the john r. wooden classic. coming up next, it's ucla versus mississippi state. the second time these two teams have met and the last time it was on ucla's route to their unprecedented 11th national championship. >> mississippi state is an offensive powerhouse, the bulldogs starting five are all in double figures, a great tribute to honor the legend in the tradition of winning. the pac-10 ucla bruins and the s.e.c. mississippi state bulldogs, the john r. wooden classic starts now. >> welcome to the honda center at anaheim, california, for pac-10 hoops presented by kfc featuring the 16th annual john r. wooden classic driven by toyota tires. today, the mississippi state bulldogs take on the ucla bruins. today college basketball fans will see the top shot blocker in the game in mississippi state's jarvis bernardo and a terrific outside shooter in ucla's michael roll right there. hi, everybody, i'm steve kusaik and this is former college basketball player of the year marcus johnson. we just saw georg

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it was john r. fiction -- genre fiction. i think some genre fiction is wonderful. certain things i love. bill's spy novels ever did that for me. bill was a mster o master of th syndicated column. he wrote a lot of them. if you get the best of those, that is a murderer's row and they are so varied. they can be analytical or appreciative or on the attack, they can be melancholic, he had a lot of different voices that he could summon. he could also do lager essays very well. but i remember one -- it was about the effective end of the latin mass in the catholic church and how that paid him. it was a very moving column. i was reading this from the outside. it was filled -- it was a mournful column about this, very powerful. he could do essays. about truman capote's black and white ball. bill did that and he was a guest but he brings it alive. here is why everyone is talking about it. >> talk about bill as a new york figure. how important his run for mayor was and how important his new yorkness was. >> his run for mayor, it was in part a stung and tt and to get e brand o

. >> steve: here at the john r. wooden classic. mississippi state with a 69-45 lead over ucla. earlier isaiah thomas scored early and quincy poindexter also was ripping from outside, and washington was only trailing by one at halftime. but then georgetown had so many's baskets. they looked like a top ten team as they knocked down number 17 washington by eight points and a rod allen game summary. mississippi state shooting 46% and ucla at 34%. >> marcus: and a big part of that disparity is the two shooters, the alleged gun slinging shooters from each team, johnson 26 points and nikola dragovic for ucla, 0 for 9, doughnut, did not score a point in this game. jarvis. >> steve: mississippi state with the basketball trying to push the record to 6-2. it's hard to believe that this is a team that lost to ryder by 14. >> marcus: thinking the same thing. those two losses kind of stand out when you see how well this team has performed in this game, the way they handled the ball the last time out in tampa at the site of their s.e.c. tourney championship last year, and this man here, raver

it was john r. fiction -- genre fiction. i think some genre fiction is wonderful.th syndicated column. he wrote a lot of them. if you get the best of those, that is a murderer's row and they are so varied. they can be analytical or appreciative or on the attack, they can be melancholic, he had a lot of different voices that he could summon. he could also do lager essays very well. but i remember one -- it was about the effective end of the latin mass in the catholic church and how that paid him. it was a very moving column. i was reading this from the outside. it was filled -- it was a mournful column about this, very powerful. he could do essays. about truman capote's black and white ball. bill did that and he was a guest but he brings it alive. here is why everyone is talking about it. >> talk about bill as a new york figure. how important his run for mayor was and how important his new yorkness was. >> his run for mayor, it was in part a stung and tt and to get e brand out there. the brand of himself. he worked in the city. he had an apartment in the city. he li

it was john r. fiction -- genre fiction. i think some genre fiction is wonderful. certain things i love. bill's spy novels ever did that for me. bill was a mster o master of th syndicated column. he wrote a lot of them. if you get the best of those, that is a murderer's row and they are so varied. they can be analytical or appreciative or on the attack, they can be melancholic, he had a lot of different voices that he could summon. he could also do lager essays very well. but i remember one -- it was about the effective end of the latin mass in the catholic church and how that paid him. it was a very moving column. i was reading this from the outside. it was filled -- it was a mournful column about this, very powerful. he could do essays. about truman capote's black and white ball. bill did that and he was a guest but he brings it alive. here is why everyone is talking about it. >> talk about bill as a new york figure. how important his run for mayor was and how important his new yorkness was. >> his run for mayor, it was in part a stung and tt and to get e brand o

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is week, we are revisiting a fereports filed by john merrow, the newshour's speal correspondent r education, onhe ups and downs of chancellor michle rhee's effortover the past three years. tonit, we go back to february 2008 a point at which rhee encountered resistan to some of her plans to move faster. what do we want? our voices heard! when do we want it? now! >> reporter: unions in shington dc are upset with schools chancellor michell rhee. >> what we have here it is n reform, its dictatorship! >> reporter: parentsave their problems with her, too. >> reporter: even grandparen are gry. >> i'm telli you, you are not interested in real iut from parents >> reporr: what goes through your head, when there , pele are yellin' at you likthat? >> i don't takthat personally. those people feel ssionately about their schools and abt public educati, and, frankly, we need more of that. >> repter: she's likely to get moren the months ahead. michel rhee came to office in june promising to make washington dc a natial model of uan school reform. now, seven months in the job, her contversial plans to close 1

r being with us. >> eamon javers will discuss the economy. john investigates government efforts to help homeowners modifying their mortgages. matthew levitt discusses the arrest of several americans and pakistan, an author walton francis talks about his book, " putting medicare in charge prat." >> david axe was embedded with the u.s. army in afghanistan in october. he followed them on training missions. this was from lobar province, a mostly agricultural region south of kabul. >> it boils down to checkpoints. you set up a cheap "-- a checkpoint and you just sat there and keep an eye on things. you can walk a place down -- lock up place down. you can solve a lot of problems by just keeping an eye on the check point, really. checkpoints can be terribly boring. u.s. forces tend to delegate a lot of checkpoints to the afghan forces. that is something that they can handle. it is a pretty rudimentary task. they can sit there 24 hours a day and the americans will go out periodically and check on them. had you seen anything? do you need some help building

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john mccain for president last year and i'm a republican. >> i'm stephanie slade. i am also a first year grad student from tampa, florida. no campaign experience. i would consider myself an open-minded rt in political communications. >> my name is amy. i'm a first year master student. no campaign experience. i consider myself a leaning democrat. and i took cmi just because of its reputation. >> my name is dan. i'm from san francisco. i'm a first-year master student. i'm a democrat. and, yeah, i'm here for cmi's reputation. it seemed like fun. >> okay. >> my name is adam levy. i'm a senior at american university. as far as -- i originally hail from princeton, new jersey but i live in virginia and i took every clasp a.u. takes on campaignses and elections and the most recent one was rob engel's voting class in which he instructed me to take this class if i wanted to live. and i consider myself a very he closed-minded independent. and when i -- i currently work for an organization called upt strategies based out of new jersey that have campaign managers for hire which i do speechwriters. >> rob engel was the first instructors of cmi and he knows this class very well. [laughter] >> i'm co