the goal of the institutional master plan is that the city knows what is being planned in the aerospace for institutions that might be acquiring and buying space. this institution does not on the space. the purpose is for us to be aware of the growth and expansion plans. it is not for us to save and you must do these things or you can do these things. we are not even going to be voting, we just closed in the conversation basically accepting an institutional master plan. commissioner moore: i would like to ask the student representative to follow on the thought that i was interested in. you were in the middle of a sentence saying they you have x number of faculty? >> the faculty that we have, we have 27. commissioner moore: where do you provide the parking? >> levi plaza. commissioner moore: they are part of the levi complex. thank you for the clear answer. people that come and want to talk are going down to the building all the way down to fisherman's wharf. on the west side of the street, at night, it is occupied by people that have that sticker and pay for that sector. it is a scrambl

at one point in our history, the institution of the church was the most powerful and significant institutionn our community. it's where we voted before we had the right to vote. it's where we owned property when we couldn't own property. where we chose our own leaders. and to the professor's point, black churches today generally no longer have the central kind of influence in america at large or african-american communities in particular that it once had. and i think, therefore, this conversation is critical because in christian theology resurrection follows death. we can't be resurrected if we don't admit that we're dead. >> who is more influential, oprah, jay-z, start going down -- >> right there. >> we begin to talk about the role of the black church or role of black churches in the life of communities, we need to understand african-american communities are dynamic. they are complex. that complexity reflects in very interesting ways the material conditions under which black folks -- >> jay-z is not representative of an institution. barack obama is catching hell today -- >> not an institut

it underscores the value of these institutions. just as we think about in gnat bank context we need in afghanistan where we have lives at risk as well and countries around the world where we face this tremendous opportunity to expand opportunities for american businesses. but i would be happy to, to work with you on how we can make sure that the nad bank is doing as effective job they can to helping to advance the issues. >> miss lowey. >> thank you very much. i know time is running out but i don't think anyone asked a about the gef the global environmental facility. i want to give you an opportunity. we know the global are environmental facility. reduces risk with changing environmental conditions, deforestation, when left unchecked lead to significant population displacement, declines in global food supply. major shortages of water. these are the very pressures of the chairman of the joints chief of staff, admiral mullen, noted, quote, could generate conditions that could lead to failed states and make populations more vulnerable

there is a tremendous amount of talented staff that puts together patrons to help support the institutions, but they all need a coach. the coach is the director. neal, could you let the viewers know, you have been director how long? >> we are working on eight years. >> now you have the 75th anniversary. how does that feel? >> we opened this building in 1995. it was bought at that time as a move from the civic center and the veterans building 2 third street, into our new building, a much expanded space, better space. it will be wonderful for the museum for decades to come. and 15 short years we have been amazed by we have outgrown the building. the collection has grown to 26,000 works. >> was a challenging to decide what was going to be put on display during the anniversary year? >> 3 people on our staff spent 2 1/2 years of going through archives, the storage vaults, honor think all kinds of works that we have not seen -- uncovering lot of works that we have not seen but also history we uncovered about how we presented a television show produced by the museum, in the museum, in 1950. a lot

cave, as deputy director of the complex institution unit at the fdic, is how do you incorporate consumer protection into your risk assessment that these large institutions, particularly those over $10 billion, were you no longer have authority responsibility for direct compliance examination? >> i would be happy to answer that question. fdic we do safety and soundness and consumer protection to go hand in hand. we have made changes in our structure, recently creating a new division -- consumer protection -- to continue to give that a very -- very much focus, as necessary. it is an important issue. i think the reason for closure situation highlights the fact -- foreclosure situation highlights that what can happen on consumer issues can have an impact for the large institutions, and it goes to show the importance they have with structures and controls in place to deal with those issues. again, regulators are looking to ensure that those are in place, because they very much could have risks created for these institutions. >> how will the actual supervision change going forward? i assume th

welcome to the brookings institution. my name is john page. am in the global development program for the blocking the institution. is my privilege to be the moderator of this panel this afternoon and. the topic is the role of civil society in a new egypt which is a topic that is both timely and important. i was in oxford over the weekend and speaking with a friend and he said to me you know, i think the jasmine revolution and the changes in egypt really boiled down to two things, jobs and justice. and of course it is clever alliteration. it is also quite a penetrating thought and today as we discussed among ourselves and with you the issue of civil society in egypt we have representatives from civil society organizations and the youth movement in egypt we need to keep in mind the issues of jobs and justice and panelists will speak to the role of civil society and deliver both. without further reduce let me introduce the panelists, their biographies are in your hand out so i won't try to summarize their academic or professional histories but the

it's not the institution. the rules could be changed, by the way, to stop the voteramas which they should do, but i said, no, the problem is us. we're the problem. it's the leaders in the senate. we're not leading. when we get tired of this sort of thing happening, and we feel like it's out of control or something needs to be done to change the rules a little bit, we're the ones to solve the problem, and i also said that i believe the problem is our generation. all of us were about the same age, mid-60s, we were there, ob feigned a -- obtained a political life, we all served in the house other than lind san -- lindsay graham. i think that the next generation won't be quite that much that way. i think they will be a little bit more -- a little less partisan in the way they fight every day, and a little more willing to reach across the aisle and make the place a more livable place. that's the good news about the future of reforms that may or may not take place. thank you, don. [applause] >> dick baker. >> thank y

how to resolve this, i think the school needs to take institutional responsibility to talk to students. >> i am trying to understand what you want to resolve. commissioner moore: i hear the neighbors supporting the school. i hear the concerns about parking. i want to be leaving the discussion that the school would be encouraged by us to continue to talk to the neighbors and support the institutional master plan with a caveat that we would like to at least continue to talk to each other. commissioner antonini: i think this institutional master plan is very thorough and complete. while there has been a discussion about general parking conditions in this area of the city, i do not think it really involves the school. as has been mentioned, very few if any of the faculty or students are using cars, and they seem to be accommodated. even with the increased attendance, i do not see that as being an issue here. it certainly is always good to have discussions. but i feel comfortable with the informational master plan. hopefully, neighbors can get together and deal with the general problems tha

for tris conversations of great minds i'm joined by robert alvarez senior scholar at the institute for policy studies for five years mr alvarez served as one of the sun its primary staff experts on nuclear weapons and helped establish the environmental cleanup program for the department of energy he also led teams to north korea to establish control of nuclear weapons materials in that country in light of the largest radiation detection at the daiichi plant japan is dealing with what may well turn out to be one of the worst nuclear crises on record to share his expertise on that and that whole spectrum of situations mr alvarez joins me here in the studio robert alvarez welcome the program thank you for having me on your show thanks for joining us you know people who have done things as consequential as you have in your life we're really just pop out of nowhere i'm curious how did you get on this career path what brought you through to this point. well i mean the world bacteria stacked toward prac words. before i. joined the institute for policy studies about eight years ago i was in se

cave, as deputy director of the complex institution unit at the fdic, is how do you incorporate consumer protection into your risk assessment that these large institutions, particularly those over $10 billion, were you no longer have authority responsibility for direct compliance examination? >> i would be happy to answer that question. fdic we do safety and soundness and consumer protection to go hand in hand. we have made changes in our structure, recently creating a new division -- conmer protection -- to continue to give that a very -- very much focus, as necessary. it is an important issue. i think the reason for closure situation highlights the fact -- foreclosure situation highlights that what can happen o consumer issues can have an impact for the large institutions, and it goes to show the importance they have with structures and controls in place to deal with those issues. again, regulators are looking to ensure that those are in place, because they very much could have risks created for these institutions. how will the actual supervision change going forward? i assume there wi

it was my feeling that he who controls the rules, controls the institution. i started getting involved in the rules and studying the history. then i became a congressman and went on the rules committee in my second term and served there 14 years, moved over to the senate and once again found myself being an institutionalist. somebody asked me the other day if i am for term limits. i was before i was against it. i am thinking about it again. it can go back and forth. in the senate, i started studying the rules and sat on the back row, not quite ready for primetime a freshman senator and i started to figure out what the rules are. they don't make any sense. why i asked the parliamentarian of the senate. what are the rules in the senate? he said there are only two rules. he said exhaustion and unanimous consent. [laughter] if you get the senators exhausted enough, they will unanimously agree to anything. i said i've got it. from that point on, including when i became leader, wants to make up your mind, you'll make the said act, the way to do is to keep them in on

welcome to the brookings institution. my name is john page, i'm a senior fellow in the global economy and development program for the brookings institution. it's my privilege to be the moderator of this panel this afternoon. the topic is the role of civil society in a new egypt, which is a topic that i think is both timely and important. i was in oxford over the weekend and speaking with a friend, and he said to me, you know, i think the jasmin revolution and the changes in egypt really boil down to two things, jobs and justice. and i thought, well, one, it's oxford, it's a clever alliteration, but two it's also quite a penetrating thought. and i think today as we discuss amongst ourselves and with you the issues of civil society in egypt, we have representatives from the business community, civil society organizations, from the youth movements in egypt, we need to keep in mind the issues of jobs and justice, the hope the panelist will speak a bit to the role of civil society and trying to deliver both. without further ado

but they also represent the parties concerned institute. one of my favorite ones involved bob barnett. when this week with david brinkley used to be on every sunday morning and it struck me williams and connelly represented the network of broadcasters show abc, they represented all of the talent that was on the show as john -- george will, brinkley, cokie roberts, sam donaldson. most of the time they would represent talent that was on the show. james carville and matalin for it simple, and then to sort of cap it off, the with the attorneys archer-daniels midland which for many years part of which is told in the movie the informant with matt damon, aubrey daniels role. anyway, as i looked at brendan sullivan's career over the entirety of the 35 years i used to always say in my articles about him and when i was talking to people i would say brendan sullivan has gone 35 years and has never had one client serve any time in jail which was pretty remarkable because by the time people came to him they were usually pretty far up the creek. it wasn't

. >> joining us now is nina shay at the hudson institute. today they gathered on the streets of tahrir square, downtown, cairo in a show of symbolism. do you think this can be sustained in a post mubarak regime? >> i am concerned about the christians. they were there before islam. they have been there for about 2,000 years. they are very vulnerable. they do not have weapons, militias, tribal links. about 10 percent of the population. a very overwhelmingly, we don't now how much radicalized nation. >> the pictures of them demolishing the church. where was the police? the army, the authorities in protecting christians in the situations like this? >> the reports we are receiving, the police have melted away, particularly outside cairo. they have disappeared, not offering protection. the military came to that town but backed off, did not stop the violence. did not work to protect the christians. that is what is so alarming. they are vulnerable. it is a misnomer to talk ability glashs between christians and muslims or tensions. let's be clear abou

to divide the institution. so the people are able -- now we have how many -- students graduated -- don't listen to muammar gadhafi saying civil war. no, freedom takes minutes but democracy takes time. it is complicated. chemistry. tunisia became free, but to have democracy takes time. you got freedom but how long it takes to have democracy and concepts of democracy. so libya now is free. and i am sure this experience with gadhafi will have something different. a real democracy. we suffered from dictatorship. i think president obama is not just a president. he is a scholar. and he is working for freedom. and he can't stay indifferent regarding libya. europe is responsible for that. if you are speaking about freedom, democracy, justice, human rights, what -- our people try to say we want freedom. he killed them. they didn't -- nothing. nothing. they shot them. in arabic, i say -- [speaking arabic] [speaking arabic] [applause] >> ambassador al-jazeera. english. i wanted to ask you in regard to hillary clinton's vis

. >> it is enormously exciting for me personally and for the institution. the poster with up right after new year's, and i remember very vividly -- i am a regular rider, and i went into the station and saw the first poster i had seen, it was incredibly exciting. it is satisfying to know that through the campaign, we are reaching a broader audience. >> for more information about >> hello. welcome to "meet your district supervisor." we are here with supervisor cohen from district 10. she started her first term in january, so she is new to the board. we will get to know her and talk about the toughest issues facing the city. welcome, supervisor. thank you for joining us. tell us a little bit about your background, where you grew up, where you went to school, and the jobs you have work. >> i grew up in the porthole and neighborhood. most of my childhood, i went to lakeshore elementary school. i love to talk a bell will -- about lowell high school. i studied political science with a concentration in public administration. i worked eight years, largely in the publ

also the institute on aging institute in the community. my hope is that from this report will come legislative ideas that many of us will work on together. but the ad hoc committee of senior organizations that we have started, my hope is that we have generated activism and will build a movement for aging in place in an aging friendly city. with that, let me introduce mr. russo and mr. duffy to talk about the report. >> thank you. fred russo from the budget analysts office. i want to do a quick overview of our report, prepared at the request of supervisor mar. he provided a number of project objectives for us on this research. i guess that the machine is not done. reviewing practices and bottles for aging in the community, starting in the place that expanded into community when we realize that some people were aging while staying in their home was not a good option. what the supervisor asked is that we review demographic information about the population in san francisco and that we look at housing programs to determine the number of seniors

is not just the individual size of the institution but the overall size of any guarantee being limited to ensure the primary risk in the market is borne by the private sector. >> one of the things we talked about under the volker rule structure -- it was actually outside that structure -- but the companies that are private investment banks, as they became larger and more systemically significant, they could raise the capital requirements to recognize the problem of a single house going around. would there be an upper limit on the size of the companies, or to encourage smaller companies? >> perhaps i could start on that. it is very important generally to look across the system and recognize a level of concentration are consolidation that would be against our broad interest in this contest. we want to create a set of incentives in this system where we preserve the very strong role played day today by regional banks and small community banks. when foreign thing is to make sure we do not alter the balance in a way that would work against the objective of being diversified in our current ba

it's not the institution. the rules could be changed, by the way, to stop the voteramas which they should do, but i said, no, the problem is us. we're the problem. it's the leaders in the senate. we're not leading. when we get tired of this sort of thing happening, and we feel like it's out of control or something needs to be done to change the rules a little bit, we're the ones to solve the problem, and i also said that i believe the problem is our generation. all of us were about the same age, mid-60s, we were there, ob feigned a -- obtained a political life, we all served in the house other than lind san -- lindsay graham. i think that the next generation won't be quite that much that way. i think they will be a little bit more -- a little less partisan in the way they fight every day, and a little more willing to reach across the aisle and make the place a more livable place. that's the good news about the future of reforms that may or may not take place. thank you, don. [applause] >> dick baker. >> thank y

the cato institute focuses on economics. that is what i do with my job. i am asked to do anything, i will take the transatlantic flight. >> why would the dutch government want you? >> when you are in europe, you talk about america. they talk about the american decline and nobody talks about that here. they talk about when the dollar will be attacked. they are not happy about it. they think it is terrible. their cake -- they care intensely about the greatest ally getting weaker. when an america i talk about europe. i have a unique background to be on both sides of the atlantic. >> give us a scenario where the dutch government is using your expertise. do you go to them and go to them and talk to them on the fun? >> i work at a think tank called the hague centre for strategic studies and the dutch government funds by stay there. they call me up from the foreign ministry. he wants me to explain the tea party. party. what is the philosophy behind this? they want a -- an american political analyst to tell the. >> do they ask you to come to washington to lobby f

this was hosted by the cato institute in washington. it is about 75 minutes. >> i will begin with a few remarks thinking about the cato institute. everyone knows there were a libertarian institution, concerned about human liberty and limits on government. some signs that i recall before the construction company descended on the cato to build our new building back here, there used to be in the front in the tree and to give you a sense of the importance we associate with adam smith, within a small window there was a first edition. not a first printing but a first edition of adam smith's wealth of nations. .. is indicative of a and for cato benefactors of mankind incense and highly and not on a benefit or spur mankind. and so, it is very appropriate today we have with us an offer of a new book on adam smith, an intellectual biography, "adam smith: an enlightened life." our author today at our first speaker, nicholas philipson was an undergraduate at aberdeen and cabot university with a phd from cambridge in 1967. he was lecturer in history

we will actively push forward the reform of the institution in the requirement that institutions stophe business and government function from the day-to-day operations that for-profit separated. third, improving our work to the outside world. china cannot develop without the multilateral and bilateral trade correlation and expand the new fields and say we will continue to get the dough of round of trade talks and work on the economic border. we will effectively change the way to ensure we ought to - and increase the profitability. the tree and the processing is essential to make the most of the resources to reduce the consumption of energy into the resources - up the industry change to the kachina and raise the value added and actively expand the parts of chinese and develop traits in the surface and constantly support the trade services to attach equal importance and the key parts of energy and raw material and promote support on the latest default countries and from countries with [inaudible] and promote coordinated development and the utilization of the foreign capital in china or

the institute you mentioned, u.k. center for medical research and ipovation-- which i can barely say myself, will have a real snappier name in a few mongst. >> rose: what will be the snap yerp name. >> i'm not going to tell you that. bring me back. i know what it is going to be but i have to keep it under wraps for a moment. >> rose: will you have time to do in lond? >> absolutely. i manage to jug expel keep my own research, my only scholarly activity going all my life despite running institutions. and it will be possible to do that in london, too. i just won a grant to set up my lab there. i will begin that at the end of this year. and i'll be spending time just like i have at rockefeller running my own laboratory. >> rose: so what is the focus of your research and your concentration? >> i'm interested in cells. we're all made of cells. it's a basic unit of life. i'm interested in rather sichle problems about cells. i'm interested in what controls their division and what controls their shape. i mean, you couldn't have

the institutions have to train to deliver the services. what want to see if we want to develop communities outside of port-au-prince, i want to see what i call a community of learning, a school at the center of the community, and around that, job opportunities. a big career inferred just announced they were going to have a business in it -- a big korean firm just announced they were going to have a business in haiti. the purpose of foreign aid is to help people help themselves. host: our next call is another new yorker, william, a democrat. caller: i would like to suggest several reasons why the the eight budget should be cut. the d.a. has offices in 63 countries and that is way too much. the second reason is [unintelligible] medical marijuana [unintelligible] something that congress is lagging behind with sentiment on this issue. i think this is something that needs to be cut. i think the people need to question its such as the congresswoman. guest: thank you, sir. i would say to you that the legalization of drugs is a debate that we real

located in san for cisco and oakland. >> it is enormously exciting for me personally and for the institution. the poster with up right after new year's, and i remember very vividly -- i am a regular rider, and i went into the station and saw the first poster i had seen, it was incredibly exciting. it is satisfying to know that through the campaign, we are reaching a broader audience. >> for more information about >> welcome to "culture wire." i'm here with james lee, and exhibiting artist, and we will have a chat today about the body of work you are presenting. after you left the military, what prompted you to go back to a place where the u.s. is engaged in military action? >> it is interesting. the population of afghanistan is around 29 million, and there's probably no more than 80,000 u.s. soldiers serving in afghanistan right now, but if you look at the stories that come out, you think the numbers are completely reversed. all the stories are about americans, and you see almost no images of stories about the afghan people themselves, so if you look at the dominant representational paradigm

. >> it is enormously exciting for me personally and for the institution. the poster with up right after new year's, and i remember very vividly -- i am a regular rider, and i went into the station and saw the first poster i had seen, it was incredibly exciting. it is satisfying to know that through the campaign, we are reaching a broader audience. >> for more information about >> welcome to a special meeting of the san francisco local agency formation commission. my name is david campos, i am the chair of the commissions. commissioners mirkarimi and avalos are en route. i want to thank members of the sfgtv staff that are covering this meeting. do we have any announcements? think you. can you call item number two? >> approval of the minutes of the regular lafco meeting. >> we have the minutes of the january 28 meeting. are there any changes? any member of the public that would like to speak on item number two? can we get a motion on item number two? we can take that without objection. can you please call item no. 3? >> report on the status of community choic

this is the key to building institutions to which we can transition very important tasks for the afghan people. now there is another issue, though. that is this challenge of -- he and i have agreed to call criminal patronage networks. individuals who are crooks. they are breaking the law. they enjoy a degree of political protection. from various elements in this -- again political firmament that is out there. and they are not acting as individuals. they are parts of networks. an example of this was the surgeon general. he fired after hearing what this individual was doing, which was just really immoral. not just illegal. stealing drugs. selling them and replacing them with counterfeit. this kind of activity. as this was laid out for him as a result of in isaf/afghan effort to investigate and determine the facts, he fired them on the spot in his version over the oval office and stuck to it even though the individual had considerable, political support in certain quarters. the reason he was seized with private security contractors is because to some degree, these are organizations that we

me personally and for the institution. the poster with up righafter new year's, and i remember very vividly -- i am a regular rider, and i went into the station and saw the first poster i had seen, it was incredibly exciting. it is satisfying to know that through the campaign, we are reaching a broader audience. >> for more information about >> welcome to culture wire. we're going to take a look at one of the biggest and most significant public art projects today. ♪ on june 26, mayor newsom and other officials gathered at the hospital to cut the ribbon and welcome the public into a beautiful new state-of-the-art facility. >> 3, 2, 1. [applause] >> in has been 10 years since voters approved the measure for the new building. >> when they cast the vote, we have an exciting opportunities to rethink how art is done in a hospital setting. >> replacement program generated approximately $3.9 million in art enrichment funds for a comprehensive art program that contributes to the quality of life at the hospital by enhancing the envir

the roosevelt institute supports all four of the library's main program areas on an ongoing basis. archives, museum, education and public programs. the library's research operations are consistently one of the busiest in the entire presidential library system. the library serves thousands of on-site researchers and more thousands of researchers who contact the library through written requests, mostly via e-mail. the roosevelt institute provides grants in aid to researchers, demonstrating new scholarship in study of the roosevelt era as well as assisting the library in purchasing new books for the collection. we are working with the library to secure the necessary funding to digitize and make available online some of the most important documents in the collection. since the opening of the fdr libraries, william j. sarandon hoover special exhibitions gallery in 2003, th roosevelt institute provided more than a million dollars to support changing exhibits in this gallery. along with enhancements and improvements to the library's permanent exhibits. this money made it possible for the

-- a good regard for the institution? i was fascinated by this book. a powerful book that you put out that includes some of your speeches and some of a believes at how to be effected at diplomacy. tell me about this case -- some of your beliefs at how to be effected at diplomacy. >> i had written some things, and i wanted to collect it in some place. this is quite an eclectic selection, as you can probably see. how to solve american foreign policy. i guess i wrote it for my children so they can see what i was thinking about in this part of my life. tavis: i obviously must be one of your children then, because i have been reading it with great interest. sitting down for a conversation on television or radio, but i am honored to have you come on this show. i am glad to have you here, mr. christopher. upon his passing, it was said that he has the lowest ratio of ego to accomplishment of anyone i have worked with. he died in los angeles on friday at the age of 85. that is our show for tonight. as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's s

it will come from the large financial institutions. and, yes, it will be a help to these individuals. some will pay it back but they won't have late fees and, yes, the gentleman was correct when he said the second time around it could become a grant program. i don't understand how it can be a grant program and something that gets people further in debt. i yield to him. mr. neugebauer: do you think this is a loan program or grant program, which do you think it is? mr. frank: i understand -- i think it's going to be primarily -- sorry. it's my time. i will note you don't want to answer the question. i am being consistent. yeah, i think it will work out as primarily a grant program. maybe 4%. i point out that the gentleman is trying to cover his own embarrassment because he made the argument without any basis that it's going to put people further in debt. he then acknowledges it's a grant program. people do not become further indebted when they receive grants. so, yes, it will work out for people who are responsible as to a great extent a

that's just the way institutions work and the state department is no different than any other institution. my understanding is, and this is what i fear, and this is what i think -- and i'm glad we got our last chance to say this because i want to impart this to you, is my fear is that they're going to give this position. they're going to create the title of it and then give it to a deputy assistant secretary of state. they're going to dual hat a deputy assistant secretary of state and say yes, that's going to be our point person, our lead person. again, no human being has enough time to be a deputy assistant secretary of state of any regional bureau in the u.s. state department and be a special envoy to one of the most complicated countries in the world, definitely the most complicated i've ever been in in 25 years orcing in africa. that would be a tragic mistake. secondly, i think that position needs juice, sorry to use a hollywood term, you need influen influence, gravitas, someone who can make the system respond to different ideas, new ideas to doing things in a way that are actually g

the -- that would be provided at this institution as it relates to the health needs of the residents who live in the adjacent neighborhood to have tenderloin and that's just a very simple question. i don't think it is that complicated. i'm glad to hear that there have been, you know, some support of clinics and the bayview and other neighborhoods but i think as it itself relates to land use and adjacent si and health care needs being addressed by an institution that will be requesting of this commission several acts above and beyond what is allowed as of right in the planning code, i think then we need to look at, you know, some of the mitigations and really balance out all of these issues and as we have with other projects, even though the development agreement is something that is drafted between the project sponsor and the mayor's office and in other words the city of san francisco, it is not really the planning commission, i acknowledge that, we do want to be able to have some guarantees that the institutions that we're going to be engaging with and looking at, you know, agree to

the best news here is that if we take the very best teachers and the very best institutions at either the k-12 or high-school level, we do get fantastic results. i am not talking about teachers who are paid out of the ordinary or school systems that spent per pupil money that is out of the ordinary. there are schools that take it from the inner city and spend less than the average and get over 90% of those kids going on to a four-year college pe. there are teachers were all the students in their classrooms get over two years of educational improvement simply by being in their classroom for one year. when we have that kind of huge difference, we can see that if we simply take the average performance of the teachers and the institutions and bring those up not even half way to let the very best are doing, we could be the best in the world. we could take that performance curve and make it look like that expenditure curve. the fact that this does not require inventing a whole new teaching techniques -- it does not even require inventing a whole new types of institutions -- it simply requir

the institutional was, was heavily hit by the earthquake, ministries were destroyed and everything like that. democracy has to have institutions, it has to have security, otherwise, it's just a word that we use, ah, that makes us feel better. >> let's talk about the earthquake for just a couple of minutes here. the natural disaster revealed construction problems, regulation problems in haiti, ah, that obviously have been going on for a long time. the question is, has the united states really contributed to those poor conditions, making haiti incapable of withstanding the type of natural disaster that it's, ah, subject to from time-to-time? let's turn to our great decision viewers in dallas for some views on that. >> you know, the government has to become more stable, it has to become more operable. giving the funds to ngo's and to certain elites in the country just hasn't work. >> with our constantly changing, ah, support and lack thereof, we give these haitians mixed messages, which, has definitely hindered their progress. >> the ideas and the thrust and the motivation has got to come

they are, in effect, legislated by the institutions. il or unless those conditions are in place and operational. and that's the tradition that we adhere to, and it's very important people understand that because just like these institutions don't lend money to countries without conditions, we don't support these replenishments without conditions that require reform and improving the institutions themselves. now, over time congress has approached the question about authorization language different ways. sometimes it's carried on appropriation bills, sometimes it's done separately. what matters is that it happens, and we, of course, will work with your counterparts on the authority -- authorized committees to make sure we have language that reflects those reform bees. we want to make sure the institution understand we will not be there unless these reforms are operational. >> in my remaining time, i've examined a request before the committee for capital increases to the multilateral development banks, and i can't imagine that this committe

today it's very commonplace to see the scandals and the juvenile institutions that are scarcely different from prisons, juvenile courts have adopted most of the same procedural features as adult courts so to many critics and i guess i would include myself in that grouping has failed. >> tell us a little bit about the scandal with the west texas state school sort of fuelled this issue. >> well, the scandal broke in the news media and early 2007, and it was in fact as we're sitting here right now the last major figure in that scandal is on trial for years after the scandal to give you an idea how long it's been going on. the administrators at one of the facilities in the remote area of west texas were coercing sexual favors from several using their power administrators this went on for years and was basically covered up by the higher ups within the state agency that oversaw the institution and was finally leaked out and then publicized. >> what is a super predator? >> super predator is a phrase coined in the mid 1990's by a criminologist named john and was originally intended to mean kids w

the highest financial institutions were beginning to topple like dominoes. it is fair to describe this in there as dire. yet, that is precisely these in their that faced our economy in late 2008 around the time congress passed t.a.r.p. into law. today, the panic of 2008 is a slowly fading memory, and t.a.r.p. played a role in turning that grim chapter in american history. or all of its programs successful? not that a long shot. even so, any hearing on t.a.r.p. should begin by recognizing its greatest success, that in a moment of financial panic, it helped to pull our market back from the abyss. despite this accomplishment, the t.a.r.p. remains deeply despised by the american public. most of the anger is understandable, as the program is viewed for having done far more than -- for wall street than average americans. some of the unpopularity is due to misunderstandings about its track record. a recent bloomberg poll hits the point in terms of anecdotal evidence. 60% of americans believe most of the t.a.r.p. money provided by banks will be lost. 33% believe most

as opposed to maintaining the institutional public defender? i think that we see what we see as public defenders, maybe i'm biased in this regard but we have only one focus in mind and that's to our clients. our clients come first. damn to or the peete pidto if it is going -- damn the torpedo if it is going to cost us money. they have a conflict of interest. they are for the profit margin. and now profit margins might override to going forward and doing what it takes to get the job done and i think that is the difference in attitude a lot of times i'm seing in the providers you from the institutional public defenders opposed to contract public defenders. >> great. thank you. [applause] thanks very much for coming up here and being part of this discussion because we want to be able to support you in the work that you're doing. i'm going to go back

parallel institutions have to go away. thealf to go away when afghan institutions can be the very important work that provincial reconstruction teams are doing for the afghan people together with a variety of other international governmental organizations, u.s. aid prominent among them. >> two questions along this line. what is the nature of iran's role and is entirely malignant or are there opportunities? >> what you see with iran in afghanistan is a degree of confection, almost bipolar. you have the security services which have been greatly strengthened in recent years as a result of the supreme leader having to turn to them in such a significant way in the wake of the hijacked elections 1.5 years ago. you have the security services and the islamic revolutionary guard corps providing training and so forth to the afghan taliban and we announced the seizure of the military rockers -- rockets after they were seized in a special operation. it was not a coincidence that we were there or those elements were there. those rockets ar

put in the another institution. that's one, by the way, that the big banks decide very strongly. >> rose: what are they going to do? they'll no longer engage... >> they'll spin it off and sell it off. >> rose: j.p. morgan, wells fargo? >> they will either spin off the unit that does these kinds of things into a separate unit... and i have to say from the standpoint of the american public and the economy, it really doesn't make any difference. they may cut the profits of some of these institutions. by the way, there's a very distinguished british journalist who... if we had stayed in power and i continued to be chairman i would be having hearings about whether some of this financial activity does any good or not. >> rose: his quote is is there any social good from the financial sector? >> right. the purpose of the financial sector is to be the intermediary. >> to allocate capital. >> here's the deal theoretically. a lot of people have money in small amounts. guy in to a financial institution which aggregates it and th