will win in the rain but i seem to be more than just an athlete and i will let style and class and greece and form how i conduct myself as an athlete. that was a huge two him to get to new-line know hampton -- final hampton and langston hughes and those people gave him a sense of self. >> host: and that gave him a sense of some things that few boxers historic we add as a desire to not be screwed where was that informed by? and how successful was the in the district of boxing carving out a space where he was not exploited because that is not excuse but less than a typical fighter. >> guest: yes. it was very difficult because when robinson turned pro, he was feared because of his left hook. he was absolutely feared he was in new york golden gloves champion and his reputation had grown east coast to the west coast. yet to if you were a fighter in the early forties many of the box saying organizations had a shadowy figures like frankie car broke and you had to navigate that terrain and it upset sugar ray robinson and he had a reputation if he did not like his contract he would pull out of the

. >>> a commercial flight about to depart from cypress to athens, greece, had an unexpected delay. the jet was set to take off when a 28-year-old man opened a rear exit and slid down an emergency chute. he then jumped the airport fence and disappeared. authorities don't know why he bolted from the plane but they have issued an arrest warrant for him. >>> one of our frequent i-reporters says she's really creeped out by something that happened during a visit to the "queen mary" in long beach harbor. chris mohr row was filming while her husband took photographs. looking at his shot of the piano, they nosed what looked like a spectral face staring up from the surface. the queen mary has a reputation for being haunted, so immediately the discussion turned to ghosts. >> i had a reflection of a ghost on the glass top for the piano and i took a picture of it. i don't think it's the ghost that's known to be here. but i got one. >> so you guys saw the picture. what do you think? you saw the picture. >> yeah. i'm freaking out. >> totally freaking out. >> i'm so scared right now. >> i think it

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because quite frankly, most of my friends and they remind me of the generation i grew up with in greece. there are a great many similarities. why would i gravitate towards someone who comes from a different background and look at me suspiciously for being who i am and being union married, i'm 28, which i was at the time, all of these things don't fit in. so i'm very wary of saying i say this happened because i saw this. because what i'm seeing is tempered by who i am. >> i don't think we know. i think the only thing we do know that the government behaved in such a suspicious manner that it is natural to suspect they did steal the election. they announced a landslide win for ahmadinejad about an hour after the polls closed which is ridiculous in a country that had paper ballots. there were a number of reports that ballot boxes were taken away from the polling stations instead of people having counted the ballots which had been the normal procedure. and when he talks about the changes in the society and the kind of creeping oppression, it caught us by surprise, because iran did have relat

steve is an enormously talented guy and has worked campaigns in venezuela, nicaragua, greece and all over the police. >> if you have been around washington for a long time, you have known joe trippe for years and years. but the howard dean campaign was where he became a known figure. he is just an enormously talented guy. again, the author of the revolution will not be televised, democracy, the internet and everything overthrown. but joe is talented. we have a terrific panel. what i thought i would do is sort of throw it out one by one in a you nutshell, our topic is supposed to be looking forward to 2010-2012, and i don't want to entire fear in this too much, and so i will jump in at the tail end. let's just go down -- well, let's go in reverse order. let's start with joe -- i tell you what, let me spend one minute -- no, i'm not going to do that. >> do it, do it. >> ok. let me frame it for a second. we will start with tony and work our way down the aisle. the thing is, when you are looking at a midterm election, the party holding the white house almost always gets hammered. the nor

in the united states but also in places such as england, northern ireland, australia, china, and greece. he is always in airplanes, which made getting him was a challenge. he has written to many books to mention, but i do want to endorse his most recent, hot off the presses, "when the people speak: deliberative democracy and public confrontation," which oxford will publish october 11. but we have copies here today, and jim will hold a book signing at the end of our session. his talk will highlight the core argument and some of these central findings, so i will not say anything more about it, but safe to say it is a wonderful, a rare mix of deep political theory and cheerful attention to practical challenges of making democracy work. although it might be appropriate for us to celebrate jim and his work on this panel, that would not be much fun. so i have asked to give you distinguished colleagues from the media studies program to respond to his remarks and offer him some tough love. to my immediate left, we have someone who arrived from and why you as a leading cultural historian and med

happened often times is the people who were concerned about monitoring compliance with things like greeceion do not necessarily do domestic work. the people who are interested in foreign affairs and international relations are not really that concerned about the domestic implications of any human rights treaties that we might ratify. here we are at the campaign for a new domestic human rights agenda, attempting to strengthen the u.s. commitment to satisfy our own human rights obligations as a matter of our own domestic law, recognizing that to the sent -- to the extent that we are talking about being post- race, we might be out of step with the rest of the world. we are having a discourse about race that does not sound in the language used by everyone else in the world. there are questions like -- we can play 20 questions. how many of you know that in 2008, more than 400 individuals in organizations came together to file a shadow report with the committee responsible for this particular treaty, calling the u.s. government to account on its record of racial justice and implementing this pa

canada and the rest are in europe, from sweden down to italy, germany, england, and even greece. all pay over 50% of their income to the government. yes, all of them do receive it free health care, but if you listen to them describe it, that the health care would be considered abominable by u.s. standards. i heard the lady earlier talk about 47 million and keep throwing out that number. that originally began around 30 million. it gets to be over 45 when you include illegal aliens. i actually sat down to read the 1300 page health care bill. you will find interesting things people have not brought up to talk about yet. things like the government being able to get your bank account to levy fines. stuff you would never think of anything about u.s. as a free society. people better look long and hard at other countries and talk about this bill in great link before giving it one sixth of our economy over. host: when you travel, do they have any thoughts about what we are debating on as far as changes? caller: the well-off once, quite a few of them travel here to receive health care and

originally from greece, huffington moved to england when she was 16 and graduated from cambridge.21, she became president of a famed debating society. she is known for her bold and fearlessness and believes in saying what needs to be said and doing what needs to be done to lead and succeed. she is a prolific author. "shred of the constitution." she tackles the issue is critical to the 2008 presidential election and overall fate of the country her book was made into a film critic it was an international best seller and translated into 16 languages. she has made guest appearances on numerous shows. but she loves going on at no more than "morning joe." she lives in los angeles with her two teenage daughters. please give us a warm welcome to carry on a huffington. [applause] >> look at these two. i am serious. not only do we need a referee, but we need a translator. i don't know if we need one more for that greek accent or for dick armey in that can do accent. it is a real honor to bring out on the stage a guy who has always been a hero of mine and they died in may of 1993 -- and they

happened often times is the people who were concerned about monitoring compliance with things like greece convention do not necessarily do domestic work. the people who are interested in foreign affairs and international relations are not really that concerned about the domestic implications of any human rights treaties that we might ratify. here we are at the campaign for a new domestic human rights agenda, attempting to strengthen the u.s. commitment to satisfy our own human rights obligations as a matter of our own domestic law, recognizing that to the sent -- to the extent that we are talking about being post- race, we might be out of step with the rest of the world. we are having a discourse about race that does not sound in the language used by everyone else in the world. there are questions like -- we can play 20 questions. how many of you know that in 2008, more than 400 individuals in organizations came together to file a shadow report with the committee responsible for this particular treaty, calling the u.s. government to account on its record of racial justice and implementing

cordially from greece, huffington moved to england and graduated from cambridge with a master's in economics. she is known for her bold and fearlessness and believes in saying what needs to be said in doing what needs to be done, to leave and succeed. she is a prolific author with titles including "right is wrong with wh," and she tackled the is critical to the 2008 election and the overall fate of the country. her book "picasso, creator and destroyer." " was translated into 16 films. she has been on charlie rose, "larry king live," "good morning america" and the zero riley factor, but she loves going on the -- the o'reilly factor, but she loves going on no show better than "moprninrning joe." please give a warm welcome to arianna huffington. look at these two. i am serious. not only do we need a referee and a moderator, we need a translator. i don't know if we need one more for arianna huffington corpor dk armey. is an honor to bring out on this stage of guy who has always been a share of mine and is a guy in may, 1993, i remember this, while dick armey and newt gingrich was planning for a

he went on from there to do work for us when there was a student protest in greece, and that developedinto a project for the pulitzer center. in the spring, we decided together that it would be very good for him to go to iran to cover the elections, and as a general rule, the pulitzer center is not about covering elections and the immediate aftermath of breaking news because we see that as something that i shall read the news media does do, the conventional media that, despite all the cutbacks, they still devote resources to those issues. but in this case, we knew that he was extraordinarily well versed in iranian politics and culture. his exhibit on children of the revolution, his photographic exhibit, was displayed here at the wilson center last year and across the country, and he has done some extraordinary writing and photography on iran based on the three years he spent their. became fluent in farsi and had a wide range of contacts in that country, so i hope going in that he would be able to report not only on the election, but on the context behind it in a way that many other rep