[applause] >> i came here to attend boston university and made a commitment to not only contribute to the community, to connect to the larger city and that is why -- and lecture ritter, ain't this a full circle moment? that was for aspects. i held from chicago to attend boston university and the student leader and very active in my campus community. made a commitment to invest in the city as well, and send me a complete different trajectory. and congressman joe kennedy has retired and congressman of a congressional district, and john kerry for 11 years, and recruited to run for office. i was much younger than that. i love coming to the space of good lighting. i can speak to this personally because now that i am an elected official the corley woman serving on that body and the first woman of color on that body's 102 year history. [applause] >> why does that matter? why is that relevant? i appreciate the applause, nothing to do with a personal achievement. it is the collective and shared victory for all of us. it means the solutions we are developing in government are more comprehensive

my daughter is a graduate of boston university. she works for the san francisco international terminal marketing division. born and raised san franciscans. i want to encourage everyone out there listening that this is the best city to raise a family. regarding a few of those articles that you read about families leaving san francisco -- don't. stay in the city. this is what can happen to you if you stay. [laughter] in terms of my dedication, i think, san francisco has embraced me, has welcomed me, has allowed me to prosper, allow me to raise this incredible family. as a naturalized u.s. citizen, i tell you i have learned a great deal about compassion, public service, and it is time for me to give something back to a community that has embraced me and opened their arms to me. [applause] and that is what i intend to do as a new trustee. you may have heard that i have an unusual work schedule. i open my office every morning at 5:20 a.m. i have an open house for anyone that want to come to my office to talk to me, hopefully, about engi

but now we are going to here from a scholar james miller from boston university, we are going to here a scholar and then dr. shive could come in and help us out further, explain exactly what this means in that context. so if we could, james miller from boston university. >> well first of all yin yang isn't just a taoist idea. and it's something that is, that forms the basic cosmological outlook for the whole of the chinese religion. however, it is true to say that it is something; it is a symbol that has particular application in taoism. now the yin and yang respectively mean the shady side of the mountain and the sunny side the mountain. and if we imagine the mountain and you see the - and throughout the course of the day as the sun traverses over the mountain, part of the mountain at one time will be in shade and towards the later time in the day it will be - that part of the mountain will be in the sunlight. and so from this just sort of very, very basic observation we can discern what is for the chinese conciseness the fundamental process that underlies everything that happens in

georgia state university, georgia state university, boston university, professor of religion, eight years. chairman of the department of religion, one year and currently. newspapers and magazines, contributor to "new york times" magazine, the "wall street journal," slate.com, salon.com. author, three books on religion include ""american jesus," how the son of god became a national icon." hobbies: painful, of the boston red sox, diehard fan, a passion which introduced him to, quote, grand theological themes that woul later preoccupy him including why a good god would allow such an evil team as the new york yankees to win so many world series, unquote. besides baseball, tennis. stephen richard prothero. >> stephen richard prothero, your father is also a physician, is that right? >> that's correct. >> did he see the motion picture by mel gibson? >> he did. >> what did he have to say about that? >> he found a real human being wouldn't survive 20 minutes into the movie because it's so violent, there's such brutality is brought o on jesus' body and not realistic from a medical perspective. >> m

eichinger to attend boston university. i was a student leader and very active in my campus community. made a commitment to invest in the city as well which was really the turning point in my life. said in a completely different trajectory but i was president of my student body. eyed intern for condit and joseph p. kennedy who has since retired. .. >> i appreciate the applause, and it has nothing to do with a personal achievement. i think really it's a collective and shared victory for all of us. it means that the solutions that we're developing in government are more comprehensive and more fully informed because of that different perspective. so i thought a great deal about this issue, of retraction and retention. more than that, how do we keep native bostonians? because we were losing younger people who had been, who were raised here who were going someplace else. they do come back, though, i have to say that. they sort of go on this pilgrimage to see what else is out there, i but they do come back. and so to the point ar

vass vich of boston university who has written a book "endless war." and i think obama is closer to getting us out of it. >> eliot: yep. senator, your observations are fascinating and i think reflect the shift of the republican party and your point that both parties have shifted both deserve criticism is not only correct but is worth reiterating. since you are a republican voice making the statements, we all have to listen with great care. former republican senator larry pressler, many thanks for your service and your time tonight. >> thank you. >> eliot: for democrats and republicans alike hurricane sandy could be a problem for election day. electronic voting amid >> eliot: are some endorsements for mitt romney merely rewarding bad behavior in that's ahead on my view. be sure to join jennifer granholm in "the war room" with her guest cal penn now stumping for the president's re-election. as well as decorated veteran and democratic congressional candidate tammy duckworth great line-up at 10:00 p.m. with jennifer the one time it's okay for you to miss m

. >> reporter: a new study released by boston university shows they found more than 3,000 leaks, andises concerns about everything from air quality to a rare risk of an explosion. there were two explosions across the country earlier this month, one a multistory building that was leveled in springfield, massachusetts, and another deadly blast out in indianapolis reminding all of us of just how powerful natural gas can be. and while the blast here in massachusetts was caused by human error, a pipe that was hit by a drill, the study conducted by boston university raises concerns about the aging infrastructure of one of the nation's oldest cities and just how quickly the old pipes here in boston can be replaced. now, while the majority of leakr nathan phillips and his team found six locations where levels were potentially high enough to cause an explosion. they were, of course, fixed, but the professor says this is a wake-up call to all the parties involved in the gas supply. take a listen. >> these situations, they may be rare, but when they do happen, they can have big impacts and, the

oh, these -- this is how in journalism school when i went there in boston university that's how you ask a question. it's gone. that's why it's a total waste of time, kristen, am i wrong. >> i do think he was pushed a little harder than you are giving some of those journalists credit for. he was asked question about questions tall crif in the past, president obama, you caved to republicans in 2010 fiscal cliff when it came to the tax rates because you said we can't let the rates go up because it will hurt the economy. why should republicans in congress believe you are not going to cave now? >> bill: with all due respect to you, because that's not a bad point. it's such an easy dodge. he took 8 minutes to dodge it. >> he took a long time to dodge these things. >> bill: oh, well, you know, i had to do it back then because, you know, we had a bad economy. but now the mandate the folks want this and that. i'm not going to do it and i'm the greatest guy. you just don't get any information. >> you know follow up. economy so much better now that we now can afford the economic. >> bill: did you

that is what i think the boston university opinion is such a good one. it is highly respectful of all the stuff the supreme court is interested in. it shrouds itself in all these great supreme court decisions. the mayor going to strike it down because we think -- the best thing that has ever been written by supreme court justice is justice thurgood marshall's opinion in the rodriguez. 1973 or thereabout, the school funding case. marshall knew more about the clause than anybody else in the 20th century. what he said it the way we do the klaus -- the clause is more a balanced thing. how important is the right to the people being excluded? how important is it to the government to exploit them? and how big a change in the policy would it be to strike down the exclusion and can courts do this? it is a fine balance. several more questions. >> thank you for that. i have a question about your percentages. to what extent do you think your percentage its, but gradual increase in support for marriage equality is based on a perception that gay people can be good str

where we had the privilege of having events at boston university, emer son college, and we threw a fine lunchon where he wowed our crowd. and m.i.t. which he was not responsible for that part of his itinerary. over the weekend i'm driving in new england and listening to n.p.r., state department spokesman t.j. crowley has just resigned. on monday morning i had so many calls and e-mails, what did i miss by not going to that lunch? he is a man of great candor and principle. he got in trouble for saying something about the treatment of private bradmauning, the wikileaks thing, and i owe you all a great thanks for being here today. f. >> thank you. [applause] >> i resigned two hours after the tour. i don't want you to take that personally. so we are coming up on the two-year anniversary of this thing called the arab spring or the asia wakening, or the arab uprising. so from almost two years when a fruit vendor in tunisia lit himself on fire and has literally changed the region. what is this about and what has happened? >> so our comments today are going to be a little bit from the academic s

that is what i think the boston university opinion is such a good one. it is highly respectful of all the stuff the supreme court is interested in. its route itself and all these great supreme court decisions. -- it shrouds itself in all these great supreme court decisions. the mayor going to strike it down because we think -- the best thing that has ever been written by supreme court justice is justice thurgood marshall's opinion in the rodriguez. 1973 or thereabout, the school funding case. marshall knew more about the clause than anybody else in the 20th century. what he said it the way we do the klaus -- the clause is more a balanced thing. how important is the right to the people being excluded? how important is it to the government to exploit them? and how big a change in the policy would it be to strike down the exclusion and can courts do this? it is defined violence -- a fine balance. several more questions. >> thank you for that. i have a question about your percentages. to what extent do you think your percentage its, but gradual increase in s

and codirect earth of the center for traumatic at boston university.high school is an interesting question. it's where i started playing football. and it's hard to figure where on the spectrum it fits. we know youth is probably more dangerous than high school. we know that high school is a big part of our culture. i kind of want to go back, i have a lots of notes here to separate youth from kind of professional and then kind of where we're in the middle. because i think this discussion is really what is unique about football versus other sports and while we're having the discussion. a lot comes down to the adult game is not really separated from the youth game. in a meaningful way. like soccer there's no heading before a search age. no checking in ice hockey. baseball no curve ball. we don't do that football. it's the real game where head contact is not rare, and accidental. and so i think we have to kind of identify that as a big issue. but i think we have to look to in terms what we should be doing we actually can look up to the nfl and the nfl pa ab

to his hometown, boston, where we had a great privilege of having events at boston university school of communication, emerson college, and we through a fine luncheon where he wowed our crowd. >> and mit. >> and mit, which all boston was not responsible for. so over the weekend i am driving in new england and listening to npr. the state department spokesman has just resigned. well, thank you very much. my members loves you, but on monday morning i had so many calls and the males, what did i mess by not going to that luncheon? he is a man of great candor become a principal, and trouble for speaking truth to power in saying something about the treatment and attention of private brad manning a over the wikileaks thing. you have ready on your feet. i owe you all a great thanks for being with us today. plenty to do that for you. [applause] >> i resigned two hours after speaking to world boston, the tour not connected. i want to make that perfectly clear. so we are coming up on that 2-year anniversary of this thing called the arab spring or the arab awakening or as marquees the title in his

countries like france and belgium also sort of striking workers close a sociologist at the university in boston who took part in wednesday's strike says it's not the cuts but what they target the trick is popular on rest a protest isn't about a solution a protest is normally about something you don't want so in this case what they're protesting is easy to austerity is cuts in social spending and cuts in social rights and the expansion of social misery people can make the argument that austerity is a solution to the current problems being faced by your the european citizenry and in particular by the southern european citizenry the problem is what does that austerity mean is that neoliberal e.u. austerity where you cut basically all of those all of the social protection that keeps people from descending down to a sort of downward spiral of social misery and with all of that escalating conflict or do you leave social protection in place and cut in places where there really is overspending such as bank bailouts and and and areas like these. but watching on t.v. and talk about a smooth change at the

the block and spain specifically with carlos del close he's a sociologist to put the cover university in boston lona well so far the protests where you are in spain and i understand you've taken part in those they've really fallen on deaf ears haven't they what makes you think today will be any different. well i think the most obvious reason that it's going to be different is because all of southern europe is engaged in a general strike in their days of action all over all over the continent i think also the scale and the intensity of the conflict opened up by a type of mobilization like a general strike is it is something very different than we've seen with the indignados and we really haven't seen the most intense part of the of the mobilization yet i mean the protests in major cities besides the picket lines and all of that haven't really started that starts at six o'clock where people who maybe haven't been able to take part in the picket lines or in the actual strike them selves or people who have participated in the strike will join in what will what we expect to be a hundred thousand per

concord massachusetts as well as the clinical professor of neurosurgery and the codirector of boston universitycenter for the study of traumatic and -- and -- encephalopathy. is the he is a senior adviser to the nfl head neck and spine committee and is co-founder of the sports legacy institute, an organization dedicated to addressing the concussion crisis through research, treatment, education and prevention and he is the author of the new book, called concussions and their kids, america's leading expert on how to protect young athletes and keep sports safe, written with marc hyman who is with us here today as well. so dr. cantu, what is the central thesis of your book here? >> first of all time i would like to thank you in the aspen institute for convening this conference today and for inviting me to participate in it. i think before i answer your question, i would like to start i just simply saying i am pro-sports. i want every sport to be continued and i wanted to be played in greater numbers, and i believe all of the opinions that i hold are trying to have that happen although right now may

to his hometown boston where we had the great privilege of having events at boston university's school of communications, emerson college, and we threw a fine luncheon where he wowed our crowd. >> and mit. >> and mi, the which world boston was not responsible for that part of his itinerary. [laughter] so over the weekend i'm driving in new england and listening to npr: state department spokesman p.j. crowley has just resigned. well, p.j., thank you very much. my members loved you, but on monday morning i had so many calls and e-mails from members, what did i miss by not going to that lunch? [laughter] he is a man of great candor, principle. he got in trouble for speaking truth to power and saying something about the treatment, the detention of private brad manning over the wikileaks thing. but you've landed on your feet. i owe you all a great thanks for being with us here today. thank you. >> glad i could do that for you. [laughter] [applause] i resigned two hours after speaking to world boston. the two are not connected, i want to make that perfectly clear. [laughter] so we're coming

rom mi it was bitter disappointment but in a concession speech to supporters in boston he conveyed a message of university the in defeat. >> i so wish it's been able to fulfill your hopes to lead your country in a different direction but the nation chose another leader and ann and i join with you to pray for him and this great nation. >> reporter: the president says he looks forward to working with the former opponent. >> the weeks ahead i look forward to sitting down with governor romney where we can work together to move the country forward. >> reporter: the president in the victory speech took a bipartisan tone saying americans voted for action and not politics as usual but again keep in mine, this is a democratic president who will be dealing with a house that is run by republicans and a senate run by democrats and again the same setup facing the same divisions we have seen over the last four years. that's the latest from chicago. >> the race we had our ice on voters had major initiatives to decide on. >> this morning the results are in and our state is making history. sherrie johnson is live in feder

following weeks of campaign momentum but in concession speech to supporters in boston romney conveyed a message of university the and defeat. >> i so wish i was able to fulfill your hopes to lead the country in a different direction. but the nation chose another leader and so ann and i join with you to ernestly pray for him and for the great nation. >> reporter: the president says he looks forward to working with the former opponent in the future. >> in the weeks ahead i look forward to sitting down with governor romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward. >> reporter: the president in his victory speech took abipartisan tone saying americans voted for action and not politics as usual but again keep in mind, this is a democratic president who will be dealing with a house that is run by republicans and a senate run bydemocrats and again the same set up facing the same divisions we have seen over the last four years. that's the very latest from chicago. i am george howell reporting. >>> smoking pot for recreation is legal in two states. voters in washington and colorado voted

concord massachusetts as well as the clinical professor of neurosurgery and the codirector of boston universitystudy of traumatic and -- and -- encephalopathy. is the he is a senior adviser to the nfl head neck and spine committee and is co-founder of the sports legacy institute, an organization dedicated to addressing the concussion crisis through research, treatment, education and prevention and he is the author of the new book, called concussions and their kids, america's leading expert on how to protect young athletes and keep sports safe, written with marc hyman who is with us here today as well. so dr. cantu, what is the central thesis of your book here? >> first of all time i would like to thank you in the aspen institute for convening this conference today and for inviting me to participate in it. i think before i answer your question, i would like to start i just simply saying i am pro-sports. i want every sport to be continued and i wanted to be played in greater numbers, and i believe all of the opinions that i hold are trying to have that happen although right now maybe not everybod

boston. 60 years of age. husband, francis j cross um. one child. harvard university ratcliffe college. bampt a. tough university md. couple laddy. georgetown and tust universities school of medicine instructor in pediatrics, 3 years. the permanent medical group. multiple leadership roles including chief of pediatrics and associate executive director. 29 years all together and currently. hobbies, hiking. sharon levine. >> sharon levine, we are joined by vicki got lick, senior policy attorney for the center of medicare advocacy. are thru? >> i am. good morning. >> vicki, do you have thoughts on what we've been saying so far about the cost implications of by lodgics versus traditional drugs or any aspects of the conversation thus far? >> i have a lot of conthoughts about your conversation. cost is a very important factor and cost very often will cause the population not to be able to afford the drugs. even if they have drug coverage for a biopharmaceutical, very often the copayments are so high that people can't afford the copayments. people are bankrupting themselves in order to get these needed

to the home down, boston, where we had the great privilege of having events at university schools communitycations, emerson college, and we had a fine lunch chon where he wowed our crowd. >> and mitt. >> and mit which world boston was not responsible for that itinerary. over the week, i'm driving in new england, listening to npr, p.j. crowely just resigned. well, p.j. thank you very much. my members loved you, but monday morning, i had so many calls and e-mails from members, what did i miss by not going to that lunch. [laughter] he's a man of great candor, principle, got in trouble for speaking truth to power and saying something about the treatment of private brad manning over the wikileaks thing. you landed on your feet. i owe you all great thanks for you being here today. thank you. >> i'm glad i could do that for you, bill. [applause] i resigned two hours after speaking to world boston, tour not connected. i wanted to make that perfectly clear. [laughter] we're coming up on the two-year anniversary of this thing called the arab spring or arab awakening, or as mark uses in the title of t

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

. >> hike in the stephen flynn from northeastern university in boston. on the issue of new normal, i wonder picking up on david's point about the price to post-9/11, is the sort of coming to grips with the hubris we could prevent bad things from happening, this huge investment in the post-secular world arabic ere we could ideally stop risk. actually coping with that is what we really need to increase and maybe just bring it very close to home. we just had this bashing mother nature in the area, priced at around $60 billion for a risk above the basic things like when you have tunnels that are only seven feet above water. it fills up the hole and you end up with 86 million gallons of oil in the tunnel and that's not hard to predict. putting safeguards in place in recovering this may be one element of this. basically the issue is that we focus too much on trying to prevent risk instead of managing it better? >> steve tried to argue for solace, which is an interesting concept. yes, back here. >> richard downey from the center for hemispheric u.s. david, you

and a senior fellow at the interim merican dialogue and in boston we have kevin so bad he is director of the drug policy institute at the university of florida and a former white house senior adviser on drug policy are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to come and i am i to go to you i mean this talk about colorado is talking about washington i mean the perception outside of the united states is that the united states is legalizing it at home but continuing the war on drugs in mexico so how do you square the circle. well i mean you know colorado and washington have votes but frankly federal law is still supreme in what federal laws said and this is what president obama has said numerous times is that marijuana still illegal so i think the message to the world is that just because two states decided to legalize marijuana that this is really going to be caught up in the courts for a while and this is really the beginning of the conversation and not the end you know unfortunately voters were sold a false choice between prohibition on one side and super in force.

a senior fellow at the interim american dialogue and in boston we have kevin so bad he is director of the drug policy institute at the university of florida and a former white house senior adviser on drug policy are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to come and i am i to go to you i mean this talk about colorado is talking about washington i mean the perception outside of the united states is that the united states is legalizing it at home but continuing the war on drugs in mexico so how do you square the circle. well the i mean you know colorado and washington have votes but frankly federal law is still supreme in what federal laws said and this is what president obama.

university along with ann davies. mitt and ann marry and eventually move to boston where romney gets a difficult combined mba and law degreeard. the romneys settle in massachusetts and mitt serves in higher and higher official positions in the mormon church. first as a bishop, then as head of the boston stake which is similar to a dioceses. mitt romney might be one of the more devout major party presidential nominees in american history. >> he spent up to they say 25 or 30 hours a week being the volunteer bishop. their religion is their life in many ways. >> but in addition to tending to religious matters, mitt romney is also in the process of building a major business. one that would make him a millionaire many times over. >> during the 15 years that i was there and that mitt was there, i believe bain capital probably had the most successful track record of any investment firm ever over a 15-year period. r insurance companies these days. here a cheap, there a cheap, everywhere a cheap... you get it. so, what if instead of just a cheap choice, you could make a smart choice? like, esurance for example. they were born online

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at georgetown university and michelle bernard political analyst and founder of the bernard center for women, politics and public policy. good afternoon to boston. >> hi there. >> doug i'll start with you. we pay attention to the presidential candidates. generally speaking how much of an impact can something like a fight over judges, how much of an impact can something like this happen when it comes to voter turnout? >> kit have a huge impact especially on the local level and in this case on state level. what's at stake here are a couple of things. first of all to what degree will the supreme court remain independent from either political party. in florida, in the '70s they stopped voting for supreme court justice and they were being afrointd a nominating list that the governor then would appeal to in order to appoint the justices and then they stood for retention. the coke brothers another far right-wing group here have tar get these particular justices because they want to really impose willy-nilly their will upon florida. you know, they control the legislature, they control the governor's office now they want to control the supreme -- now t

universal health care. >> they devise this epic signing ceremony at faneuil hall in boston. and there is a fife and drum corps. >> narrator: it was in this same place that kennedy had destroyed young mitt romney in their first debate. >> of course, the last time i was on this stage with senator kennedy... (crowd laughing) this for me feels a bit like the titanic returning to visit the iceberg. >> narrator: it was mitt relaxed, relieved. >> my son said that having senator kennedy and me together, like this, on this stage, behind the same piece of landmark legislation, will help slow global warming. (crowd laughing) that's because hell has frozen over. >> narrator: senator kennedy, never one to be upstaged, joined in the fun. >> my son said something too, and that is when kennedy and romney support a piece of legislation, usually one of them hasn't read it. (crowd laughing) (cheering) but that's not true today, is it, governor? >> ted kennedy give a speech cheering on this new law. romney signs the bill with 14 different pens that he hands out to everyone there. it's a big cel

boston. >> and how about dad? >> dad was a grad student in chinese history at harvard and became a professor of chinese history, and then an administrator at brown university is it possible for anybody to be more harvard than you are? [laughter] >> well, i don't actually work at harvard. >> i know. where did you go to undergrad? >> harvard. >> where did you get your master's degree? >> harvard. >> where did you get your ph.d.? >> harvard. true. well, it was a great place to learn about history, and i studied a lot of it. i studied early american history and 19th century and 20th. i did not study president kennedy at harvard, but he was in the air there, too. it was everywhere. i did go to the kennedy library as a tourist and just enjoyed it. but harvard was also a very tolerant place. it did not rush people along. it allowed people to learn history slowly, which is a good way to learn history. and you can move a bit from century to century. and i did that. so i like studying the entire history of the presidency, as you do yourself, brian. and you're a great friend to all of us out there, because you are interested in the obscure presidents as well as the f