she exhorted the wellesley women to make three choices in life. to try to get involved in something that was bigger than themselves, and she said in her case it was literacy. to make sure that life had joy. and she said in a case that was marrying george bush. and also not to miss the joy of human connections. and i always thought that the this little passage was really very nice and very well put. and i know from six different versions that i saw this speech, that barbara bush had significant input into this. she said for several years the importance to your career of dedication and hard work. this is true, but as important are your obligations, your obligations as a doctor, a lawyer or business leader will be. you are a human being first, and of human connections with spouses, with children, with friends or the most important investment you will ever make. at the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more do. you will regret very much time not spent with a husban

>> yeah. >> a barnard or a wellesley sort of person. [laughter] a sort of young person who gets to go through that and that.it's.we.we owe all of this to her. >> well, i owe her a great deal. it was a.it was a very unprepossessing story called, "local family makes son happy." so it was a parody of a newspaper story... >> right. >> .and it was about a.a family of a 17-year-old boy who are worried about him dying in a car crash and so they hire a young woman to live with them and be his companion. >> mm-hm. >> and the piece ended with a recipe for fancy eggs, scrambled eggs. [laughter] and it was kind of surrealistic and -- and not the sort of thing i would expect the new yorker to take and she. >> and they took it. >> .and.and she took it, yeah. >> and you know how rare it is for magazines then and now to pull something out of the slush pile. >> yes, yes it was. it was rare. so she was my.she was my angel. and being published in the new yorker did me so much good, i wasn't aware of it at the time, thank goodness, in public radio. so that

the uri, you didn't go to uri, though, you went to wellesley. and then you went on from there to where? >> oxford. university. >> how many years were you there? >> one. >> what did you study? >> theology. >> then where did you go? >> i went to new jersey. >> and what did you study there? >> at princeton i studied the origins and history of ancient christianity. >> you taught in a number of institutions. would you list those for us? >> i taught at princeton briefly, i taught at u.c. berkeley, university of pittsburgh, for a year i was at the hebrew university at jerusalem and currently at boston unive >> you have? >> yes, indeed. >> i got my degree in '79. >> you're the professor of the appreciation of scripture, you've been doing that for what? >> since '90. >> for nine years. three books to your credit? >> that's true. >> i notice that you retreated from some of your statements from your first book, "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews." what changed in the 11 years between the publication of these two books. >> my first book was "from jesus to

by time she flew up the wellesley on the day of the commencement address they were supposedly in her corner. i just want to very quickly share something that she said near the end of the speech. she wanted the wealthy women to make three choices, try to get involved in something bigger than themselves. she said in her case that was literacy. make sure life has joy. she said in her case that was marrying george bush. and also to not miss the joy of humans connection. al is thought that this little passage was really very, very nice and will put. i know from the six different versions that i saw the speech that barbara bush had to give input into this. she said, for several years you have had impressed upon you the importance of dedication and hard work. this is true. as important are your obligations, your obligations as a doctor, lawyer, or business leader will be. you are a human being first. those human connections, spouses with children with friends of the most important investments you will ever make. at the end of your life you will never regret not having passed one more test,

spots and just noticed that they were always named for the place they came from, apalachicola or wellesley or blue point, and that was because people had recognized for centuries that the oysters from that area had a distinctive flavor that they wouldn't find in any other area. that somehow the oysters were kind of channeling their environment into their flavor in this a way that no other food -- not even wine -- does. wine, you know, the entire wine world has this taste of place, and it's true, but it's much more directly true for oysters. so i basically set up that oyster book just like a wine guide going region to region around the country and describing oysters from each area. because i like the way, again, it reminds you that you need places and healthy places in order to create great food. >> right. and you've taken that love for the taste of oysters even further. you've studied oysters as, basically, a barometer of the health of our estuaries and our oceans. um, and most recently, of course, you've been exploring the gulf of mexico in the wake of our, the deepwater horizon oil spill

[applause] >> our next speaker is from wellesley college. has also written extensively on south asia. >> thank you. i want to begin by taking suzanne -- thanking suzanne and all the people who have undertaken this important work during your the importance of this work is to take a comprehensive look of the problems facing pakistan, and i would like to make three related points. the first is but the united states relationship with pakistan has predominantly been .ith pakistan's military whether it has been intentional or not, the fire that u.s. government has strengthened groups of coercion in pakistan and begin groups that promote room -- weakened groups of promote our rule of law. they continue to meet without the involvement of officials in the department of defense. in another example, the supreme court justice insisted security agencies act in accordance to the constitution of pakistan by producing people they have in their custody. for that, he was dismissed from office. it was convenient and they got rid of the supreme court justice. t

we have christopher candland from wellesley college and our special guest and our special guest is najam sethi and travel away from pakistan today. i would like to extend our gratitude to the late richard holbrooke who served as chairman of asia society for seven years prior to becoming the u.s. special representative for afghanistan and pakistan and we dedicate this report in his memory. the asia society established a study group to assess the political, economic and social developments and challenges faced by pakistan today. it provides recommendations on a way forward, how the country can pave a path towards peace and stability in the coming decade. the group's report which we are launching today in washington presents a comprehensive package of recommendations aimed at promoting sustainable, constitutional democracy, credible and effective rule of law, significant expansion and improvement in social development the especially education and health sectors and a peaceful resolution of the conflict with india. as you can see we set an ambitious goal for ourselves. before i turn the podi

christopher, our next speaker is the associate professor at and the department of political science at wellesleyhe is also -- he has written extensively. >> thank you. i want to begin by thanking suzanne and robert and all the other folks at the asia society web undertaken this important work. the purpose of this report is to take a comprehensive look at the problem facing pakistan. i would like to make pre points. -- three. . the united states relationship with pakistan has predominately been a relationship with pakistan's military and intelligence agencies. u.s. government support has strengthened institutions and coercion and pakistan and weakened institutions that promote the rules of law. top western civilian leaders continued to meet with top military commanders and pakistan in one-on-one meetings without the involvement of officials in pakistan's military -- defense. the supreme court justice insisted that security agencies act in accordance with the constitutional pakistan some years ago by producing -- for that, he was dismissed from office. it was convenient for the united states gover