those were the days before we had poet laureates, but there was that one acknowledgement. i wanted to remember that. and libraries. i would be dead if it were not for libraries. they were shelter, information, everything he could not find out of school -- you could not find out at school. a place to be. in second grade, my father took me six blocks from my house to the carroll street library and home again. shhe said, "you have your card. you are on my own." that was a delightful experience. i started to read my way through sections, and that is what i would do, until i discovered poetry and then i did not read my way through any other section. in a poem, you could hold inconsistency. i could not understand what it bothered with fiction. i read some and liked it, but the world was so much more complex than any fiction book i ever read except maybe the tale of benji. it was where you could go when it was too late in the house, which is, having an american family -- 99% of the time it was too crazy in the house. it was good to have that. i am hoping to do lots of stuff in li

sony said he's the first noble laureate to be appointed an adviser. they hope his appointment will lead to the development of ro h revolutionary products. >>> russia's foreign minister told his north korean counterpart monday that his country is deeply concerned about the north's uranium enrichment program. he stressed the importance of resuming the six-party talks. they met in moscow on monday. he expressed serious concerns about the uranium enrichment facility. he urged pyongyang to abide by a commitment to abandon its nuclear program. bak gave an interview to a russian news agency prior to his visit. he said seoul is to blame for the north's artillery shelling of a south korean island. he also said the united states is obstructing the six-party talks. it's believed he reiterated these views when he met lavrof. >>> iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad has fired a foreign minister in an apparent attempt to reflect the country's hard line foreign policy. ahmadinejad made the announcement on monday on the presidential office website. he said vice presi

nor can the laureate's wife, liu xia, or his closest relatives be with us.dal or diploma will therefore be presented here today. >> brown: instead, an empty chair was left where liu would have sat, his award placed there. it was the first time a peace prize winner had been prevented from attending the ceremony since 1936, when adolf hitler barred a german pacifist from accepting the award. china had also rrediu's close relatives from attending, so norwegian actress liv ullman read from his court appeal last december. >> i hope that i will be the last victim of china's endless literary inquisitions, and that from now on, no one will be incriminated because of speech. freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity and the mother of truth." >> brown: liu's crime, under chinese law, was authoring an open letter called "charter 08". it called for open elections, free speech and the rule of law. he had also been a leader of the tiananmen square democracy movement in 1989, and served several other prison terms for dissident activiti

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this was a pr disaster, especially since the nobel laureate is so peaceful. >> in china i just want to be a dignified intellectual writer. if you -- if you try to be that you will crush with the political system. >> a norwegian actress read an essay by him. >> there is nothing criminal in anything i have done. but if charges are brought against me, i have no complaints. >> a some familiar faces in the audience were visibly moved. he managed to get word out of jail he would like a children's choir to perform. but infuriated by the committee, the chinese leadership has been behaving in a pretty bad way. this was what happened to "bbc world news" today in china. the broadcasts remained cut. maybe with hindsight the chinese should have done what i ran did win a human rights activist won the peace prize in 2003. they complained about it but when she actually came to accept the prize, they sent their ambassador to the ceremony. it diffused the entire problem. >> a vigil in the city center. china's anchor is as strong as ever -- china's anger is as strong as ever. >> police in london are inve

china condemned the choice of this year's laureate as an obscenity. torrential rains in southern spain have caused major flooding and many people have evacuated. one river hasas bus banks and flooded a historic town center. much of the region of andalusia was put on high alert and more heavy rain is on its way. severe weather wheat have thick and portugal as well wear a powerful tornado destroyed as cool and caused major damage in the northeastern teacher -- in a northeastern town. fans have gathered in liverpool and in new york city for vigils mararking th anniversary of the murder of john lennon. in new york, people lit candles and sang songs in remembrance of the musician whose life was abruptly ended by a gunman bullet. >> it was a cold night when mark chapman shot john lennon five times. he died almost instantly as news spread, thousands of fans gathered at the scene to mourn the musicians death. >> to open bracke♪ imagines alle ♪ >> 30 years later, this area still draws fans of his music. >> he lived in a time in which i was not born yet but is

researchers from the physical technical university where we worked in the laboratory of the nobel laureates of go to a unique opportunity to set up a private company here in germany we managed to secure significant funds from investors and this. company other implications produces millions of chips for the medical. research to create a unique chip to be used in the industry of optical computer into connections. to different place now. submitted a project. with a proposal to set up production facilities. a factory that ships using. something unique. to take knowledge is referring to is called quantum dots. where his company is among the global elite quantum dots or confined semiconductor crystals with unique electronic and optical properties discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. by physicists. quantum dots are great advantages in laser applications. to control for lasers. and for more amplitude and. relative noise. benefits. on the bases of a company's latest invention. make a chip that will transmit many channels through its. one hundred gigabits. you see everywhere today just a few.

spoke about how the chemic reaction has been further developed by suzuki, the other japanese noble laureate. he was asked about how to win a nobel prize. he stressed the importance of persistently pursuing a subject of interest rather than aiming to win. suzuki and american scientist richard heck shared the prize for developing the technique with palladium as a catalyst. he is expected to return to japan on wednesday local time. >>> russia's foreign minister told his north korean counterpart on monday that his country's deeply concerned about the north's uranium enrichment program. he stressed the sporns of resuming the six-party talks. sergei lavrov met with pack which choon in moscow on monday. lavrov said in a statement he expressed serious concerns about the uranium enrichment facility in yongbyon. he asked the north to abandon its nuclear program. he said seoul is to blame for the north's artillery of a south korean island and also said the united states is obstructing the six-party talks. it is believed that he reits rated these views when he met lavrov. >>> iran's president mahmoud a

. >> several other nobel peace laureates have also been prevented from collecting their prize in personcluding the burma pro- democracy leader, suu kyi. and in 1936, a german journalist was awarded the peace prize,nd not see rmany prevented him or his family from travelling to oslo to accept it. -- nazi germany prevented him from accepting it. the writers' group has long been engaged in drawing attention to their plight. >> china, cuba, iran, all countries in which riders face persecution -- writers face persecution. but their only weapon is the written word. >> the word is the most powerful weapon against a dictator. the word is what convinces people living inside the dictatorship that this is no life. >> 50 years ago, they founded the writers in prison committee to raise awareness of persecuted authors all over the world. in berlin, actors staged readings for renters forced into exile under hitler and stalin. some writers persecuted by the nazis. >> she is a survivor of the gulag. [speaking foreign language] >> where they burn bugs, there will end up burning human beings, he wrote pro

. >>> the united states has called on china to release this year's nobel peace prize laureate ahead ofhe award ceremony on friday. the house of representatives adopted a resolution by a vote of 402-1 on wednesday. the resolution congratulated liu for winning the peace prize and acknowledged his promotion of democratic reform in china. the resolution also urges china to free liu's wife and his supporters from house arrest or prison. the move is apparently aimed at showing the international community that the united states remains opposed to liu's imprisonment. a group of supporters of liu left hong kong for oslo on thursday to attend the award ceremony. >> bye-bye. >> bye. >> china and 18 other nations will shun this year's nobel peace prize awarding ceremony. norway's nobel committee on tuesday attributed the absence of the 19 countries to a variety of reasons but didn't elaborate. china's government has protested liu's selection, saying in effect it rewards a criminal who tried to overthrow the government. the country sent letters to foreign embassies in norway, urging their governmen

eleven year sentence for subversion chinese authorities also banned his wife from attending the laureate was awarded for his work on human rights and political reform the u.s. is among nations calling for his release raising questions about double standards on protecting people's freedom antiwar activist brian becker says the nobel peace prize is purely political china is right to be very that. the united states is used human rights of the mantle of human rights as a way to deal with the governments it wants to overthrow that that was certainly the case in the old former soviet union it's been the case in cuba it's the in the case of china today i think the united states wants to overthrow the government of china even while it's doing business with it there's an organic tendency by the united states to overthrow or try to overthrow every regime that follows an independent path the nobel peace prize is a is a political prize there's only been one chinese person in the history of this prize has ever gotten this award and it happens to be the man who's championing crusading against the exis

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there is one noticeably empty chair though in the audience it of course is reserved for chinese laureate who won the award for his human rights and political reform work the pro democrat democracy activist is serving in the eleven year sentence for subversion these are live pictures now of course from where the nobel peace prize ceremony is taking place just to remind you who she is not their chinese authorities are not only banning hand but also his wife attending that ceremony the u.s. is among nations calling for the release saying people expressions are a poor human right to get my pictures from the nobel peace prize ceremony taking place in the press or so don't speak for globalization analyst says this whole situation with the u.s. criticizing trying out and loser viral receiving the award smacks of double standards. i don't know because of the judgment and you know all. in the walk this implies it's really on target. you know political sense or good it has nothing to do with what your show a ball is actually done you come to the computer should try it's based on political consider

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nobel laureate, liu xiaobo. i guess i pronounced it right. i understand. as well as the release of all the heroic signers of charter 8. they are now in detention and house arrest for being so courageous with their name on a democrat document. there is nothing as low in the arena of global politics as officials of a regime who order the arrest and imprisonment of a nobel peace winner. they deserve a prize for their own. a prize for brutality. this year's prize would then go again to the chinese leadership who have awarded themselves this prize of infamy. more perplexing than gangsters acting like gangsters are american government officials who insist on treating the communist dictatorship as if it is morally equivalent to democratic government, thus, worthy of respect, trust and cooperation. for 30 years our state department has pushed a policy of open doors of trade and commerce with communist china. and we have, of course, shared our technology with communist china, invested in communist china. we closed factor

china condemned the choice of this year's laureate as an obscenity. torrential rains in southern spain have caused major flooding and many people have evacuated. one river has burst its banks and flooded a historic town center. much of the region of andalusia was put on high alert and more heavy rain is on its way. severe weather wheat have thick and portugal as well wear a powerful tornado destroyed as cool and caused major damage in the northeastern teacher -- in a northeastern town. fans have gathered in liverpool and in new york city for vigils marking the 30th anniversary of the murder of john lennon. in new york, people lit candles and sang songs in remembrance of the musician whose life was abruptly ended by a gunman bullet. >> it was a cold night when mark chapman shot john lennon five times. he died almost instantly as news spread, thousands of fans gathered at the scene to mourn the musicians death. >> to open bracke♪ imagines alle ♪ >> 30 years later, this area still draws fans of his music. >> he lived in a time in which i was not born yet

present company excepted, please, how was the secretary of energy and a nobel laureate deal with people who do not get it in washington? [laughter] >> please tell my mother that i am smarter than she thinks. i do not think that you go into any job with an attitude like that. i was a professor for many years. my attitude always -- when i was working at bell labs, sometimes i would have an idea and i would go and talk to management. i want to do this. that would say, no. my reaction was, ok, not that i am smarter than they, but ok, i went back and said, what did i not explain right? and then i would go back. this is what i think. once i went back three times and might then boss -- and might then-boss at said that i have the better things to do, he ended up actually letting me do it. he was not thrilled. but i always come in with the attitude that if you do not succeed the first time, try again. or they can try to convince you that they are right. that they are right.

. >> 45 economists disagree with you including some who are noble laureates saying this is a different market. >> on the constitutionality? >> no. i'm talking about whether this is requiring the same as requiring somebody to buy anything else. >> no. this is again the left is happy when two district court judges rule with them. this is the most substantive challenge to obama care that has actually had a substantive decision, not a procedural grounds >>> let me say out of the three cases that have been cited tonight the first 2 mainly procedural, this one on the merits, obama care unconstitutional because of the individual mandates. this judge gutted president obama's healthcare plan and if this reasoning moves forward, the american people, listen, it's unpopular. they don't want it. >> virginia is one of the few states that has a specific law saying you can't force somebody to buy health insurance. didn't that play into the ruling today? >> it played into the ruling a bit, but we'll see a case out of florida as well which the trial begins thursday, the oral arguments there, and florida

. >> several other nobel peace laureates have also been prevented from collecting their prize in personing the burma pro- democracy leader, suu kyi. and in 1936, a german journalist was awarded the peace prize, and not see germany prevented him or his family from travelling to oslo to accept it. -- nazi germany prevented him from accepting it. the writers' group has long been engaged in drawing attention to their plight. >> china, cuba, iran, all countries in which riders face persecution -- writers face persecution. but their only weapon is the written word. >> the word is the most powerful weapon against a dictator. the word is what convinces people living inside the dictatorship that this is no life. >> 50 years ago, they founded the writers in prison committee to raise awareness of persecuted authors all over the world. in berlin, actors staged readings for renters forced into exile under hitler and stalin. some writers persecuted by the nazis. >> she is a survivor of the gulag. [speaking foreign language] >> where they burn bugs, there will end up burning human beings, he wrote pro

paul krugman is a nobel laureate at princeton university and a columnist for the "new york times." and stephen moore is the co- founder of the conservative club for growth, and a member of the "wall street journal's" editorial page. paul krugman, the president seems to be saying it's not all i want but we have to protect americans in need. yesterday you wrote he should say no to extending all the tax cuts if necessary. what do you say today. >> i still think it's a mistake. it's not as bad a mistake as it seemed before we saw some of these other elements. he got the payroll tax break and the unemployment extension. but this is basically if you think about the u.s. economy, this is a lot of money. weren't we all worrying about deficits just the other day. that is very badly designed to help the u.s. economy. so we're spending a lot of money in an ineffective way. a lot of this is is just going to be money handed over to people who will not spend it. it's not actually going to boost the economy. we are setting up a dynamic which may sit unfortunately more likely that those tax cuts,

to meet some chinese dissidents in the white house and it is on the eve of the nobel peace prize laureatey have noticed in the introduction i and am the deputy secretary of state so you will have to direct your question to the white house. >> mohamed of reuters. can you shed any light on how you would like china to make clear to north korea that its actions have consequences. this is simply a matter of persuasion or would you like them to actually consider doing are actually do things that may constrict or affect their trade and economic relations with the north? and secondly do you have any sympathy for these chinese academics say is part of the chinese calculation here. that is to say that undo actions on their part could have a significant effect on north korea at a relatively fragile time in its history and when it is undergoing a succession process? >> i think this is something we look forward to discussing with the chinese. i think we want to share views and get their perspectives on that as well but there are a number of things that may make sense and i think it is important for us

schoenfeld come laureate entitled to a brief response. >> well, i count myself in agreement with many things mr. blanton said about one thing i strenuously disagree with is the notion that wikileak is responsible in what it's done. they may have indeed redacted some of the documents and the most recent disclosure what we have had the two previous large numbers of documents and by the sea to thousand cases referred to in my judgment is a large number of documents and these were documents that were also about military operations in the field reports, and a number of congressmen have referred to secretary gates remarks as missing the damage done by the latest disclosures. as one looks back at what his remarks were this past summer he said the lives of american soldiers and of afghan civilians who cooperated with efforts were placed at risk in the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff has said there was blood on the hands of wikileaks to read these views are entitled to a great deal of respect to the notion that it is responsible seems to me unsupportable. >> i would like to submit, mr. c

this lecture series was created in the name of the great nobel prize laureate anwar sadat, a man of extraordinarydent of egypt, he exhibited extraordinary courage. he was described by president jimmy carter and by then secretary of state henry kissinger as the greatest leader they each had known. president sadat was a victim of the hatred that he sought to vanquish. his dream has not died. thanks to the vision and support of his widow, dr. sadat, the university has the opportunity through this special series to pay tribute to this great man by promoting his ideals. the sadat lecture of peace is one of the highlights of our academic year. we are all indebted to those that make it possible, to dr. sadat, the professor for their dialogue in the middle east, and for dean townsend. we gather today to hear a lecture on peace at a time when peace is elusive, and the specter of war has spread to many corners of our globe. everywhere, people yearn for peace, and they look for leadership. guided by the example of such great men as anwar sadat, we persevere in tha tnoble quest. we are deeply honored that se

we hope china will take positive steps including release of the nobel laureate, and we will -- we feel it is important to address these issues responsibly and correctly. not only can these be seen in the context of the deep exchange taking place, but in the first phase of audience -- first days of office, the level of exchange and engagement has made an important contribution to building an atmosphere of understanding and trust and helping us deal with common challenges. this will be the eighth meeting of our president since president obama took office and falls just a few months after the g-20 in salt -- seoul, and we have another opportunity to address the key issues, and both sides are working hard to make that a productive visit. it is clear we have achieved a lot, but there is also work ahead of us to make sure our relationship produces the kind of results both of our countries expect for our people. we're actively producing our relationship. as we work together bilaterally and regionally and within our regions, we shape the landscape for the 21st century. the relationship between

schoenfeld come laureate entitled to a brief response. >> well, i count myself in agreement with many things mr. blanton said about one thing i strenuously disagree with is the notion that wikileak is responsible in what it's done. they may have indeed redacted some of the documents and the most recent disclosure what we have had the two previous large numbers of documents and by the sea to thousand cases referred to in my judgment is a large number of documents and these were documents that were also about military operations in the field reports, and a number of congressmen have referred to secretary gates remarks as missing the damage done by the latest disclosures. as one looks back at what his remarks were this past summer he said the lives of american soldiers and of afghan civilians who cooperated with efforts were placed at risk in the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff has said there was blood on the hands of wikileaks to read these views are entitled to a great deal of respect to the notion that it is responsible seems to me unsupportable. >> i would like to submit, mr. c