this is called, lament for a market place in babylon, by abdul karin al karid and it's a reference to a suicide bombing. this one and the next one are both translated by salim yusef. on this grave stone are angels and people weeping. what are people waiting for, their ship? here it comes, borne by the deluge. in a market place now frequented by money changers with beards and baggy trousers, who restores the limbs and who throws open the gates for hollow-eyed gods coming in from babylon with red chests and white furious hair? i wonder who? on the day of march 1st in the 5th year after the second millennium, a massacre took place in babylon. it's my pleasure it introduce the next poet, george evans. . >> first, i would like to read a poem by my dear friend and wife, daisy samora, who was to be here today but is in nicaragua, keeping in mind what michael said about jorge and casablanca, i will read it in her language or my spanish first, then in translation. it's a poem directly addressed to poets but certainly to activists as well. (speaking spanish) no man's land. we are a mine field o

this is called, lament for a market place in babylon, by abdul karin al karid and it's a reference to a suicide bombing. this one and the next one are both translated by salim yusef. on this grave stone are angels and people weeping. what are people waiting for, their ship? here it comes, borne by the deluge. in a market place now frequented by money changers with beards and baggy trousers, who restores the limbs and who throws open the gates for hollow-eyed gods coming in from babylon with red chests and white furious hair? i wo

on the day of march 1st in the 5th year after the second millennium, a massacre took place in babylon. it's my pleasure it introduce the next poet, george evans. . >> first, i would like to read a poem by my dear friend and wife, daisy samora, who was to be here today but is in nicaragua, keeping in mind what michael said about jorge and casablanca, i will read it in her language or my spanish first, then in translation. it's a poem directly addressed to poets but certainly to activists as well. (speaking spanish) no man's land. we are a mine field of clarity and whoever crosses the barbed wire comes back to life. but who is interested in crawling through undergrowth? who dares sail a tempest? who wants to come face to face with purity? that's why we're fenced off in this no man's land under permanent cross fire. three bomb holes. flag study. red. she walks into the bright vegetable garden, chopped water to life from brittle landscape, leans her hoe against goat wire, admires shoots balanced on turned earth, looks up, fulfilleds a leaves sigh, clouds, hands on her hips, her jaw falls

trouble within just a moment scoring all the goals and well because we know every exercise keep us from babylon are one of those three second off almost like flying in the penalty spot but that's to belittle right now those heroics which made all the difference the spanish giants stop the second win. and the americans will because they bring as many humble they back in the l.a. galaxy called one last week. golf now and steve williams says the last two years he spent alongside tiger woods have been a waste of time the world's most famous caddy was hitting back at the out of sorts former world number one after being sacked as his staunch sidekick what's claimed thirteen out of his fourteen majors with williams caring about for him that's the trouble american gold star still announced the sacking on his website saying it was time for change just like their super successful partnership spawning twelve years williams assistant australian adam scott at the recent u.s. and british opens and wants to carry on doing that well at remembering woods evokes mixed feelings for the new zealand who love their

. >>> we now leave you with san francisco classic steve silvers beach blanket babylon running ongoing at the club. i'm susan sikora. thank you for watching. clip close yerba buena trt: 1:01 >> ow! >> can you read my number? >> announcer: attention, those on medicare with diabetes. you may be eligible for an upgraded meter. >> i am tired of stabbing my fingertips to test my blood glucose. there has got to be a better way. >> if you're on medicare with diabetes, then you need to know there's a new method for checking your blood glucose. you don't need to stab your fingertips anymore. this new embrace meter is easier to use and nearly painless. and the best news is that diabetes care club will send you one of these new meters. >> this new method hurts less and i don't have to fingertips anymore. >> woman: not only can i see my number, i can hear it too. >> woman: your blood glucose reading is 89. >> they have my number. >> find out why nearly a quarter of a million patients have joined diabetes care club. >> woman: call diabetes care club. >> shipping is free, and so is the call. [♪...]

. >>> this is babylon, long island, an hour's drive away from manhattan, and it is known for beautiful million dollar homes and secluded beaches. but that same isolation that people come here to seek, as of late, has been masking a darker element. in december, police in long island make a shocking discovery. >> i don't think it's a coincidence that four bodies ended up in this area. >> for the past couple of years, women kept disappearing on long island. now, police think they may know why. >> we could have a serial killer. >> we are dealing with a psychotic murderer. >> police still don't have answers, so we tried to get to the bottom of this eerie mystery. >> where do we go now, gus? >> coletti, a man neighbors call the unofficial mayor of this community, shows me around. >> that's the house. that's where it all began. >> reporter: he tells me about a night last may that brought an unbelievable mystery to his doorstep. >> she showed up at my door. and she was banging on the door screaming "help me, help me, help me." i opened the door and she stepped in. and she just stood there yell

antiquity: saints, philosophers, and depictions of the great libraries of the pre-christian world-- babylona shrine to learning and to books. there's one person who can actually take a book out of the library, correct? >> pasini: yes, the pope can... can have every book in the library. ♪ ♪ >> safer: if st. peter's basilica represents the splendor of the church writ large, the library nearby is a testament to the monks and scribes who made magnificent miniatures in times past. here, some devotional music commissioned by pope leo x, and the text of the christmas mass, used at the altar by alexander vi-- both manuscripts five centuries old, written on parchment-- treated animal skin. >> christopher celenza: you will often see the skin of sheep being used, sometimes goats. >> safer: christopher celenza, director of the american academy in rome, is a scholar who's often used the library. he says that writing on parchment was not only tedious, but expensive. >> celenza: if a monastery wanted to produce a bible that perhaps had 400 pages, it might cost you 400 sheep. it's an investment. >> safer:

one of the ministers called the roman catholic church a whore of babylon.god's divine plan. you have extremists speaking at this rally to the exclusion of everybody else. i think it's problematic. >> before we wrap up, a much lighter question. some calalthe following sermon we're about to play hilarious, some called it blasphemous. this was before a nascar racace recently, take a listen. >> lord, i want to thank you for my smokin' hot wife tonight, lisa and my two children, eli and emma. as we like to call them the little es. lord, i pray you bless the drivers tonight, may they put on a performance worthy of this great ride. in jesus' name, boogity, boogity, boogity, amen. >> people were laughghg, a lot of people thought this is funny. but this is a prayer that included a sexy shout-out to his wife, and we didn't include this, but it had some product placement in it. what are your thoughts? let me start with you. >> i think it was great. i think he got it. it wasn't bringing god to that event. it was about accessing with people, about to access god. and i t

>> a 13-year-old girl punched and kicked near her home in north babylon, new york.e high school freshmen girls, two aged 14 and one 13. and it's all caught on camera by a 16-year-old boy. >> i was pretty shocked, especially seeing young ladies acting in such a violent manner. >> detective lieutenant robert edwards is the commanding officer at the precinct where the attack took place. >> she was, you know -- it was difficult to watch, you know, this girl being viciously assaulted. >> and viciously assaulted she was. the victim, whose name is never released to the public because of her age, stands there with her arms folded while three girls taunt her. then the girl in red comes up, punches her right in the face, tackles her to the ground and pounds on her profusely. another girl joins in the fray and begins to pull her hair all while cursing at her. >> [ bleep ]! [ bleep ]. >> the victim, in agony, crawls up in a ball but is kicked in the head several times. this violent scene takes place in the school yard of a local elementary school. the victim is allegedly lured

president recently put it, and he was whether intentionally or not, quoting a great thinker from ancient babylon -- if not now, when? let us hope we arrive in agreement soon. time, madam president, unfortunately, is not on our side. i yield the floor and the balance -- i yield back the balance of my time. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: madam president, i want to thank the senator from new york for his important remarks. i'm here today to talk about the recent compromise that -- bipartisan compromise that we reached on biofuels. i have come to the senate floor a number of times to talk about this country's biofuels policy, and in the last month i have worked on a bipartisan basis with senator feinstein of california and senator thune of south dakota to develop a compromise agreement that represents a good-faith effort to improve energy policy under very difficult economic times. at a time of bitter budget debates and entrenched positions, we worked together to find common ground and we took a step in the right direction, and that is a