a lot of the book takes place in ethiopia and a lot takes place in the united states in a hospital and it is lush, beautiful riding about medicine and immigration and ethiopia it in bad times and 80 wonderful book. another book that takes place in calcutta and it is called an sacred games. in the tradition of life imitating art 1/2 bid in mobile last year it happened as almost they were following a script from sacred games and it is dominated by two major characters, the underworld boss who has all kinds of ties to nationalist groups he is doing the will of some of the fundamentalist, the hindu fundamentalist politicians. the good guy in the book is a police detective is on the side of virtue and goodness and democracy and they are pitted against each other in this huge novel which is a wonderful book to take away on a trip. these are my recommendations. i could go on and on and on but i tried to narrow it down. thank you for asking me. >> 2009 book expo america convention here with stacy the was the director from city lights books out of san francisco what do you have coming out this

a lot of cutting for stone takes place in ethiopia and a lot takes place in the united states. and it is lush, beautiful riding, about madison and about and immigration and it is about ethiopia and bad times. it is a wonderful book. and the other book, a south asian book takes place in calcutta and is called sacred gains. it is in the tradition of of life imitating art. what happened in mumbai last year was almost as though they were following a script from sacred games in six games is dominated by two major characters, an underworld boss who has all kinds of ties to nationalist groups and so although he is interested in money he is also doing the will of some of the fundamentalist, hindu fundamentalist politician and the good guy in the book is a police detective who was on this side of virtue and goodness and democracy. they are. against each other in this huge novel which is a wonderful book to take away on the trip so those are my recommendations. i could go on and on but i have tried to narrow it down. thank you for asking me. >> to seymor summer reading lists and other pr

in -- it is about a position in the united states who emigrated here and chilly autumn ethiopia where his family where protestant missionaries and a lot of cutting for stone takes place in ethiopia and a lot of it takes place in the united states in a hospital in the united states. it is a rush -- lush beautiful writing about medicine and immigration and it is about ethiopia in bad times and it is a wonderful book. the other book, south asian book takes place in calcutta and is called a sacred games and is by -- it is in that tradition of life imitating art. it would have been in mumbai last year was almost as though they were following a script from sacred games. sacred games is dominated by two major characters. an underworld boss who has all kinds of ties to nationalist groups and so although he is interested in money he is also doing the will of some of the fundamentalist hindu fundamentalist politicians in the good guy in the book is a police detective who is on the side of virtue and goodness and democracy. there are. against each other in this year's novel which is a wonderful

were protestant missionaries, and this -- a lot of cutting for stone takes place in ethiopia, and a lot takes place in a hospital in the united states, and it's lush, beautiful writing. it's about medicine and about immigration, and it's about ethiopia in bad times, and it's a wonderful book. and the other book that i -- south asian book takes place in calcutta, and it's called sacred games, and it's by vikram chan chandra, and it's in the tradition of life imitating art. what happened in mumbai last year was almost as though they were following a script from sacred games. and sacred games is dominated by two major characters, an underworld boss who has all kinds of ties to nationalist groups, and so although he's interested in money, he's also doing the will of some of the fundamentalist, hindu fundamentalist politicians. and then the good guy in the book is a police detective who is on the side of virtue and goodness and democracy. and they're pitted against each other in this huge novel which is a wonderful book to take away on a trip. so those are my recommendations. i could go

i was really glad to hear the lady from ethiopia call. she mae a very important statement. it is too bad that the people in this country haven't gone through what she's gone through so that they can see what she says is the purpose mr. owe bomba >> my thoughts about how the information came out are, i'm not 100% sure -- it goes back to where we are everyday right now. no matter what is said on the democratic side, we have a fight on the republican side. should it ever come out, no. should it be public? probably not. how many countries do we have that discuss their trobgations? >> you raised the question before about sackses and others who have shared their thoughts on the hearings. there are really two issues here. one is do they face any punishment from the committee? the democrats are in charge. they can remove people or go through the process of removing people from the committee if they feel like they violated the rules. again, we don't know if they are going to do that. the best indication we have is if they are talking about it and figure out the options. the other is

around the world because black women were sending us letters from africa and it says i just got to ethiopiae found black women whether the buenos aires, italy, ethiopia all over the world and they were writing to say is this the real deal? are we actually going to see these letters in a song form? is a possible peace could go to the white house? is it a hoax? no it wasn't it is an extraordinary response we have gotten from them and i might add another thing we were struck is the diversity of things they were housewives, a former university president, people on the 1 faculty, writers, nine writers, people who would never tried writing before, they raged in a range from 25 through 80 and they were writing things that really told us black women had very deep sensibilities and sensitivities about this historic moment and of the role they could play. i will stopxdñr now. >> in terms of the tears the letters and poems bringing tears to our eyes we found that certainly in some of the views that have been done and the e-mails and letters we received that the expressions and feelingsxd expressed by

it took place in the days of the rain from india to ethiopia over 127 provinces and in those days the king sat on his royal throne which was and susana which is in persia. in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his princes and attendance for the army officers of persia and matteo. the nobles and princes of the provinces being in his presence. the leader of persia. now, miers' almost as tough as you were to say as ahmadinejad. my father was orthodox jewish. that as a whole other story. a good story. [laughter] maybe we will find it during the q&a time. my father, when he was growing up in temple was in a play about these very evens and he was one of the soldiers in the persian palace and he was to take his spear and stamp three times and say ladies and gentlemen, king [inaudible] i'm going to use keen xerxes because the disease year. king xerxes was the leader now, in chapter 31136, the plot begins to thicken and we are not going to go through all the chapters of esther but in chapters 3136 after these events, king xerxes promoted heymann, the son of hamidatha and est

now, it took place in the days of those who reigned from india to ethiopia over 127 provinces and in those days the king sat in his royal throne in the citadel in persia. and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for his princes and attendance and the army officers of persia and madea. the nobles and the princes of his provinces in his presence. he was the leader of persia. my father was raised orthodox jewish, some jewish on my father's side and gentile on my mother's side, it's a long story, good story. maybe we'll find it during the q & a side. my father who he was growing up in temple he was in a forum play, a play about these very events and he was supposed -- he was the guard -- one of the soldiers in persian, you know, and he was to take his sphere, ladies and gentlemen, king -- the plot begins to thicken and we're not going to go through all the chapters of esther today. but in chapter 3 one through six king xerxes permitted the son advanced him and established his authority over all the princes who were with him. and all the king's servants bow jed down and bowed

that was the mood behind my pc also want to share i returned three weeks ago fromÑi ethiopia where ionored by eight the african international media's on it as i won an achiever award for my work and rebranding the image of africa and that is what you are doing what you talked about today. the need for us to repair and the image of black women. that work is being done on the continent being led by the diaspora economic forum, another contributor who is here in the states but it was such an honor for me to be a part of thet(çó africans study were this year's theme was women in the media and to bring the award back to the united states so i could share with all of you and my family and friends. absolutely believe that my participation in this book was viewed very heavily and honoring to be a part of less. i think you again for being here [applause] >> hello peggy and barbara i think we have it mailed both of you. i am a third generation washingtonian and the mother of a beautiful four year-old daughter and i refuse to have her anywhere but in washington d.c. i could have bought maryland

and a significant but less significant fiscal crisis closing down operations in rwanda and uganda, ethiopia and many others. in 25 percent cut in the budget while food prices are rising and the financial crisis and economic crisis is bring unemployment and cutting back remittances. that is a major crisis. we might incidentally remember it that when britain and landed in what is now bangladesh they were stunned by its wealth and splendor and it did not take long for it to be on his way to become the very symbol of misery, not by an act of god and. the fate of bangladesh should remind us that the terrible food crisis is not just a the result of western a lack of concern. in large part it results from the very definite and clear concerns of the global managers namely for their own welfare. is always well to keep in mind that this to an observation of by adam smith about policy formation in england in, he recognized that what he called the principal architects policy in his day the merchants and manufacturers make sure how that their own interests are most peculiarly attended to however grievou

spent a lot of my time in very difficult north korea and averitt and sri lanka during of the war and ethiopia and yemen and el salvador never to be like anyone going back and forth between these places good preparation and champion of peace. i always wondered what the sun usually nuclear site man might have to offer to those places to help release them from their seemingly intractable cycles of violence and i should say at this point that i am not a buddhist. i don't speak tibetan so i can't follow the dalai lama when he is at his most forceful and articulate and i do spend a lot of time in a monastery but i wouldn't presume to talk about his monastic life. but one thing that struck me was on like of course any dalai lama in history he spends a lot of his time in rooms like this, the national cathedral. certainly he spends a lot of his life talking to people like us who may have no interest in buddhism and no interest ever in acquiring a knowledge of buddhism and i think that almost as a doctor of the mind, and like any doctor, he sits on this very intricate and technical body of knowledge an