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In United States v. Windsor, a 79-year-old lesbian named Edith Windsor sued the federal government when she was forced to pay estate taxes on her deceased wife's property, something that heterosexual couples don't have to do.

The first of these ag-gag prosecutions, as they're called, was a young woman named Amy Meyer, and Amy saw a sick cow being moved by a bulldozer outside of a slaughterhouse as she was on the public street.

On November 5th, 1990, a man named El-Sayyid Nosair walked into a hotel in Manhattan and assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane, the leader of the Jewish Defense League.

I've been blessed to work with some amazing men and women, helping others reenter society, and one of them is my friend named Calvin Evans.

He became Gaius Julius Caesar upon being named his great-uncle’s adoptive son and heir.

The French locals called these invaders Normans, named for the direction they came from.

Come with me to Agbogbloshie, a neighborhood in the heart of Accra, named after a god that lives in the Odaw River.

Faizan Peerzada and the Rafi Peer Theatre workshop named for his father have for years promoted the performing arts in Pakistan.

Now I want to tell one last story, that of a 22-year-old law student in Algeria named Amel Zenoune-Zouani who had the same dreams of a legal career that I did back in the '90s.

Still people thought, no, that was not serious computer science, and it was a man named Jerry Wiesner, who happened to be the president of MIT, who did think it was computer science.

Once upon a time, there was a woman named Miss Margaret.

Here's an example of a cat named Gizmo.

This is a sun bear at the Oakland Zoo named Ting Ting.

I met a monkey named Boonlua, and when Boonlua was a baby, he was attacked by a pack of dogs, and they ripped off both of his legs and one arm, and Boonlua dragged himself to a monastery, where the monks took him in.

And he had PTSD and also a fear of heights, because in Vietnam, he had been rappelling backwards out of helicopters over the skids, and he was givena service dog named Gander, a labradoodle, to help him with PTSD and his fear of heights.

Today, I'm going to tell you about my project, which is named Desperate Romantics.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild is named after my neighborhood.

And a guy named Dizzy Gillespie showed up to play there because he knew this man over here, Marty Ashby.

And he died a year later, but not before telling a fellow named McCoy Tyner what we were doing.

And then a guy named Wynton Marsalis showed up.

Then a bass player named Ray Brown, and a fellow named Stanley Turrentine, and a piano player named Herbie Hancock, and a band called the Count Basie Orchestra, and a fellow named Tito Puente, and a guy named Gary Burton, and Shirley Horn, and Betty Carter, and Dakota Staton and Nancy Wilson all have come to this center in the middle of an industrial park to sold out audiences in the middle of the inner city.

And that is a room that was built for a woman named Nancy Wilson, who recorded that album at our school last Christmas.

But I met a guy named Quincy Jones along the way and I showed him the box of slides.

I think the pinnacle of this for me — I'll never forget this — there was this little girl named Riley.

You see, this place was zoned retail, and in San Francisco, they were not going to give us a variance, and so the writer who founded it, a writer named Dave Eggers, to come into compliance with code, he said, "Fine, I'm just going to build a pirate supply store."

So this is Randolph, and Randolph belongs to a kid named Nico who was one of the first kids to ever call in, and I'll play you some of Nico's message.

In the 1950s, a computer scientist at IBM named Arthur Samuel liked to play checkers, so he wrote a computer program so he could play against the computer.

A young man named Brian sent me a beautiful note saying, "I know I've been rejected from this program twice, but I want to thank you for the opportunity.

A boy named Jacob Atem had a different chance, but not before he experienced terribly tragedy.

Let me tell you a story about a little girl named Naghma.

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