when i worked in boston city hall there is a little bit of corruption and nobody's deals a hot so stove was the same. of you make a consequent immediate enough you can change behavior. let me give you examples. think of the work i have been doing is that i have been trying to prove it is possible to do in theory would a bunch of people have already done in practice. high point* north carolina this is david kennedy's project he is a john j. now we were together at the kennedy school. we were thinking about cracking down on the drug markets and it turns out that from a pressure point* of new york that if you put enough cops in a flagrant job market area and make enough arrest you can break the market and when it is broken, it stays broken because it only exists because people expect me to come and buy and sell and you can put the market out of business it is ferociously expansive. operation pressure point* 1,000 copps, a six months and the convictions did not go up with somebody not being convicted of a burglary so david and i was sitting around trying to figure out how you can shorten th

blute's brother, peter, served as chairman of the boston city council and her son, peter, as has been mentioned earlier by mr. mcgovern, was elected to the united states congress. after receiving her education in the boston public school system, mrs. blute accepted a position in the business office at the boston post newspaper where her mother worked as a reporter. in 1947, however, mrs. blute left boston for the town -- for germany after marrying. together, mr. and mrs. blute would go on to have 11 children, five sons and six daughters. upon their children from germany, the blute settled in the town of shrewsbury, massachusetts, whether mrs. blute worked on her life's work as journey as a mom. not only her children but the neighborhood's children. mrs. blute's arrival in shrewsbury also marked the continuation of her life leong continuing -- life-long continuing education to others. she was part of many church programs and activities. she served on the women's guild, taught cat simple, as mr. cao mentioned, become a eucharistic minister. she was the founder of the sisters of notre da

eight people who attended eastern law schools situated between new york city and boston and the delete midwestern law school. and, nine whose last job was judge on a federal court of appeals. i think we are terribly disserved by appointing people exclusively from the federal courts of appeals. i think we ought to find lawyers and politicians in all walks of life coming to the court but while it would be desirable to have more representation i think it just proved to be too difficult for judges to work together. courts that have a lot of people tend not to have a majority opinion. >> would you comment more on the increasing role of partisan politics in confirmation of supreme court judges and in particular on how you think over the long term that may affect respect for the court? >> on the first half of the question, the partisan nature of the hearings and hearings now for courts of appeals are corrosive. they are terrible, and for the most part they are unnecessary. and i think that is just a bad situation. both parties think the federal courts are just too important, but think of the

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boston, mass., you oppose the bill, why is that? caller: actually, i have been a democrat all my life but i cannot wait to go to city hall the first of year and change to a republican or independent. this is the bill that nobody -- 75% of the american people do not even want. the way it has been passed, people in the senate did in to their constituents all these bribes. i don't know if they are brothers but anything to get the vote. i want change but this is not the change a wanted. i am so sick. i am devastated by this whole thing host: what kind of change would like? caller: i thought there be a change for the war was concerned or it is doing different things that were not done in the past administration. that is what i was hoping but none of these things have come true. we are going bankrupt. i cannot believe in my life that we owe money to china and everybody else and all this man wants to do is spend, spend, spend. these things that he has done, putting money into the states, the unemployment is still at a drastic high. host: thank you for calling in. lexington, kentucky, you support the bill? caller: i have to be honest. i am a

cities. early holiday travelers were left struggling to salvage flight plans after thousands of flights were delayed or canceled. >> on a flight from boston yesterday at 3:00 and got here at 5:00 p.m. and have been here since trying to get to pittsburgh. right over there behind the christmas tree. >> we called up the airline last night. everything was totally fine. we arrived this morning. the flight was canceled. a lot of people confused not knowing what's going on. >> reporter: as the day went on, runways began to reopen and flight schedules slowly began returning to normal. >> brown: the blizzard also left shopping malls snow bound with merchants scrambling to recoup a critical weekend of lost business. airline passengers in the u.s. will not have to sit on the tarmac for more than three hours. the transportation department ordered today that passengers be allowed to deplane if a delay lasts that long. otherwise, airlines could risk fines of $27,000 per passenger. transportation officials say an average of 1500 flights a year are delayed more than three hours. thousands of rail travelers in britain, france and belgium were stranded for