i think they looked back to the roman hero, cicero. john adams was fascinated by cicero. they as models of leadership, of examples of disinterested virtuous behavior. they held up the roman model. but, of course, rome died. and so they're frightened, they don't want to go that way. so that was always a problem. how do you prevent your state from regenerating? the common assumption was that states were like human beings. they were born. they grew up. they matured. and they died. and so how do you hold off that natural process as much as possible? that assessment. but i think our relationship to these founders is much closer. i didn't mention this in the book, but i came across more recently a quotation from lincoln in a speech of 1859 where he talks about we americans and our connection to these founders. and i was thinking, of course, there's been a lot of criticism of the tea party because they seem to have become one with the founders. and the academics have mocked this kind of connection with the founders as if we can connect up with people 200 years in the past. but l

de clases. >>> para controlar que los jóvenes no se queden vagando por las calles, la policía de cícero>> piensan que serán famosos, porque si están en el internet, están ahí por siempre. >>> dos de las jóvenes en la pelea ,fueron expulsadas del programa, pero estos videos los usa la policía para poder arrestarlos. >>> desde que comenzó el programa, más de 400 jóvenes lo han hecho, solo 310 lo han podido completar. >>> esta joven es una de ellas. >>> es como una gratitud que teo, para ayudar a más personas y muchachos que pasan por los mismos pasos que tomé. >>> es que las heridas que deja la violencia son imborrables, como esta madre que perdió a su hijo david. >>> Él murió de múltiples puñaladas, fue una muerte que no le deseamos ni al peor enemigo. >>> así es el programa que tiene la organización enle, que está en la villita. >>> en la villita contribuimos al gran esfuerzo de los agentes comunitarios,de las iglesias y de los jóvenes. >>> aquí, padres de familia se reúnen para hablar de los problemas que les tocan vivir. >>> el programa me ayuda a lidiar con la depresión y la tristeza

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think it was not a state of the union address, it was a state of the budget address, with a little cicerot the end. but there was no big concepts in there. >> but -- >> and i don't think it's worth more than >>> good job tonight. good job tonight. >> it was at first a mystery why president obama on his way to the lectern congratulated defense secretary leon panetta last tuesday night. the verbal high five, it turns out, was to salute him on the masterful rescue of two danish aide workers, jessica buchanan, a u.s. citizen, and paul fisted, a citizen of denmark. buchanan and fisted were held hostages in somalia for three months, sings october 25th. earlier mr. obama had received intelligence of miss buchanan's whereabouts and word that her health was failing. he then set in motion the process of rescue, authorizing the mission to go forward. he did so on monday night, almost 24 hours before the state of the union, on tuesday afternoon 20 members of a seal team, the seem team 6, the same seal team that executed osama bin laden, the seam parachuted center a care or carrier on to the area wher

. >> a boom county judge has issued a rest once for the wife and nephew of town president of cicero larry dominick. the warrants were issued after his wife and their nephew fail to show up in court and pay fines. there were ticketed in connection with the accident last summer near his lakefront home. a rematch of super bowl 42 provided and other classic game that went down to the wire. new york giants in new england patriots in super bowl 46. the new york giants went 21-17win 21-17 and the new york giants become the first team to win the super bowl with less than 10 regular-season wins. new york giant fans celebrated the team's victory in times square and the parade will be held tomorrow. >> coming up next to the husband of a missing utah mother says fire to his home killing himself and his two children. what the two boys were starting to say about their mother's disappearance before they died. >> the united states closed its embassy in damascus said due to escalating violence. >> and a former ward white house intern claims she was the teenage mistress of john f. kennedy. [ kate ] most wo

wal-mart in hobart yesterday afternoon there are also checking to see if a 17 year-old named destiny of cicero is also with them they're trying to obtain surveillance video from wal-mart as they investigate the lead she was driving a white 2001 volvo station wagon with illinois license plate number 959-00986 there is a pink cancer ribbon on the rear bumper if you have any information please call police >>a black steel worker is suing three chicago police officers over this incident the man holding a video camera and being pushed around is tyrone to let he started recor gillette he began recording when he saw some commotion at the state and monroe last august his civil rights lawsuit accuses the city of chicago and three officers of excessive force false arrest unlawful seizure and false imprisonment tyrone jill it is especially upset because he says a white man who also reported the incident it is currently illegal in illinois to record audio of policemen on duty police superintendent garry mccarthy said that he would be fine with overturning that lott and letting people record the police >>an

judge issued arrest warrants family up cicero town president larry domenic failing to pay a ticket. elisabeth went to court this morning paid the ticket warrant was dropped spokesman says elisabeth domenic never notified of the ticket had been aware of what have paid it right away. thousands of union station commuters breathing high levels of diesel exhaust according to testing done by amtrak both amtrak and metra have taken steps to improve ventilation but owner of one building located below the southbound tracks limited the positive effect of the changes. senator dick turbid pushing british developer putting him on notice >> city of chicago recently cited the owner of the old post office because of refusal to turn on ventilation fans to pull up the harmful air from union station. amtrak is also finding lawsuit in court to operate and maintain the fans >> going after him the latest response to 2010 tribune investigation we first showed you on television revealing high levels of diesel fit inside metra its fall of study found worst pollution on trains leaving the sot platforms. sena

if you don't promise them now, the younger cicero suggests everyone will be upset.ee how some basics and politics really never change. now for the last look. all of the members of the british cabinet got birthday presents. not for their birthdays, but for the 200th birthday of charles dickens, and the gifts presented by the culture minister were works by the great victorian novelist that seemed relevant to the recipients. for example, prime minister cameron got great expectations to any incoming leader, but also hard times, which is an attack on doctrines of -- foreign secretary william hague was criticized last year for using private planes instead of commercial airlines. his gift? the book "the uncommercial traveller." business secretary vince cable was dubbed scrooge last year after he said he was sending no christmas cards to members of parliament. so he got, obviously, a christmas carol. the leader of the antique house of lords with its ark action news procedures got bleak house, which is a book about a neverending court case, and what was the book from nick cl

. >> resting tonight at his cicero home but still in a lot of pain. eduardo rodriguez counting his blessings the day after a horrific crash that killed three of his friends. >> it was scary man. the crash. >> four people total died in fiery head on a high-speed crash on i 80 day morning. 35 year old also killed when the driver made a u-turn on the interstate and went the wrong way. slamming into his ford escort. eduardo rodrÍguez the only survivor said he had been his friend for years and was struck. >> people did not want to drive and they let him drive. he was driving crazy and we told him to stop but he did not want to stop. >> what did he say while driving before the accident? >> he was not ready to die. he said he was ready to die. >> with those haunted last words he tells me not looking to crash on monday morning he may never know why he walked away from the crash with a badly broken arm and four others died. >> south side activist priest father michael pfleger who was in a confrontation with francis cardinal george last year taking on new respo

a beautiful quote from cicero, as you can see, it's just a token, joann, of how we feel about what you'ved the ladies from solace. and maybe in a way we do this also in memory of your sweet son who didn't die in vain. come and receive this award. [applause] >> you did great. thank you for coming. >> thank you. [applause] >> okay. [applause] >> i've just talked to you about human trafficking. adults use manipulation, blackmail and even forced to take our teenagers and make them prostitutes, slave labor or worse. one human traffic survivor here in ohio to refused to sit down and let this crisis go unnoticed. teresa flores joins me here on the stage. >> when teresa was a teenager she was exploited, blackmailed, trapped in a hell of abuse that she could not escape. there wasn't anybody to help her, no support, no one to help her get free. can you imagine that? abused, drugged, beaten, raped. she didn't give up somehow. i just don't know how she did it. today she's a licensed social worker in columbus, a licensed social worker in columbus. and she helps liberate other women trapped by human tr