alice munro-- the master of the contemporary short story. in bosnia, disputes over a census in a society still scarred from a brutal ethnic war decades ago. >> losing numbers is perceived as a threat and a possibility for being dominated by other ethnic groups. >> woodruff: those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's "pbs newshour." >> major fundg

it is more than i can say. >> alice munro does not write about big political subjects. she writes about the small details of everyday life, about communities and relationships, but the way she does it is as powerful as any novel. the peoples, places, and it ends she describes in her books become real. you don't just read her stories, you live them. the self-effacing author gets to the heart of what it is to be human. reminiscent of anton chekhov, another great writer of short stories with whom she has been compared. >> i don't know any jokes. might her award have on the world of literary fiction? >> is a boost for the short for the it is a boost short story besides being a boost for canadian writing. it is a form that has been kind of neglected, especially by publishers. >> the short story has been out of fashion for some time. this puts alice munro together with a short listing of -- it would suggest remedy is back. .- brevity is back >> from the written word to visual art, over a hundred years ago, an exhibition of paintings in new york city revolutionized the u.s. ar

gift. >> reporter: what alice love it >> reporter: what alice loves most is american art. she and her siblings built a place for it called crystal bridges. when you see people walk through here now, especially children, what does it do for you? >> it hits me right here. >> reporter: she's moved not just because the children seem to be enjoying it so much but because she knows it is making a difference in their lives. university of arkansas researchers completed a massive study of children who visit crystal bridges and the results are significant. children who visit the museum have significantly improved critical thinking, better recall and greater empathy. the poorer the student, the bigger the visit's impact. art makes a difference. >> that's why -- so much. i see everything in pictures. >> reporter: that's why in an age when american schools teach to the test and a field trip to a museum might be seen as an extravagance crystal bridges pays for the bus and feeds the students lunch. admission is free. some days alice leads a tour or two. still following her mother's advic

we're looking for mary alice. i don't know where she is. you know? i even made a pretense of anything i can do to help, let's do flyers, let's do this, let's do that. >> clapsy's offer to help, however, fooled no one. four days later he and his roommate were arrested. both confessed. >> i usually review inmates' records. i realized during the interview that i was actually talking to him on the anniversary date of the murder. and he had been so unemotional and almost cavalier in his telling of his crime, so i decided to ask him what day he committed the murder. >> august 4th, 2001. >> you know what today is? >> yeah, i know what today is. >> what happens to you on august 4th? >> well, now that you've brought it up, something is probably going to happen to me that i get to deal with all by myself, but usually nothing. it's not an anniversary i celebrate or don't celebrate. i can't posture and say, you know, i think about her all the time. i don't. she's dead. now, how i feel about what i did is a different story. i feel horrible. i mean, i can't believ

always on that list for many years has been alice monroe. this is her year. >> finally, you say an american has not won it. what does it take? any pattern one can establish? talking about the look roth -- what a body of work. >> a lot of interesting people. there are a lot of interesting people. churchill won it. >> where did that come from? >> communicate using the written word. that is really what the prizes for, what great literature is. someone who can open our eyes to the world or see the familiar differently, just by using words. it sounds easy. it is remarkably difficult. and for me, alice monroe is one of the best in the world doing it. does it mean her books will fly off the shelves? >> it is not the same thing -- i think it probably won't make a huge commercial difference, but it makes a huge difference in how her work will be viewed in historical terms, i think. there are great omissions. but the idea that she would die and not have won the prize would be a terrible omission. >> thank you very much. on bbc stay with us world news

alice, thank you for your patience.let me ask you about this whole business is it time for the gop in preparation for debt ceiling talks as john harwood has indicated is a uponbilitpossibi it time for them to back off? the red state democrats and mansion and those stayed with the -- is it time for the republicans to back off and start refocusing now on budget and debt matters? >> i think the key right now, larry, moving forward will be for republicans to do what they've been doing the past few weeks is to work on ways to fund the government. they put forth several plans. what they're talking about with the debt limit reminds us of when president obama was a senator. if we were thinking of raising the debt limit, it shows a failure of leadership. we have the situation with shutdown of the federal government. this is representative of the leadership. i will say there's some blame to be spread with those -- some of those in the senate and house. we have a failure of leadership. gone are the days of our elected leaders sitt

more on alice munro, at the end of the program.fusion reigned in libya today, as the prime minister was first abducted, and then freed hours later. it came just days after u.s. commandos captured a top al-qaeda figure in tripoli. we have a report narrated by lindsey hilsum of "independent television news." >> reporter: kidnapped or arrested? at 2:00 a.m. the libyan prime minister was seized by armed men. he was sleeping in room 1213 of the corinthia hotel, supposedly tripoli's safest temporary home to oil executives and diplomats. >> ( translated ): there were a lot of vehicles, about 150, marked with the logo of the libyan revolutionary operations room. they had no heavy armour, just personal weapons. >> reporter: on state t.v., they were trying to sound resolute. "no force can topple the elected government," said the head of the congress, but the incident shows how little control the authorities have over their chaotic country. scores of often feuding militia, successors to the revolutionaries who overthrew colonel qaddafi two ye

alice ekman of ifriational relations.ottingham, steve tsang, professor of contemporary chinese studies. thank you for joining us. you have been weighing in on the conversation on facebook and twitter. chinese authorities have not labeled it a terror attack. initial reports say it was a traffic accident. those have been all but ruled out. eyewitnesses describe the vehicle. it drove into a pedestrian area, weaving through the crowds, hitting terrorists and police. slamming into a bridge. then, exploding. >> it is hard to explain. the car just seemed to appear. nobody noticed it. we were standing there and suddenly, it came towards us. luckily, i moved a step to the side and the car rushed past. later, it seems to be on fire. only when we were far away did i look back and see that it was on fire. then, the police came over. >> steve tsang, when you heard the story, what was your first thought? >> the information that we have been given so far really do not suggest that it was a suicide terrorist attack. we do not have eviden

>>que alicate?de esto (risas) >>verdad, cachi (risas) (varias voces). >>estamos cocinando, vale, vamos as ponernos serios. >>vamos a continuar muchachos >>ahí estamos escuchando el tema. dame de eso >>yo quiero , si son tan amables que arranquemos y hagamos el juego >>ay, dios >>para, fran (varias voces). ♪. >>oh ♪. >>agarralo. >>déjenme, estúpido!! (varias voces). >>ay, ay, ay >>estúpidos!!! >>no!!! son estúpidos ♪. >>maracucho, maracucho, maracucho!! >>para!!! (risas) >>marditos. (risas) >>pedazos de... ustedes saben cuando los invito otra vez pa mi programa >>espera >>estúpido!! (varias voces). >>pasame la vaca, por favor >dios (varias voces). >>moncho ♪. >>buenisimo, buenisimo mira lo que viene ahora >>que no, vale. >>ay, dios >>y con ustedes katerina valenciatino >>te puede quitar la corbata >>abre la boca grande >>concéntrate >>no hagas el ridículo cortándome la corbata, me disparaste el huevo >>y con la presencia de presentadores de la cadena univisión imagina la calidad de tu refinada, perfe

cruzcaya alice méxico. >> decenas de personas fueron liberados estaban en casa de seguridad en tamaulipase ichmul se dice que algo cayo en el suelo y que restos formaban formas humanas sigue la investigación. >> en san josé se busca cambiar la ley de fuegos artificiales esto después de la falta de presupuesto del 4 de julio por lo que no hubo fuegos artificiales lo que trajo venta ilegal y accidentes. >> llegan nuevos cadetes que terminan su entrenamiento. >> el sistema de bart tiene más pasajeros. >> he notado que hay más tráfico. >> lo he notado con el tráfico que había antes. >> la generación de más de 95 mil empleos aumentaría el tráfico. >> el gobernador del estado de california jerry brown aprueba ley que haría que los clientes tengan sus historiales crediticios para ver si hay algún error en la información. >> un hombre quiso huir de la policía lo sacaron por la fuerza del vehículo no han dicho las autoridades porqué o qué hizo. >> hombre atropello a un motoclicista se quiso dar a la fuga pero la turba de motociclistas lo detuvo y le dieron paliza. primero se detuvo pero al verse r

let's talk about it with alice steward and democratic strategist paul. paul, house republicans are readily to temporarily extend the debt ceiling for six weeks but don't want to give the president a clean funding bill that reopens the government. to that you say what? >> i think where the story is going is spelunking. it's six weeks, that's not acceptable for jim acosta's reporting is exactly right. my friends at the white house say the same thing. we don't want to push a potential default up against the holiday shopping season. that's unlikely to happen. you hear reports, i heard dana say senate republicans want a resolution. that will come and i can guarantee you it won't defund ordeal lay obama care. this will be complete by the republicans. >> ralph, do you agree with that. will it be a complete come pitlation. they say the affordable care act is off the table. is a plan that ends the shutdown has a concession of the affordable care act by the president, is that something you can support? >> no, no, i can't support it. we understand it's unlikely tha

she's worked closely with alice munro for the past 12 years. welcome to you, for those not familiar with the work of monroe, what characterizes it? what makes it nobel worthy? >> >> well, it's just the depth of its insight on human relationships. on how we interact with each other. how we fall in love. how we betray each other. all sort of carried to us in this exquisite perfect prose. it's not showy, it's not glossing over anything, it's just -- it goes straight to the point and it goes straight to the heart of what we do everyday of our lives. >> brown: the nobel committee cited what all lovers of literature know, that she is the master of contemporary short stories. now the short story is not always honored. it's often admired but not honored and she's helped change that, right? >> she certainly has.

you you know it takes all the running you can do to keep it in the same place said the red queen to alice it takes all the printing you could do to keep in the same place the banks are to bernanke it takes all the working you can do to keep in the same place said the neo feudal fax to the chumps we have to work for a living but i say not only does it take all the running printing and working but it also takes all the bombing stealing and the fraud exploring and dying shaking breaking and taking to stay in the same frickin place is the right stacy. because a report coming your way a little later today here in our edward snowden is no longer unemployed the n.s.a. whistleblower who's got to bring saddam in russia may start a new job as early as tomorrow just like the previous one it will make use of his computer skills but it will be no state secrets this time you've got this going on as the details. also been representing edward snowden in russia the former n.s.a. contractor. working for a major russian web site in the even. in his department of technical support mr katrina didn't specify w

alice you have said obama care is clearly off the table but there has to be a negotiation of the budget before the government is reopened, is that correct? >> absolutely. the key thing the president and democrats say they want to move forward with the spending plan and also with raising the debt limit with no strings attached. that's not the way we go about doing things. and they say that they're having conversations and they're talking, but talk is cheap without negotiation. and the fact of the matter is, polls show 75% of the people in this country will agree to a short-term raising of the debt ceiling provided there are spending cuts and budgetary measures attached to that. because the reason we're in this debt crisis is because of out of control spending. and we need to have spending talks associated with raising the debt limit. and in terms of opening up the federal government, the democrats -- the republicans want to do that. they put proposals forward to open up the government and fund the government. but they also want to make sure that they listen -- congress listens to the ame

on in two thousand and thirteen in washington we are close and i talk about it because in her book alice the elephant introduces forty year olds to american history and we were we were literally talking with the fact that when the founding fathers needed to write the constitution they want to philadelphia they locked themselves in for fifty five days no press conferences no public attacks no leaks fifty five days of hard work i think if the president and the congressional leadership would spend fifty five days together we wouldn't be in the mess we're in they'd have found some common solutions and i think it's sad that we have degenerated from serious people doing serious business to the kind of politics we have today but the mess you're you have a lot it was passed the supreme court said it's the law. why can't the law take place in no wouldn't this the founders look shocked at the fact that congress doesn't want to obey a law and i think that the founders changed laws all the time the constitution replaced the articles of confederation when i was in congress you remember we passed a bi

strategists and alice stewart. guys, thank you very much. alice led me read to you something the president said today i shouldn't have to offer me anything. they are not doing me a favor by paying for things that they have already approved for the government to do. that's part of their basic function of government. that's not doing me a favor. he clearly is not ready to negotiate on this. where do we go from here? >> we go from here by not shutting down the federal government and letting the house plan go forward. and another thing that the president also said earlier today in that white house briefing was putting american progress at risk is the height of irresponsibility and that's what he is doing with the obama care plan. and he says he doesn't have to compromise and give up on anything. but he has already done that with obama care by delaying the employer mandate. there is no reason he can executively decide he wants to delay the employer mandate and leave the individual mandate folks in this country out in the cold. if he is going to i

and alice griffin i get we'll see you over the next few years a remarkable vision. and you'll see this around the country this is not just something we should do. there are some say we can't afford to do that and i say we can't afford not to do this. every time we do this $22 million is returned to taxpayers. why? because kids grew up and they can contribute to society crime goes down and school performs get better before they actually save money in the long run for taxpayers. so alice will be the next one >> we've been so inspired by examples like we've seen here, the president of the state of the union addressed announced we would be taking all the work choices neighborhoods to the next level throughout promise zones effort. not only are we going to bring housing and the education pieces bus the criminal justice efforts and health and human services with clinics and bring all the pieces together and transportation mayor we heard about this today. all the pieces are coming together when this fall 20 neighborhoods will bespectacled as promise zones. that will be the

. >> alice. >> average supervisors alex walker. thank you for having me here >> i currently work as a consultant pouring for nonprofit and political nonprofit and political fundraising. i work with san francisco beautiful and phil king. i'm the vice president political alternative pack chair of the harvey milk club. i worked with catching possess on the campaign and whatever this committee was created i want to take the opportunity. i have appreciated all the people who helped me as an lgbt man. it's one of the reasons i come to san francisco the changes that hvp blazed the trail for people getting into politics. in my capability after harvey milk has other terminals i tried to study history in san francisco and i'm also open to learning about important figures to see who else might be i said to have greeting people here in san francisco. harvey was someone who spreads you know especially to other parts of the country and world we're a place to come and feel safe and there's other figures as well. finally, there's working within th

alice, you were cautiously optimistic about the meeting at the white house, before it concluded. any reason for optimism after what congressional leaders had to say? >> not at all, as a matter of fact, neither side wants to negotiate, but the fact of the matter is, it reminds me of my old boss governor huckabee had a plaque that said come, let us reason together. the president says come, let's not negotiate together and we should have had the conversations a long time ago instead of two days after the shut down at a stalemate. if anybody is in a better position to end the stalemate, it's the president. the republicans have come forth with three proposals to do what the people want, which is not shut down, the government and make fairness, apply to everyone when it comes to the affordable care act and senate democrats are not doing that. >> paul, what about that? is it the president's obligation to negotiate? >> well, of course, and he and his party have. now, i committed math. i was a liberal arts major, i committed math and looked it up. i looked at the original budget proposal.

apparently they had the same problem the previous day with alice monroe for the literature prize. -- alice munro for the literature prize. 10/11/13 10/11/13 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. the nobel committee has decided the nobel peace prize of 2013 is to be awarded to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, opcw, for its extensive work for illumina

. >> i want to bring in peter, rich and alice. paul, let me start with you. what do you make of what congressman king just said? >> he seems not to get the fundamental point. he and his colleagues no matter how much they want to defund or delay obama care, they don't have the votes. when you're in a democracy, by the way he's wrong about the polling. the american people say they don't like obama care but they don't want to eliminate it. they want to amend it, not end it. but the american people really wanting the president's gun control bill. it's overwhelmingly popular. like 80% popular. guess what, my side doesn't have the votes. so you don't shut the government down, you work harder to win a few more elections and get the votes in the congress. this is a disgrace that he's shutting down the government, he and his colleagues, because they're not getting their way and they won't get their way. obama care is the law of the land, it's here to stay. so we go on from here and govern. it's humiliating for the republicans and hurting them desperately in the polls.

. >>> canadian novelist alice monroe has been awarded the nobel prize for literature. she's known as a master of short stories. >> the nobel prize in literature for 2013 is awarded to canadian author alice monroe. >> members of the swedish academy made the announcement in stockholm. munro is 82 years old. her piece was published in 1974 and became a canadian best-seller. the view from castle rock depicted a three-generation family that drew high praise from critics. the academy members say her works are characterized by clarity and psychological realism. some say she is a canadian checkoff also famous for his short stories. >>> that's the newsfor this hour. i'm gene otani from tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. ♪ ♪ >>> today's theme is wagashi. japanese traditional confectionery. reflecting the changing seasons, the sweets are exquisitely shaped and crafted earning them the name edible art. representing the essence of japanese culture and tradition,

. >> i - god, alice was being such a dickhead today, huh? you give out laser-pointer key chains, and you expect us to be adult enough not to play with them? i mean, are you thick? - you were just pointing 'em at people's crotches. that's what they're there for. that's fun. - dude, if she was here right now, i've drank enough, to the point where i would go right to her face, and i would say, "you're dumb and no one loves you." i'd say that to her. - that was really good. you should tell that to her face. - yeah, i totally would. - through her ear hole, which is in her face, 'cause i just called her work phone. - what? - did you? - i did. - it's her voicemail. - leave a voicemail. - hey, alice, this is blake.

i think anne got it right and if i leave you with that thought that alice is doing is broadcasting this idea of you speak up when you see bullying occur, and what we're doing is taking the power of our platform that reaches almost a billion people what you all with us need to do is come up with programs that enable that to happen. this is the most inspiring thing i have seen and we need to replicate that in every high school around the world. >> i don't know if adults can do it. i think we have to create the space. we have to give them space to do it themselves somehow. i don't know. maybe it's a school climate thing. it's a conversation that we need to have. moving on to officer holly lawrence. her work is so inspiring to me. i read a story in texas and expulsions and suspensions are a direct pipeline to the juvenile justice system and the punitive approach doesn't fix anything. i can happily point you to that study and makes cases against that school discipline, but holly has come up with a really wonderful solution within law enforcement that we would love you to talk about and it's

we have plans to preserve the house, plans to restore cornelia and alice's gardens. and so while history and the narrative sort of comes to a sort of clothes and there is a loss in fact, there's something really exciting about the future that we expect to continue here for a very long time. i invite you all to come back. we are open roughly alternate saturdays until it's too cold to do that. mac's book proves one thing to one in particular is that there is a spiraling history but it goes off in all these incredible directions, and we are really looking forward to sharing the stories with all of you in the future, generations to come, so we thank you for today. please sign up for the book signing which is going to be right over here. mac will be sitting right here at this table. we look forward to signing books. and please do come see us again and again. thank you, mac. >> thank you, maura. that was lovely. [applause] >> i'm going to take my spot over there. >> and for more information visit the author's website, macgriswold.com. >> i'm very pleased to present to this

alice is amazing. everything that happened with time warner and got together a year ago and partnered up on this and wouldn't it be great if we got two major media organizations together, one traditional media which has a a lot of strength in eaching people via tv and one reaching people socially and if you could gather these together imagine what we can do? and so i think you called sizzle real. it was a sizzling experience to be in a high school in hare land and felt like a football pep rally but it was about bullying and they all took the pledge to stop it when they see it and amazing experience and tip of the hat to time warner to really understanding the issue and putting the weight of the media empire behind it to reach people, and second of all understanding how you sort -- there is the bully and there is the person being bullied but what if we got the 99% of other people inspired to take action? what kind of culture can we create? and that is the vant age point that facebook comes at it with. s

i can't understand why it would be a deal breaker. >> that was alice gainer reporting. financial experts say you should give someone without a perfect credit score a chance to explain. they may have had medical bills or been laid off. >>> thousands of serious runner, party animals and music loves came out for the rock 'n roll half marathon yesterday. they went through the local neighborhoods. 14 bands played along the way and cheerleaders urged them off. the race boasts some of the fastest finish time for a half marathon in california roberta was there. >> so that's in there somewhere. >> a little over two hours. >> pretty good. >> under! >> under! >> excuse me! >> under! >> i stand corrected. >>> 4:57 now. runners hurt in the blast at the boston marathon are now getting a new lease on life. the special thing helping them learn to run again. coming up. >> reporter: four more days left until another potential bart strike. can bart and its unions reach a deal? we'll hear from both sides in just a few minutes. >> maybe take a natural fire break go ahead and douse that with

they said alice monroe is a quote, mapser of the contemporary short story. >> reporter: announcing theorld's most prestigious prize in literature. >> reporter: the nobel prize in literature for 2013 is awarded to the canadian author alice monroe. master of the contemporary short story. >> reporter: alice is best known for her stories of human frailty in small town canadian life. she was awarded this international prize for lifetime achievement. in june this year, following the 2012 publication of her latest collection, monroe announced her intention to retire. >> she couldn't be more unlike the winner last year who is chinese and who's writing is very political and swieching and magic realist, whereas monroe is a very provincial writer, a realist, most of who's stories take place in a rural corner of western ontario. >> she is an excellent author in a technical sense and she has the power of observation that is almost uncanny, and it could be intelligence and power of observation could be a bit problematic, because she sees through people. >> reporter: the annual prize keeps literary e

you know it takes money you can do to keep in the same place said the red queen to alice it takes all the printing you can do to keep in the same place said the banker is to bernanke it takes all the working you can do to keep in the same place said the near futile facts to the chumps who have to work for a living but i say not only does it take all the running printing working but it also takes other bombing stealing and defraud exploring and dying shaking breaking and taking to stay in the same place isn't the right stacy. for less than ten minutes now until the kaiser report here on our t.v. but for the meantime let's turn our attention to washington it's where the iraqi prime minister has asked us to bring it to airborne must fall back to his country to tackle the snowballing violence and more than four hundred people have been killed in iraq just in this month alone my colleague bill dodd spoke with karen kwiatkowski she was in the u.s. air force she believes that bringing more weapons to iraq is only going to make things worse. airpower is not the solution to the kind of sectari

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and alice mcdermott on her new novel... now, more on president obama's nomination of janet yellen to be chair of the federal reserve bank. the formal announcement came this afternoon. the white house event capped a prolonged, politically charged search for a successor to ben bernanke, whose second term ends in january. yellen emerged as front-runner after former treasury secretary lawrence summers withdrew from consideration. the president predicted today she will prove an exceptional choice. >> she doesn't have a crystal ball, but what she does have is a keen understanding about how markets and the economy work, not just in theory but also in the real world. and she calls it like she sees it. not surprisingly, she is held in high esteem by colleagues across the country and around the world who look to the united states, as i said, and the fed for leadership. >> woodruff: yellen is 67, and has been the fed's vice-chair since 2010. now, she stands to become one of the first women to lead any country's central bank and by far