>> lawrence is 90 years old at any the celebrated his birthday with m. at this point i would say that any poetry that we are publishing is vetted by lawrence, it has to have his approval. but the great thing that he has done is that he hasn't kept the company to himself appear he has delegated work to lots of people like myself and let us continue his vision in our own way. at this point we hope to see him, he comes into the office a couple times a week to check mail and what not, but he is busy painting, he is still writing. he is pursuing his own staff. my first and at city lights to come into the office every day so i am glad to have had that privilege to see him and work with them. >> stacy lewis, thank you. marketing director of city lights bookstore in san francisco. >> thank you. >> david michaels, former assistant secretary of energy for environment, safety and health during the clinton administration says corporations hire their own scientists to skew the safety records of certain products. he talks about that during this event hosted by the cen

>> lawrence is 90 years old and we just celebrated his 90th birthday with him. at this point, i would say that any poetry that we're publishing is abetted by lawrence but it has to have his approval, but the great thing that he has done is that he

>> city lights publishing started in 1955 by lawrence ferlinghetti. of many people know who he is the is one of the most renowned poets in the world. he began a publishing company with a collection of his own palms called pictures of the gone world that was the first book in the pocket politics series we have about 60 books in print right now in the serious. >> tell me a little about the bookstore and the publishing house. how does it work? to the two work together? >> most of the people that work in the publishinpublishin g company had worked in the bookstore burma of the person that is now the editorial director worked for over 15 years in the bookstore and is now leading the way publishing books for city lights. we're in this same building in is quite symbiotic. the books that republish very much reflect the type of books that we carry in the store, the commitment to progressive politics, literature and a translation, gay and lesbian literature, poetry and translation if one were to look at the city lights lit store think of the books we were just

>> city lights publishing was actually started in 1955 by lawrence getty and many people know who lawrence is. he's actually one of the most renowned poets in the world. he began the publishing company with a collection of his own poems called pictures of the gone world. that was the first book in the city lights pocket poet series which has gone on to continue publishing. we have about 60 books in print right now in the series. >> so tell me a little bit about the bookstore and the publishing house. how does it work. is there synergy between the bookstore and the publishing house? >> yeah. i would say that -- at one time most of the people that worked in the publishing company had worked in the bookstore. the person that is now the editorial director worked for over 15 years in the bookstore and is now leading the way publishing excellent books for city lights. we're in the same building. it's quite symbiotic. the books that we publish very much reflect the types of books that we carry in the store, the commitment to progressive politics, literature and translation, new voices, gay and le

and when colonel lawrence was killed, the other men started taking off his clothes. and kosciuszko wrote to general green who was the commanding officer in the south, this was mean and low thinking. and the two negroes longing to lawrence are naked and want shirts, jackets, and breaches and their skin can bear as well as ours, good things. kosciuszko was in charge now of south carolina, and basically surrounding and putting the stranglehold on charleton. and the way he kept track of what was going on in charleton, was, he had black spies that would go into charlton, and then come back and tell him, which people were loyalists, and which people were with the rebels. eventually, kosciuszko was able to shut off charleton and the revolution ended. and he actually fought in the last battle of the revolution. now, at the end of the war, the americans owed kosciuszko a salary of $12,280. they couldn't pay him because the u.s. treasury was not set up yet. and they gave him bonds bearing interest at 6%, and it didn't help him, because he wanted to go back to poland, and so he

chairman, my study of classic counterinsurgency doctrine, looking at everything from tea lawrence to david -- t.e. lawrence to david kilcullen, leads me to believe that we need a larger security forces. >> larger than the current and- strength? >> yes, sir. >> general, do you also believe -- in your judgment, will the afghan army need to get a significantly higher end-of strength than 134,000? >> yes, that is my belief right now. >> in terms of the pakistan situation -- and here, general, he made reference to this -- would you agree that assistance to pakistan would only be affected if the pakistani government is considered by the people of pakistan as taking the fight to the insurgents because of their own needs as a nation, not because of u.s. pressure? >> yes, sir, i do. >> admiral, do you want to give a quick comment on that? >> yes, sir, i do. >> the general mcchrystal, are you familiar with the national solidarity program in afghanistan? >> yes, sir. >> do you have an opinion of its success? >> i want to learn more when i get on the ground, but from what i've seen here, it is v

one of them was colonel lawrence, outspoken opponent of slavery but when he was killed the other men started taking off his clothes and kosciuszko wrote to general green who was the commanding officer that this was mean and low thinking and the two negro's belonging to lawrence r. naked and wash shirts, jackets, breeches and their skin can bear as well as ours good things. kosciuszko was in charge now of south carolina and basically surrounding and putting the stranglehold on charleston. and the way he kept track was going on in charleston was he had black spies of going to charleston and come back and tell which people were loyalists and which people work with the rebels. even shibley, kosciuszko was able to show off charleston and the revolution ended and he actually fought in the last battle of the revolution. at the end of the war, the americans of kosciuszko salary of $12,280. they couldn't pay and because the united states treasury bills and set up yet so they gave him bonds bearing interest of 6% but this didn't help kosciuszko because he wanted to go back to poland. so, he me

on february 12, 2008, lawrence king, a 15-year-old student, lost his life because he was gay. by a hate crime. on election night, we saw two men go on a killing spree against african-americans because america elected its first african-american president. in july of last year, four teenagers killed a mexican immigrant and used racial slurs making it clear it was a hate crime. since 2007, in 2007, there were 7,600 reported hate crimes in america, 150 in my state of maryland. so we need to do something about this. the trends have not been positive. they've been negative. latino, crimes against latinos s based on hate have increased. in 2007 we saw the highest number of hate crimes against lesbian, gays, bisexual and transgender, up 6%. the number of supremist groups have increased dramatically. there has been an increase in antisemetism between 2006 and 2007 and the list goes on and on and on. my point is this, madam president: we are seeing a troubling trend in america. with increased violence caused by hate-type activities. we need to act. the federal government needs to act. t

henry lawrence of south carolina was president of congress. in 1778, i have just come from a meeting with several congressmen, and washington's ideas were greeted with laughter and derision. great many people in congress had lost confidence in washington. there was a feeling that for better or worse, they had washington and had to keep washington, and dr. benjamin rush from philadelphia wrote that he thought there was a concerted decision made by congress in the winter of 1778 to make washington the national icon. we were the only country that didn't have a came. the king's work to a considerable degree symbolic figures. they were the figure around which people could rally, and the nation could be sustained. john adams, after the war, said the same thing, there was a decision made early in 1778 in congress to make washington the central stone, as he put it, in the national arch. that is the glorification of washington, where it really begins, and this idea of washington being indispensable, develops. as adams said, congress protected washingto

i think it is important to have ambassador lawrence there. >> has your ambassador been in touch with the interim president? what has our message been to him? >> i am not aware. i am not sure. we can find out that information. i know that he is very much -- >> what would your message be to him? >> the message is they need to have a legal, consensual solution to this situation. >> would you ask him to step down from his power? >> i can tell you what our overall messages, but i am not one to tell you specifics. i do not know. i am not there. >> you do not have to be on the ground to know what your government would like the interim president to do. >> we want the constitutional order to be restored in honduras. >> use a legal and consensual. it is not essential for anyone to have him return to the presidency. when you say "consentual," it means everyone agrees. they kicked him out and expelled him. no one will consent. >> that may be. that may not be. i am not going to announce what the consensus is in honduras. what i do know is that zelaya is the democratically elected president. >> wh

lawrence, and the sense in the kind of romantic consecutivism of the last century. the 19th century and the 20th century in which the arab was incredibly idealized in a way, and the jew if you think about the trollops way we live now, is the modernity, so there's a slightly golf club, patronizing snobbery about the jew. pound had it and again, very much a european style. but there's no doubt you're right there is a degree of something unhinged, hostility towards israel government policy. i'm not a great admirer of current israeli poll simple i'm sort of peace now, but i'm a zionist. i believe in the jewish state and the palestineish state. i'm a two-state solution person. but has it shadowed into without daring to call itself that, a kind of anti-semitism? the answer is, yes, in my view. and it's something actually which friends of mine who are jewish public intellectuals -- a phrase which slighma

>>guest: it was actually started in 1955 many people know lawrence ferlinghetti who was the most renowned public in the world. he began a publishing company with his own poems that was the first book and the pocket policy areas we have 60 books in print right now in this series. >>host: tell me a little bit about the bookstore and the publishing house but how does it work? is there synergy between the two? >>guest: yes. at one time most of the people that worked in the publishing company had worked in the bookstore. the person that is now the editorial director worked for over 15 years in the bookstore. and is now leading the way publishing books of four city lights books. it is quite some biotic part of the books that we publish very much reflect the type of books that we carry and the store, the commitment to progressive politics, literature, a translation, new voices, gay and lesbian literature, poetry and translation f1 was to look at the last and think about the books i was talking love then walked through the store you would get the same sort of sense that the selection is curator f

yes, i was privileged at oxford university to study counter-insurgency and a look at the works of lawrence of arabia who said that making war and rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a net. he understood how difficult, grinding but in an insurgency can be. conventional military forces are not very well-prepared to do with that kind of war by nature or training. they have to learn how to do it over time. will we have seen over the past six years in iraq is an american military and prepared to fight this kind of insurgency, but to learn and adapt. those lessons are now applied to the war in afghanistan. into what has been called a global counter-insurgency campaign against al qaeda and its friends. host: our guest is the retired lieutenant colonel john nagl. caller: i would just like to say that i come from a long line ofgrunts from the war, right down to my brother's in both iraq wars, and i love your analogy of it break humpty dumpty and then putting him back together again. we have the freedom and the united states to say we want to, but like to apologize for the fellow who

tim geithner and lawrence summers on not a replacement for warren buffett and bill gates. we have been here before. jimmy carter got us to 13% inflation, 22% interest rates, sliding into the worst recessions since the great depression and every day gasoline rationing. how many of you remember when you could only buy gasoline every other day based on your license plate? this happened. america was reduced by bad policy, bad politicians, and bad government to rationing gasoline. my good friend pointed out he was only 13 at the time every morning, his father would give him a screwdriver to go out back and change the license plate so the car that needed gas had the right license plate. if you learn that a government rationing led 13-year olds to change license plates, you are a conservative. if you conclude that what we needed was license plate police at every gas station, you are a liberal. it is that straightforward. we have been here before. replacing the rule of law with special interest deals and bankruptcy does not work. having a 31-year-old to take time off to did -- to

my wife, my son christopher, and lawrence boyfriend, kevin, miss loren every weekend of every day. i will not have the opportunity to what my daughter down the aisle and give her away in marriage. she will not experience the joy of a growing child within and raising a loving family as we did. our traditional christmas eve visit to new york city for some last-minute shopping, and taking in mass at st. patrick's cathedral were probably come to an end this year. they will just be too painful to make that trip without lauren. many of my fellow crash victims' families sitting behind me also have similar stories and similar losses. so now it is up you to make a difference. everyone in this room today, and those who were here last wednesday, expressed that they had come before you to make the necessary changes in safety. winter is coming. if we do not implement critical safety changes before then, and another accident occurs, we can only blame ourselves for the losses of those families. i do not wish to shoulder the burden, and hope and believe that you agree with me. mr. chairman, rankin

lawrence bank, the head of blackrock, in which the mr. summers who heads the national economic planning council, is a major investor, just got several no-bid contracts from the fed including one to manage fannie mae and freddie mac. does the fed now that he is the person who first created a collateralized mortgage and brought that instrument to freddy mac and sold it to them for over $1 billion? he's now the fed's go-to man through his firm on workouts. i have a question about the revolving door and how do you protect the public against the company's conflict of interest that relate to his own and his firm's historic ininvolvements with those portfolios? >> it's a separate institution. i don't understand your question. >> you have signed a contract with blackrock to manage the fannie mae and freddie mac -- >> not to my knowledge. >> i understand it was one of the four and five contracts you signed with blackrock. >> i'd have to go back and check on that. >> we'd appreciate that very much. >> one final question. before you have to leave, w

lawrence bank, the head of blackrock, in which the mr. summers who heads the national economic planning council, is a major investor, just got several no-bid contracts from the fed including one to manage fannie mae and freddie mac. does the fed now that he is the person who first created a collateralized mortgage and brought that instrument to freddy mac and sold it to them for over $1 billion? he's now the fed's go to man. how you protect investors? >> the federal reserve is a separate institution from freddie mac. i do not understand your question. >> you have signed a contract with black rock to manage freddie mac. i understood it was one of the four or five contracts that you had signed with black grout. >> i would have to go back and check on that. >> i would appreciate that. >> before you have to leave, i've -- we are going to make to fiscal policy decisions this summer. when talk about capt. trade and health care legislation. that is more to impact our borrowing and our deficits. the bill that is moving to the floor that is alread

. >> there's a point of controversy when lawrence lindsey was asked how much it would cost in iraq and he said $200 billion. everybody said that was baloney. you are in the middle of all that and defended him. how does it look from this point of view? >> i have a thick file to confirm what i actually said at the time. we at omb were asked to cost the first supplemental to pay for the iraq war. it is very clear on the historical record what the assumptions were. we were not war fighters, we were estimators. how much would it cost to defeat the iraqi army and be out six months later? we gave a number that turned out to be very much on the mark. larry had a more macro idea. this would not be world war ii or vietnam. that was not the supposition at the time. >> we are up to $700 million at least. what is your opinion on that? >> i am not going to second- guess anybody decision, either at the outset or along the way. i will say that it has had profound consequences. it is the single biggest reason why the last election was lost, just the fatigue of at all. it was turning around, but not in

of the first amendment, busing as a remedy in school desegregation cases, recently gave rights in lawrence vs. texas -- quite a list of areas in which the court has steadily expanded its reach of what it takes to be a constitutional matter. in addition to the new areas either have been revivals of or expansions of areas that were familiar before that point, one would have two-point, for example to the rehnquist court and federalism. breathing life back into the tenth and 11th amendments. finding limits for congress as commerce. i used to tell my students that would never see that happen -- well, i was proved wrong by the court in u.s. vs. lopez. finding limits on the congress's power under section five of the 14th amendment at one time seemed unlikely but the court has done that in cases like this city of brianna. this is store near expansion of something to do -- due process was attenuated in the 1960's has flared into life in the year since that time. property protection, last year the second amendment d.c. vs heller so that is quite a list of areas in which the court has invigorated wer

and then someone knows my name by lawrence hill. it is a fictionalized autobiography of a woman sold into slavery who chronicles her life in magnificent fashion. someone knows my name, the book thief and as i said, that conroy's south abroad that comes out august 11. >> book expo america, new york city 2009 we are here with john. what is a publisher do? >> the publisher is just a title i have. i run in print at basic books so we have editorial, marketing, publicity, design and i just end up making the final decisions on things. i say a lot of yes or no is what i do all that long. >> what you say yes or no to? >> whether we are going to acquire a book, how much we will pay for, but then the resources we will put into marketing and promoting it, a final call on which jacket, i like this jacket better than that one, what the price will be, how many we should print, ship. a bunch of small decisions. it all adds up to big decisions but a bunch of small ones along the way. >> how long have you been in books and where did you come from bef

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because its current c.e.o., lawrence fink, coincidently, some might say, sold freddie mac it's $1 billion national park clalerlyized organizations. he's one of the pioneers of the mortgage backed securities market as trader at then first boston a quarter century ago, he pitched the first collateralized mortgage obligation that freddie mac ever did, unquote. so, larry fink had a land in making financial instruments that have brought freddie mac and our financial system to its knees, yet his company now leads and gets profits from a no-bid contract that black rock has just received from the federal reserve of new york. to manage the toxic assets of freddie mac and fannie mae. in their collateralized mortgage obligations. it's a mess that he helped to create but now we have hired the same man to clean it up? one question i have to ask is, how can we be sure he isn't self-dealing or covering up what he did in the last quarter century? some might say that relationship is a bit incestuous. the administration's financial regulatory reform proposal includes some consideration for dealing with too

lawrence mentality? >> well, lloyd henderson who long talked about the was stationed in the soviet union after that and he was the head of the near eastern division, he was stationed in iraq, and doubles and iraq that he developed this very antizionist position. >> and what is the man who translate fdr's -- >> eddy. >> he became the first ambassador from the saudi -- first ambassador to the saudis and he translated the text of fdr's conversations of why we know what happened there. he was, again, believe in the arab nation, and saw the saudi position as the just one and arab position as the just one and considered his role as ambassador. and before that, to explain to the united states the just cause of the saudis and the arabs. >> let me say one more thing about that. from what we could surmise, the united states really didn't have that developed a position about the middle east. and they sort of followed the british and they saw the british as the ones who as having the mandate were the ones that had t

oversee his administration's efforts to the task force's co-chair, treasury secretary geithner and lawrencesummers and representatives from a broad range of -- is staffed by a joint team of which i am a senior member which reports to the task force which reports to the president. from the beginning of this process the president gave the auto task force 2 clear directions. the first was refrain from intervening in the management of these companies day to day. our role has been to act as a potential investor for sources, and mike where to open a new plant or which dealers to close. this is the job of management. we have been engaged in dialogue and discussion, we have not substituted our judgment about specific decisions. second, the president was clear that he wanted us to behave in a commercial manner. that is to be sure that all stakeholders are treated fairly and receive neither more nor less than they would have simply because the government was involved. because investments were made by the prior and current administrations to support the auto companies, have come from tar, the task for

and she won the lawrence levine prize for a beloved historian who passed away a few years ago. >> ands she? >> she's the beakman professor of northwestern history at the university of oregon. this is her second book and -- it's a labor of love. >> the day wall street exploded. >> what could be more topic cal. this is not about the economy today. this is a book set in the '20s when there was actually a real explosion down on wall street. this is a first book. this is an extraordinary first book and a wonderful storyteller. beverly gage is a professor of yale university. she started it well before 9/11. it's not something she decided to talk about before the current events and what was happening in wall street in this period and it's a real detective story. >> and finally one other book we want to talk about the wilsonian moment. >> this is new method ideology and what is really exciting to me there's been such a division in history between people who studied the united states and people who studied the rest of the world so people will focus on countries and focus on individual topics.

lawrence river, the add ron dack mountains and park. the largest publicly held park in the lower 48 states. it's beauty, natural wonder. and it's great people. it's not a metro. it's small towns, villages and hamlets with very indust tryous and very proud and kind people. for all of our natural beauty, for all of it that causes us to be proud, it's a region that has long been confronted by economic challenges, closed factories, abandoned mills, failing farms, declining populations. in our part of the world, and i can't speak for the coast of california where the gentleman represents, and i know he does that proudly, economic development is something different. it's something that we take very seriously, but it has to be configured around those things that the good lord has given to us. the great universities, four of them within 10 miles of this facility. the tourism, which is our number one industry along with agriculture, those failing farms. the need to bring economic development by revitalizing downtown centers. i can't speak to the

it was co-chaired by timothy geithner and national economic counsel director lawrence summers and includes directors from a broad range of officers throughout the executive branch. the task force and co-chairs report up to the president. from the beginning oaf this process, the president gave the auto task force two clear directions. the first was to refrain from intervening in the day to day management of these companies our role has been to act as a potential investor of taxpayer resources and as such we have not become involved in specific business decisions like where to open a new plant or which dealers to close. this is the job of management. and while we have been engaged in dialogue and discussion about their approach, we do not substitute our judgment about specific decisions for theirs. second, the president was clear that he wanted us to behave in a commercial manner. that is to be sure that all stakeholders are treated fairly and received neither more nor less than they would have simply because the government was involved. because the investments were made by both the prior an

house, as i can announced that the inquiry will be chaired by sir john and included maraniss, sir lawrence freedman and martin gilbert. all are will become privy councilors. mr. speaker, the committee will start work as soon as possible after the end of july and given the complexity of issues it will address i am advised it will take a year. as i have made clear, the primary objective of the committee will be to identify and not set out to apportion blame are considered issues of civil or criminal liability. finally mr. speaker i am sure the whole house will join with me in paying tribute to the courage and dedication of everyone of our armed forces and also our civilian personnel who have served our country with such distinction in iraq over six years and will continue to do so in afghanistan and on a peacekeeping missions around the world. mr. speaker at its peak a force of 46,000 servant course of duty in support of operations in iraq and in total as i have said 120,000 men and women serve over the time of the entire conflict. 179 britons died, 222 were seriously or very seriously injur

lawrence wright is an example, arguing that our enemy is made mistakes as severe as the ones we've made that everywhere al qaeda has a foothold it's ended up alienating people. that was true in iraq and across the muslim world as people get this ideology and the people who practice it they

we have lawrence hill books. this is our imprints that focuses on feminism, peace, justice, african-american interest and latino interest. we do kids books. we have a fantastic for kids series that takes 25 projects and looks at in particular largest oracle figures, mark twain, benjamin franklin. we do kids guide series that looks at historic abuses, all wonderful for educators, homeschoolers curriculum. and then we do serious nonfiction, a lot of journalism pieces that we have on anything from finance to pop-culture. and we have fun arts and entertainment titles that we also do. we really embody the express. >> associated with the university? >> know, chicago review press is actually the parent company to independent publishers group, which is a large distribution company that has a wide variety of publishers that we distribute here in north america, and chicago review press is kind of our publishing editorial on. >> we've been talking with elizabeth malzahn of chicago review press. >> this summer bookie is aski

he is also joined this morning by his wife, terri, lawrence boyfriend, kevin. i'm deeply impressed with the work of a them and all the families of the victims of the flight 3407. as a father of four and grandfather of two, i can't begin to imagine the pain that comes from so tragically losing a loved one. it speaks very highly of all the families today that you are working to take what must be such a deep sorrow and focusing in on improving airline safety and helping other americans. i am looking for to hearing your testimony, mr. mauer, and the recommendations this morning and to both the chairman and i and i know i speak for everyone on the committee, we thank you for the sacrifice that you are making to try to improve the system for others. >> thank you very much, let me ask others if they limit opening comments to two minutes and will have seven minutes for rounds when we've heard from the witnesses. senator lautenberg. >> mr. chairman, very quickly thank you for calling this hearing because though our flight safety record is so outstanding when we look at

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. >> host: bill ayers, we have an e-mail from lawrence. as a former member of the weather underground, how would you advise the obama administration to deal with the problem of global terrorism? are there any lessons to be learned from america's '60s experience in this regard? >> guest: i don't think i would advise the obama administration on much of anything. [laughter] but, but certainly, i mean, i think that one of the things that is true is that there is a world that's profoundly out of balance. and a world that is filled with violence and fear and all the rest of it. the problem is that we've created in the public mind, i suppose, or in the noisy voices that have dominated the discussion after 9/11, created the notion that there is such a thing as a monolithic thing calls terror that you can kind of deal with by declaring war on it. and that has led us down so many false paths in the last eight years that it's kind of frightening. and we are more at risk today than we were eight years ago precisely because of those policies. so my adv

lawrence daly was a friend of mine as well as of many people. i think there are few people who did more to advance conditions than he did. he fought for miners safety that made it happen that there were big changes in the safety in the mining industry and he fought for miners to get the rights and the compensation all diseases and i believe that he and so many miner leaders who fought for good conditions in what is a very dangerous industry deserve the wholesale gratitude of everybody on all sides of the house. >> order. the statement of the prime minister. >> with permission, mr. speaker, i should like to make a statement about the government's proposal to invite the house to agree further democratic reform including legislation before the house rises for the summer on the conduct of members of parliament. the house few months have shown us that the public require as an urgent imperative higher standards of financial conduct from all people in public life and an end to any abuses of the past. there is no more pressing test for this parliament t

lawrence writing about wittman and was important to me to say that these ideas that could seem remote and the launch a far away culture or just the buddhists, there they are in an english novelist, an american poet and our midst. and in some ways i would say to domesticate but be exonerated him and to bring a letter real-life -- also in terms of the los reading of the words that he says. for example he will begin sentences and say generally, therefore, and that therefore is not by chance. logic is six ackley how he formulates his sentences. he will say something like i am a simple buddhist monk and seems so transparent -- >> is he being a bit coy? i've always wondered that. >> 20 years ago would have said it sounds like modesty of an extreme kind. i felt as i went deeper into it he says when he has dreams and his dreams he sees himself as a monk but he never sees himself as a dalai lama and when he has the images of his past life he is aware of a strong connection but not a deep connection with the dalai lama institution and he says the most important thing is anyone at any time could