the transportation authority. prior to joining the municipal authority. he served for the atlantic authority for 5 years. he started as a train conductor in the new york city transit system. let's give it up for director ford. jim dierck is a principle, but not only a principle and an educator. he is someone who designd and developed innovative concepts where there was an incident that involved safety. for the work he was recognized at the national principle of the year. and he is somebody who is on the ground and has worked to empower young people at his school. he took his school from a different circumstances to be one of the highest performs school districts in the state. jim dierck. margaret brodkin is the director of the department for children youth and families. i emphasize that because it is one of the most critical agencies in the city and county. margaret was a former director the colman advocates who is responsible for many of the children and families here in san francisco much he served as director. including the another and leader of a campaign that results in a children's fund to provides

he's a critic on both sides of the atlantic, and author "ten-year radicals: how politics has corruptedr higher education." i prediction their collection of buckley will corrupt many in higher education in the right way. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming linda bridges and roger kimball for a discussion of "standing athwart history." [applause] [applause] >> thank you, lee. i always tell my authors that the one thing they should do is show the book. here it is. and i believe it's available for an attractive price outside this room. well, it's wonderful to be back at the heritage foundation. it's a great institution. and i'm proud to be here. i'd like to begin by saying a word about words. since the author of "athwart history" is unavailable for comment, the books editor, linda bridges and i have been disputed to act as the book's ambassador to the world at large. linda and i like all of the best emissaries generally work alone and i do not know what linda's experience in the field so far have been. my own experiences in bringing the gospel buckley to new audiences, it's b

the military. >> let me pick up on that, martin, because there are also fears about this. jeff goldberg, the author and writer with "the atlantic" magazine who knows the region well. posted this on his blog on friday, the people for the most seem to want the military. i don't think that desire will last, he writes. and because mubarak spent 30 years marginal liesing and banning secular parties and opposition movements, there's no obvious path towards representative democracy. i'm not overly worried for moment in the possibility of the muslim brotherhood taking over but the fortunes of the brothers could change quicklying an dangerously. >> i don't think the military are going to let the muslim brotherhood take over and the brotherhood are keeping their heads down, saying they don't want to take over. the real question is, to robin's point, is how will the youthful demonstrators who basically handled themselves in such a disciplined and effective way, move into the political space that's now been opened up. and that dialogue between the leaders of the street and now the leaders of the military, is going to determine the future o

the atlantic council. civilians for the last two years created the idea of a counter-terrorism of 40 and done nothing with it. the law has not been moved to parliament. and the counter-terrorism authority is based under the prime minister. it will be hard to imagine the pakistan military participating in that venture particularly if it is part of the interior ministry. there are some real problems on that course. to go back to one of the issues raised in the discussion there needs to be a focus which accepts the outside of the reality and gives up the mainstream educational system. .. reality and builds them up and mainstreams them into the educational stirm. can go in and are not going, it is not going to work. unfortunately, on this i don't blame the current government. i only blame the musharraf regime, because they an opportunity and they messed it up. they didn't move forward to get that approved. finalry, looking at the opportunities for the international coity and the >> i think in a very short run in order to prepare for the lonn run, there needs to be very for careful look at what kind of resistance with a support very c capacity building inside pakistan. the idea is to not to