>> beckett brennan: yes. great year. actually played, and made an impact, i'd like to think. >> couric: but everything changed for beckett brennan one saturday night in may of 2008. she went to a party with her teammates at a student housing complex known as the townhouses, where she says she drank six shots of vodka. she says later, she found herself stranded at an off- campus party looking for a ride. >> beckett brennan: i was offered a ride by two of the men on the men's basketball team, and assuming that we were going back to the townhouses. >> couric: did you feel completely comfortable taking a ride with them? >> beckett brennan: yeah, absolutely. there were no red flags that came up. no reason not to trust them. when they got back to the townhouses, she went into one of the basketball player's apartments, thinking the party was continuing there. instead, she claims they led her upstairs into an empty bedroom and raped her. then, she says, a third basketball player came into the room, pushed her into a closet, and

because beckett brennan did not press criminal charges the case ended up in the hands of a university judiciary view board and in the end the trio of basketball players received different punishments. one player was expelled, another suspended for a year and the final student was kicked out for a semester. >> it does seem like a slap on the wrist. >> uop student and assault victim mo'nique jones wants to help empower william attacked on campus and hopes that administrators will hand out different punishment for offenders. >> it tells young boys if i do something and if i'm good enough somebody will save my butt but. >> her accused rapist and several witnesses testified before the board. lamiales and lisa cooper sat on that board. the pair won't talk about details of the attack but do say the punishment fits the crime according to the evidence they had at the time. >> there were contradictory views between the complainant and the reses. no one was in the room but then. >> it was a difficult situation because of the number of allegations that were involved and having to determine what w

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the red sox josh beckett gave up just two hits in eight innings against the yankees. double to give boston the lead. the sox went on to win 4-0. in the national league, philly center shane victorino had three hits including a homer against atlanta. boosted his average to .417. philadelphia beat the braves 4-0. to the nba, the lakers lost again. oklahoma city's kevin durant scored 31 points against los angeles. the 120-106 loss was the fifth straight for the lakers. the oklahoma city thunder now just a game behind l.a. in the race. the playoff seeding in the western conference. in the nba, as well, lebron james collided with jermaine o'neal and we've got a scuffle between miami and visiting boston. james would end up scoring 27 points. they take sole possession of second seed in the eastern conference. >>> when we come back, another look at this morning's top stories, and the debt debate. the budget battle that just ended was only a warm-up for the fight to come. battle that just ended was only a warm-up for the fight to come. for pain? oh, bayer aspirin? i'm not havin

tavis wrote about sort of success scars and we entitled your essay "failing better" you quoted samuel beckett. you pointed out that everyone who is a success has failed repeatedly and you have to figure out how to look at failure in a different way. you even talk about michael jordan, which i have quoted on a number of shows. i mention your essay and talk about how many shots he has missed and games he has lost and winning points he has failed to get and at the end of it the nike anchdnch, he says i'm a success. tavis: we'll talk about the cbs thing. >> i thought we were making that move. tavis: you were trying tmake that. just for a second and then back to the book. i've only known you to be pretty authentic and upfront and direct and honest. when you said to me that you actually loved anchoring the "cbs evening news." can you deconstruct that more me? because i think you were in the chair, not me. just on the outside looking in. i've looked at the way -- things that were cede said about you. the times that you were mall treated, i thought. the sexism i thought you were treated with on a num

looking to get their first win, handing the ball to josh beckett, in cleveland to face the tribe. bottom of the fourth. game tied at 1-1. two on, two out. jack hannahan off the middle. cabrera scores. indians up 2-1. top of the ninth. last chance for the sox. pedro ortiz lines out to left. the indians win their second-straight, 3-1. red sox are 0-4. >>> phillies, 3-0, with that incredible rotation. cole hamels on the mound. david wright at the plate. one of four hits for wright. mets up 2-0. chris young and jose reyes score. later in the inning, man on first and second. young, the pitcher, gets his second hit in the inning, scoring ike davis. hamels gave up six earned runs. mets win it, 7-1. >>> this has been your espn news update. for all of the latest, tune into "the highlight express" on espn from 11:00 p.m. eastern throughout the morning. >>> all right, peggy. we have some people in the news this morning. >> hot off the presses? >> that's right. hot off the presses. another celebrity bounced from the ballroom. talk show host, wendy williams. >> now, who saw that coming? >> a l

and so it was done in berlin in german on a double bill with beckett's krapp's last tape. i think that fact, which got picked up by the new york times, you know-- "young american playwright has to go to germany to have his first work done, and not even in english"-- i think that instantly made the play producible in new york city, because six months later, it was done off-broadway in english on the same double bill and ran for four years. so i quit my job delivering telegrams for western union-- [laughter] and settled in to be a playwright. now, do you speak or write german? no. no. it's a very strange language. do you speak it? no. no. you know, the verbs are at the ends of the sentences, so you can go along, you know, for a page and a half, not knowing what anybody is talking about, and then, all of a sudden, bang, at the end, there's a verb. but you had this-- this added advantage of sitting there the first time you watched it and not being able to say-- or disadvantage-- not being able to say, "you're butchering my dialogue." you didn't have a clue, did you? well, i'd

find and you can't afford some hybrid so you are stuck with the old beater you're driving around beckett's a maround and get 8 miles per gallon, these gas prices are killing you. this is the reason why i have said it is so important for us to invest in new approaches to energy. we've got to have a long-term plan. it means investing in things like solar and wind, investing in biofuels, investing in clean car technology, it means converting the federal fleet 100% to fuel efficient vehicles because we are a huge market maker. it turns out that i have a lot of cars as president. if we are out there purchasing electric cars and hybrids, that can help boost demand and drive down prices. continuing to increase fuel efficiency standards on cars, increasing oil production but in an intelligent way -- those are all the hugely important. by the way, we can pay for it. the treasury loses $4 billion per year on subsidies to oil companies. think about this. the top five oil companies have made somewhere between somewhere75 billionand $125 billion every year for the last five years. nobody is doing bette

little guy sharing a sweet moment but some people take issue with the color of the nail polish, little beckettaring. we'll take a look at whether or not it's an issue. my 4-year-old would probably love it. hollywood is full of pretty faces. who is the most beautiful of them all? "people" magazine unveils this year's most beautiful person right here on "the early show." >> wow. >> and you have a little experience with that, don't you? we hear that couple of years ago you were part of the magazine, is that right? >> my -- >> you cannot tell a lie. >> my mug was in there a few years ago. i didn't know about it. someone called me and said did you know you were in people? i was newly pregnant and i didn't know so i felt like a fat slob. >> we had you at number 19. i guess it was number 35. >> i had you in the top 10 for sure. >> thank you. [ laughter ] >> thank you.erica hill, thank you very much. "the early show" starts at 7 a.m. >>> time now 6:51. college students fed up over budget cuts. >> thousands plan to take part in rallies across the state today. we'll have a live report on what they are d

deep, even even question mark, the guys they have in the back of the rotation, guys like lackey and beckett and even daisuke are good pitchers to be pitching in that area, and the same with the phillies, i think the pitching is too tough, although the yankees control their own destiny, if they just win from here on out, they are going to make it. [ laughter ] >> so -- >> and hold on to that one gauge lead. >> i tell you, that's it. >> national league, phillies. >> i think it will be the phillies and red sox. >> i certainly am going to pick the yankees, but i certainly am concerned about the red sox. i always think tampa bay fields a great ball club, they have lost some players and have extra ground to grind, we lost last year, we didn't get cliff lee, we have got something to prove, that is going to help us, and i know our front office is going to help get another player if we need it. i do like texas out in the west, they are pretty good. they are going to be a little bit better this year. i do think that the angels are going to be better in the national league the giants will always be ar

crew shows the company's creative director, jenna lions, with her son beckett. with a boy whose favorite color is pifrpg. toenail painting is much more fun in knneon. we showed the photo to a group of parents and found while some have reservations -- >> i have a 2-year-old son and i wouldn't do it. >> reporter: others were more accepting. tell me what you think of this photo? >> i actually do not see anything wrong with this. i think it's adorable. >> reporter: perhaps the gender lines of this new generation aren't as clear cut as they once were. six months ago a 5-year-old seattle boy made headlines after his mother enjoyed he enjoyed jewelry, dresses and the color pink. she even wrote a book about him called "my princess boy." even hollywood stars are willing to let their children explore. brad pitt and angelina jolie's daughter shiloh adopted a wardrobe more suitable for a boy, while again stefani's son has been photographed wearing his own shade of nail polish. what is your feeling on that? >> they're kids. they're only children once. >> reporter: whether th

vice chairman brady, the what to do questio about were moved to congress by beckett? >> can we talk about the partition -- participation rate quickly? >> it is go to see the unemployment rate go down, at least in general appearances. there is more to that story. there is no reason to celrate a lower unemployment rate caused by americans leading the labor force. a smaller work force means millions of discouraged workers, or output, and a weak recovery. those are not healthy signs. what can you tell us about the number of discouraged workers? when can we expect to see labor participation rates begin to get back up? -- to go back up? >> the number of discouraged workers is just a little under 1 million right now. workers or marginally attached, which includes discouraged workers, is about 2.5 million people. those numbers are still fairly high. our broadest measure of labor underutilization, that includes both marginally attached and people working part-time, remains high at 16.7%, although it did go down to test the% this month. labor force participation remains at a lo

i love what samuel beckett wrote. he wrote simply, ever tried? ever failed? no matter.ain, fail better. i love that. try again, fail again, fail better. failure doesn't have to be final. it doesn't have to be fatal. we live in a world where everybody is frozen by failure. individually in our families, our country, we are afraid of the future. we can fail if we learn the lesson. >> you chronicle in the book the criticism you faced when you used your broadcast forums to hold presidents candidates and president barack obama accountable. we should explain as a social commentator you are known for holding politicians accountable. so what exactly happened here? you were actually, you know, really reviled for this. >> the short answer is that black folk who waited years for this moment and i understand it. i was on the anchor desk with tom brokaw and brian williams. one of the highlights of my 20-year career. but black folk waited 400 years for the moment. they wanted him to win. if i can take malcolm x's phrase, by any means necessary. to talk about holding him accountable th

vice chairman brady, the what to do questions about were moved to congress by beckett? >> can we talk about the partition -- participation rate quickly? >> it is good to see the unemployment rate go down, at least in general appearances. there is more to that story. there is no reason to celebrate a lower unemployment rate caused by americans leading the labor force. a smaller work force means millions of discouraged workers, or output, and a weak recovery. those are not healthy signs. what can you tell us about the number of discouraged workers? when can we expect to see labor participation rates begin to get back up? -- to go back up? >> the number of discouraged workers is just a little under 1 million right now. workers or marginally attached, which includes discouraged workers, is about 2.5 million people. those numbers are still fairly high. our broadest measure of labor underutilization, that includes both marginally attached and people working part-time, remains high at 16.7%, although it did go down to test the% this month. labor force participation remains at

vice chairman brady, the what to do questions about were moved to congress by beckett? >> can we talk about the partition -- participation rate quickly? >> it is good to see the unemployment rate go down, at least in general appearances. there is more to that story. there is no reason to celebrate a lower unemployment rate caused by americans leading the labor force. a smaller work force means millions of discouraged workers, or output, and a weak recovery. those are not healthy signs. what can you tell us about the number of discouraged workers? when can we expect to see labor participation rates begin to get back up? -- to go back up? >> the number of discouraged workers is just a little under 1 million right now. workers or marginally attached, which includes discouraged workers, is about 2.5 million people. those numbers are still fairly high. our broadest measure of labor underutilization, that includes both marginally attached and people working part-time, remains high at 16.7%, although it did go down to test the% this month. labor force participation remains at