good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, we have the latest on the violence and efforts by the international community to make a ceasefire hold. >> brown: then, we turn to politics and talk with former minnesota governor tim pawlenty- - a co-chair of the romney campaign-- about the 2012 presidential race. >> mitt romney has a specific set of proposals on the table, the president is ducking, hiding, weaving, bobbing on those issues. won't lead, won't propose and he is hiding on one of the most pressing issues of the day and that's unfortunate. >> woodruff: as congress investigates leaks about war tactics, from drone strikes to cyber attacks, we talk with a journalist who has reported on the secret programs. >> brown: spencer michels looks at one city's plan to combat obesity and diabetes by discouraging people from drinking sodas. >> people in richmond, california, are debating a controversial measure on the ballot, to tax sugary beverages. >> woodruff: and we close with a profile of the newly named

jeffrey brown has the story. brown: it was a remarkable moment as thunderous cheers filled cairo's tahrir square on sunday. thousands of supporters of the muslim brotherhood, a party that had been officially outlawed for decades, celebrated the election of one of their own. morsi as president of egypt. >> thank god for the results. the revolution has succeeded. the revolution continues. >> brown: 60-year-old morsi is an american-educated engineer. he won just under 52% of the vote in a run-off with shafiq who served as the last prime minister under ousted mubarak. speaking on television last night morsi promised to be president of all egyptians. >> i'm determined with you to build a new egypt, a national state with a modern democratic constitution. i will spend all my time on this big project. >> brown: the new president-elect becomes the first islamist to head the egyptian state and the first civilian to hold the office. last night he also addressed concerns about egypt's international agreement including with is

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we assess the impact of europe's troubles on american businesses, banks and consumers. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez updates the bloodshed in syria as government troops bombarded the rebel-held city of homs and u.n. monitors reached the scene of the latest massacre. >> brown: from el salvador, we have the story of an epidemic of tooth decay in the countryside blamed largely on american junk food and sodas. >> when i go into a village and the kid was come flock around us and hug us and smile, that's when i saw, oh my god, their teeth are all block and rotten. i had never seen this before. what happened. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: and we look at the dashed hopes for a triple crown winner this year as the colt i'll have another is scratched from the belmont stakes after a leg injury. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> growing up in arct

jeffrey brown has our look. >> brown: ray bradbury was a modern master who helped bring the genre of science fiction writing into the cultural mainstream and it began as a young boy, with fairy tales. >> i got a book of fairy tales when i was five years old. and i fell in love with reading. all those wonderful stories like "beauty and the beast" and "jack and the beanstalk." so i began with fantasy. >> brown: beginning in the early '50s, bradbury's books would sell more than eight million copies. they include the short-story collections "the martian chronicles" and "the illustrated man" and his novels "fahrenheit 451" and "something wicked this way comes." he also wrote poetry, plays... >> he rises! >> brown: the screenplay for the 1956 movie "moby dick." and hosted the "ray bradbury theater" on television. bradbury referred to himself as an idea writer, but one with a close eye on changes and the culture around him. this is from a 1970s interview. >> if i'm anything at all, i'm not really a science fiction writer. i'm a writer of fairy tales and modern myths about technology. >> bro

jeffrey brown has a preview. >> brown: they're two of the nba's most exciting teams with perhaps the two greatest players today. miami heat with lebron james and the oklahoma city thunder with kevin dur ant. they're a study in contrasts. veteran versus youth, established super stars versus rising stars. for the heat it's all about the big three. s james, the league's most valuable player, and forward chris bosh arrived in 2010 as high-priced free agents. joining veteran guard duane wade. oklahoma city counters with a core of talented young players, including scoring champ durant and point guard russell westbrook assembled through the nba draft. for the league itself a lot is riding on a high-profile final after a season shortenedded and then almost canceled following a long labor dispute between owners and players. >> brown: kevin craft covers the nba and other sports as a writer for the atlantic. he joins me now. kevin, we're probably both sports fans here but beyond the realm of sports it's always interesting in the culture how some people rouse everybody, right? loved and hate. le

good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest on the turmoil in egypt, as three losing candidates allege fraud in last month's runoff elections. >> brown: then, we turn to elections in this country with a preview of the heated battle in wisconsin over recalling the governor. >> it's a power struggle between the tax payers and the public workers' union. >> when you mess with wisconsin, you're messing with something that is very basic to the heartland of america. >> ifill: margaret warner examines today's supreme court decision shielding the secret service from a lawsuit by a man who confronted former vice president dick cheney. >> brown: from our "american graduate" series, hari sreenivasan interviews philanthropist melinda gates about the role of teachers in preventing students from dropping out of school. >> an effective teacher in front of a student, that student will make three times the gains in a school year than another student will make. >> ifill: and we close with a look at brit

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the death of abu yahya al-libi, an experienced leader in the terror network who once escaped from an american prison in afghanistan. >> ifill: then, as voters head to the polls in five states, judy woodruff interviews former president bill clinton about his global initiative, politics, and mitt romney's business record. >> i don't think that saying that i was in business and i succeeded, therefore, i would be a good president on the economy. it just doesn't follow. there's no evidence of it. >> brown: we examine a promising new "smart bomb" drug treatment for breast cancer that attacks tumors while leaving healthy cells alone. >> ifill: from our "american graduate" series, ray suarez talks with former assistant secretary of education diane ravitch about what teachers can do to stem the nation's dropout problem. >> teachers want to work together. they know that they're on the same team. they want to collaborate. the essence of every good sc

jeffrey brown has that. ♪ you're shining ♪ i can see you. >> brown: diamond in the rough at least tors your songs are... >> pretty much so. brown: are they a way of working things out? where do they come from? >> well, it's hard to say. sometimes they come from somewhere you're not sure. some words will come to you. out of the blue. or while you're kind of messing around with a bit of music. then you just never know. then sometimes, yeah, you're hurting and you want to write about what's going on. but the last thing i'll say is that if you're really really really hurting, as in terribly depressed, you're not creating. >> brown: you're not? it's impossible. >> it's impossible. brown: did music become a way to find your way or a way out of the world you were in? >> music was everything. in fact, in my early 20s, i didn't sing because i had some voice trouble. without singing i really spirald downward. i didn't know who i was. music was my gift. so i had to learn some lessons about who the heck i was without it. and then i was kind of free. >> brown: like any career it kind of goes up a

john martin of the philadelphia enqirrerer, thank you. >> thank you >> woodruff: finally tonight, jeffrey brown talks to one of the world's leading writers, a man who folds history and contemporary politics into his writing. >> brown: receiving the nobel prize for literature in 2010, mario vargas llosa told his audience a story, his own. >> "once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of five. this changed his life. he learned a way to escape a poor house, a poor country, the poor reality in which he lived. >> brown: the acclaimed story- teller, one of the most celebrated writers in the spanish-speaking world and beyond, learned from the tales of others. >> reading was such an enrichment of my life. and it was that pleasure that i had as a very young reader that is probably the origin of my vocation. >> brown: so here's a younger version of the writer, eh? >> yes, that's probably inhe '70s. >> brown: vargas llosa and i met recently at the americas society in new york to talk about his life and work. he was a key figure in the latin american boom of the 1960s and '70s, when

i'm jeffrey brown. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we'll have the latest on the split verdict, which included acquittals on two other counts. >> brown: then, from syria, we go behind the front lines with the opposition forces, and look at who the rebels really are. >> suarez: paul solman talks with journalist and author rory o'connor about privacy concerns and social media web sites. >> its he a social network that didn't abuse our privacy and could be trusted comes along, we abandon facebook. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> suarez: and i sat down with veteran reporter lindsey hilsum. her new book chronicles the revolution in libya. >> i spent a lot of time up and down the desert roads reporting on the rebels. they were probably the worst guerrilla army i've ever come across. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> growing up in arctic norway, everybody took fish oil to stay healthy. when i moved to the

i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the election results, europe's fiscal woes, and the continuing anxiety over greece's fate. >> brown: then we turn to egypt, where the military moved to consolidate power, even as an islamist party claimed victory in sunday's voting. >> ifill: back on the domestic campaign trail, i spent the weekend in ohio talking to voters about what rries them th election year. and grand kids with debt. just really, really concerned about how we're going to dig ourselves out. >> i know i've been working. it's been very bad the last few years in the cleveland area. the last few years it's been very steady for me. >> ifill: paul solman profiles economist paul krugman. he has a new book t called "end this depression now." >> we're spending more time on things we're used to like educating our children and fixing the holes in our roads. when is the time? >> brown: and we close with a look at the complicated life story of rodney king, the man whose 1991 beating

i'm jeffrey brown. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight: we explore the high court's decisions with marcia coyle of the "national law journal." >> brown: then, the latest from the campaign trail and an in depth look at the huge amounts of money being raised and spent already. >> suarez: special correspondent john tulenko reports on community colleges rethinking remedial classes and trying new approaches to help the least prepared students succeed. >> they're coming here with a great emphasis on making their lives better. the first thing we say to them is "not so fast there. you're not really in college, you can't take college-level courses, you've got to take these developmental courses." >> brown: we update the north carolina eugenics story as state lawmakers pass a budget without the compensation promised to victims of forced sterilization. >> suarez: from the west african nation of niger, we examine a once-in-a-generation famine threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of children. >> every child here is at

good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the "newshour" tonight, we look at the central bank's actions and what effect it may or may not have on the deteriorating economy. >> brown: then, what's behind the contempt of congress charge against the attorney general? ray suarez asks two house members-- republican john mica and democrat dennis kucinich. >> ifill: organized labor reaches a political crossroads, as the nation's largest public sector union debates new leadership. >> brown: poetry and the preservation of a native american language. we profile mojave writer natalie diaz. >> dams are coming to the kids, but maybe they're coming in mojave and maybe they don't understand that. and so they're not going to know what their gifts are. they're not going to know what they should be doing because they don't speak the language. >> ifill: and margaret warner has a conversation with author andrew nagorski about his new book, an account of hitler's rise to power, as seen through the eyes of americans living in germany. >> what di