that is one direction's niall, though his golf game could use a bit of work. >> that's niall, rory's caddy, from one direction. >> that was one direction, too, left. >> it was. even the camera couldn't follow where that ball landed. the first round of the masters begins today. nfl announces hiring of sarah thomas, first league fulltime game official. catch her interview this morning on "today." and back to you. >> thanks betty. just ahead. the d.a. wants more pot. plus how j. lo's famous versace dress changed the future of the internet. this iconic versace dress worn by jennifer lopez worn at the grammys is the reason for google images. eric schmidt writes people want more than text this became apparent after grammy awards when jennifer lopez wore a green dress that caught the attention. the most popular search query. we had no surefire way to get users what they wanted. j. lo wearing that dress, google image search born. >>> on jimmy fallon promoting the longest ride. he wasn't permitted to ride a bull during the movie. producers were feared he was get hurt. now that it's over, rele

. >> that's niall. rory's caddie from one direction. that was one direction too. left.u know, hot, low, and left. >> hacker. the announcers having some fun with that call. he should probably stick to the singing and making tons of money there. let's check on the weather thing. i have a wedding in georgia this weekend. good friend of mine. is it going to be rained out? >> go to the masters instead. i'm sure your friend would understand. there will be some thunderstorms but i think it's going to be in and out. i don't think it's going to rain out your wedding ar the masters. yesterday a lot of rain. thankfully not too many tornadoes we had to deal with. a lot of flooding in areas of indiana, kentucky missouri. i know st. louis saw a couple of rounds of storms. tornadoes reported in rural areas. you can see some of the wind damage. a lot more of that throughout the day. in all yesterday, we saw about almost 300 reports of severe storms. the tornadoes were found around areas of kansas. it looks like we're going to see some of these same areas today especially in illinois wi

. >> and one of them, niall, has been yelling fore for a very different reason for this week.playing caddie for his pal -- >> get out of here. >> -- rory mcelroy. >> isn't that fun. >> great friends. he always wanted to do it. he was his caddie at the par 3 contest. niall managed to get a little swing in there and as the commentator remarked, his shot certainly went in one direction, left and in the water. >> oh, that's funny. wrong direction, yeah. >> yes. >> yeah. >> so you're not going to show jack nicklaus' hole in one? >> that is incredible. >> i thought the one direction story was a little more -- >> the golden bear? come on. >> i love the golden bear. i'm just thought, oh, my god, one direction is caddying. >> jack nicklaus, hole in one, come on. welcome to demographic wars. >> yeah. >> that is amazing. i actually thought that was in your newscast so i was leaving that alone. >> so you're blaming me, in other words? >> it's all your fault. >> i'm used to that. i'm used to that. >> that's what three drinks will get you. throw your colleagues right under the bus. >> it is

it's when china ruled the world are my harvard colleague niall ferguson, the 21st century is the chinese century. and a little bit earlier this year, it's about a year ago i should say the financial times had a headline which says that this was the year in which china had passed the united states. i thought these ideas were wrong, and part of that is what's in the book, to try to understand what the world will look like in 2041 which is 100 years after henry ruth made his famous proclamation of the american century. so if you look at this you can ask, well why bother? who cares who's number one? some people take this position. but the danger is if you don't understand power relations, if you make mistakes, you think you are stronger or weaker, you can get policy wrong. and there's a long tradition in thinking about international relations that says that when a rising power creates fear in an established power that's the source of great conflict. this, of course, was the famous explanation for the peloponnesian war comedy event in which the ancient greek city state system toward self abor

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