three books, but it still weighs in at 260 pages, so by necessity i'm going to have to scam the treetops to meet the time limit. if anybody wants to go into deeper detail in the q&a, please feel free, but i will try to stay out of the weeds so to speak. the issues as briefly as i can our first of all, race and affirmative action, secondly, immigration and diversity, and third will be the war on terror. these are the three issues in the book and i think our best presented and they are also the three issues that bear on our space life in the most importantly. if i have time, i will get into the effect of the times journalism on the tone and tenor of our civic culture, which is both the seed of our democracy and its reflection. turning to the recent affirmative action, i read that chapter with a story that joe, the former executive editor of the times, told about being of -- in philadelphia and mississippi in the year 1966, watching as a group of reporters were standing in a circle with some activists holding hands and singing "we shall overcome." he felt it was inappropriate and didn't joi