he also founded the boston university hematology service at boston city hospital. that was until 1995. that is when he founded the medical education program at morehouse college . he has received dozens of honoree degrees and has been honored by many diverse organizations. such as the southern leadership -- the southern christian leadership conference and the national association of minority medical educators. dr. sullivan and his wife, ginger, have three children. i would now like to introduce you to the hon. dr. louis sullivan. [applause] >> thank you for that generous introduction and it is a great pleasure for me to be here with all of you to see where we are in terms of health equity and i have certainly enjoyed the presentations thus far today. i think there are very important. when we look forward to the unveiling of the sculpture in honor of martin luther king jr., i think this gives this conference a special significance. i happen to have been about 10 feet away from martin luther king jr. in 1963 when he gave his talk here at the lincoln memorial. for me

from boston university. and dr. king received an honorary degree from boston university in the same ceremony. with respect to public health and health care,, some could say that we are facing this mountain of despair. there are many dead and obstacles. with respect to insurance coverage, we have too many millions who are not insured. racial and ethnic minorities make up -- represent one-half of the uninsured in the u.s.. second with respect to issues of work force, we know that there is a critical shortage of culturally competent provider is caring for the underserved. third in the areas of population health, we have so many areas where racial and ethnic minorities are bearing a disproportionate burden with respect to outcomes in areas such as obesity, the pack go -- tobacco dependency, hiv, a substance used to my environmental health, immunizations. when you see these challenges and these potential giant obstacles, this mountain of despair. it -- if you always do what you have always done, you always get what you a

he founded the boston university hematology service at boston city hospital. that was until 1995. that's when he founded the medical educational program at morehouse college. dr. sullivan has received dozens of honor in degrees and has been honored by many diverse organizations such as the seventh leadership -- southern christian leadership conference and the national association of minority educators. dr. sullivan and his wife have three children. i now would like to introduce to you, hon. dr. louis sullivan. >> thank you very much. it is a great pleasure and honor to be here with all of you to see where we are in terms of health equity. i have enjoyed the presentations so far today. it is important. we look forward to the unveiling of the sculpture in honor of martin luther king jr.. this gives this conference special significance. i happen to have been about 10 feet away from martin luther king jr. in 1963 when he gave his talk here at the lincoln memorial. the other part of the -- my wife and i were here for the inauguration for the first african american president, mr. obama.

even higher earlier spoke with one of them laurence kotlikoff he's an economics professor at boston university even last year at this time he was saying the country is bankrupt he said the u.s. cannot have any more of these no pain all gain solutions i asked him today and that's what this deal working its way through congress is here's his response. yes but this is this is pretty much of a no there's next for you there really haven't made any major changes in title material. you know obviously this ruling conflicts some pain in some people but we need to do something much more massive than this we're talking about energy trying it are true fiscal picture and under control we need something like a twenty trillion dollar adjustment which i hear is neither to germany actually no or just mean every ten years now i use that you thought about twenty trillion dollar number it's been pretty widely quoted now even when there was a big deal being hashed out by congress that was for a four trillion dollars deal so why is your projection over what needs to even be the beginning of a deal so much higher th

that was arts college off professor of economics of boston university now even though this bill may be touted as a deal by some u.s. leaders and has a good deal by your people i guess it has absolutely not been praised by all at home no way critics on the left say obama surrendered critics have called this a republican wall street plan progressive lawmakers in the black caucus say they'll oppose the deal and on the right of course tea partiers in congress who've resisted past deals are expected to bring about a possibly another standoff today with this vote so what to american people on the streets think about all of this artie's christine friends i went out and she found out. all right so if you turn on the mainstream cable networks what you're going to hear a lot of regarding this debate with the debt ceiling is what the president says and what lawmakers say are what people who work here at the department of treasury think what about what you say regular taxpaying american well we decided to ask you the surprise how long. not really i'm never surprised by congress and strangely its n

he thinks that this deal means anything he's laurence kotlikoff he's economics professor at boston university thank you so much for being with us your muscles are ok so i know why you're ago you're writing in the country is bankrupt you have your own policy for prescriptions for how much need to be cut but first i'm just curious do you think that you said last year that the country can no longer afford any kind of no pain all gain solutions is that the kind of solution this debt deal is. you know that's what this is this is a pretty much of a you know there's next for you that really haven't made any major changes in entitlements here and. you know obviously this will inflict some pain on some people but we need to do something much more massive than this we're talking about you know trying it our true fiscal picture and under control we need something like a twenty trillion dollar adjustment over ten years not a shoot to enter into a real just me every ten years now i use that you throw out that twenty trillion dollar number it's then pretty widely quoted now even when there was a big deal b

. >> reporter: this woman was supposed to be unpacking her suitcase at boston university tonight, getting ready for the new school year. >> we are just stuck here and waiting. >> reporter: instead, she and her father are living out of suitcases at a hotel near the los angeles airport, their flight canceled indefinitely. they are among hundreds of thousands of americans stranded across the country tonight. >> i've been working so hard to get t t. >> reporter: ragna berlin is stuck at her home in new york. her choice? put off her trip to her native sweden or fork over nearly $2,000. >> then i c cled back again to just book a new ticket and then it was, like, three times the cost. >> reporter: more than 11,000 flights were canceled this weekend. this is what the skies over the east coast look like on a typical day. and here's what it looks likik today. airports in the northeast are gradually gearing up tonight. but many are having problems getting airport workers to the airports with mass transit shut down. so it will be days before the skies return to normal. but good news for ragna berlin.

hundred eleven trillion us dollars you google the lawrence quarter a professor of economics at boston university in the united states he is writing for the federal reserve bank for the i.m.f. and so on and look it up fiscal gap two hundred eleven trillion us dollars that's that's not too far from greece and therefore i mean the u.s. even double a rating that's ridiculous they should be follow up so the rating agencies and exaggerating here even in europe they are should all be far far lower than they are and they have their own problems not just because of the writing agencies most of thanks so much for sharing your thoughts martin helical that's all we've got time for associate director of tides group limited produced live from hong kong thanks very much indeed. well of course we would like to hear your opinion you can log on to our website it is r t dot com to participate in our latest poll and we're asking if eastern economies will be able to use current financial terms to their advantage in a present the most popular response is yes the east will rule the world closely followed by the view t

of vermont, boston university, university of massachusetts. we tell those students we are three much interested in your coming to our institution. giving them all of the information, et cetera. so the following year rather than one, we had seven entering freshmen. similar express with the other medical schools. similar kinds of things were going on all over the country. but something like this needs to be sustained. you will see where things plateaued. again, the project was implemented. in the late '80s. we saw some punk there, but you can see primarily since the late '70s we have really drifted sideways. so we need to really do much more to address the issue of diversity in the health professions. well, what about the challenges for the 21st century? there are many. but i summarized some of the major ones. first of all, improve access to health services for all. the task is not over. with members of congress know who have tried to undo what has been started with health systems reform. we need to be sure that we don't lose ground. we need to

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boston university school of medicine looked at 6,000 adults over two decades and the prevalence of goutut is a type of inflammatory arthritis and affects 4% of americans. >>> good morning, everybody. i'm thomas roberts. president obama's first live comments on the july's job report. despite the good numbers, are we already in a double dip recession? this after yesterday's massive stock market bleed. are the recent washington sh shenanigans to blame? >>> three of the gop candidates signed a controversial pledge to federally abolish same-sex marriage. we'll see you at the top of the hour. >> looking forward to that. thank you, thomas. we just heard that judge belvin perry in orlando, florida, making a decision on whether or not the time served by casey anthony, when she was being held before that trial would serve as time served for her probation. he has decided, he has just announced, as you see lawyers, you see them as lawyers come to his desk there, that no decision will be made today. he has also said that there's no time line. that was what we're waiting for. he's not making a decisi

he is a political science major at boston university who got a crash course in civil unrest. >> therewere sirens all day, all the time. >> reporter: and because of the riots breaking out across london this week, cats actually came home early. >> i was supposed to come home saturday. and my parents flew me home today, because i don't know, they -- understood the riots, it was intense. >> reporter: one bay area college student has been staying in the broadway section of london, where looting has been going on. >> we didn't know if they were going to make it to the airport, the underground was closed, the buses were closed. and on fire. but it is good to be back. >> reporter: steve cruz and his family just got back from their london vacation, and saw lots of police, broken windows. they still felt safe. >> we were a little nervous, but it was no big thing. nothing happened. we went to the theater. >> reporter: still, some worry that the travel industry will see these events as stopping people from going to london. >> i think that it would really impact the business, you know if it contin

boston university school of medicine looked at 6,000 adults over two decades and the prevalence of gouturing that time. gout is an inflammatory arthritis and affects 4% of americans. >>> good morning, everybody. i'm thomas roberts. they are now talking about jobs like it is their job. out of work americans have long memories when it comes time to vote. how lawmakers are proposing getting america back to work. robert menendez will be my guest. >>> and obama's base. and with the overwhelming popularity of social networking will new facial recognition features create open door gold mines for cyber criminals. stick around to the top of the hour. we get you in the loop >> thank you, thomas. almost all republicans love to hate the debt deal. michele bachmann just started running this ad. take a listen. >> someone needs to say no. i voted against raising the debt limit because it's time to balance the budget and pay down the debt. i mean it. and you can believe it. i'm michele bachmann. >> all right. ba backmann and paul voted against it. let's bring in company journalist publisher karen hunte

and other small cache of letters to the didn't make the library of congress and ended up at boston university because they were thought to be too sensitive that the time that the papers made their way to library congress. he wrote a telegram at the time he was indicted to his brother in his head cannot myself feel guilty. it is a great argument before the supreme court on the case of eugene debs the american roadway worker union leader. darrow said 100,000 men, 300,000 american men walked off the job across the country. i don't care what the law says. i don't care what the legislators in illinois and the legislators in congress say. that cannot be against the law if 300,000 americans decide that it is wrong, that their life has to be resisted by this kind of a walkout. so that basically was his philosophy which was that the fumblings of men in the legislature writing down laws were really things that could be dashed away, brushed away in case of the greater morality and the motive of course was everything. if a defendant was caught red-handed with a gun in his hand but had a great motive, the

boston university school of medicine looked at 6,000 adults over two decades and prevalence of gout roselightly during that time. gout is a type of inpolicemantory arthritis and affects about 4% of americans. >>> well, let's take a look at the dow jones industrials. we're up now 66 points. again this has been a roller coaster of a day. stocks sharply up on the jobs report. then we saw them plummet down more than 200 points this hour. and now back in positive territory. we'll stay on top of it throughout the day. the president wants to give $120 million in tax credits for businesses that hire u.s. veterans returning from iraq and afghanistan. he wants the private sector to hire or train 100,000 vets by tn end of next year. the president spoke with troops at the navy yard last hour. >> our incredible servicemen and women need to know that america values them not simply for what they can do in uniform, but for what they can do when they come home. we need them to keep making america strong. our company's need skilled workers like our veterans to grow. there's no reason why we can't connect

. >> reporter: nerline grand- pierre is a lab supervisor at boston university.'d run up $29,000 in debt. >> we just kept getting more and more into debt. we were using our cards just basically to survive. so the raise that i get basically is not enough to cover my bills. >> reporter: bad for grand- pierre. and, arguably, bad for the rest of us. because however necessary the borrowing of recent years might have seemed, it was bound to end badly for just about everyone. >> the huge gap between the rich and everyone else is not just a moral or ethical problem. it is a major factor explaining the severe financial and economic crisis that broke out in 2008. >> reporter: economist david kotz: >> if the economy's going to expand, while profits are going up very rapidly and wages are stagnating or falling which has been the rule since 1980, then who's going to buy increased output of the economy? it's possible only if households borrow to maintain their living standard. and that's why we've seen the huge growth in household debt in the economy. millions of families unab

another small patch of letters that didn't make it to the library of congress and ended up at boston university because they were thought to be too sensitive for the time of the papers made their way to the library of congress. he actually wrote a telegram of the time that he was indicted to his brother and is it cannot make myself feel guilty. in his great argument before the supreme court on dhaka case of eugene debs, the american railroad worker leader, he said 100,000 men, 300,000 american men walked off the job across the country. i don't care what law says, i don't care what the legislators of illinois or the legislators of congress say. that cannot be against the wall of 300,000 americans decided that it's wrong that their life has to be resisted by this kind of walk out and so that basically was his philosophy that the families of men in the legislature writing down of the laws were really things that could be brushed away in case of the greater morality and the motives of course was everything to him. if a defendant was caught with a gun in his hand would have a great motive than darro

boston university school of medicine looked at nearly 6,000 adults over two decades.ence of gout rose slightly during that time. gout is a type of inflammatory arthritis and affects about 4% of americans. >>> i'm andrea mitchell. coming up next on "andrea mitchell reports," my exclusive interview today with house democratic leader nancy pelosi. after the partisan slugfest over the debt ceiling we talk about the state of politics here in washington. whether she thinks president obama gave away too much. >> i don't think so. i think the president was great. but again, what is the point of telling that what is finished on anything that happens around here, any one of us could have done it better, right? >> we'll see you in 15 minutes on "andrea mitchell reports." stay with us. >>> in louisiana a homeowner's association is suing the parents of a u.s. marine. trying to force them to take down a son they erected to support their son's service in afghanistan. timny and jodi burr have this banner up in their yard. it has a picture of their 20-year-old son. it reads our son de

so then he goes on to boston university and once that phd. this is that the plagiarism on his dissertation arrives. he was playing. job board once he was away from the preaching. so he's around boston in his convertible and dating the ladies before he bacharach and he and his buddies have a fine time. he's thinking like going to go back to a church or become a professor? and he decides he wants to preach the gospel. but it's still somewhat uninformed. he goes back to mock him and gets caught up in the montgomery bus boycott. if pressed them into it and he didn't leap right into it. he was there kind of a compromise character because he's the new guy in town. people were fighting, who should lead to knock on boycott. yes, and king -- you know, at b.u. he ran the club any real black activists would go to the philosophers club, the dialect tic society it was called. there is no action here because these guys are really trying to show that they know their san augustine. so, can never set out to be a civil rights leader, though his father was an a

memorial built belonged to alpha phi alpha, the fraternity king joined while a graduate students at boston universityiled him out of jail once or twice. >> reporter: getting the memorial built was a struggle in keeping with martin luther king's own story. the project had to be approved by congress. supporters wanted it built close to the mall where king led a quarter of a million people in the historic 1963 civil rights march. >> i have a dream today. >> reporter: but space on the mall is in high demand. it took a battle with the commission that decides where monuments can be built in washington to secure this four- acre site near the tidal basin. >> we persevered and actually had to come to them as you have to do and say here's why it can be done. it's where it can be done and here's how it should be done. >> reporter: in 1999 a design competition for the memorial was announced. >> we had an international jury decide which would be the winning solution. >> reporter: it went to the roma design group from san francisco. the design a park setting with a major sculpture work in three sections. the first

researchers at boston university recently looked at federal surveys of gout diagnoses, looked at it in two-decade time period the prevalence of this disease increased by 44%. that's significant because it's often misdiagnosed and affecting younger and younger people. >> what did they attribute this increase to? >> largely diet, obesity, hypertension. think of this as the equivalent to the diseases like diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. you can't see those diseases. this one you can see and you can feel and really is related to those factors. >> what are the main symptoms of it? >> typically if you speak to people who have gout, i have some patients with this they say the primary symptom that brings people in, pain. this typically can be pain in a joint, usually the big toe, it can give you redness, it will blanch and kind of appear pink, visibly and it really also can give you swollen joints, their ankles can swell. a patient was misdiagnosed for 11 years, this is not on the forefront of doctors. they look for this in the elderly. we're seeing it in middle aged men an

martha: joined by a shark expert and a marine biologist, and boston university professor, joins us lived to have you back. welcome back. >> caller: nice to be here, martha. martha: what do you make of this, surprising? >> we have lots of blue sharks offshore, this time of year and they are seasonal migrants to the waters and, fishermen catch and release them every day, targeting these sharks or other species of fish like tuna. martha: this was larger than most blue sharks, right? >> right. it looks like it will be the new state record and beat the old within by 4 or 5 pounds. pretty impressive catch, particularly for a young man. martha: what about his size? are you surprised he was able to reel it in? >> yes, actually, i am, i have caught some of these larger sharks myself and it is one heck of a feat to get them to the boat. martha: stalk to us about the blue shark, i know you have spent a lot of your time the past couple of years watching the great whites off the coast of chatham, massachusetts. what should we know about the blue shark? >> it is a species, broadly distributed through

at boston university in he sat at the feet of other teachers. he learned something about what an idea meant. everybody is a person. everybody has a worth and dignity. they should be respected as such. i say to you, we need therapy in this land. until we get busy, get out of our system homophobia, something that martin luther king would stand up for if he were alive today. he would believe that gays were god's children also. he knew that a gay man was logistical brain, organizer behind the march on washington in 1963. god knows we must not become that which we hate. if we do not want other people marginalizing us, we should not marginalized gays, women, and people who are different. but stand up for justice. stand-up for truth. stand-up for consistency. stand up and do what the teacher would have us do. a day would come when all of god's children will be able to say, i am black and i am proud. i am yellow and i am a mellow. i am red, but i ain't dead. i am straight, but i am a sensible. i am white and i am all right. that was the message of marti

century and into the next, you see that the numbers of diverge unhealthy way.h an economist from boston university estimates that the long-term fiscal gap is $211 trillion, just staggering. in the long term, it is essential to shrink the deficit. the problem is that if you aggressively shrink it in the short term, you could actually throttled the economic recovery which would leave us in a japan-like situation in which we cannot get the growth that is needed to shrink the ratio of debt to gdp. what matters is not just a level of debt by the ability of the economy to support that debt. if the economy is shrinking, even if the debt does not go up, it becomes more and more burdensome. it is essential to get growth going again. these latest numbers point in the wrong direction. it is exactly what nobody wants. so what we want to do is find a way to get growth going, at least staving off another recession. that might require holding off on the immediate deficit reduction, postponing it a year or so until the economy can get back on its feet. host: i want to go through to article in little bit. "it gets

century and into the next, you see that the numbers of diverge unhealthy way.h an economist from boston university estimates that the long-term fiscal gap is $211 trillion, just staggering. in the long term, it is essential to shrink the deficit. the problem is that if you aggressively shrink it in the short term, you could actually throttled the economic recovery which would leave us in a japan-like situation in which we cannot get the growth that is needed to shrink the ratio of debt to gdp. what matters is not just a level of debt by the ability of the economy to support that debt. if the economy is shrinking, even if the debt does not go up, it becomes more and more burdensome. it is essential to get growth going again. these latest numbers point in the wrong direction. it is exactly what nobody wants. so what we want to do is find a way to get growth going, at least staving off another recession. that might require holding off on the immediate deficit reduction, postponing it a year or so until the economy can get back on its feet. host: i want to go through to article in little bit. "it gets

and is a graduate of boston university. mr. solmonese, please proceed. let me remind all the witnesses to please limit your opening remarks to five minutes. the statement will be pleased in the record, and there is a noon vote which will require us to do a little juggling to manage. mr. solmonese, please proceed. [inaudible conversation] >> how's that? >> wonderful. >> thank you, senator coons, members of the committee, on behalf of the human rights campaign and more than one million members and supporters nationwide, i want to thank you for the opportunity to offer testimony in today's historic hearings. i also want to thank senator feinstine for her leadership on the legislation and on behalf of lest -- lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in california and all across the country. every week i have the opportunity to travel this country and speak with members of my community, their families, friends, their religious leaders, and with their employers about the distinction difficulties they face in the form of discrimination. now today i have t

but once a week those two worlds intersect when students from harvard university and boston college comejail to help inmates earn their geds. >> for them to come in and do it for us little convicts, i should say, that's a good thing. looking out for us. showing us, you know, there is a world out there. there is help out there. people want to help you. >> girard cohen has been teamed with alexander, a harvard sophomore. >> so it's just one of these things, you can do the answers in your head probably, just to be sure, because we all make mistakes and try do it in our head, just write it out. it will take five extra seconds, but it's totally worth it. if you're taking a test, each answer matters for the final score. people have this wall about what this whole community is like and that's just not true. if you work with somebody a while, you get to know them. that's one of the interesting parts of being here. >> you're very confident. >> i sure am. i know this stuff. >> all right. i'm going to make you prove to me you know this stuff on the paper. >> smart. goes to harvard. he's extra smart

she graduated from boston university and suffolk law school. we welcome her today. >> good morning.hank you, chairman whitehouse for affording me this opportunity to discuss something i feel passionate about. immediately prior to becoming chief of the rhode island district court i spent three years on the arraignment calendar in kent county. i noticed that old veterans and active members of the military were appearing in increasing numbers. sometimes they were immediately recognizable by their stance and occasionally by uniform. other times, they would hide their status, and attempts to quickly resolve the charge without further attention. i was also hearing from victims in domestic matters who were telling me this behavior would not have happened prior to deployment or multiple tors of duty, which is a phenomenon we're seeing more in this war than ever before. it became apparent some of these men and women were returning with injuries that were very real, but not visible to the naked guy. i also noticed that a sentence imposed on members of the military could have a more harsh resu

century and into the next, you see that the numbers of diverge unhealthy way.h an economist from boston university estimates that the long-term fiscal gap is $211 trillion, just staggering. in the long term, it is essential to shrink the deficit. the problem is that if you aggressively shrink it in the short term, you could actually throttled the economic recovery which would leave us in a japan-like situation in which we cannot get the growth that is needed to shrink the ratio of debt to gdp. what matters is not just a level of debt by the ability of the economy to support that debt. if the economy is shrinking, even if the debt does not go up, it becomes more and more burdensome. it is essential to get growth going again. these latest numbers point in the wrong direction. it is exactly what nobody wants. so what we want to do is find a way to get growth going, at least staving off another recession. that might require holding off on the immediate deficit reduction, postponing it a year or so until the economy can get back on its feet. host: i want to go through to article in little bit. "it gets

she graduated from boston university and we welcome her here today.r. >> good morning, distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank you for affording me this opportunity to discuss something which i feel so passionately about, expansion of veterans courts throughout this country. immediately prior to becoming chief of the rhode island district court i spent three years on the rain and calendar. active members of the military were appearing in increasing numbers. sometimes these individuals were recognizable by their stance and occasionally by uniform. other times they would hide their status and attempt to quickly resolve the charge without further attention. i was also hearing from victims in domestic matters who would tell me this defendant's behavior would not have occurred prior to his or her deployment for multiple tours of duty. which is a phenomenon we are seeing more of in this war than ever before. it became apparent some of these men and women were returning from combat with injuries that were very real but not visible to the naked eye.

attleboro massachusetts and is a graduate of boston university. mr.se please proceed to let me or me or witnesses if i could to please limit your opening remarks to five minutes. your full status will be placed in the record in their entirety and as senator feinstein just recognize there is a new boat -- and in both which may require us to do a little juggling to manage the thank you. mr. solmonese please proceed. >> thank you senator cummins and members of the committee. on behalf of the human rights campaign and are more than 1 million members and supporters nationwide i want to thank you for the opportunity to offer testimony in today's historic hearing and i also want to tank a senator feinstein for her leadership on this legislation and on behalf of lesbian gay and transcend gender people in california and across the country. every week i have had the opportunity to travel this country and to speak with members of my community, with their families, their friends and with their religious leaders and with their employers about the distinct difficul

he splits his time between his homes in fresno and boston and has been teaching at several universities including uc berkeley. >>> the labor dispute has been settled. >>> also a sky-high spectacle in new york, you have to see this, a rescue at a very popular tourist attraction. . >>> good morning, westbound bay bridge looking pretty good as you drive into san francisco, but we have a problem on san francisco city streets which may cause traffic problems and we will tell you more coming up. wÑ . >>> good morning a lot of low clouds, low-to-mid 80s instead of 90s by the coast. >> time now 5:24 heavy rain causing new flooding in southern china and is literally blocking entrances to bus stations and ins resulting transit, some business are closing their doors and people are forced to clean up in the dark. >>> police talked a distraught man out of jumping from a tourist attraction. it happened at rockefeller center and this was 70 floors up. at some point he stood up and police were able to grab him. after he apologized and he is now going for psychiatric evaluation. >>> a bomb scare, somebo

boston. because of my parents, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university.hat is where i went to school. it was intense. i stayed there for law school and have a master's in public policy from there. those are subjects i decided to study because i was interested in public service and public policy issues and government. >> you grew up in the boston area. what made you want to make the transition and moved to san francisco? what motivated you to get involved in politics question marks before i ran for office, and worked in san francisco as a criminal prosecutor and civil rights attorney. i got to understand how much of a be in san francisco is to the rest of the world for social justice. i spent a number of years helping to grow a small business. i got to understand the innovative spirit in san francisco. at night, i volunteered as a neighborhood leader and as feature of an affordable housing organization. i learned so much about the challenges facing our neighborhoods and the special jewels that are the urban villages we live in. i ran for office because i w

and finally boston bowl turned to basket brawl in a game in china this week watch as the visiting university of georgetown took on the b i rockets pro team in beijing a very physical month seeing fifty seven shots and all taken by the chinese not to mention here a bench clearing the lead water bottles and even chairs suddenly becoming for a game georgetown are in china i'm attending a trip which is being cited by the u.s. state department as quote an example of sports the poor will see that strengthens ties between the two countries and quote. the two teams well are set to meet again in shanghai on sunday. let's hope they bring the box and go for that one or actually play some basketball instead that is all your sport for now whether it's next analysis here with all the news at the top of the are. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. well the british study relates. to. the. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy because reports on. a new wave of panic on the world's markets is stocks at

tremendous contribution that the retirement research con cosh yum and its constituent in part, boston college, university of michigan, mbr, and all the folks who worked with them have made over the last 13 years to our understanding of retirement policy and our knowledge of behavior of those approaching retirement and in retirement. i also want to congratulate the con on producing papers that by and large have been accessible to the non-academic have been policy relevant. i think this has been over these 13 years a tremendous investment that will pay even greater dividends in the future as we get around to reforming the nation's retirement programs in ways that reflect the change social and demographic environment as well as the fiscal realities that we face. chuck and i were asked to say a few words about the roles and responsibilities of the public trustees as well as the challenges that the trustees face in making long run projections. with respect to the first of these topics, as you might have suspected, no job description or training manual or briefing in which the roles and responsibilities of the