josie sh has beeny assistant, he is a proud graduate of brown university. this is her last day. she leaves usow to go to work for her parents who own an art gallery in new york city. i am sure she will run her parents like she ran me, with high spirits, discipline, charm, presence and great intelligence. they have a distinct advantage. i start work at 5:00 a.m., galleries open at 11:00. she will like that. she has been wonderful for us in handling one of the world's toughest jobs, we are now trying to do the impossible, finding a replacement for josie, if you think you can handle that job or would like that job, e-mail us at response 1917 at gm.com. for josie, we say again, good-bye, great love, and here she is, in this video. >> for me one of the high points in terms of watching the interviews has been to the interview with david brooks when he was talng about the brain and if god exists it where chemicals turn into emotions, like that. the low point is coming back from paris, wn we went to paris and back to paris all in a week and i got a stomach bug on the plane coming back a

tavis: you want to go to brown university? you want to go to america. >> i am curious of their conception of the american peers and have you got to succeed in education. the use see them as lazy with too many options or are you more focused? -- do you see them as lazy. >> we talked to people in middle schools. they are creative but less intelligent. tavis: i hear your point. when you say that they are more creative but less intelligent, what do you mean by that? >> intelligence in studying. tavis: they don't steady as hard? >> no, in my opinion. >> that has more to do with their habits. >> do you interpret the value of your degree the same way or differently? >> i think that this is just to get jobs and that is all. knowledge is not. maybe with more knowledge, you can earn more money. knowledge is a part of your system. this knowledge, i think that your mind is stronger than all of the others. we can gain wisdom. money can never give you that. tavis: you are right about that. >> i really appreciate the way of higher education

deputy chief speechwriter a rhodes scholar he holds degrees in history from both oxford and brown universities and print president clinton described him as one of the most eloquent historians of his generation he's written two books of american political history the latest being supreme power franklin roosevelt versus the supreme court he's now a retired comic strip writer fats was the comic strip of who would be a little more than one hundred fifty newspapers between one thousand nine hundred ninety to ninety eight and is currently a founding partner of west wing writers he's trading and strategy from here in d.c. jeff welcome. great to have you with us. i understand you helped put together clinton state of the union address and were there. pretty much you know the democratic convention the farewell that's that's a bit of an arc of any quick thoughts on the clinton presidency and what it's like to be a speechwriter in the white house well it's a challenge to be a speechwriter for president who doesn't necessarily need a speechwriter we all know that president clinton famous last name or podiu

wendy schiler is an professor of political science at brown university. hello, wendy, thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> clearly there's a lack of confidence in this country n wall street and it's ability to stabilize and also wanting washington to come up with a solution in dealing with this crisis. how do we as a nation get past all of this? >> we need leadership and we need leadership from both the president and the leaders of congress. people are calling on the president to bring back the congress early, because a lot of americans don't have the luxury of taking a vacation. they need to start working on a solution now. the committee they have appointed is a good start. you can't have 500 people decide this problem all at once, you need an agenda, you need some sort of program. so if the president doesn't want to call the congress back, he should call reid back, boehner and majority leader. there's a lot of things the government could try to do to make people have more confidence that the structure in washington actually could work if

. >> wendy shiller is an associate professor of political science and public policy at brown university. professor, good morning. the president is out there taking his message to real voters. lots of voters want more. has the president at this point lost all credibility when it couple times to job creation specifically? >> i don't think he's lost a all credibility at all. he's focusing on connecting the dots with what the government can do and what the government can't do to help people get jobs, hold on to their savings, so i think he's finally transferring his energy to that kind of focus. and i think that's a winning strategy. i don't think it's a winning strategy to blame congress. don't waste your space, year speech space as i call it. your opportunity to talk with the voters talking about congress or the other party or gridlock. be specific. >> i think what the president was doing yesterday in minnesota, you think that was a mistake? you think the president spending so much time attacking the gop and congress, that was a bad idea? is that what i'm hearing? i think it's good for hi

point work so you know we could also look at the cost of war a study that just came out by brown you university shows that the current wars we're engaged in the current wars that we were propagating in prior america will are going to end up costing american people four point four trillion dollars nobody's cut these are cut that could be made without that being the standard of living of any single american but that is that what's going to happen what's going to happen is exact opposite we've elected a super congress they're going to have the power to implement austerity without having the scrutiny of their constituency and it's going to be rammed down the throats of the american people through a rubber stamp process certainly very difficult to convince a lot of people that some of the solutions being proposed are any different than what we've been seeing over the last few years china grass under a wide awake news dot com has always been on channel well from economic collapse to what some call the collapse of mankind sixty six years ago today president truman and u.s. policy makers made a fateful

geoffrey hosking in london he is america's professor of russian history at the university college london in oxford we have archie brown he's america's professor of politics at the university of oxford and if you know the god we go to because i petro he is professor of politics at the university of rhode island all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a look at the failed coup of ninety ninety one. on august nineteenth one thousand nine hundred one instead of tuning into the soviet national anthem citizens across the u.s.s.r. woke up to a radio announcement that would start a sequence of events leading to the eventual collapse of the soviet union issued by the self-proclaimed hard line state of emergency committee the announcement stated that mikhail gorbachev's efforts to reform the soviet union have gone into blind alley it also declared a six month state of emergency in various regions of the country by that time or which of had already been removed and detained in his villa in the crimea with motivated the plotters to overthrow the existing order was the

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. >>> a bill to open the books at california's public university foundation is headed to governor brown's desk. it follows an outcry over a speak by sarah palin last year t. took a judge's order to release the terms of the $75,000 contract. if the governor signs the bill it would require foundations at all california universities and community collegees to follow state public records law. >>> as children head back to school one bay area school district is taking steps to keep them a little safe or their way there. they are lowering the speed limit in school zones from 25 down to 15 miles an hour. the city officials announced the change this morning at george peabody elementary. they are letting drivers know that officers will be out enforcing that new limit. >>> a windmill in golden gate park is about to start turning again. they will provide the city -- they will not provide the city with power but the makeover including an eye-catching centerpiece. >> 9 years after it was stripped down to the bear bones this 106-year-old windmill is getting a new lease on life. >> it is really exciting

that was my university, checking out be the king, and james brown, a cream.inding out how they were able to penetrate people's hearts. with their music. once you do that, something happens to their eyes. they become brighter. they start crying, they do not know why. they start dancing. it is like when a woman gives birth. =mmfirst, she cries and then she laughs. later on, she dances. and that, to me, is the beauty of what san francisco is about. >> one final question, and we are going to link it to your music today. such a rich legacy that you are giving us. you mentioned to me that you are working on a new album. could you share what is coming up? >> i love to dream when i am awake. kand so i had this dream of working with india arie and yo- yo ma to do the george harrison saw; and "-- song. this is the definitive way to do this. we are all in it together, we do not leave anybody out. t conviction, i am one of the few people that you can recognize by one note. god gave me that universal tone, and that is what we want to implement in all the songs. thank you.

. >> brown: spencer michels reports on steep budget cuts and tuition hikes at california's state colleges. >> the universities are trying to maintain their reputations and their class schedules, but they're having a hard time. >> lehrer: ruth marcus and michael gerson analyze the week's news. >> brown: and we close with a look back at an extraordinary moment in history, 20 years ago today, that led to the end of the soviet union. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> well, the best companies are driven by new ideas. >> our future depends on new ideas. we spend billions on advanced technologies. >> it's all about investing in the future. >> we can find new energy-- more cleaner, safer and smarter. >> collaborating with the best in the field. >> chevron works with the smartest people at leading universities and tech companies. >> and yet, it's really basic. >> it's paying off every day. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and

fred's reporting is a partnership with the under-told stories project at saint mary's university in minnesota. >> brown: finally tonight: to presidential politics here at home and one group's effort to up-end the way candidates for the oval office are nominated. judy woodruff brings us the latest attempt to push america away from the dominant two-party system. >> woodruff: no third-party candidate has won a u.s. presidential election since 1860. but with unemployment staying high, worries about another recession, and mounting public disapproval of democrats and republicans alike, could voters be frustrated enough with washington to up-end the way they select their president in 2012? one new group thinks so. americans-elect is a nonprofit organization that wants to change the nominating process by holding the first-ever a non-partisan political convention in crs voters can weigh in on thr top issues and use an on-line voting system to nominate a candidate to place on the presidential ballot in all 50 states. for more on the effort we're joined now by eliot ackerman, chief operating officer for americans

pulitzer center on crisis reporting, and the undertold stories project at saint mary's university in minnesota. >> brown: next, a true-life spy story about the al qaeda triple agent who dealt a deadly blow to the cia. margaret warner has our book conversation. >> warner: it was the most devastating attaci on the cia in two decades. a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a c.i.a. base in afghanistan. dead were seven c.i.a. officers, a jordanian intelligence agent and their driver. >> sreenivasan: at least eight american civilians were killed in a suicide bombing today in afghanistan. the bomb exploded at a military base. >> warner: early reports were sketchy. >> sreenivasan: the base supports reconstruction and other civilian programs. >> warner: the man carrying out the audacious assault was a jordanian doctor who was initially recruited by jordanian intelligence. the c.i.a. thought he would lead them to osama bin laden and his top deputy, ayman al zawari. instead, he turned out to be a triple agent for al qaeda. like many suicide bombers, he made a testimonial video just before his fatal mission. >> t

. >> brown: levine graduated from wayne state university and left the auto plants behind. he taught at fresno state in california for many years and he and his wife franny now divide their time between fresno and new york. you've kept writing about detroit to this day. you've kept writing about work. did that become a kind of mission almost, if that's the right word? >> well, one thing i was struck by very young in my middle 20s, very young, was that i didn't see any work, written work, about this experience. as far as poetry, zero. so i actually did at one time say to myself, hey, there's a whole world here no one's touched. >> brown: and this should be a subject for poetly. >> it should be there, yeah. it should be there. my attitude toward the work changed enormously over the years. at the time, i hated it. when i faced my late 30s and early 40s i realized this world that i felt was going to stop me from writing a poem, writing a decent body of poetry had, in fact, become central to my writing poetry. and i began to feel that i was really in some ways very fortunate, es

brown, the rare earth. why complex life is uncommon in the universe.there an unnecessary degree of presumes build into the title meaning that if we have 200 billion stars in our solar system, and then you multiply that by the mere infinity number of other solar systems, in the universe how can you even -- how can you feel justified entitled a book "rare earth: why complex life is uncommon in the universe." you have no way of knowing it. >> how much time do you have. i can explain the many reasons why we said that may be the case. we think many of the statements that are present -- estimates that are present about how common intelligence life my be are wildly overestimated and a lot of this is simple an ateam by to us show there are many other factors one was to take into account besides those that are traditionally used an entire astronomical. one you mentioned, the numbers is the one we see the most of. >> do you want to comment on what peter waters just said? >> i would say that the important thing is that we can go out and begin to search for life e

brown. obviously in atlanta, we are very pleased to be part of this session. we are a comprehensive research university with a number of disciplines and certainly some holdings that connect us directly to the harlem book fair. we have degree programs through the doctoral degree and african-american studies. and a significant program in english and language arts. we have a number of people with us today and i want to get right down to our business here so join me in welcoming our colleagues here. i will begin with broadcast personality and social commentator sabrina lamb, she is the platform. she is the author of a kettle full of soldiers left beat marc on my forehead. some of you may recall her antics as a stand-up comedian on girls' night out or cover articles from essence magazine, her wit and obvious satire have propelled her into the front row of up and coming comedic novelists and i am struck by this idea of vultures leaving feat marked on my forehead. she is as much a pulse point for national news and perspective as would be any network news anchor and probably a lot more fun and entertaining wit

university? guest: i went to brown. host: what about your parents? what did they do? guest: my dad was an executive at i.b.m. and my mother was a fashion designer. host: do you remember when you first got this interest and who led you to it? guest: it was my ninth grade english teacher. my sixth grade english teacher and ninth grade english teacher were the two people that absolutely inspired me and steered me towards becoming a writer and a journalist and i dedicated my last book to my ninth grade english teacher, who is now dead. he not only taught me, he had gone to e.a.o. and he'd decided to become a teacher of young people, not of older ones, because it was really his passion. so, i mean, he saw that i wanted to write and knew how to write and really encouraged me and inspired me and long after i finished that school, for years we corresponded and i still have all his letters. host: let me go back to your book and read a quote from page 238 of your book. break that paragraph down. guest: it's one of the great sort of contradictions of our time and of that region.