the first narrative on -- i'm only going read a narrative on one of the reports. the reason is there's a couple of different issues here that i want to address. we've had -- actually the first 121 m.p.c. that i come across and basically the year, i haven't seen a single one. i know when the law was passed, a lot of people had real concerns about what the police and the clubs were going to be doing as far as shooing people away and that sort of thing. so this is the first case that i've seen. out of all the reports that i've come across from central station. and also it deals with that and also the communication with the station, how important it is. not waiting for an emergency after it started but trying to get out in front of it and proactively. this is a narrative. i'll go into it real quick. i was flagged down by the general manager of a horizon nightclub located at 498 broadway street. and stated that he was having difficulty removing a patron from his nightclub and requested assistance. he pointed to a male and stated that's him. i approached the suspect who

[applause] the one thing that is more rare than narrative science writing is women narrative science writing. it is great we are here to talk about this. i think in some ways it is everything in the kind of writing that we do. science is something that affects everybody's life. is so important for the general public to understand science and to see the way science interact with daily life and it is important for scientists to learn the stories of the people behind the science that they are doing and to think of science in a narrative way. a lot of people don't. what you get in science writing is the facts and those facts are often intimidating to the general public. one thing i hear over and over again from people when you hear about my book is, tactically it is the story of the first human cells are grown in culture and when you say that to people they go you wrote a book about cells? but it is not. it is a story about a family and what happens -- about ethics in science and the use of people in research without their consent. it is about class and race and so many things and scienc

they should stick to the common matters. -- the, narrative. what is that, narrative? from september 12, 2001, until today -- at the base exchange? you would still have that problem with extremist groups. they were based in tribal areas. they were based in afghanistan. they are attacking afghanistan on a day-to-day basis. what does it take to make political kabul stick to the narrative? there are plenty of contrasting tests that are subsidized by your assistance to do their jobs better. we should not wait. i totally disagree that the afghans will start taking responsibility in 2014. no. there should be a deadline for the completion of handover. my message is i do not believe the afghan national army is a protective force. they should be allowed to do operations by themselves. it is a matter of casualties. their political leaders must promote the cause. we should not be motivated through an op-ed. that is not our media. we have our own media. meaningful reform is strategic messaging and, also, the start of handing over responsibility -- it should have started from yeste

organizations like pamela narratives that she. wanted to go on is law now recognizing all the differences i am not unity we why you're not right let's talk about no longer a muslim going to go to prison or attacks. every day or even having. to be related to them at every death was a murder every death was a murder and they don't know the cause of jihad and every and every death was a murder and every death was terrible i agree with you but the nine eleven situation is completely i agree with you there is no muslim backlash that's part of this islamic narrative you cannot say is cite any hate crimes that have been no he crimes america has gone out of her way to make sure that there was no backlit there's we are ok ok you guys and we are not words and we're out of time we have to . i want to consume every instruction in the battle and i go. after nine eleven there's a lot of yeah i think the government not ordinary assistant watch we're not going on there i'm just in i don't think it does it doesn't exist but islamic anti-semitism i

liberating about the purity of story telling, if you can reduce everything to the pure lie of the narrative. it's a wonderful freedom for a writer. one of the things that happens, in an adult novel, an enormous amount of what happens can be interior. in this kind of book you have to show who people are, what they're feeling, what they're thinking, and why. and you have to show it through what they say and what they do. so everything is exterior rised. hollman and rushdie next. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: or maybe you want to help when the unexpected happens. whatever you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer, or donate for the causes you believe in at membersproject.com. take charge of making a difference. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> classical, modern and intellect sexual physical ballet is an art form that has no written text. former dancer, critic and historian, jennifer homan has written the first ever cultural history of ba

while the human mind acts out that narrative similar to an improv class you know is it just me or does this sound like a story time for afghans. with whom we. just didn't. let me explain in a way that you can understand and you see america is. it's the mean mean taliban terrorists that the taliban keep little kids indoors all day long and they take away their tour. now the americans they give out too and they give out candy but the mean men steal your food and they take their parents. but the americans and their nato friends. they give them jobs they put food on the table all for very very little so when the taliban are finally defeat. by the american heroes. to go to school be able to play with their friends outside and hug your mom and daddy and you'll be able to have. all the chocolates that you. know raised. all we've got just one more break but when we return we'll give you a good look back at our interviews with not one but two sovereigns said is that we really tried hard to find out what this movement was all about but let's just say i think that everybody left more confused aft

it is a nice story but it is part of a nicer narrative.are really proud of the work, and the best is truly a to come. thank you all very much. [applause] now for the next electrifying presentation, supervisor dufty. [laughter] >> great to see everybody. as usual, the mayor cover the waterfront, so to speak, with all the details of this industry and what we hope to see happen. so i can be light-hearted and say that becoming the next mayor of san francisco is almost as much of a growth. i am sure many will go to sleep tonight dreaming about the possibility of having an electric mayor's vehicle. i think they are already making plans. on a more serious note, i think i am like many people in the bay area. i have been driving my honda for 13 years, i love it, but i have held out thinking about a new vehicle. i think the infrastructure that will be made over the next year will really convince more and more people to make that choice. i think it is really exciting and another demonstration of the lasting legacy of this mayor, in terms of the envir

they should respect to the, narrative. what is that, narrative? as i said, from september 12th, 2001, until today, have the basics changed? you still have extremist groups. they were based in tribal areas. they were based in afghanistan. did they were pushed out of afghanistan. there in tribal areas and attacking us on an everyday basis. so, what is at stake to make political, will respect the narrative? a and there are plenty of ways. we should not wait -- i totally disagree with the literature is that the afghans well start taking -- with the literature that the afghans will start taking responsibility by 2014. the afghans should start taking responsibility from yesterday. my message is, afghan police, afghan national army should not be a protected forest. they should be allowed to do operations by themselves. again, this is a cause for us, and the political leaders must promote that cause. we should not be motivated because of an op-ed in the and the new york time or washington post or fox news. we have our own media. now, meaningful reform, a

it is part of the broader narrative but it doesn't factor into our conversation. >> i've had business executive goes over there and say you know what, china reminded me it is a country run by engineers and they run it like a business is that a fair appraisal from were you-- . >> it's fair to some extent. but i think what you see breaking through is a creative class. a creative class of entrepreneurs, of doers,. >> rose: in fashion, everything. >> across-the-board. >> rose: technology. >> we're just seeing the earliest signs of that. but i think in the years to come we will see a powerful creative class emerge that will put pressure on china to respect intellectual property rights, to engage in fair practices. to embrace world-class standards, whether it's governance of a corporation or market access issues. the emerging class of entrepreneurs, the creative class which i get to interact with a lot in china. they have a whole lot more power to carry these messages to the decision makers than we do or any other country in the world. because their future is china's future. and so when you

and i think that is the next narrative in this discussion, is the damage we have done in the last half is such that this conference, regardless of whether or not we take bold leadership in the next months and years ahead, the reality is we are going to be burdened with the mistakes of the past and we better get serious to begin to address them. so i want to thank each and every one of you for taking the time to come here from seattle, los angeles, new york, all across the country, interestingly those coastal cities, appropriately those coastal cities that are taking the time to be here, and begin the process not only of identifying the problem today and working through the consensus again, sort of sharing the same set of facts which continues to dominate the dialogue, but then begin the process of resolving what we do about this reality tomorrow. that being said, in san francisco i'm very proud to be a resident of a city, fifth generation city, of a city that has always been a city of dreamers and doers, a city of entrepreneurs, a city that doesn't just identify these larger global pro

like anything, the narrative of our lives is a narrative of impact, an impact in other people's lives, and it continues next-generation for kids that are here with us, kids that will be joining us in years to come. the impact is extraordinary and why i'm so pleased that you are here, why your colleagues are here, your friends and family are here, and that is why i'm so pleased that a number of years ago people came into my office and said it was about time we say thank you in a formal way. the country has been doing it for years. it goes back president to president to president. the governor's office has been doing it years and years. here in san francisco, we realize up until 2006, the city never formally said thank you to our teachers, and then, we realize this and as we said thank you to our teachers, the next year, we said, what about the principles? we quickly rectified that in 2007. the challenge is that gets more challenging each and every year that we get so many good candidates that it gets harder and harder to make the final decision. what has happened in the past is that it

. >> yet, it is an incredible narrative and storytelling. congratulations. just a fantastic book. [applauding] in addition to the fact that i admire san so much, i have to say that i am excited to be here with them today because he is a very good friend. when i was starting at texas monthly ingenue less about editing stories than i do today, we went to lunch together. work on a piece that i did not feel great about, but was okay with. sam and i went to lunch. i had never met him before. he had been the southwest bureau chief and prior to that in national correspondent. he was hired as an executive editor and is now a senior writer in my neck of the woods. in first talking about the story, every moment that i thought that i had taken a misstep in that piece as an editor, he was able to identify on his on. yet he was able to do it in such a wonderfully supportive and instructive weight. i did not feel bad about having not done it as well as i would have liked to in the first place. that relationship was able to develop over the years in terms of stories we have written. i'm happy to

certainly as a reporter, so much about this overblown and oversimplified narrative. i wanted to see what actually happened in floods, droughts, fights over land, oil, water, and even in indonesia, crops of chocolate. and the global price of chocolate spiked the principal ingredient in chocolate is grown in eastern indonesia. christians and muslims began to fight over that very valuable land. so i wanted to see what actually happens when resource conflicts are mixed. it isn't that religion can be explained away by a political economy. it isn't always a question of have and have not. so essentially i wanted to look, try to restore the reality of this beyond this monolithic oversimplified clash which is simply not the truth on the ground. >> why is the price of a religious issue? >> that is a good question. the price of kick out is a dividing issue. so because -- essentially what has happened in eastern indonesia which is really interesting in terms. dates back hundreds of years. some of these confrontations and the history of coexistence are hundreds, if not thousands

it has all been part of this narrative of literacy, to focus on building public/private partnerships and connecting to foundation, the academic community, and leaders throughout the city and really focus on stabilizing our diverse population, to provide resources, both the academic resources as well as the financial resources for people to move ahead and move forward. i have always thought cities are laboratories of innovation, states are laboratories for democracies. this is where new ideas should be promulgated in should be pushed and should be advanced, and that is what we should be doing. this narrative that extends many years later to this program, a kindergarten to college, first of its kind in america. no city has done this. we tried for years ago, but members of the board of supervisors did not like the idea then rejected it. we did not even get a hearing. then, we got some other faces and learned a political lesson, and they took the lead, and we got a lot more support. supervisors campos and dufty felt this was an idea worth pursuing, and they led the charge of the board of

crusade, a narrative history of the persian gulf war and the long gray line, the narrative account ofst point's class of 1966. he is currently at work on volume three of his trilogy in the liberation of europe in world war ii. it atkinson's awards include the 92 pulitzer prize for national reporting in 1999 pulitzer prize for public service. the 2003 pulitzer prize for history in 1999 for national reporting and the 2007 gerald r. ford award. for distinguished reporting on national defense. please join me in welcoming the 2010 recipient of the pritzker military library literature award for lifetime achievement in military writing, rick atkinson. [applause] it may be very easy to just keep giving you a word for your work. >> i'll take you. >> you would take them. this has been a fascinating, fascinating career. have you ever wondered if you wake up in something also have been? >> i'm afraid i might wake up in something else might have been. i've been very lucky. as with many people are blundered into what may turn out to be a real passion and that was the newspaper business and not prov

but it's in part because nobody's giving us a project now that has a storyline, a narrative that goes end in a sequence that actually makes sense. so i applaud you for that. >> thank you. tavis: good thing. the new project from keri hilson is called "no boys allowed." that is the sophomore disk, although as i said earlier, feels like she's given us a lot more because she has working with other artists but she's back with her own c.d. and i'm sure it will do extremely well. >> hope so. tavis: very good to have you on. that's our show for tonight. until next time, thanks for watching and keep the faith. ♪ i know you know some women >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. >> i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with edmund morris on his new look at teddy roosevelt. that's next time. >> all i know is his name is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference. >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every an

the president has to show courage in rallying the american people and changing the narrative. keith, it's not just that this is a bad bill in terms of what it does for the middle class and the benefits for the wealthy. we are developing a narrative that said despite the fact that is a bad bill in terms of what it does for the middle class and the benefits for the wealthy. we are developing a narrative that said despite the fact that the democrats control the white house and the house of representatives and the senate, the democrats are on the defensive and the republicans are on the offensive and two years from now after the debate begins, we talk about extending the breaks for the rich even more. we talk about another payroll tax holiday which means that billions more will not be coming in to social security. you will talk about more compromises which says we didn't cut social security by 20% and we only cut it by 10%. aren't we doing well? we have to change that dynamic. >> practically speaking with the tax cuts for the middle class connected at the hip for tax cuts, what ot

it is scholarly, yet riveting narrative that traces the sordid history of sexual violence directed against black women in the jim crow era, and it illuminates how the little-known actions of rosa parks long before ha busboy cot helped create the imwe constitution. dr. mcguire's book -- and this is a quote -- details the all-too-ignored rape of black women. just as important, she plots resistance against this outrage, the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s. please join me in welcoming dr. danielle l. mcguire. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you, especially, to the georgia center for the book for inviting me here and for the decatur public library for hosting us tonight and, of course, to all of you for bearing with me through this presentation. i'm thrilled that you're here tonight. in 1944 in alabama a black woman walked home from a church revival. a carload of white men kidnapped her off the street, drove her to the woods and brutally gang raped her. when they finished, they dropped her off in the middle of town, and they threatened to kill her if she told anyone what happe

they there's connective tissue there in which there's stories and a narrative. >> well, you discover something about how your mind works and this is my third book so i knew by now starting out that what interested me, the way i like to write, is to really become lost. so in a way the more voices, the more stories within stories, the more possibility there is to discover things, to lose my way but then sort of find myself surprised. so i began writing lots of different stories, characters in very, very different places in time and space and you know i started as a poet and, of course, the basic unit of the poem is the metaphor and a metaphor is thrilling because it's two very, very remote things that when they form a third thing, when a bridge is formed between them, there's this amazing... we love them because it gives an illusion that all things are connected somehow. that many things have meaning and i think i write like that. i love to take these stories and make metaphors out of them. to make these underground connections, echoes, symmetries, joints that hold the hole together. s

but it's something of a fictional narrative and i think something of that inventiveness of memory has always moved and interested me. so my books, all three of them, have been about memories, it's been about that particular interest. >> rose: so what does the book and "the history of love" and "the desk" what do they stand? >> the book within in the book in "the history of love"? well, i've always ban great reader, i love reading and i think naturally they're going to be about literature, about books i've loved and have affected me. in "the history of love" you have this lost book within a book" which nobody reads and just goes unpublished except for a very, very few copies. >> rose: and it passes among the characters. >> those who find it, it changes their lives in some way and it connects them, moves them toward each other and i think this hopeful sense of the ways in which literature can connect us so that was that's what that book within the book was for me. i ink writing in "great house" is different. i've moved the angle, shifted the lens. as much as the literature is that perha

it is lost in the narrative. but that is the debate on capitol hill. everyone get it on all the money? or just on the portion up to $250,000, rather, below $250,000. a vote is expected literally any minute. but what would happen if the tax cuts expired as they are set to do by law at the end of the year? we will say we would all be opening up our wallets and forking over more money. and now gerri's two cents, the anchor of the willis report. how much would each of the proposals cost? >>reporter: first the cost to the government. it will cost $700 billion to extend all tax cuts for everybody for 10 years. that's the biggest deal. and for middle-class taxpayers extending those for 10 years, $400 billion to the government. and in two year extension of everyone, just two years, that's immediate, for everyone, all levels $300 billion. and this morning this was conversation about extending everyone for a single year, $150 billion. >>shepard: that doesn't tell the whole story. that said, if they all expire, how much will families need to fork over? >> everyon

never stray far away from the common news narrative. or enough or not r.t. new york. so when the mainstream media focuses so much of their attention only on muslim terrorists not any christian white ones when you have fox news telling americans that ten percent of all muslims are terrorists and perhaps even worse when we look back at this clip. big over the outrage that somebody was saying there's a reason there was a certain group of people they attacked us on nine eleven it wasn't just one person it was religion not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslims. and so after that should we really be surprised that islamophobia is on the rise it's a sad day when the media no longer informs the public rather when they only misinformed and start scaring them but these are the times that we live in so i guess the only question left to ask is how do you get people to stop listening to everything they say or earlier from our studio in los angeles i caught up with an experience from the young turks i first asked her which she thought was worse our previous disc

they wanted to use the power of film to bring in the stories, to bring in authentic images and narrativesf the arab world, here to american audiences, in order to fight the negative stereotyping, and to introduce the positive, authentic images to america, which iraq california, -- throughout california, a teasing familiarity, establishing harmony between our communities. the selection this year it is really a good selection. it is perverse, comes from more than 18 countries. it has a bit of everything for everyone. -- it is diverse, comes from more than 18 countries. there are shorts, and from us, comedies, you name it. this year, the film festival takes place in the castro. there is a comedy film from nigeria that is pretty hilarious. you can get to know arabs threw their laughing as well. [speaking in foreign language] >> when you come to see all the diversity, nationality, ethnic, skin color, dialect, anything that you can think of, that world is very rich in diversity. we are trying to represent that diversity so people can see the different parts of the arab world. [speaking in arabi

was the american narrative? >> and these are complicated things to tell stories about. no question it's not easy to explain why the economy is working the way it's working. you need to get people behind the message. when you look at the midterms there are a lot of people who would say people weren't paying enough attention. that's not true and people worked pretty hard. to the 80% of folks who don't get an opportunity to pay attention to the business pages and the politics pages in the way that you and i do, you have to engage them. you have to tell them what's expected, what we're going to do going forward to come neat this brand-new world, make it less scary. >> rose: where did you come there from? >> i started at "time" magazine, i was hired in 1999 by walter isaacson. i was hired into a different kind of journalism world. i take credit for them making $100 million. no, i was a junior reporter. >> rose: walter always said that. >> i appreciate that. i grew up in a system where you freelanced around the magazi

their old ways of thinking. >> not only in the titles but in the arguments of your books in the narrative arts, you have that way of crystallizing an idea that people do take the way. of course the point is now a catchphrase for people have a sense of a cultural phenomenon but i remember as i read your books as they came out that they are the kind of looks bad as you are reading them you are sort of surprised, amazed and you want to read aloud to someone. listen to this. did you ever think of this? so i mean you have that ability i guess to sort of make people think in a certain way at least for a little while and then they come back to their senses, i don't know. [laughter] your ideas about -- is so compelling. what i'm interested in, you are talking about a reporter and to get this bank robber to speak to you and similarly in the lost city of z you are in search of this very old document in a resilient national library, and it hadn't been seen in decades or a century or something like that. somehow you were able to persuade the library and actually to let you see it so if you could just

first of all, like i said, asserting our narrative as arab- americans is very important. through our historic legacy, we have had poetry being a crucial and historic part of our culture. old tradition is a very important part of arab culture, so we will be starting with two pieces from two arab-american women that are students at uc- berkeley. the creme de la creme. they are both brilliant individuals. they will do a co-written peace -- piece, so i'm going to hand it to them. thank you. [applause] >> is this working? ok. we are students at the university of california berkeley, and we would like to share some poetry with you guys. [speaking foreign language] we circled the dark path was slow, deliberate steps eyes fixed in pain, confusion, and grief we are the ambling madmen we are grievants an insanity we are fragments of broken people >> this is a funeral hymn we sing about our mothers history is lost the struggles of our fathers >> i can sit in the aromas of my past four days in the morning coffee stains my consciousness coffee was once the morning silence, a moment of