[applause] >> and senior adviser to mayor menino, barbara berke. barbara, good afternoon. [applause] and i want you to take us -- let me start this way. i want you to take us a little further back, because in the book you say that boston's rebirth has as much to do with recent politics as what happened in the 1630s. explain. >> so the f we think about -- if we think about where boston, how boston came back, it's hard not to place an outside role for the or education that this city has always invested in. and, indeed, you know, we have the example of bush above, and he's an example of one of the people who brought the academy into entrepreneurship. now, boston's path towards education didn't start with mit, although mit is an example of the land grant colleges that have a remarkable correlation between land grant colleges and the subsequent success of different metropolitan areas in the country. but if you think about boston's turn towards education, it didn't happen in the 18th or 19th centuries. it happened when the first bostonians almost 400 years ago came here and deci