on bad mortgages and designed to go down through. that sort seller is on that side of the transaction could win. like john paulson. of course, on the other side of the transaction was among others a german bank that didn't seem to realize that it was being played. so you had a lot of things like this occurring at the hands of these super sophisticated wall street fir

christians, muslims, a jewish, religious leaders trying to heal the asian. my speech is god is good. we will find the enemy and bring justice. and it may have been the most in president -- important speech in my presidency it was like walking into hell with the senate still in the air there was palpable feeling these people did not know me as president they were desperately trying to pull out their friends when i got on top of the fire engine, i reviewed the film the other day we love you, we care for you, the message they haul wanted to hear we hear you and as a knockdown the buildings will hear from us. then we drove down the road it was lined with new yorkers in american flags and as guiliani pointed out, none of them voted for you. [laughter] the truth does not hurt. [laughter] i think the rescue workers then went to the families whose still thought the loved ones would come out of the rubble. i just had come from the rubble and it was actually hard to believe anybody could come out. i did the best i could to be hopeful and reassuring. it was a 30 minute

the bulk of the report is about the iranian domestic scene, and hear the word this factional was asian and factionalism. as any student of iran knows, the islamic republic of iran has never been unified, not before, during or after the revolution of 1979 when it comes to politics, economics, views on society and those who call that a totalitarian state really don't know the country at all. this is not a country where the elite are forced to belong to one political party as in china or the old soviet union. and whenever one faction appears to have completely finished its opponents as seems to occur last summer after the elections than that faction immediately splintered and we've seen certainly last few months that president mahmoud ahmadinejad has had a lot of problems come a lot of clashes with the parliament of the country, with other branches of government, and even on occasion the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini. he has alienated traditional conservatives, members of the old party. this is a very significant group that still controls the bazaars and has a hold over important isla

better educated than the asian, south asias, europeans, anybody, the best educated group. they don't come with a lot of money but come with a lot of education, intact families, educational aspirations and they're going to have a big impact in years to come. as the other component of emergent group was biracial americans. there there were laws outlawing misogeny. strom thurmon called it misogyny iation, and that was in the 60s and 70s, and a time when social barriers between white people and black people were tumbling, and i know in the generation of my sons, who are 27 and 20, they have tumbled. it's just not there or they don't feel it's there they've grown up in integrated settings. they have gone to schools where diversity has been taught as a good thing, and so there's a growing number of biracial americans, and it is hard to give specific numbers. what interests me is something that president obama, who was one of these groups -- with this group -- he belonged to several of these groups, actually. one of the things he said -- if you recall his race speech during the c

steering networks tend to engage in what we might as older people feel this editorial was asian in the reporting and that is not the way the media originally was. there was a carvel line that divided the editorial division from the news division and the news division of reported stuff that the owners and editorial-page didn't like. but i leave you with this shot. this is why those folks enjoy owning newspapers. freedom of the press as he reminds us belongs to those who own the press. if you ever get upset about editorial in the washington times and the washington post there's an op-ed section edited by wonderful man who gets your voice in. that would be the thing pulitzer like because he was one of the first people ever to publish an article by an individual that appeared in the paper that might not agree with him. thank you. you are a delightful group. [applause] thank you on behalf of all the authors for the support you give us as writers. where we are working alone for five years and is nice to know you are >>> coming up next, booktv presents "after words," an hourlong program where

again, i mentioned earlier the shanghai cooperation organization, the east asian community, and you have linkages across regional groupings in the which we don't really have a role. again, one of the underanalyzed aspects of diplomacy today is looking at interregional relations. it's when latin america and the arab countries have a summit. it's when china and african countries have a summit. it's when europe and asia have a summit. and there's tons of deals and agreements that go on there, and they make their own rules on how they're going to deal with each other. and we wouldn't call it global. it's not the world trade organization, it's not the imf, but it's every bit as important because they are, from the bottom up, rewriting some of these rules on a regional level. >> there's another story here, either one of you address it. you know, i sort of do believe we are sort of at that present creation 2.0 moment simply because we have two kinds of institutions in this world, you know, dysfunctional ones or ineffective ones. and, you know, within the context of those institutions -- and the

the institutional as asian of human rights and foreign policy also generated excitement among many americans who had been disillusioned by the cynical richard nixon and henry kissinger and gerald ford. most important in the middle east carter brokered a durable peace agreement between the egyptians and the israelis that lasted over three decades and with no other president has been able to replicate. when push came to shove carter could play politics quite well on foreign policy and domestic policy to build senate support for the ratification of the panama canal treaty in 1978. carter send senators to panama so they could be there by military leaders, local residents and business leaders on the importance of the treaty. he addressed audiences in key states and local communities to build pressure on senators using state of the art town hall meeting technology and remote telephone connections and exploited division among conservatives on this issue. is easy to forget carter scored big victories in his first two years after his first 1 hundred days. he had approval ratings approaching 69%. wash

steering networks tend to engage in what we might as older people feel this editorial was asian in the reporting and that is not the way the media originally was. there was a carvel line that divided the editorial division from the news division and the news division of reported stuff that the owners and editorial-page didn't like. but i leave you with this shot. this is why those folks enjoy owning newspapers. freedom of the press as he reminds us belongs to those who own the press. if you ever get upset about editorial in the washington times and the washington post ere's ed .. by wonderful man who gets your voice in. that would be the thing pulitzer like because he was one of the

koreans were so mysterious, and a lot of the very negative stereotypes that americans have about aiz -- asians, incute bl communists, you know, all this whole garbage was always applied to north koreans, and i wanted to show them as real people. so i portrayed these six people who i still know, and they're wonderful people. >> host: did you find yourself being stared at? >> guest: no. that's what's very interesting. they're taught not to stare, and they don't stare at you which is one sign of how controlled the environment is. in china i'm stared at, in south korea i'm stared at. not north korea. they don't make eye contact. >> host: were you relieved when you got out? >> guest: yes. always. but it's not nearly as scary as you might think because once you get a proper visa as opposed to walking across the river, you're chaperoned every moment and, you know, i knew not to say anything that would get me in trouble or the people who were guiding me. >> host: how long have you been working on "nothing to envy"? >> guest: it's embarrassing to say, but it was about seven years. i started interviewin

you go into the room, count three black guys, two hispanics, and one asian or go into a room and see people. this approach on why don't you have black people in your company. i think that's more raise itch. it's tiresome. >> host: should americans take seriously his doomsday warnings or is he a showman? you have written several columns in usa today defending glenn beck, how do you feel he faint sized about him getting he headed in india? >> guest: i didn't hear the show, if he said that, that's awful. he shouldn't have said it, and it sounds awful, and sounds dumb, but at the same time, i've learned not to trust every rendition of reality from e-mail. i want to see what he actually said, but taking the e-mailer at his word, that's terrible. in terms of glenn's doomsday stuff, it's not like, you know, we are a member of the same bowling team or anything like that. we're not buddies, but i think what he is doing as a net benefit, and i really admire his ability to communicate with all the re, but i don't agree with everything he says. sometimes he goes overboard. the doomsday stuff, it

before me on the schedule was a representative from los angeles county department of asian. he passed out brochures to the seniors to have been gathered there. he said we are getting reports of our senior is being takennios advantage of.nge there are people who are running scams are seniors. they will ask you all kinds ofqn questions about yourself.elf. they will ask you where you're from, wh from, where you were born, whenn did you come to los angeles, hoe many children you have.do you what do you do for a living? that's about everything i needed to know when more. he passed this out and then said next up isabel wilkerson will be here to talk with you. fortunately i they had not beeny listening because they weren focused on the state dinner or they found me to be especially e trustworthy or whenever. i don't know what the reasonwwha was. i went with it and was able to talk with them.at is what i did that is what i did for many ca months. i narrowed it down to these i nw three. the three were people that ii needed to have. three protagonists, people youvd eave never heard of

by the fall of 2009 serving and as quickly as diverse student population, 20% hispanic, 7% white, 2% asian and 2% american indian. eighty% of qualified for free reduced lunch we have approximately 30 one hundred employees with a student teacher ratio of 14-1. if there's any research out there that says there is a direct correlation to measurable student academic achievement and class size in kansas city with a 14-1 ratio should have had the highest scores in the state. however, in 70% of our school, less than 25% were at the efficient level as required by the state sentiment and in turn required by the no child left behind act with a vote goal being that 100% of students would be proficient by the year 2014. in addition to that, we were doing business with 6,300 vendors. six thousand three hundred vendors. when we look at the value that these vendors were contributing to student performance outcomes the data suggested that the value that they added or should have been adding just wasn't there. we at a projected expenditure in the fiscal year can for $360 million and we only had two ninety-

north koreans were so mysterious, and a lot of the very negative stereotypes that americans have about asians always applied to north koreans and i wanted to show them as real people, as though i portrayed these six people are going still know them and they are wonderful people. >> did you find yourself being stared at? >> no. that is what is very interesting. they are taught not to stare. they don't stare at you, which is one sign of how controlled environment is. in china i am stared at and south korea i'm stared at. not north korea, they don't make eye contact. >> were you relieved when he got out? >> yes. always but it is not nearly as scary as you might think because once you get a proper visa as opposed to walking across the river, you are chaperoned every moment and i knew not to say anything that would get me in trouble or the people who were following the. >> how long have you been working on at? >> it is embarrassing to say. it was about seven years. soup to nuts. i started interviewing -- i started interviewing north koreans and i guess 2001 and because i couldn't get into north ko

african descent, although individuals of middle eastern, mediterranean, central and south american and asian american heritage can inherit the disease as well. about one in 12 african-americans carry the gene for sickle cell disease and one in 400 americans have had the full-blown disease. it is estimated that over 80,000 americans have sickle cell disease, with about 2,000 babies born with the disease each year. sickle cell disease can result in tremendous personal difficulties. natasha thomas is a 36-year-old african-american woman from baltimore, maryland. she considers herself fortunate to have access to quality care. despite some setbacks, she was able to complete middle school, high school and college, and she has been working consistently for 15 years. she has had employers who allow her to take leave when she has sickle cell pain crisis. natasha admits that most of the people she knows with sickle cell disease are not as fortunate as she is. even though she has access to specialized care, natasha is hospitalized at least once a year with paralyzing pain. in the hospital, she has to u

we created a cricket league deal he made with the south asian population. it's a huge success in that in queens and brooklyn and the bronx. i think we think about as a country what do we do for committee outreach and kind of radicalization in the area, you have to start looking at the local bubble. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> well, i think as mr. joyce talked about there are efforts underway, some of which can we talk about, some can't. and that information comes to a whole bunch of sources for the united states government. for some foremost from the local sources. more closer to the problem and see the problem. of the radicalization efforts better organize would come under the purview of the fbi domestically. if that radicalization had a component of violence to it, and i would argue all cases of radicalization has a proponent of violent student. so that part is being done and they're looking at it from every aspect that you might on any, when you look at any organization that might be your to do something that is subversive, how that would come together, i

the thing i like about that institutional as asian is at least it creates some reason to anticipate this behavior. you can institutionalize -- you can't price if if the rules are abandoned every time the government encounters favored political constituency inside an environment like bankruptcy. i disagree with todd. i don't think bankruptcy is the appropriate vehicle for everything. we don't use it for everything. it is not necessary to resolve every crisis and i disagree with todd with respect to dodd frank which is a useful device despite its shortcomings. if the government is going to behave in an ad hoc or arbitrary fashion at least dodd frank institutionalizes that behavior in a particular framework and we can talk about whether the government is departing from the strictures of dodd frank in a particular case. finally i want to talk about the bankruptcy of the state. i don't think we can easily imagine chapter ix of the bankruptcy code to cover california. wind we suggest this we are going to the framework of the debate between david and stephen. david and steven are focused on res

had a policy of dual containment, europeans, asians were all blithely going on their way, signing agreements with iran, there was a lot of business. that has changed, and actually the report -- we have seen a shift, european trade is coming down, china for a time seemed like it was going to fill the gap, but even chinese imports of iranian oil are going down now. and also chinese investment in the iranian oil sector is going down now according to a report that i cite in the issues brief. i think the world is getting the message that this is a government that is not behaving well, and the u.s. has never had this kind of consensus behind this policy. so i think it has a much greater chance of working. unilateral sanctions almost never work, but multilateral sanctions sometimes do. and you see remarks by iranian officials, the former president rafsanjani said recently these sanctions are no joke and ahmadinejad should pay attention to them. there's lots of commentary even in the very controlled iranian press about the impact that sanctions are having. so i think that it is a different situation

that the floods that created damage was about $43 billion the world bank and the asian development bank came up with roughly $10 billion that's been figured. the government hasn't challenged that but even that amount of money is not available whether in the recent pakistan development forum for others where pakistan has sought the assistance. so how bad is the situation on the ground now, as a result of the floods, and what of the international aid doesn't come through? what is the mechanism available? >> let me say this such a mission pakistan was definitely the biggest humanitarian challenge that we have seen in the history of the united nations and the general said that much. however, let me say one thing. the worst predictions have not been fulfilled. the fact there were fewer casualties should have been cause for people to say somebody did something right and evacuated large populations it is a free areas but that credit was not going because after all we all understand and you're sort of here at the council but has a wonderful center in this town somebody who has worked in the thi

. >> the committee may be aware of the asian foundation poll which measures a number of things every year. one of the things it measures is the confidence of the afghan people in their government. and this has gone up 5% over last year. admittedly only to 47% but the trend is upwards. >> more than many governments in the world. >> can i just -- just returning to the questions that you were asking for, just for clarification. 2015 deadline, that applies to security forces is well. all combat troops? >> we don't have a comment as a former defense secretary knows on the tasks we give to our security forces. >> so it's not clear as to whether we're talking about security forces? >> i'm not giving you a clear answer but i'm not giving you a clear answer deliberately. >> we'll go into private session maybe we can be more privy is there. >> clearly the united states is the most important power in the coalition. but there are lots of reports about internal divisions within the u.s. administration. and we've heard in private, in many places people saying this to us. and we also have it in the

you go into the room, count three black guys, two hispanics, and one asian or go into a room and see people. this approach on why don't you have black people in your company. i think that's more raise itch. it's tiresome. >> host: should americans take seriously his doomsday warnings or is he a showman? you have written several columns in usa today defending glenn beck, how do you feel he faint sized about him getting he headed in india? >> guest: i didn't hear the show, if he said that, that's awful. he shouldn't have said it, and it sounds awful, and sounds dumb, but at the same time, i've learned not to trust every rendition of reality from e-mail. i want to see what he actually said, but taking the e-mailer at his word, that's terrible. in terms of glenn's doomsday stuff, it's not like, you know, we are a member of the same bowling team or anything like that. we're not buddies, but i think what he is doing as a net benefit, and i really admire his ability to communicate with all the re, but i don't agree with everything he says. sometimes he goes overboard. the doomsday stuff, it

he'll be talking a bit later on about the general central asian context in the war against corruption, and he'll also be serving as a moderator. after the panelists have completed their prosecutions, we'll have time for q and a, and i circulate through the audience and most, if not all of you, will have time to ask some questions. professor roberts? >> thank you, jim, and thanks all of you from the elliot school for coming out this evening. thanks to dean brown as well. it's an honor to be on a panel with stephen who has been carefully studying iraq since it started seven and a half years ago, the reconstruction part, and a pleasure to be here with shown as well. reconstruction in iraq, not a new story. certainly something present in that country long before the united states invaded in 2003, but it was something that became part of our relief and reconstruction effort. once it became clear how large our engagement would be. initially as many of you know, it was expected that we would liberate and leap. the president decided on march 10th, 2003 that by september of that year, u.s. for

and obviously even china, asian country, europe. i think in my opinion, the united states is behind. we were not behind and we still have great entrepreneurial minds and i think something will change. but i think were behind. for example, europe has better policies and they give a head start. now china -- look at china for example. were now trying to basically have fair practices, but china is not only stimulate manufacturers, but they create their own markets. this year we have more renewable energy installed in china than the united states. so it's not the ages manufacturer to it themselves or they use their own market. so i think -- i think we have to -- we have to do a better job to opening up the market to innovation. >> do you want to hop in there or should we go to bask? >> that's okay. i was sitting here at 18, energy is a big issue for everybody. i'm agnostic on greenhouse gases because i don't know enough to know. i'm just running airlines. >> it's called denial, right? >> i put a lot of particulars into the atmosphere. bu

that the floods that created damage was about $43 billion the world bank and the asian development bank came up with roughly $10 billion that's been figured. the government hasn't challenged that but even that amount of money is not available whether in the recent pakistan development forum for others where pakistan has sought the assistance. so how bad is the situation on the ground now, as a result of the floods, and what of the international aid doesn't come through? what is the mechanism available? >> let me say this such a mission pakistan was definitely the biggest humanitarian challenge that we have seen in the history of the united nations and the general said that much. however, let me say one thing. the worst predictions have not been fulfilled. the fact there were fewer casualties should have been cause for people to say somebody did something right and evacuated large populations it is a free areas but that credit was not going because after all we all understand and you're sort of here at the council but has a wonderful center in this town somebody who has worked in the thi

it's a story about africans and asians. one thing i've learned, in this kind of work there's no such thing as objectivity. the best i could do is continue to own by own subjecttivity. poetry allows somebody ton honest about the lens they are looking through. >> host: where did you go to college? >> guest: i went to princeton university. >> host: why? >> guest: at the time, the writing department was strong and i grew up in philadelphia. which isn't so far. weirdly enough, i missed the light. there's a kind of light in delaware, new jersey, philadelphia, that is not anywhere else. yes, we will leave it there. >> host: next call. who's book is "the 10th parallel: dispatches from the fault line christianity and islam." good afternoon. >> caller: hello. i'm on the air? >> host: you are, sir. >> caller: hello, i didn't hear you mention, ms. griswold, the fault line within the islamic world on the ethnic basis. you mentioned the majority of muslims are not arabs, in sudan, the fault line between the darfur muslims and the central

so please join me in welcoming staff sergeant salvatore giunta for the reading of the south asian. -- salutation. >> the president of the united states of america, authorized by acts of congress, march 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor to then specialist salvatore giunta, united states army. specialist salvatore giunta distinguished himself conspicuously by gallantry and at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty in action with an armed enemy in the korengal valley, afghanistan, on october 25, 2007. while conducting a patrol as team leader with company b., second battalion airport, 503rd infantry regiment, specialist transit and his team were navigating the harsh terrain when they were ambushed by a well armed and well coordinated force. while under heavy fire specialist training engage the enemy. saying that his squad leader had fallen and believed that he had been injured, specials giunta exposed himself to withering enemy fire and race towards his squad leader, helping to cover and administered medical aid. while administering first aid

sell stated doctor loans, low our no-doc comprise 5% of bank overload, 24% of private-label securities asian love. you will also knows if i go score was higher in later years on retained loans, 734 rather than 726 for private-label come and 724 for gse loans. furthermore, i was a little bit bothered by the fact that the coupon rate, the thought was, g., banks are more concerned with prepaid risk than they are with the default risk and, therefore, they can to retain loans with lower prepayment risks, estimating a regression on prepay risk without including an interest rate of able very much bothered me because the coupon rate is clearly lower, particularly most pronounced in the later years on the loans that the banks retained. i was also somewhat bothered by the authors don't have the complete universe of loan. a number of loans they have in each category is at the top of this page and within the table. they are report may 2850 private-label loans in 2005. 51,000 in 2006. around 31,000 in 2007. we screened the low performance securitized prime database only looking for fixed rate amortizing

[laughter] and the other young man was an asian kid. and freeman asked him what mathematic, what course in math he was taking. and, frankly, i'd never heard of math that was of that high level. [laughter] and i'm not sure that any of y'all would have either. and he told freeman what he was taking, and freeman said, what grade do you have? he said, i have a c. and you could see fright in his eyes. [laughter] and freeman said, what did you make on your s.a.t.s in math? he said, 7 1r5. freeman said, go to work. you should be making an a. and freeman looked at him in a very serious way because he takes this seriously. and that's what if we have freemans in both our high schools and colleges, if we had the commitment freeman has of expecting high performance be, we wouldn't be where we are today. >> there's a lot of tendency to talk about, you know, we need more of yous, we need all of that, but let's get back to then. how does that relationship happen where you and others like you are reaching out and becoming partners to the chancellors of

that the floods that created damage was about $43 billion the world bank and the asian development bank came up with roughly $10 billion that's been figured. the government hasn't challenged that but even that amount of money is not available whether in the recent pakistan development forum for others where pakistan has sought the assistance. so how bad is the situation on the ground now as a result of the floods, and what of the international aid doesn't come through? what is the mechanism available? >> let me say this such a mission pakistan was definitely the biggest humanitarian challenge that we have seen in the history of the united nations and the general said that much. however, let me say one thing. the worst predictions have not been fulfilled. the fact there were fewer casualties should have been cause for people to say somebody did something right and evacuated large populations it is a free areas but that credit was not going because after all we all understand and you're sort of here at the council but has a wonderful center in this town somebody who has worked in the thin

we have to face up to that as an asian and stop pretending that there are -- we have to face up to that as a nation and stop pretending that there are simple cure-alls. >> looking at these figures, it seems that your tax increases are going to be more than we were expecting, in the next budget in particular >> but the figures in here make the middle income person will be worse off by 3 how euros a year by the end of this. at the end of your pension relief or winding down a pension relief will hit high income earners but at the bottom end reducing minimum wage a euroand it seems minimum wage people will be subject to income tax for the first time. is that the case? >> no, i think you're anticipating the budget there and certainly i don't accept your basic calculation that there are thousands upon thousands of eurobei beinbein b being taken off middle incomed taxpayers. we are looking at 20 euros on the taxpayer and i accept that and i don't accept the rather high numbers here. >> you spoke about intergenerational solidarity. is this plan not really the attack on the younger generation be

that is to say, they are either secured through collateral is asian, or they are owed overtime. they are not withdrawn on demand in most cases. now, some people have made the point that if you are doing overnight funding in the markets, that's the same thing as a deposit. it is withdrawn on demand, but it is not. the difference between a deposit and that overnight repo is clear. and that is a person who is lending money to an institution with an overnight we don't actually has the collateral. if the institution can't pay, the collateral remains with the lender. this provides at least, it might not be 100% coverage, but it provides more than institution would get if the bank stopped meeting its obligations on its deposits. two completely different things. we made the first mistake in assuming that the mere failure of a non-bank financial institutions like bear stearns would cause some sort of worldwide collapse. and once we did that, we stepped into an entirely new area. and it's going to be very hard to get ourselves out of the quicksand now. >> all right. speaking of too big to

it looks like it is a southeast asian strain. that doesn't tell you what country it's from or how it got introduced. but it does not look to be one of the strains that was prevalent or circulating and latin america. for example, when i first started -- the first time i ever went to peru there is a tale and other very large cholera epidemic. doesn't look so much be that strain, but rather from southeast asia. they're also circulating strains in africa, so we have what's called molecular fingerprinting or epidemiology. in the right not getting the information we need about really again, it's not in any way to point a finger, but rather to clean up sources and to be honest and straight forward and make sure the haitian public knows there is nobody trying to cover this up. i do believe we'll be able to figure out exactly where it did come from. academic interest only of intervening in a very public health manner, the real problem is people need to understand in haiti and everywhere else but this is a waterborne disease. failure of sa

steering networks tend to engage in what we might as older people feel this editorial was asian in the reporting and that is not the way the media originally was. there was a carvel line that divided the editorial division from the news division and the news division of reported stuff that the owners and editorial-page didn't like. but i leave you with this shot. this is why those folks enjoy owning newspapers. freedom of the press as he reminds us belongs to those who own the press. if you ever get upset about editorial in the washington times and the washington post there's an op-ed section edited by wonderful man who gets your voice in. that would be the thing pulitzer like because he was one of the first people ever to publish an article by an individual that appeared in the paper that might not agree with him. thank you. you are a delightful group. [applause] thank you on behalf of all the authors for the support you give us as writers. where we are working alone for five years and is nice to know you are >> i don't see why not. then coleman a contest would've overturned it and no

sustained can be slopped has itself been reversed and is powerfully illustrate informal institutional was asian and acceptance by israel and the key members of the international community of palestinian territorial demographic fragmentation and isolation. this represents a key part by a shift in the way that constitutes understood and approached. perhaps the most powerful illustration of the occupation power lies in the expansion of the israeli settlements and their infrastructure and the building of the separation very near to the to -- barrier. the effect has been damaging, not only of the land and the use of those lands been lost, and according to the israeli human rights group that 42% of the west bank is now under total israeli control and inaccessible to palestinians was 21% a settlement being built on private hair of land but air of land is being incorporated and consolidated into the new special and political order that aims to eliminate any separation between israel and certain and increasing areas of the west bank, diminishing the presence of palestinians precluding the emergence of a