he speaks at new york university in new york city for about an hour. [applause] >> can i say i am here for one very, very important reason? because your brilliant president, john saxton, has inspired me as he inspires you and as he inspires, increasingly, many continents around the world with a vision of a global network university. this is a vision that is born out of john's great and deep thinking. it's a vision that is forged out of a view of the interdependence of civilizations around the world. it is a view that is being driven forward by brilliant people in this university, and it's being realized in a campus already in abu dhabi, plans for other campuses, plans for sites on all the different continents of the world with this great ideal that by people meeting with each other, discussing with each other, debating with each other ideas and challenging each other about their ideas and prejudices that we can build a stronger global society in the future. so i am very privileged to have been invited, first of all, by my great friend, bob, and then by

he has released two albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the school in columbia university, and is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line teacher. a teacher, educators, researchers, writers, consultant, speaker. she is like a mother, auntie, big sister, all in one, for me. she has taught in canada, the caribbean, and the u.s. and has been involved in the development of teachers for two decades. she consults on anti-racist inclusion very and equitable education. she assists school districts and schools to continually restructure themselves for equitable outcomes for all students. the initiative put that puts race -- she designed the initiative that puts race on the table. she is the virtual scholar for teaching for change. she is the author o

thousands of people streamed into central cairo's tahrir square, one in that mass of people was a new york university professor who has been in the square every day. >> this has not happened, ever in egyptian history. never before. >> they say for this moment this is something that is once in a lifetime. >> jipgs native postponed a communications class at san francisco state so she can watch what she thought would be the end of a 30-year regime. as mubarak spoke it became clear what he wasn't saying. >> the disappointment was profound. >> and in tahrir square, the crowd began shouting leave, leave. mubarak said outsiders were pressuring him to go. >> he's trying to appeal to that part of the population who don't like to be told what to could do. >> visiting san francisco today, u.s. ambassador to the united states. i asked -- united nations. i asked will the stance change a u.s. position? so far, president obama has not called on president mubarak to step down immediately. >> how we get from here to there is for the people of egypt. to determine it's not going to be something that can be imposed from

. >> host: clay shirky, what do you teach at new york university? >> guest: i teach theory and practice of social media. i've been for the last ten years in the interactive telecommunications program, and be i have just taken a joint appointment with the journalism department because one of the places where the effects of digital media are most enormous visible right now is in journalism, and i want to be part of figuring out how in the middle of these enormous changes in both practice and business model we continue to get the amount and quality of journalism that a functioning democracy needs. >> host: what are -- what choices have you made in technology? what do you use? >> guest: oh, i use an android phone, i've got the, just got the 11-inch macbook air. i've got a lennox desktop, and i'm playing with the ipad although now that i've got the phone, the ipad doesn't fill in enough of a gap. i like it, but i'm not transformed by it in part because so much of what i do with these devices is to write, not just to read. and the little laptop is better

claire gaudiani is a professor at the wagner school at new york university. she is a senior fellow here at the institute for american values. she is also a fellow at demos, an excellent think tank also based here in new york. she served on many numerous corporate and not-for-profit boards. she served her 12 years as the president of connecticut college. she writes prolifically and lectures widely enter random truck, which we will be talking about tonight is called "genersity unbound," how american philanthropy has strengthened the economy and we built the american middle class. so, claire, welcome. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> you have an argument to make. you have a story to tell. take a few minutes. just put the ideas on the table. >> before i do that, can i thank you for this beautiful center for public conversation? i think all the guests present tonight understand what an important place that says amit democracy is a discussion and this is the place that starts from that position and then invites the anchors and the raiders and the authors togeth

of the stanley foundation and richard gowan of the center for international cooperation at new york university. thank you both for being with us on great decisions. thank you for being with us as well on great decisions, and special thanks to our group in connecticut. to join a great decisions group yourself, visit greatdecisions.org. we'll see you next week, i'm ralph begleiter. >> to order a dvd of this series, visit shoppbs.org visit shoppbs.org or call 1-800-playpbs. [instrumental music] >> great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, inspiring americans to learn morebout the world. great decisions is produced in association with the university of delaware. sponsorship of great decisions is provided by price waterhouse coopers, llp, the aarp office of international affairs, and the european commission. >> clearly, the united states is still the preeminentstates military, cultural and economic leader in the world, but it's a dangerous precipice that we're on. >> the educational system is going to be a driving force. we are going to need a more educated work force. the kind

political and military gain that's something that a new report by the new york university's afghanistan regional project has just stated that it may be possible to reach a separate peace deal with the taliban the keeps al qaeda out of afghanistan but there are attempts to hammer the taliban through night raids home searches well they're in vertically creating opportunities for al qaeda and the taliban to become even more closely knit so when are we going to get it to our strategies are working jointly to discuss it as paul mccleary reporter for defense technology international paul thanks so much for being here thank you now before we get into strategy which of course also what we're talking about i want to ask what you make of this report in terms of the taliban and al qaeda i mean is there anything here that we don't really know already that the taliban al qaeda are not the same people that they have a complex history that perhaps our strategies are only making them you know bringing them closer together right i mean there's several books are lawrence wright is a looming tower kind of

this 50 a minute that was hosted by new york university in new york city. >> thank you, and thank you for being here. thank you so much to my wonderful friend, thank you also to my dean, richard come into the college for hosting this. thank you all for being here at this time, i'm sure that many things you could be doing, doing homework, faculty grading. and so i'm honored that you chose to be here with us. i will bring up to people who will help me read. lee couric who is also my aunt and an accomplished actress. [applause] >> and joshua who is a junior at the college of arts and science. [applause] >> so, as dean farrington said, this was a labor of love. it's one that for five years i worked on going through archives and in anthologies in attics trying to find the letters of african-americans that could help sketch portraits, intimate portraits of the people from the dusty plantation to the white house with the election of barack obama. and during this time i was surprised by everything i encountered by many who saw these letters less as documents of a people's history, more as per

elizabeth hughes, the discovery of insulin, and the making of a medical miracle at the new york university school of medicine. this is about an hour. [silence] [silence] >> multiple setbacks which fortunately culminated in insulin being purified and made available to diabetics have your the discovery of insulin by frederick banting, at charles best represents one of the greatest medical advances in history. the development took about two years. today in the drug takes 10-15 years to navigate, development, and regulatory the bill. the costs associated with developing the drug is also increasing dramatically. a new drug often exceeds a billion dollars in costs. insulin costs $1,400 to discover. i have all the invoices. $250,000 to develop the product -- process for mass production and clinical review. for me this story is quite personal. in 1975 when i was 28 years old i was diagnosed with hodgkin's disease. until the early 1960's hodgkin's had been a death sentence. i was fortunate enough to be diagnosed at that time when the treatment was available, and i was cured. because of my own exper

of thousands of people streamed into central cairo square, one in the massive people was l a new york university professor who has been in the square every day since the protests began. >> this has not happened ever. n.e. jiption history. never before. historic moment. historic moment. this is something that one sees once in a life time. >>reporter: 3 hours later in san francisco egyptian native postponed her communication class in san francisco state so she could watch what she thought would be the end of a 30 year regime. >> the citizens and children of egypt men and women. >>reporter: but as mubarak spoke it slowly became clear what he wasn't saying. >> to continue to shoulder my responsibility. >> about i was shocked. >> what? >>reporter: disappointment was profound. >> going to be a blood bath. >>reporter: in the square the crowd began shouting leave. leave. as mubarak said it was outsiders who were pressuring him to go. >> he's trying to appeal to that part of the egyptian population who don't like to be told what to do. >>reporter: visiting san francisco today the u.s. ambassador to the u

the new york university school of medicine is the host of this event. it's about an hour. dashed into the world. framed around a young girl named elizabeth use. it is story of the 10th scientific rivalries come at your site, multiple set tags, which virtually culminated in purified and made available to diabetics everywhere. the discovery of insulin by frederick answering, portion and jay jay r. macleod represents one of the greatest medical advances in history. the development of insulin took about two years. today a new drug takes 10 to 15 years to navigate development and regulatory review. the costs associated with developing a drug is also increased genetically. a new turn today often exceeds a billion dollars in cost. insulin costs $1400 to discover. i have all the invoices. in $250,000 to develop the process for mass production and clinical review. for me the story is quite personal. in 1975, when i was 28 years old, i was diagnosed with hodgkin's disease. into the early 1960s, hodgkin said benitez sentence. i was fortunate enough to be diagnosed at a time when the

she had dropped out of new york university intent on becoming a star. >> this is the stefani germanotta was her playing in a small club in 2006. ( band plays ) ♪ in january, she took us back to the building in new york she lived in before hitting it big. she had transformed herself once again. >> lady gaga: we're going to do it the new york way. >> cooper: okay. ( laughs ) you're buzzing all of the buzzers? >> lady gaga: yeah. someone'll listen. we did it. ( door bell buzzes ) hi, this is lady gaga. >> cooper: she wanted to show us her old studio apartment... >> lady gaga: i'm just wondering if i could say hi. >> cooper: ...but it turns out not everyone in new york is so enamored with fame. >> i'd rather not have any cameras. >> cooper: she grew up in a far more prosperous new york neighborhood with her parents and sister. she'd started piano and dance lessons at age four and went to a catholic girls' school. she was a good student but says she didn't feel like she ever fit in. >> lady gaga: i felt disenfranchised by my school and by the people in the school that would make fun of me an

new york city. new york city has asked stanford university to come and open up a satellite campus in manhattan, or statenor brooklyn. those are the three locations being talked about. the reason is, new york wants to attract more startup companies to the big apple with the hope of one day becoming more like a silicon valley. or maybe we should say silicon city. stanford is interested. the university president says they are pursuing this opportunity that would allow stanford to be an intellectual incubator for new york like it has been for silicon valley. this is not a done deal. stanford students won't be take the subway anytime soon. there is at least 19 world class institution that are competing for this opportunity including mit and cornell to open up the engineering school. so this is a competitive process that will take years. but we can definitely say that stanford is in the running and i'm sure that based on its reputation, the fact that so many startup companies have been founded by stanford grads, new york is going to be very interested in bringing stanford to the big apple. that is the latest f

tarek masoud of harvard, fouad ajami of johns hopkins, neil macfarquhar of the "new york times" and emad shahin of the university of notre dame. from cairo via telephone, anthony shadid of the "new york times." and we continue with stephen cohen of the institute for middle east peace and development and bruce riedel of the brookings institution. a program note, we have a fascinating conversation with bill gates about his foundation and how he sees the eradication of polio. that conversation was taped today and we will show it to you at a later date because tonight we wanted to focus on the events in egypt. that's coming up next. maybe you want school kids to have more exposure to the arts. maybe you want to provide meals for the needy. 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. >> rose: you c

this event was held at new york university and hosted by the clinton foundation. it is one hour and 10 minutes. >> skeletal prisoners behind barbed wire. horse in europe we thought had been banished forever. yet at home, there was not much appetite. abroad, our european allies state fast and resisted tougher measures that might but the humanitarian mission at risk. by mid-1995, bosnian serbs shelled innocent families in sarajevo. it took u.n. peacekeepers hostage. president clinton concluded that american leadership was the only hope for peace. that august wheat began an all- out diplomatic initiative. backed by the use of nato force, it shifted the balance of power. the early weeks were scarred by tragedy. first the death of three american diplomats and then a mortar attack on sarajevo. nato's relentless air strikes together with bosnian and croatian gains on the ground lead the party to a cease-fire and to dayton where for 21 days of our negotiating team led by our extraordinary ambassador, richard holbrooke, pushed, prodded, pressed, persuaded, and finally prev

some of the team, the women's teams may have to take precedence to keep the university in compliance with title 9. the "new yorkaises questions about eliminating all the teams altogether would interfere with the university's title ix funding. they maintain they remain in compliance with title ix and they took that under consideration even as they were considering cutting these teams. again that announcement coming at noon. >> we'll be waiting for the decision. thank you, christin ayers in berkeley. >>> time now 5:35. and if you liked yesterday, you will love today because i guess it's going to be warmer, huh, lawrence? >> enjoy it while we have it. we have a major change coming, frank, in the weather pattern as we are going to get back some wintry weather here in the bay area. it is a cold start to the day. temperatures running at 31 degrees, freezing in napa, freezing in santa road, 31 and freezing in fairfield. 35 even in livermore. so you get the idea. a cold start to the day. but as we head toward the afternoon, what a day it's going to be again. high pressure and those offshore winds will crank up the temp

have ryan hecker, right is a huge and -- a houston attorney who grew up in new jersey, went to new york universityrd for his law degree. ryan created a contract from america to give a voice to the thousands of frustrated americans who don't believe that the government is listening to them. many of you know about the contract of america. it was a crowd source 10-point plan created to the input of over a half a million americans. next we have and do more than. and to is the vice vice president of government affairs for the national taxpayers union. he lobbies on federal and state issues, conducts policy research and analysis, assist in taxpayer education and formulates reports and opinion pieces. if you read andrew record in the washington show, the "washington times" and "forbes" magazine. and, finally, we are honored to date to be congressman john michael labadie. it's my personal honor to do is congressman mulvaney because the ending spending fund believes very deeply that the congressman that congressman mulvaney replace, i got by the name of john spratt was the chair of the budget committee had

this was held at the new york university hosted by the clinton foundation and it is about one hour and 10 minutes. >> there was widespread ethnic cleansing and we put terror's in europe have been banished forever. at home, there was not much appetite for a distant war. abroad, our european allies steadfastly resisted tougher measures that might put the humanitarian mission at risk. by mid-1995, bosnia shelled out thousands of innocent people and took un peacekeepers hostage. president clinton concluded that american leadership was the only hope for peace. that august, we began an all-out diplomatic initiative backed by the use of nato force to shift the balance of power. the early weeks were scarred by a tragedy. first the debts of three american diplomats and then a brutal attack on sarajevo. the relentless air strikes by nato together with bosnian gains on the ground finally led the parties to a cease-fire. for 21 years -- for 21 days, are negotiating team led by our extraordinary ambassador, richard holbrooke, pushed and prodded pressed and persuaded and finally prevail. ed. after n

. >>> new york is inviting stanford university to open a campus in the big apple. it would like stanford to create an engineering school combining the reputation with silicon valley status. new york does not have a top ranked research and graduate school. >>> animal rights activists are outraged at this chinese magician. it's because this controversial trick where he gets them to swim in sink. magician says he will not reveal his secret but they are not harmed. >>> the marine corp, navy, and air force have started classes to make sure the servicemen understand the new rules. president obama signed the rule repealing the openingly gay service members. >>> 5:18 is the time right now. at least the roads are drier this morning. rain expected i think by the afternoon commute. could we see rain, sal, have you heard? >> i have a man who i know. >> you know real well. >> i know him pretty well. he's standing in the wings. good morning, everybody. i'm actually curious about that myself. i'm way curious about tomorrow for obvious reasons. this is a look at highway 24. one thi

the san jose mercury news reports new york city is inviting stanford university to consider creating an engineering school there. stanford's president announced the project yesterday. new york lacks a top ranked science, research and graduate school. it's third behind the bay area and boston in an effort to acrack hi-tech firms. >> a lot said about california's big budget deficit but our problem is not unique. legislators are proposing drastic measures to balance their books but no battle as heated as the one in wisconsin. the republican-controlled legislature is considering a measure that would essentially cancel every state union's collective bargaining agreement. >> and that's why tens of thousands of teachers, prison guards and other public union workers stormed the state's capitol in protest saying the proposal amounts to union busting. it has to happen to help ease a $6.3 billion deficit. 14 wisconsin democratic lawmakers literally left the state to provent the legislature from voting on it. >> 6:22. coming up, the small facebook.com change that some say could make a global stat

he attended columbia university in new york. he first met his wife liliana when he was still an undergraduate. i missed him so when i give birth to my daughter i was about twenty one years older. one was just under twenty two at the time because those reasons over together as we grew older together i mean the sometimes passed differently first try some of the early and then our daughter got married the margin was very cheerful rather one was a man and our kids could rely on is that it will be he wasn't very strict over his democratic plan is to raise all children not only to get him polly until the war we're going to go to. one thousand nine hundred ninety two a bloody civil war broke out in bosnia former part of the republic of yugoslavia most half of its population sells bosnian muslims the rest call themselves orthodox serbs. relevant heritage became leader of the orthodox serbs and president of the serbian republic in bosnian territory. you know whether this is their god in the one around one entered politics in one thousand

officials from new york are extending the university an invitation. e an engineering campus in new york city. new york does not have but science research graduate school. because of that they fell behind. if stanford eggs excess the new campus would be larger and more permanent than the existing centers in d.c. and overseas. >> mark: out of nasa these tiny eruptions in the sun's surface called solar flares, not so tiny in the surface of the sun. scientists say they are the largest flares since 2006, the energy has beautiful northern lights, it can interfere with satellites though. we will be right back. >> mark: 9:00 a.m., the top stories right now president barack obama just leaving the bay area. he is headed to oregon. >> darya: thousands of people gathering in egypt once again to celebrate the long time ousting of their leader mubarak. >> mark: snow keeps coming down in the sierra, skiers are upout >> louisa: snow in the bay area at the dropping of both 3,000 ft.. heavy rain in san jose. watching it bringing showers up bin the peninsula. >> louisa >

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when club member and new york university professor catherine stimpson said she favored cutting ties, safer said, you are as you describe. you may also add humorless and vindictive. for decades he's been the wordsmith on "60 minutes" crafting features on the latest pianist or the great actress helen mirren. >> i think we should do this interview, both of us, in the nude. >> what the hell? >> reporter: other members include michael blmberg and jacquelyn kennedy onassis. some club members aren't amused. >> they were mortified when it became public and especially upset to find their e-mails will be public. >> reporter: there was no comment from anyone at the century association. safer told nbc news, i can't comment on this. this is private club business. as for the subject of the flap, the two clubs will end their relationship on march 1. the relationship has lasted more than 60 years. >> mike, thank you very much. just ahead, the reporter who gave an incoherent report on the grammys live on air. what happened and how she's doing. we'll get the latest. but first this is "today" on nbc. >

news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening back home in new york tonight. and tonight the cairo we left behind seems very different. then, again, every day in this 11-day drama has been very different. the protesters called today the day of departure, meaning president mubarak's departure, but that was wishful thinking on their part, as he is still in place tonight. there was some violence today, but it was more peaceful and a lot of the protesters took part in friday prayers. the strange thing was those mubarak supporters, the thugs, the street gangs, seemed to disappear today just as suddenly as they first appeared earlier this week in such awful fashion when we saw those ugly scenes of violence with egyptians attacking fellow egyptians. so what did today mean and where are we headed possibly after this eventful week? our chief foreign correspondent, richard engle, remains on post tonight in cairo. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the day began tense. the protesters were bracing for violence. it never really happened. president mub

now, cutting the women's lacrosse and gymnastics would make the university non-compliant with title 9, the federal gender equity law. new yorkimes is saying if all five teams are cut, the university would have to add 50 spots for women and cut 80 spots for men in addition to the 100 already being cut by elimination of baseball, rugby and gymnastics. now, the university initially said it needed about $75 million to keep things going. now it is saying if it had $25 million and a guarantee of money coming in down the line, they might be able to save all five sports. live at u.c., terry mcsweeney, abc 7 news. >> terry, thank you very much. it's 4:33 now. this morning contra costa county sheriff deputies and richmond police are trying to find people who opened fire on an a. c. transit bus. it happened near battery in north richmond. witnesses say several shots rang out. one bus rider was taken to the hospital with cuts from a shattered window but no one was hit by the gunfire. investigators have yet to determine whether someone on the bus was being targeteded or simply a random act. >> in oakland police arrested a suspect linked

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. >>> and new york city has asked stanford university to open up a satellite engineering campus theretop universities from around the world competing for a chance to open a campus in the big apple. >>> traffic and weather around the bay area in just a moment. stay with us. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> good morning. northbound 87 at curtner, car still in lanes, traffic slow on guadalupe parkway. we have seen some delays on 280 earlier but looks like things are improving. slick surfaces but it is friday light through that area on that northbound side of 280. elsewhere towards the golden gate bridge not bad. southbound moving well into san francisco out of marin county no delays through there. if you are heading across the san mateo bridge, so far, so good easy commute between 880 and 101. bay bridge problem-free. the metering lights were on briefly but looks like we are seeing slight delays just at the toll plaza, overall fairly light. that's a look at traffic. here's your forecast with lawrence. >> all right, gianna, yeah, we have some rain out there again this morning. looks like we'll see shower

the big apple is asking the university to consider creating an engineering school in the city. new york a top-ranked applied science and research graduate school and hopes that stanford will fill that void. 19 universities are in the running for the new york city engineering school. stanford is up against the likes of mit, cornell and purdue. >> their mascot could be the big apple tree. >> maybe it could be. >>> we'll check the forecast right now with rain coming down. we want to see if we can get out and about in our window of opportunity. >> i want to see your dance like a big apple tree. how do you do that as a mascot? well, we'll delve deeper into that in the next few minutes. right now we are talking about rain affecting your commute in the east bay. slick conditions basically all across the board this morning, but the rain is coming down quite consistently over the south bay. this is in the bay area here from over the past few hours. you have showers down to sap jorse this morning. that will be the case throughout the next couple of hours with showers lifting to the north impactin

you know, i feel very optimistic and positive. >> reporter: that "new york times" article we talked about challenged whether the university fact in line with title ix if they eliminate all five sports. they could decide whether to eliminate all of them or keep some of them or really none of them. and again, that decision will come down today at noon. >> thank you, christin ayers at uc-berkeley. >>> pg&e has been putting off pipeline inspections for more than two years. that's according to the state public utilities commission. anne makovec with more on the findings of the new state audit joins us live from san bruno now with more. good morning, anne. >> reporter: good morning. both of those organizations in the hot seat this morning. of course, we all know what happened here in san bruno last september. and hopefully, these findings will prevent it from occurring again. but there are hundreds of miles of natural gas pipeline in california run by pg&e and apparently they haven't been properly inspected. look at this pipeline. this has been in washington, d.c. since the pipeline explosion here in san bruno. it's been under

university. please welcome alfred guy from new york city. like the tie! >> thank you. thank you.ring and applause] meredith: all right, alfred. how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling great, meredith. meredith: yeah... >> i'm feeling great. meredith: you told me yesterday that inside here you're ok, but your head is feeling like it's going to explode, right? >> yes. yes. it feels almost as big as the room. not in a good way. meredith: no, not in a good--well, you've done--tell me a little bit about that tie. that is--that is something. >> [sighs] thank you. so, um--so, i have a pet bird. her name is ketzel. and, uh, my sister-in-law, who really likes art, she bought me this tie sort of to honor our bird. meredith: oh...oh, does that look like ketzel? >> it kind of does, actually. she's green and orange. ketzel's much louder than this. meredith: i was gonna say, this is out there.

organizations like the new york times that we're happy to work with wiki leaks happy to take that information make reports out of it and now recently at a panel last week at columbia university bill keller of the new york times said that well he wasn't really sure he want to speak out without his lawyers as to whether he would defend assigned in court if it did come to criminal charges so yes once again spineless that's keep repeating that but in terms of glenn back you know this is a guy that really was the darling i think of the conservative party of neo cons of libertarians too especially when he first came out he was a huge hit now his ratings are fallen almost forty percent and you know the more people that are getting fed up with them a lot of people are questioning whether he'll be olbermann and next what do you think the chances are of that coming up well we know the most important thing is is he profitable if he's less profitable he risks that for sure my thought when i heard him talking about egypt was which which of the sponsors is this a thinly veiled infomercial for is that you're going to not have any were your currency will be worthless so you need to get gold

. >>> there is talk about stanford university setting up shop in new york city. the "san jose mercury news" says new york city has invited stanford to consider establishing an engineering school there. for a city that has just about everything, they don't have a high level research and graduate school for applied science. analysts say that's why new york has fallen behind metro areas like san jose and boston when it comes to attracting new high-tech companies. >>> facebook users now have more options to declare their relationships status online. civil unions and domestic partnerships are now among the choices offered in the drop- down menu. it's not going to be available everywhere, just in countries where facebook says users asked for it. that's here in the united states, canada, the uk, france and australia. the gay and lesbian alliance against defamation applauds the move and says it's lobbied facebook for the additions >>> and if you have a borders gift card it's still valid. you can still use it. the bookstore chain filed for bankruptcy but a judge is allowi