one of them a student at howard university. the parents became concerned about the young men's whereabouts. apparently they told the parents they were going to a conference. but when the parents tried to call them on the cell phones, they got a ring that sounded like they were overseas. they were concerned. they went to their religious elders. that information eventually made it to the fbi. the fbi launched an investigation. one law official tells me that the names of none of these young men had shown up on their radar before. the names of the individuals were passed on to pakistani authorities as persons of interest and then we have the arrests in pakistan. the pakistani authorities are definitive that indeed the young men they picked up were the men missing from virginia. they say they tried to hook up with terrorist groups in pakistan but were not successful in doing so. the u.s. officials are not going that far. their operating belief is that these are the five young men from northern virginia but they cannot confirm that i

one of them a student at howard university. the parents became concerned about the young men's whereabouts. they said they were going to a conference and when the parents tried to call them on the cell phones, they got a ring that sounded like they were overseas. they got concerned and they went to the religious elders and they made their way to the fbi. and the names of none of the young men had shown up on the radar before. the names of the individuals were passed on to pakistani authorities as persons of interest and then the arrests in pakistan. the pakistani authorities they they were the young men from virginia. they say they tried to hook up with people in pakistan and were not successful. the u.s. officials are not going that far. the operating believe is that they were the young men but they cannot confirm it and at this point, no charges have been filed against anyone. >> do the parents know that the boys were going overseas? >> what i understand, they were concerned and there was a video left behind by one of the you

from howard university? >> absolutely. i had a lot of family connections to howard. my uncle graduated from howard. he was a tuskegee airman. he developed the metro rail system in d.c. >> let me go to something that i read that you wrote. "as a senate bid use almost everything in political terms." >> if all you have is a hammer, every problem you have is a nail. anything other than political terms, when i look at a debate about what ever is going on in the world, i am thinking about the political angle of it. not the policy and will. that is an important distinction. the merits of a policy on one hand, and there is the political back-and-forth that will determine the policy. it is hard to not become cynical or at least skeptical about the process when you see good ideas continually stifled and bad ideas occasionally slip through. i think that happens far too frequently. we focus on a number of things that do not have a lot to do with the real needs of the people. again, given my own family and ideological and personal orientation, i am much more concerned about the n

if you went to howard university, you would be lost. i am queen of the ball. it is my manner. i know everything. i know the unspoken words. i know in between the lines point i know the tilt of information, when yes means no pattern in your culture, i do not even know when yes means yes -- means note. in your culture, i don't even know when yes means yes. we need an acknowledgement of human limitations. we do not know how to read one another. even in this country where we have been together, these multiple races, we african- americans were created on this continent. this is the only place in the world we could have been created we are as indigenous as the native americans in some ways. we're still getting to know one another. we're still learning to read one another. i was talking with one of my fbi friends -- yes, i have fbi friends. [laughter] i have been learning the culture. i said to my friend, joe, you cannot even handle your black fbi agents. what are you going to do with muslim americans? and what are you quick to do with somebody from baghdad? you can even handle our m

this was general how word for whom howard university in washington is named. a white general one very much involved with abolition was involved with the freeman's office after the war to help the slaves find something to do and he had lost an arm at shiloh. he had only one arm. a soldier came in and said this lady will not cross under your flag. she walks out into the street and howard said call her in. and i quote the conversation in the book but i am not going to read it to you. in any case she said she would not cross under the flag and if she were restricted to her home she would send a servant for which she needed. and the servant wouldn't cross under the flag either end howard laugh and let her go. there was no problem. there were few problems. the only problem that really was sevier was getting food to them because the confederate money was nearly worthless. the confederate money was worth 5 cents union level and the soldier bought all lot of it at 5 cents to use for playing poker. and they had a good time with this monopoly money that they bought but w

he currently resides in -- from my alma mater, howard university.rack. [applause] çwe will hear five minutes from each of our speakers and then we will have time for questions and answers from each. our first speaker, chris burns. >> thank you so much, mr. moderator. i'm appearing in a person capacity to present my paper. i wrote this as part of a new federal initiatives project of the federalist society. i'm sort of a lone wolf. the purpose of this project is to monitor and analyze significant proposals coming from the new congress and administration with an eye towards a constitutional and legal implications. the society hopes that this will continue to foster debate about these and other important issues. as such, that the the federalist society nor my paper takes any position with respect to the proposed legislation on the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine, but t(the paper should be axd usefud straightforward summary ofç the çwhere does the disparity come from? çxdthei]i] anti-drug abuse act6 imposed aqç(m@ndatoryçç mi

when you went sh toato shaw high school and howard university, all in your palm community, not far from have envisioned the capitol rotunda as the setting to celebrate th90youryour 90th birthday. within the leaders for timing of this ceremony accordingly. happy 90th birthday, senator edward w. brooke. [applause] you may have been an improbable senator, and man born in the district of columbia who goes off to i port porti without -- who goes off to world war ii ç without right to vote for a member of house, much less senator. perhaps improbable, but certainly not an accidental senator. it took a man of extraordinary talent, will, appeal, and confidence to become the barack obama of the 20th-century before barack obama was even born. [laughter] [applause] by being elected the first african american as to sit as the united states senator, you did it in 1967, when millions of african-americans in the united states were still denied the right to cast a vote at all. senator, if you were not an athlete as a boy, you certainly have made up for it as a man. which of your hurdles seemed most ste

when you went sh toato shaw high school and howard university, all in your palm community, not far fromned the capitol rotunda as the setting to celebrate th90youryour 90th birthday. within the leaders for timing of this ceremony accordingly. happy 90th birthday, senator edward w. brooke. [applause] you may have been an improbable senator, and man born in the district of columbia who goes off to i port porti without -- who goes off to world war ii ç without right to vote for a member of house, much less senator. perhaps improbable, but certainly not an accidental senator. it took a man of extraordinary talent, will, appeal, and confidence to become the barack obama of the 20th-century before barack obama was even born. [laughter] [applause] by being elected the first african american as to sit as the united states senator, you did it in 1967, when millions of african-americans in the united states were still denied the right to cast a vote at all. senator, if you were not an athlete as a boy, you certainly have made up for it as a man. which of your hurdles seemed most steep to you at

convicted of conspiracy to distribute carter and crack cocaine a few months after graduating from howard universityparker he currently resides in washington d.c. and has received his real estate license and is willing to move his life for word. ladies and gentlemen,, lawrence caris then it. [applause] the. we will hear from five minutes from each of our speakers then have time for questions and answers part of the first speaker, chris burns. >> thank you so much mr. moderator. good morning. the are currently serve as attorney advisory to the u.s. commission of civil-rights i appear in my personal capacity to present a recent paper proposals to eliminate sentencing disparities between carter and crack cocaine. i wrote this for the federalist society. i cannot speak on their behalf be there. but the purpose of the project is to monitor and analyze a definitive proposals coming from the new administration with the eye toward the constitutional and legal obligations. the city hopes -- society hopes this will continue to foster discussion. the society nor my paper takes the position on the sentencing di

if you went to howard university, you would be lost. i am queen of the ball. it is my manner.ng. i know the unspoken words. i know in between the lines point i know the tilt of information, when yes means no pattern in your culture, i do not even know when yes means yes -- means note. in your culture, i don't even know when yes means yes. we need an acknowledgement of human limitations. we do not know how to read one another. even in this country where we have been together, these multiple races, we african- americans were created on this continent. this is the only place in the world we could have been created we are as indigenous as the native americans in some ways. we're still getting to know one another. we're still learning to read one another. i was talking with one of my fbi friends -- yes, i have fbi friends. [laughter] i have been learning the culture. i said to my friend, joe, you cannot even handle your black fbi agents. what are you going to do with muslim americans? and what are you quick to do with somebody from baghdad? you can even handle our minorities. you a

he graduated from high school in birmingham and played for the university of alabama before transferring to howardlege, now stanford university. after college, he worked his way up to become head coach for four years at standford and was head coach for six years at west virginia, but 34 years as head coach of florida state where he will be most remembered. in 1976, he took the rins of the team that had gone winless the previous season and he built one of the power houses of modern college football. during his 34 years at the hem of florida state, he led his team to 31 bowl games, including the past 28 years in a row during which he once led 14 consecutive bowl games without a loss. . he was named coach of the year six times and from 1987 to 2000 there was a streak of 14 consecutive years in the season-ending top five. during that time he coached two heisman trophy winners and his seminals played in five national championship games winning two. and it was in the beginning of that streak in the late 1980's that i first encountered the coach. as he did with so many, he left upon me an indelible impre