there's no intellects left in washington. there's no academics they have traded their intellects for a security blanket and a pacifier. >> let's just be clear, when george w. bush pushed for unfunded tax cuts. i said don't do this. i said this is the time that the economy is reasonably strong, this is the time to be paying found federal debt. i was really very strongly against that. when he called for unfunded wars, i said don't do this, we're not supposed to be running up debt for a war of choice at a time when the economy is not in need of stimulus. so this is -- you know, this is all wrong, i was actually somebody who was very much against irresponsible budgets. unfortunately what was what we did, now with the economy deep depressed, now is the time when we do need to spend and the public policy needs to depends on situations. it's not true about me, and -- you know if you want to say that we have had artificial stimulus, all these years, again, it's been -- world war ii is 67 years ago. and most of that period, we had an

seduced by the quality of his intellect and his radiant sexuality. she described him as having, quote: the walk of a mat a door into the center of an arena when he is going to fight the bull to the finish. west longed to be the bull -- [laughter] relished the oncoming fight and longed to be, shall we say, finished. to fully understand their mutual fascination, one must know just who wells was in 1912. he was possibly the celebrated author in the english-speaking world. he had already parished his famous -- published his famed science fiction novels "the time machine," "the invisible man," "war of the worlds." sufficient fused with social commentary aimed at awakening the public to the dangers of science, unmitigated by moral philosophy. h.g. wells, in short, was an intellectual rock star. and yet he had a strange self-destructive flaw. perhaps that one that rebecca anticipated. an insatiable lust for beautiful, intelligent women. wells had had several affairs before meeting rebecca, but this time he sensed he had found the real thing. his intellectua

the accomplishment of civic virtue is tied to the uses of intellect and imagination at their most challenging. our ways of approaching agency and authority turn inside out to reflect the reality that no one has the answers to the challenges facing citizens in this century, and everyone has the responsibility for trying and participating in finding them. bennington would continue to teach the arts and sciences as areas of immersion that acknowledge differences in personal and professional objectives. but the balances redressed, our shared purposes assume an equal if not greater importance. when the design emerged it was surprisingly simple and straightforward. the idea is to make the political-social challenges themselves -- from health and education to the uses of force -- the organizers of the curriculum. they would assume the commanding role of traditional disciplines. but structures designed to connect, rather than divide mutually dependent circles, rather than isolating triangles. and the point is not to treat these topics as topics of study, but as frameworks of action. the challenge: to

council's longest serving board member, and we have profited from your generous spirit, your towering intellect, and, yes, your wicked sense of humor. ladies and gentlemen, dr. henry kissinger. [ applause ] >> mr. secretary general, ladies and gentlemen, on one occasion after an eloquent introduction like this, a lady came up to me at the following reception and said "i understand you are a fascinating man," she said. "fascinate me." [ laughter ] it was one of the less successful conversations. that i have had. in 1951, before i was henry kissinger -- [ laughter ] -- i was an intern at an organization called the operations research office of the department of the army, and they send me to korea to study the impact of the u.s. army on korean life, for which i was spectacularly ill equipped. but it gave me an opportunity to travel around the country in the middle of the korean war. the country was devastated. the largest building in seoul was the headquarters of the japanese government that had since been turned down. no one would have believed it possible that a day would come that a secretary g

. >> i hold your intellect in high, high reregard you are a dishonest argument. >> to equate the occupy movement? >> and he came out. and he endorsed them. he is not. that is the folks that are demanding a free lunch . ther violent. >> ther notine the american demcraft. and ther people protesting. i want to and you i didn't mean to drag the president boo this. with the roling stone the question that they anded of the president. what have they thought you learned from no reference from the tea party and how they changed the system in the system. or take the occupiers if you are going to compare movements. the one with the better bang for the results is the teparters. ther held in contempt. this is the president's agenda and it is it a bunch of college students. france gave capitalism a chance and they'll revert back to socialism and they can fall in this trap. how they have fallen out all of that stuff. they are across. we are embracing that. it is dangerous to look at the occupy movement and young pime who feel like they are entitled to something . it is a country over decades i am more

he began to suspect that his modest intellect was holding him back. he decided to visit a brain transplant center with the hope of raising his iq. he was accepted as -- accepted by the director of the center. he said, this -- i am a working man and i understand this procedure can be expensive. the price is a function of which type of brain you select. an ounce of a lawyer's brand cost $12,000. -- brain costs $12,000. he said, i would be a bureaucratic ninja, slicing and dicing my way through torts and courts. he said, are there any other options. dickinson college students' brains. they run at $17,000 an ounce. he said, with that kind of intellectual power, i could solve complex global problems, speak a dozen languages and find ways to balance the budget and cure diseases worldwide, and then i would take a break from my morning cup of coffee and think some more. absolutely, the director responded with enthusiasm. here is one more match to consider. generals' brains. they are priced at $100,000 per ounce. he said, i could combine the audacity of george

vorlack someone who has tremendous vision and intellect.his leadership in a hard nosed, results oriented corporate environment and someone who miraculously gets up every day and commits his personal time and energy and somehow manages to bring 20, 30, 40 other ceos along with him every time he launches a new effort to make the world a better place and to imagine an environment where those kids don't go to bed hungry every night. for that, i am deeply honored to be able to introduce my friend and to present him with the atlantic council's distinguished business leadership award. thank you, paul. [ applause ] [ applause ] ♪ >> thanks. i think that's more than certain -- one of the thing that's very clear is rajij's leadership of u.s. aid and a deeper sense of purpose, focus and energy he brings to the number of global challenges is obviously admirable and more importantly to the benefit of us all, i think no one better to explain that than himself. i saw the energy and determination when i had the privilege to welcome him at the latest world

african- americans experiences through their patriotism, through their labor, leadership, motherhood, intellectd artistic expression. all of us regardless of ethnic origin or social and economic background have benefited from the contributions of these women. in the american culture, menino of the historical accomplishments of the african- american women, phyllis wheatley, harriet tubman, leader of underground railroad. ida wells, the unyielding upon it to a lynching. rosa parks, of course, the mother of the modern civil rights movement and on and on. gwendolyn brooks, tommy morrison -- toni morrison. wonderful writers. awe still have a ways to go, we hav a long ways to go. as an author to have helped our human rights commission read the agenda we have a ways to go. [applause] that is why i look at the audience, i see a lot of people that will help us get there. our board of supervisors are here, our other elected officials, the treasure is here. members from all the other communities are here. because it is not just something the african-american community can do. the chinese -- a chinese pers

lives of all kinds of people is when combined with this great scholarship, combined with his great intellect, and combined with his great compassion has made him to me the very perfect person to sit on the highest court of the land. justice stevens, it's an honor to have you here, and we thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you, roberta. before i read you my prepared remarks, i have to acknowledge what a nice introduction that was because i remember that occasion very well, too. and that's part of the reason that i was very happy to be privileged to talk at the american bar association convention in florida when roberta was the first woman chairman of this association, and it reminded me that's not particularly revel. it did remind me of the fact that i sort of specialized in talking at bar association occasions honoring first woman presidents because i had previously talked to the chicago bar association back in the 1970s when keegan became president of the association, and she was the first woman president of the major bar association. roberta followed up and as greg told me at the tim

always respect children's developmental processes and try to inspire, enhance, and challenge their intellecturing them to achieve skills beyond their reach. the important thing to remember is that no one can teach a child how to learn. all we can do is build a safe and creative environment for learning, where questions are asked freely, answers are discovered openly, and each new problem is solved not only with knowledge and insight, but solved together. i'm joanne hendrick. see you next time on the whole child. not fit through it. no, no, no. they just--they-- if they don't have-- like, all--all pets don't have hands, so they use their whiskers to feel stuff that's hard, soft, or fragile. captioning performed by the national captioning institute, inc. they use their whiskers for two things-- to feel stuff that's hard or soft or feel stuff-- the sides. if the whiskers touch the sides, then they can't fit through it. they use their whiskers for two things, just like funny bunny can't fit through these... funding for this program was provided by... hasyou look healthyd, "you and you feel fine,

he smells of course perspiratios listening to my intellection, as he is right now, and so while he doesn't necessarily speak the same language that we do, he is looking over yonder. tuesday. but people think -- people's tendencies are to think of k-9s as being less perceptive really than they truly are. as some of you know, there are dogs now doing everything from you know, doing everything from warning and alerting people who have epileptic seizures, to alerting them that their glycemic levels are low. we have insulin alert dogs. there are dogs now unbelievably that can even sniff cancer, and it's really only in recent years and i think the silver lining to the contemporary is, pardon the pun, an explosion and assistance dogs helping mitigate peoples disabilities of all sorts, invisible and visible. i think it is a tremendous, tremendous era because unbeknownst to most people, the largest minority in the country is in fact people with disabilities. 55 million americans have disabilities, and that is growing because medical advancement is lengthening the time span of people's lives. so wit

that they are in charge of the intellect and operations and so on. this is where i find their irreresponsibility. now this is a blow back. this is really a blow back for al qaeda when they have inspired all these people in their public statements and now these people are doing it the way they see fit. but when al qaeda had its organizational basis, its organization based in afghanistan and it's had its guest houses, you can see the primary sources that they are interested in discipline. they are interested in how you mount lawful jihad. they want to invest in their people and they did. they did. but once they lost that base and there's been a vacuum, you got all these people riding up around tsz world and all of a sudden incident have these groups calling themselves al qaeda by inspiration and when other governments around the world start calling them al qaeda they are unwittingly empowered because these kids, these groups cannot, really cannot, can never become members of al qaeda. they don't have what it takes -- al qaeda would not admit them into

the things they say there was an intelligence failure know there was an in failure failure of the intellect but that's permanent in british government it seems unable to process information and come up with sensible policies they campaign itself the way it was conducted was it done well was it a good idea in itself opinion i think they had to do it we had a legal and moral obligation to those islanders and if we did not keep our word to them we were worthless. how close to my books call raises age for reason and you'll find julian thomson in full agreement that whole operation could have gone either way at any stage i mean just some quite small things that the argent times have done they've done better and the british sort of lost how fair was the media coverage of the war in britain at the time i have a deep contempt for the british b.b.c. . and it started at the time of the falklands because that one and only concern is to hang on to the tax enables them to live far better than they deserve. so therefore they were attacking they really wanted factor to go because they saw her as someone w

evening and welcome to tonight's meeting of the commonwealth club in formed division, connect your intellect. that is our tagline. i am the president of the inform board. tonight, we have larry hardy. the founder of burning man and he is here to talk about the amazing place and phenomenon known as black rock city. he is one of the original planners and architects. we are going to talk about the path of burning man, the future as well. before we jump into the question that had to do with what is going on, tell us about your new headquarters and how that came to be, why the move into the heart of san francisco? >> well, we were on third street, in what is left of san francisco's industrial district , and we got lonely, really. [laughter] we saw real estate values dropping precipitously. as far as we were concerned, that was a good thing because it enabled us to move into market street. the city had encouraged us to do so, too, as they were very much interested in revitalizing market, 6th and market, which is essentially part of the tenderloin. we thought there we

one of the things they say there was an intelligence failure no there was an unpaid failure of the intellect but that's prominent in the british government it seems unable to process information and come up with sensible policies really very very very poor at learning the lessons of anything broadly speaking because they're going to face up to the truth about going to mass murder disappearances corruption gosh i mean the dirty war with our own prime minister callahan in the foreign office came up to try and sell the idea of selling out the island those he said. handing over two thousand to a bunch of bleeping fascists. and that was the foreign office told but that didn't stop them you see because the bureaucracy has its own way of doing things you know how trendy this country is and every charge is off in one direction at one time and it's tedious as hell but it continues you know right now where we are on the. we're just coming off that we must stick to uncle sam's bleep. or you see the full interview with historian and author a huge challenge about ten minutes time here on r.t. . israel is

he is uniquely respected for his intellect and judgment, and he has broad support across the political spectrum and in the business community. maybe this is the reason why cloture was vitiated. he is not filibusterrable. and i really hope that people see the fine and keen intellect that this man is and he should have a very large vote. if confirmed, he would be one of just two african-american active judges on the ninth circuit and the ninth, by far the busiest circuit in the nation, urgently needs him to begin his service. as i said, the ninth is a judicial emergency. this will fill one vacancy. so i urge my colleagues to vote at 5:30 -- in 15 minutes -- for mr. watford's nomination. i yield the floor and i thank the chair. mr. grassley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: today we're tbg to turn to the nomination that the senator from california has just referred to, paul watford, to be circuit judge of the ninth circuit. i'm disappointed that the majority leader has brought this nomination to the floor. the reason i say that is that there are a

this stone has meant that we had somebody who had the cerebral power, the intellect, and the political know-how to get things done that 30 or 40 years ago, nobody even dreamt of. ladies and gentlemen, i am pleased and proud to present the man who we all believe to be one of the greatest members of the house of representatives to ever walk the halls. congressman charles b. rangel from new york. [ applause ] >> i guess there won't be anything left for the funeral. i think you said it all. but i cannot tell you how good -- how very, very good i feel today. just as we have waited to get a president of color, we needed a minister, a legislatolegislator leader, like eldredge clebur to help us without being critical of us to find a pathway that provides lights for those that follow us. bringing this together with the energy of staff and having all of the members get excited about this. i am telling you that it's a moving thing for us. someone said that this is the beginning of a partnership. no, we can't afford to have this as the beginning of anything. this is it. this is the big one. this i

the things they say there was an intelligence failure no there was an and failure failure of the intellect. but that's permanent in the british government it seems unable to process information and come up with sensible policies really they're very very poor at learning the lessons of anything broadly speaking because they're going to face up to the truth about going to mass murder disappearances corruption cautioning the dirty war prime minister callaghan when the foreign office came out to try and sell the idea of selling out the island those he said was handing over two thousand britons to a bunch of bleeping fascists. and that was the foreign office told but that didn't stop the city because the bureaucracy has its own way of doing things you know how trendy this country is and ever and charge is off in one direction at that time the big thing was oh well we must share our imperial past and then everyone is going to like us again. and you can see the full interview with historian and author hugh bacon now and in fifteen minutes here on our team. israel is taking new steps to show itsel

of young governable what you saw simply in the last election was about getting on can simply say intellect or a vote it came through spirity parties for a party that was against austerity now whether that means that they're against spending cuts that means they're against reforming labor laws that mean they're against changing the welfare system where they simply privatizing whole swathes of national asset it i don't know but what you do see very clearly from greece these elections and i think you've seen for the best part of the year is a kind of wholesale rejection of the program that's been imposed upon greece and we've seen germany's finance minister will crank schauble make it very clear that either greece sticks to this austerity all it quits the euro what's in greece's interest would you say what's best for them i think we could start with the most obvious thing is to stop with austerity what happens next well that's a that's a more vexed question if you want to talk about whether it's a good idea for greece stay within europe or i think the way it's commute very painful decision fo

don know he's talking about nobel price winners and scientists and people of high power and high intellect way beyond anything that i could aspire to. but i sense, instinctively, that this is a time of change. this is a time where we have a kind of critical responsibility for those who will come after us to make some changes that will sustain life and not only that, make it better. and so, there we go. i think that's where we step out after this class, that's where i hope this class will move on to begin to inculcating people and get the dialogue going. but now let me hear some of your insights or some of your good thoughts. we've got, well let's go to janet and then suzanne. go ahead, janet. >> i'm just a beginning religious studies student and so i haven't thought about it with the depth that you have. but one thing i notice is that as i was reflecting on my final exam, is it seems like water is really a commonality between many of the religions. if you start with professor dabbe's story with the hindus with the river gandhi's. and then you go on to the north west coast native americans

because his life experience is so broad, his compassion so deep, and his intellect so very far-reaching. let me tell you how i first met justice stevens, because i think it offers an insight into the kind of human being he is. many years ago in albuquerque, new mexico, justice stevens and his wife snuck in to play in a bridge tournament. one of my partners at the time happily had been the clerk and invited he and his wife and barry and i to dinner. i couldn't even imagine meeting a justice of the supreme court let alone having dinner. we had an incredibly wonderful dinner, which justice stevens told us all about what it was like to be a justice of the united states supreme court, go to a bridge tournament, and have no one care anything about it except what you had just played. they felt quite free to tell him what they thought of what he had just played. at the end of the evening there was a kind of uncomfortable silence, and just stevens finally said to his former law clerk, greg huffaker, greg, don't you want to invite me to meet the lawyers at your firm and law clerks? of course, we