as you may know i graduated from boston university with a master's degree in broadcast journalism.even though the tuition wiped me out. over the years i have kept in touch with the school, supporting many of their projects but my good experience with boston university was not, was not shared by alexa branchini. in 1999 she was a freshman living in a dormitory at b.u. right off commonwealth avenue. one night she was brutally raped in her room off campus intruder obviously very horrifying experience. what happened after that is almost as bad. for almost two years alexa and her family had to travel from their hometown buffalo, new york back to boston because she had left school. they had to do that for hearings and trial. finally, the rapist was convicted. received 4 o0 years in prison. the ordeal cost the family thousands of dollars and untold heart break there was no support system to help them. two years later, alexa and her parents founded it happened to alexa foundation in order to raise money for crime victims and their families so they can tiff against violent criminals without

upsetting top-seeded boston university to advance to the conference finals. he won coach of the year honors and now he wants winner of the year. >> people have really taken noticed what we have done. ncaa and n.i.t., and our kids deserve it. >> playing in the american east finals tomorrow night. >> advancing to the state championship for the final four when in college park today. dumb are facing kokomo -- dunbar facing kokomo. 10-0 start. converting at the other around it, that cuts the lead down the two. with a steal for dunbar, a nice finish. put away time. 15 points, all from beyond the arch. orioles play tampa bay 283-3 -- to a 2-2 tie. you can do that in the spring. first at bat facing this pitcher -- takes a hit to the cheeck. you can herar the thud. he was able to get into the injury cart under his own power. it to continue by hospital for further a valuation. he did not suffer any broken bones in his face. his only injury? a loose tooth. amazing. an amazing moment from another memorable game. tom has a memorable weekend and a seven-day forecast for ah

the u.s.a. >> alexa bran china any was 10 days into her freshman year at boston university. one year having trouble sleeping in her dorm so she went to the bathroom for a drink of water. >> as i was walking out the shower stalls on right-hand side and i just saw an arm come out from the shower stall. and this man pulled me into the shower stall and raped me in there. he had a knife and he held it to my throat and told me that if i screamed he would kill me. >> alexa memorized her attacker's face and police caught the man soon after he fled campus. as alexa struggled to recover, she also prepared to testify against her attacker. flying back and forth to boston with her parents. >> as soon as the plane would touch down, she would start to cry and panic. lost a tremendous amount of weight. >> when she took the stand. so compelling her attacker was sentenced to more than 40 years in prison. the conviction could have marked a close to that dark chapter in alexa's life. instead, it opened a new one. she began to wonder what if the parents hadn't been able to afford flights, hotel,

[inaudible] >> and you went to school -- >> i went to school at boston university school of theology, university of wisconsin. seminary education. >> what do you teach it to extend? >> i teach islamic studies and also air christians. arab intellectuals. >> how many books have you written? >> i have written in excess of 203. >> all of this topic. >> no. islamic concept. >> we have been talking with tourist town professor the von, becoming americans. the forging of arab and muslim a disease. >> it would wear garments made of homespun cloth. it would be much more like textured. was this one. by wearing the suns went off, women were visibly and physically displayed the political sentiment. >> george mason university professor rose marie on the role of women during the revolutionary war, part of american history tv this weekend. >> real discussions. i was unhappy with the product. in the movie obviously you have a process and a to still down into two hours, you know, out of necessity some of the time lines are rearranged, but that's the issue story of what happened. the question of the

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as you may know i graduated from boston university with a master's degree in broadcast journalism.e at b.u. even though the tuition wiped me out. over the years i have kept in touch with the school, supporting many of their projects but my good experience with boston university was not, was not shared by alexa branchini. in 1999 she was a freshman living in a dormitory at b.u. right off commonwealth avenue. one night she was brutally raped in her room off campus intruder obviously very horrifying experience. what happened after that is almost as bad. for almost two years alexa and her family had to travel from their hometown buffalo, new york back to boston because she had left school. they had to do that for hearings and trial. finally, the rapist was convicted. received 4 o0 years in prison. the ordeal cost the family thousands of dollars and untold heart break there was no support system to help them. two years

the u.s.a. >> alexa bran china any was 10 days into her freshman year at boston university.r having trouble sleeping in her dorm so she went to the bathroom for a drink of water. >> as i was walking out the shower stalls on right-hand side and i just saw an arm come out from the shower stall. and this man pulled me into the shower stall and raped me in there. he had a knife and he held it to my throat and told me that if i screamed he would kill me. >> alexa memorized her attacker's face and police caught the man soon after he fled campus. as alexa struggled to recover, she also prepared to testify against her attacker. flying back and forth to boston with her parents. >> as soon as the plane would touch down, she would start to cry and panic. lost a tremendous amount of weight. >> when she took the stand. so compelling her attacker was sentenced to more than 40 years in prison. the conviction could have marked a close to that dark chapter in alexa's life. instead, it opened a new one. she began to wonder what if the parents hadn't been able to afford flights, hotel, and tim

>> boston university of theology, not seminary, education. >> what do you teach? >> islamic studies and also arab christians come arab intellectuals. estimate how many books have you written in? >> editing 23. >> all of this topic? >> no, everything on the and the the co women ideas. as the mccuish been talking with george tom professor yvonne yazbek becoming american the forging of muslim. published by baylor university press. >> thank you. blocked off their jobs with a federal aviation administration. on august 3rd, 1981. one analyst noted stripes were in the making. it was the inevitable choice of. it appears to have been preparation for this moment. the controllers had such a long history of militancy before 1981 that it wasn't surprising they became the first union to state it carefully choreographed and plan a nationwide strike against the federal agency. yet the journalist was puzzled. blight kallur workers is what i thought the bathroom would call for the professionalism of your calling. workers like this would shrike against the government. the paper colu

. >> a lot of schools like boston university charge much lower university in summer.it during the summer rather than during the fall and you'll save some money. >> and a lot of kids are going to college and aren't ready. they're spending money for high-cost classes that they should have taken care of in high school. a lot of kids don't realize that they qualify for some of these scholarships. >> not many go vacant. that's a myth. >> really. >> right now these days everybody's hungry for scholarships but there's one way everybody can qualify for $2,500 to pay for their college and that's through the american opportunity tax credit. for the first $4,000 you spend on tuition this year, you can get a reduction, a credit of up to $2,500. even if you don't owe a penny, uncle sam will send you a $1,000 check. >> when you get a letter from the university saying this is your financial aid package, don't think that's the last word. >> if you have special circumstances you can write a letter of appeal. it's a important term, professional judgment of review. >> if we lost our job

athletes with repetitive concussions from the sports legacy institute and the work being done at boston university on the posthumously donated brains of retired professional athletes. we see the changes in the brain and a condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy that's been identified as a single example these lifelong conditions and progressive conditions. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> of chair, thanks. recognize the gentleman from illinois, mr. shim kiss. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i apologize for not being here for opening statements. i was giving a tour of wounded warriors in the capitol, and they just left, and it gave me time to get back here and so in that venue, obviously, some of my questions will be asked. but i -- just at the outset, dr. strickland, we think it's applaudable for us to try to organize these agencies and try to maximize the focus. we know that you got federal inner agency committee, the federal clearinghouse, the federal inner agency for database. regeneral active medicine. how are you going to try to -- how are you going to try to coordinate these g

he holds a ph.d in economics from boston university and is currently a member of the social security advisory board. he has published voluminously in leading academic journals of economics. his most recent book, which is available outside, he'd be glad to sign it for you if you care to purchase a copy was -- is entitled "social security, a fresh look at policy alternatives" which was published by cato in conjunction with the university of chicago press in 2010. bless welcome him. -- please welcome him. [ applause ] >> thank you very much roger, for inviting me to be part of this inaugural event at the cato stews. i expect the phase of admiring all the new facilities is oaf. that was what the first section was for. now we can focus on some real information. someone also complained about my power point presentation saying it's unconstitutional. i might note that my decision to use it has nothing to do with interstate commerce. thank you very much. >> for those of you who know me know that i spent most of my career studying and documenting the condition of the federal budget. the inform

thank you all very much. [ applause ] >> i'm a law professor at boston university. when i think about living wills, i think they're sort of part of disclosure and part strategic. and i wondered whether anyone in the agency observes strategic -- maybe they would want to give you a document that makes it harder to resolve so that you can't sell them, you have to save them, for example. >> i don't think that's going to work. look, this is the beginning of the new process, and you haven't received the first plans yet. so in a sense, it's going to be a learning experience for the firms and for us. but i will say this much, i think, one, certainly we in the federal reserve have a joint responsibility, for the rule making and for the supervision and enforcement of the rule. i think are obviously approaching it with great seriousness and a high sense of priority. and i think the companies understand really that this is a new legal obligation that they have under the law. and at least in the initial engagements they seem to be taking it quite seriously and stuktively. we'll

>> chairman, i'm a law professor at boston university. when i think about living wills, i think, well, they're sort of part disclosure and part strategic, and i wonder whether anyone in the agency observes any sort of strategic behavior on the part of the banks, when they're wrapped in these things. for example, maybe they would want to actually give you a document that makes it harder to resolve them, so that you can't sell them. you got to save them, for example. >> yeah, i don't think that's going to work. look, this is the beginning of a new process, and we haven't received the first plans yet. so in a sense it's going to be a learning experience for the firms and for us. but i will say this much. i think, one, certainly we in themuch, i think one certainly we in the federal reserve that have the responsibility for the rule-making and the supervision and know enforcement of the rule i think are obviously approaching it with great seriousness and in a high sense of priority and i any the companies understand really that it's a new lega

sheila smith from the council on foreign relations and formerly the east/west center and also boston university, one of the truly well-informed and insightful scholars of japanese politics, of alliance relations between japan and the united states, issues and really everything that gets to the core of how japan and the united states work together in the world. batting cleanup, mark namer, who now heads up the japan desk at the state department, so dealing with the follow-on effects from 3/11, but probably the leading person in his generation on japan affairs in the state department, having served there as well as in other parts of the world and most recently in baghdad. so we're very happy to have you back and handling affairs from foggy bottom. without further ado, i'll turn it to russ, then we'll go to sheila and mark. >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here. thank you for organizing this. let me speak briefly about my perspective, having come back to a position i had 20 years earlier a few days before the earthquake. i think, you know, when the earthquake hit, we approached this w

go boston university, go bu. >> you find more ways to avoid actually doing this job than anything else in. >> i was getting a lot of tweets during the a and b block asking about how the games were going so i am doing a public service. you know what, unfortunately i have sad news, andy. this week i had to let the entire graphics department go. as far as charts and graphs go, we are on the thin side tonight. i can tell you february sprockets are up. the relative values are showing some stress. other than that you have to check tomorrow morning's papers. let's go to story number one. >> without the charts none of that made sense. without the charts it is like you are making it up. >> the regular viewers know what we are talking about. >> mascots, story number one. san -- sandra you said in support of the situation you have defended this point numerous times. >> stumbling over that one, are you? >> in case we never done the show -- every time i go -- it means i i wasn't paying attention. >> that's okay. >> you said you defended this point many times. and then you are following up saying, i

also, one week from tonight i will be at boston university doing a benefit for the foundation which helpsictims of violent crime all over the u.s.a. and they need help. we would like you to come to that event. it will be lot of fun, go on billoreilly.com and that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox factor website and spouted off about the factory from anywhere around the world. if you wish to opine.

army after 23 years and is now an esteemed professor of history and international relations at boston university and a frequent contributor to publications both left and right. his book "the limits of power: the end of american exceptionalism" became a bestseller. "washington rules: america's path to permanent war" was a tough- minded critique of our bloated and costly national security complex. he's the editor of this new book of essays: "the short american century: a postmortem," recently released by harvard university press. andrew bacevich, welcome back. >> thanks very much for having me. >> the headlines from afghanistan get uglier and uglier every day. the rampage of that soldier, the burning of the koran, marines urinating on corpses, nato helicopters firing into and killing civilians, the corruption, and vast sums of corruption and the money that's passing through kabul. do you see these as isolated episodes, or a pattern that is undermining the mission and making success impossible? >> i don't know that there's a pattern in the sense that one incident is related to another in any way. b

also, one week from tonight i will be at boston university doing a benefit for the foundation which helps over the u.s.a. and they need help. we would like you to come to that event. it will be lot of fun, go on billoreilly.com and that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox factor website and spouted off about the factory from anywhere around the world. if you wish to opine.

. >> reporter: professor andrew sum at boston's northeastern university put it together by the numbers. starting with the unemployment number, 12.8 million. then he added the hidden unemployed, 6.4 million. then under-employed, like part-timers who want full-time work, 8.1 million. and one number more, people in low-level jobs despite having better training. he calls those 11.7 million the mal-employed. it's 39 million americans, and the effect will last well past this recession. >> young people are losing work experience. they're losing training opportunities that will come to haunt them for the next 10, 20 years of their lives. >> reporter: jason julien keeps trying, attending a training program to finish his high school degree and the program provides breakfast and lunch which is how this young man with no income eats. barbara bobea spends mump of her day at the shelter, doing chores and worrying about where she will sleep. >> my need needs are to have the opportunity of getting a bed, a bed every day, and not having to go out for the night. >> reporter: their only real hope now is

and then for some years after that i was the director of the boston university washington center hereteaching journalism students. and then a left to do this book. the swing vote. >> host: and it says the with the wilson center. >> guest: the senior scholar. created as a living tribute to will through -- woodrow wilson who was the only ph.d. president that we have ever had. president of princeton university before he was elected president, and my dog to my chocolate lab mendelssohn in honor of woodrow wilson. and this is a center where scholars from around the country and international scholars can, do research. think about various issues affecting the u.s. future and global issues. >> host: are you doing much traveling? >> guest: yes, im. i'm going to be in ohio before this series. i'll be in ohio for super tuesday week. ohio state. very excited about that. i'm going to be making a trip to new england at the end of march. we will be at the main but festival. march 301st. i'm looking for to that. so, yeah. and traveling at the moment to some of my swing states. i think of the going to

the republican revolution command than for some years after that, i was the director of the boston university's center with a teaching journalism students and then have left to do this book. >> host: and it says you are with the wilson center. >> guest: i may senior scholar at the wilson center yes, and i write for -- >> host: tell people what that is. >> guest: the willson center was created at the loving tribute to woodrow wilson who was the only ph.d. president that was ever had to refuse the president of princeton before he was elected president, and my dog my chocolate lab is named willson in honor, and it is a center where scholars from around the country and international scholars can come and do research and think about the various issues affecting the u.s. future and global issues. >> host: are you doing much traveling with the book? >> guest: yes, ibm. i'm going to be in ohio before this ayers. i'm going to be in the high-yield for super tuesday week speaking at ohio state and i'm very excited about that. i'm going to be making a trip to new england at the end of march, so that will b

. >> this professor at boston's northeastern university put it together by the numbers.unemployment number. 12.8 million. then he added the hidden unemployed, 6.4 million. then underemployed like part-timers who want full-time work, 8.1 million. and one number more. people in low-level jobs despite having better training. he calls those 11.7 million the mal-employed. it's 39 million americans and the effect will last well past this recession. >> young people are losing work experience, they're losing training opportunities. that will come to haunt them for the next 10, 20 years of their life. >> jackson julian keeps trying, attending a training program to finish his high school degree. and the program provides breakfast and lunch, which is how this young man with no income eats. barbara spends much of her day at the shelter doing chores and worrying about where she will sleep. >> my needs are to have the opportunity of getting a bed, a bed every day. and not having to go out for the night. >> their only real help now is that, as the economy improves, so will their lives.

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>> boston university.y. >>> the three surviving members of the monkees do not floon attend his funeral. mickey dolenz and peter tork and michael nesmith are deciding how to hon who his death. >>> a lesson to dangerous drivers. a judge in rhode island ordered that a 17-year-old can never ever have a drivers license again after he injured himself and three other teens in an accident. he was driving recklessly with a suspended license. >> i may hold on to that and make my kids read it. >> e! online has this. spring into action at a hotel. they thought they saw lindsay lohan coming out. it was debra harry. who is 40 years older than lindsay but looks really good. good for you, debbie. >> ouch for you, lindsay. >>> according to britain's daily mail, the new miss seattle is apologizing for a tweet sent out last december. keep in mind she's miss seattle. can't stand the cold rainy seattle and the annoying people. she said she was having a bad day. >>> if you were hoping to see tim tebow on the bachelor, forget ab

veteran journalist who is now a co-director of the center for science and medical writing at boston university in boston. he has written for magazines of a range from -- i love it, "sports illustrated" to smithsonian and everything in between, so he's had quite an experience. and his previous book, "blood: an epic history of medicine and commerce," was made into a pbs special. it won an l.a. book award x this current book is also an award winner. it just received the golden dagger award from the british crime writers' association for the best nonfiction crime book of last year, 2011. doug, why don't you tell us about the origins, the thesis of this book. >> i should say that by the time i was finishing this book i was having nightmares on a regular basis. [laughter] it wasn't supposed to happen. but my previous book involved the history of medicine, and i was mucking around as we do, and one day i was in the basement of harvard medical school just going through journals about the history of medicine, and i came across the case of joseph shay who in the 1890s killed twice as many people as jack

>> boston university. >> very happy? >> yale rejected me.m reports the three surviving members of the monkees do not plan to attend davey jones' funeral because the family wants it to be private. they're deciding how it honor the memory of jones. >>> a lesson to dangerous drivers from deadlinezero.com. a judge in rhode island has ordered that a 17-year-old can never, ever have a driver's license again after he injured himself and three other teens in an accident. he was driving recklessly with a suspended license. >> i may hold on to that and make my kids read is. >>> e online has this. paparazzi sprung into action because they thought they saw lindsay lohan. actually, it was debra harry, former lead singer of blondie, who's about 40 years older. good for you, debbie. >> ouch for lindsay. >>> the new miss seattle is apologizing for a tweet. she sent it out last december which read, can't stand the cold, rainy seattle and the annoying people. >> ouch. >> she said she was having a bad day. >>> and if you were hoping to see tim tebow on "the ba