in my column i told it in american iliad way. what i said in the final paragraph is that mcclellan wasn't all that bad of a general. i just said he doesn't deserve the excoriation that he gets. that one paragraph got any number of letters to the editor sent. and i got two letters myself from aggrieved readers type script single space pages explaining how mcclellan was the worst general in the civil war. not up with of the worst, but the absolute worst. i so i zrnt a hard time explaining why we hate mcclellan that much. now, moving to my topic today, one of the things i was thinking about is this american iliad, does it half -- it has stories in it about grant at shilo. general petraeus during the darkest moments of the surge told his staff on several occasions about grant's remark on the evening of the first day of the battle of shilo where sherman comes up to him and says well, grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we? and grant's response is, yep, lick them tomorrow, though. anticipate general petraeus used that to buck

so, there is this kind of american iliad element to his march. but the idea of this theory, this is something that i talk about, largely debunking. and so, what i would like to do is to begin with two mornings, three years apart. the first is a mild winter day in coastal south carolina, on the flat tidal plane of the savanna river. the soldiers have entered the little village of barnwell. officially, the orders are to pass through the town and seize and destroy only certain classes of public property. in brutal fact, they believe that the commanding officer wants them to destroy everything in south carolina, a state that nurtured and created the carnage of the civil war. that has consumed the lives of them in their comrades for years. and so, union soldiers as they enter barnwell, south carolina, they set fire to the town. public building, residences, then they leave. telling themselves with grim satisfaction that the town that would be properly rechristened burnwell. civilians are aghast, in shock. that is the first point. the second morning is

potentially bad for iliad.tly involved in this that the stock is getting pummeled this morning. the market is saying that this is bad for everyone but orange. orange is suffering but not his touches everyone else. as everyone else. it is interesting to see where the market thinks this is going. the market is trading down. peersparison with oranges , you can see where the market is closing. if the orangeknow will go on the hunt for something else are now. you may see some of the other a little bit.pop it is surprising to me that orange is declining the least of those. we will see how it plays out. when of the comments we heard earlier about how he thinks deutsche telekom has a huge target on its bank -- on its back. there are a lot of bankers wondering where to convince orange to go next. guy: we will talk about that later on. one of the stories that will run through the morning. here is the bloomberg business flash. u.k. business secretary has refused to rule out a temporary nationalization of tata steel operat

it repays reviewing, the way a good text replays rereading, so every time i read "the iliad" or "bleak house" or "david copperfield," or whatever i see more and more. >> sreenivasan: you're putting david simon with some pretty high company? (laughing) >> well, i suppose if tv is coming into its own as genre, he'd be one of those people that's making it come into its own. >> sreenivasan: this semester the rutgers class is using the show's portrayal of racial inequality as a springboard to analyze the "black lives matter" movement. >> black lives matter came as a movement because some people believed they'd hit a ceiling, like, we are done with this. >> it's not just about people getting shot and killed. it's the injustice that happens after their civil rights have been violated. >> whether you agree with how it gets portrayed or not, that lends itself to great levels of debate and engagement. the students find themselves caught between, "well, i thought i knew what i would've done before seeing this show, and now that i see the interconnectedness of systems, i'm not sure how i would've

sfr and iliad might have orended if it had sold orange and telecom united consolidated partner.hat is the big mover today across europe. the vendee is a big story today and the media sector is the big side of the story coul. media shares are up 6%. vivendi is near an agreement to set'sontrol of media sai pay-tv. equal rupert murdoch's company in your. melrose, the u.k. investment company, is dropping out of the running to buy philips lighting division. its increasing the likelihood of an ipo of that business. so say people familiar with the matter. discuss --ngs to some of things to discuss when it comes degrees. there was a follow-up between alexis tsipras and the imf the. we will hear more about that later from our main in athens. this is the six-month chart. toay, the yield is rising the highest in over two weeks. last august of course, when we had the fears that greece was not going to receive its third bailout, that is when it rose to 30%. it is still a far cry from there. investors are starting to say they need a deal soon or there may be talks of a grexit rather than a br

is best placed to cope with what many are calling a destructive price war which was preempted by iliad'sry into the market? marie: some plans have made massive investments in next-generation networks. that is bound to help them. that is the case for orange, the biggest in the country. question really will be going forward, what are bouygues' plans and the company has said it can go on and standalone. it does not need a deal to continue. going into talks for four months and hoping for those talks to end with a deal really puts bouygues in a weak position and they will need to show the market how they can keep going forward as standalone. a deal is off the table for at least a year at this point. mark: tags a lot. marie mawad who covers global tech in paris. european equities are faring. about four minutes away from the monday session. stocks have risen today. a look like they will finish the monday session high. ♪ . . thank you. ordering chinese food is a very predictable experience. i order b14. i get b14. no surprises. buying business internet, on the other hand, can be a roller coaster

i genuinely loved reading "the odyssey" and "the iliad" and plato in the original greek. >> stephen: wow. hold on-- ( laughter ) when you-- when people read it in not the original greek, you go, you're not really getting it. ( laughter ) >> you know, you just don't get the-- ( laughter ) >> stephen: is it really? >> something in the-- >> stephen: yeah? >> no, it's a bit like-- i suppose, you know, the french talk about, they wish they could read shakespeare, and they read translations of shakespeare and they have to work their english up to a point where they can read shakespeare in english. and it's a bit like, you know, when you read stuff in latin and greek, it's a weird foundation in language. i've always been quite grateful because if there's a word i don't understand, it usually comes from a latin or greek root so i sort of know what it means. >> stephen: i've heard it described that reading a great work of art not in the original language, reading a translation, is like kissing a woman through a veil. >> who wants to do that? (

they're not making money because these guys iliad came in as a low-cost competitor.n wig, the billionaire, trying to sell his $10 billion euros to orange, which is 23% controlled effectually by the socialist government in france and couldn't do a deal. huge amount of falling out about voting rights moving forward. so you can see the way in which those stocks deteriorated throughout the session. meantime, with a strong political bias, the imf is having to defend itself against an accusation through wikileaks that it was essentially prepared to push greece to the point of default by leaving the negotiations in order to get the germans to give them debt reduction. this is the letter -- the headline of a letter that le guard sent to the greek prime minister denying that is the case. she says a negotiating tactic is simply nonsense. back do you guys. >> thank you, simon. >>> and a massive leak of documents, known as the panama papers, has revealed offshore holdings of dozens of politicians and public figures around the world, raising questions about corruption and financi

columbia university assigned the iliad as common reading this year.his is not a story of uniform disgrace everywhere. it's a story in which the, what are we up to, 350 colleges this year assigned this? the great majority of them have taken the easy path into a world in which the books they assign are unchallenging, the content of them so accelerately political -- overtly political. there is a quality of intellectual squalor that has overtaken this enterprise. as an organization, the national association of scholars -- and i think first things as well -- kind of duty to be optimistic, to try to find something in this that can redeem this enterprise. if colleges are not going to go back and recreate some kind of core curriculum, a common reading may be only a band-aid, but at least it's a band-aid. and, therefore, let us go out and find the best band-aids we can. certainly, enrique's journey or just mercy don't make the cut. we need something a little bit better than that. and some suasion on the part of those who do like to read can go a long way. i im