tavis: the word i was going to use was cicero. given that your countrymen and lived this, it is not a surreal as it is taking you back to what was. how does one act out a part that is so unreal in the lives of people you know? >> it is really hard. you tell yourself you cannot think about how difficult it is for you to enact that part of history of your people. it is a huge responsibility. at the same time, that made me do my research well. talk to people and the women i spoke to, in particular, one of them is a great friend. it was a very helpful and honest. because they were able to talk to me, it says how brave they are. i tried to represent them the best i could. >> it has happened to me where i thought a new a subject matter. and then researching in talking to people, i learned stuff i did not even now. did you have that experience as you started to talk to people that you learned more money conflict? >> a being from bosnia, it was not about learning about the conflict. learning just how awful it was and how perfect and just

. >> the town of cicero will pay half million dollar settlement to a former employee who claims she wasairly. sharon lost her job as director of the animal shelter in 2009. this came four months after she public publicly accused the time president dominick of sexually harassing her. town officials claim she was fired for irregularities in management as part of the settlement she has agreed to drop the harassment charge. >> a judge in iowa has ordered a service dog to be returned to a retired chicago police officer. sak suffered a stroke in 2008 that left him disabled. he had to give up his service dog because it is a pitbull mix and that is banned in the town. his family is suing the city to get snickers back. still ahead mourners lined the street for an elaborate funeral ceremony for late dictator and jim can'tkim jong il. and another baby formula outbreak i'm just a piece of dirt stuck here in a rut. ever since that ol' broom dumped me here... oh, oh. oooh! will love ever come my way? oh my! ♪ i believe in miracles ♪ [ male announcer ] swiffer attracts dirt. swiffer sweeper's new, thi

she cannot afford the charges the auto company is a federal judge has granted cicero , president larry domi nick a new trial in a civil suit filed by former employee. the suit accused him of firing a former town handyman for political reasons. now wait judge has brought the jury's decision ruling that roja's attorney tried to use inadmissible and it prejudiced evidence. >> francis cardinal george says he's not ready for mandatory retirement. the roman catholic church requires every cardinal to submit a letter of resignation at the age 75. his birthday is january 16th he has survived cancer and has faced criticism for some of his public comments appeared he hopes the pope will tell him he can keep working. >> more sera and k-mart stores will be closing across the country. this was saved the company as much as $170 million. the chicago sun times has officially changed hands. the investment group wrapports llc confirms its purchase was completed yesterday. . >> able many used facebook to save her life. >> a huge fight among holiday shoppers is caught on video at one of the largest shoppin

major roadways it did not prevent deadly accidents a passenger was killed on the eisenhower near cicero and on the interstate 80 there were two fatalities >>there were numerous accidents everywhere commuters were describing the conditions as ice rinks >>the city streets were slippery ones i got onto the expressway it wasn't so bad >>the three fatal crashes are under investigation but state police say that ice and snow were clearly factors in those two will county cases reporting from the des plaines oasis i am nancy loo >>and man is killed in his apartment and woodridge the victim of a break-in judy wang is live with details on the homicide investigation >>good afternoon the homicide happened in a second-floor unit of this apartment building officers came here in response to report of a man pleading residents say received notices seeking information in the case woodridge police arrived at the emerald court apartment complex they say there was a break-in and found a man dead in his home on the 2500 block of a meadow dale lane they do not have a good description of her they are looking fo

cicero argued that to remain ignorant of the truth before you're born you were born is to remain alwaysa child. government policymakers, the private sector, the media and the public should remember that historians are here to help if called upon. their important lessons to be drawn from the past and the information historians gather with the help of institutions like this one can be applied to the event of today's world. it might be helpful for example if president obama and his top policymakers were aware that gerald ford actually grappled with similar sorts of challenges and a 35 years ago this month, this country was faced with a double-dip recession, debt defaults, financial contagion in political and social unrest in europe and the middle east. we are watching history play out in real time. experiences may be new but they are not as unique as we like to think they are. they certainly don't warrant another decade of magical thinking. thank you very much. [applause] for the q&a, there is a standing microphone at the back of the room and if you can get to it, that is where we would li

cicero--well, that's understandable. voltaire, calvin... c-span: and the--these names are mentioned... >> guest: oh, nietzsche--now that's a surprise. c-span: yeah, it's low. >> guest: hannah arendt, goethe, hobbes, montaigne--well, we'll get montaigne in there again. c-span: let's go back to locke--john locke. >> guest: yeah. c-span: he's number one, far and away, more than anybody else. >> guest: how interesting. well, locke, 17th century british philosopher, wrote a treatise of government--second treatise of government, the one we read, a small but incredibly densely woven pamphlet about the--the relationships of property, what constitutes a society. he creates this philosophical fiction of the state of nature--how do we get out of it--and so on. and a lot of it--a lot of our notions of the--what holds us together, property and mutual respect for one another's right to exist, and also our notion of rights that--very important for jefferson and the other founding fathers that, you know, locke provided a kind of de facto justification for

cicero's point was driven home to me in a much more homely fashion. three years ago, when i was a week-long observer at a five-week long exercise at -- what was then called fort lewis, washington, for the army rotc cadets between their junior and senior year, a exercise called warrior forge, and i spent a week observing the cadets and what they were doing and so on, and every evening i would have dinner with the instructors and many, many times over the course of that week, someone asked a form of the following question: how can it be that the army is at war, but the nation is not? and i think that really made vivid for me the possibility of a radical and rather disturbing disjunction between the role of the military in our society today and its relationship to civil society at large. now, more recently, someone who has much more authority to speak about this matter than i do, the recently demitted chief of staffs admiral mike mullen at his commencement address at west point last may said the following. he said there's not a town or a city i visit whe