i keep getting submissions and the submission was always jc oates. he chuckled i never knew if it was a male or female. how quickly we found out. since then, j.c. oates has gone to a career that speaks eloquently to the spirit of our work toward. the award named after ivan dandrof, the first president of the nbcc, seeks to recognize a broad as a stand and meaningful contribution to american literary culture. we know much about joyce carol oates much has been written and said about her and her work. so we ask a colleague of hers at princeton university to synthesize it for us. please welcome edmund wright, who incidentally is a final list tonight in the autobiographical category for his memoir city boy. [applause] >> thank you. please give her this. >> joyce carol oates is a writer of great compassion. she has written with warmth and understanding about the lives of the oppressed women, boxers, movie stars, overly proud fathers, fleshy central maine, suicidal grooms, tattooed girls, the desperately poor of detroit, rich people who look middle-age when

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ray miller, along with the late manager and catcher, johnny oats and the man who knows all about the way are all going to be inducted into the orioles hall of fame, may 7th. ray miller tutored. johnny oats was the first, in the new ball park and lenny has been in the orioles organization going on 40 years. >>> every parent wants what's best for baby. >>> what pediatric say your child needs more of. >>> filling out census 2010 is as easy as one, two, three, so why is baltimore coming in last place. >>> 5:05. we cleared out briefly. there's really not much movement on the thermometer. we are at 46 right now, with a calm wind and a clear to partly cloudy sky. we do expect more showers this afternoon. so keep the umbrella handy. it is 5:05. let's check in the mta. >>> we are looking pretty good. no delays, light rail metro on schedule. we have a few bus diversions, northbound, and due to construction there. 21 bus diverting southbound from carolina and madison, for the mta transit team. Ñ >>> good morning. it is 5:08. we may have more storms today. we have a different variety. colder ai

general oates, in the scheme, and mr.tlett said it today, bad the proportionate amount of money we spend in fighting ied's in protecting our soldiers pursued the cost of ied's, and also we have to keep doing that. we have got to protect our soldiers but are we catching up or are they getting farther ahead? >> sir, it is a quick question and i actually think iraq might be informative here. if we go back and look at what has transpired in iraq and the funding that has come forward to protect our soldiers but also allow us to understand the networks that are engaging us, begin to attack them directly. understands devices in defeat a great number of them. the trend lines are fairly clear and we can get back to you on the specifics over the years. but an aggregate, take the enemy more ideas to achieve the same results. those were all positive trend lines to now where iraq doesn't begin to resemble this year as it did the first time i was there in 03 and several more times after that. i do believe that if we look at the investm

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oats served as a coach before being elevated to manager when robertson was fired.ecord is the 5th best winning percentage in club history. he died of a tumor in 2005 -- of a brain tumor in 2005. >>> while six teams will continue to chase the championship, the rest of the field can only think about what might have been, and prominent among those are the maryland terrapins. the terps go into a transition period. gun are the three seniors and greivis vasquez, the reigning acc player of the year. those are three key pieces, guys gary williams went to war for three years and he is going to miss them. >> greivis plays with everything on his sleeve which is a great way to play the game. unfortunately, there's not enough people that do anything in lifelike that. it's nice to see people that are not afraid to put it out there and he is one of them. eric is just -- he plays through his personality. eric is a quiet person, smart intellectual guy on the court. seeing situations that he is a school coach. i think he grew up that way as a player. landon dedicated himself. he did

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general oates. i think with your combat experience in iraq you bring, you all bring a lot to this conversation but in particular your experience. general oates, the, our nation's ability to deliver vehicles that have mine resistance has been a challenge. humvee was a great vehicle until the enemy discovered it had explosions beneath it which resulted in fielding of mine-resistant vehicle. stryker is great vehicle. now that the bar is raised with the introduction of a mine-resistant vehicle, stryker appears more vulnerable to that problem. what steps are you taking to address that? what does this committee need to do to help you? above all, what are the lessons we learned in the development of the mrap? all though again i will always commend general brogan on a great job he did, but just a sad fact from the time we made up our minds we were going to buy 18,000 mraps until filled with people needlessly died in iraq and afghanistan. what staps are we taking for more survival of the stryker? what did we

general oates, in the scheme, and mr.bartlett said it today, bad the proportionate amount of money we spend in fighting ied's in protecting our soldiers pursued the cost of ied's, and also we have to keep doing that. we have got to protect our soldiers but are we catching up or are they getting farther ahead? >> sir, it is a quick question and i actually think iraq might be informative here. if we go back and look at what has transpired in iraq and the funding that has come forward to protect our soldiers but also allow us to understand the networks that are engaging us, begin to attack them directly. understands devices in defeat a great number of them. the trend lines are fairly clear and we can get back to you on the specifics over the years. but an aggregate, take the enemy more ideas to achieve the same results. those were all positive trend lines to now where iraq doesn't begin to resemble this year as it did the first time i was there in 03 and several more times after that. i do believe that if we look at the inve

this is where rolled oats are added to it.ives it smoothness. >> finally we have -- >> it's a bavarian-style wheat beer from germany. the wheat actually gives it a lot of spice, clove and banana. >> i think i'll sample home brewed here. the raven. >> sounds good. >> very nice. >> yeah, yeah, nice, huh? >> all right. feeling a little badder about march now. cheers. >>> and for more on this battle of brews check out washingtonpost.com/food and places to go out and enjoy beers. check out nbcwashington.com/aroundtown. i needed one of those after my gators hit the dust so early in march madness. >> you're feeling better about march? >> yes. >> and so will we as we get more sun, veronica? >> that's right, we're all going to be feel better because it's going to be mostly dry and even a few degrees higher than what we were today, 65 degrees. as far as the skies go, we've got clouds overnight. clear to mostly cleesh lly clea clouds will be returning. sun sets at 7:24, we've got a perfect triangle in the night sky with mars. it's waxing

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right now, they have more than 2,000 oat votes. >> reporter: 50 couples with the most votes will go on to the next level, where a panel of judges will pick the winner. >> it's clear to me who deserves it. >> we say, live often, and love much. >> i love the couple. they are so great. if you want to vote for kevin and erin, head to our website, wjz.com. you'll find a link to the contest site. and you have until the end of the month to cast your vote. >> that's a love story. but i have a feeling, even if they don't love online, there's a crate and barrel in towson who will win anyway. >> yeah, exactly. >> and we do stories all the time. and this is one of the -- one of those stories where i hugged them when i left, because they're such great people. >>> let's take a look at beautiful temps. it's going to continue. 66. light north winds. humidity only 18%. we'll come back and take a look at the end of the week. start of the spring this weekend. after this. ,,,,,, i love economics study group. because every week, we start things off with ten dollar pizzas from pizza hut. yeah, it's insane.

my last question is, for general oats. something we don't talk about too often. talk about ied that was going on with those. i was able to talk with doctor ash carter and general paxton, who lead of the ied task force. it's a party of two, and that's good i think because they were talking about their able to get more him wrapped over there, able to do things and getting people's lanes together. and just get things going over faster and have secretary gates their overtime. i asked them something yesterday, they didn't have an answer that i asked general petraeus this morning, didn't have an answer. and it's this. do we own any road in afghanistan's be? do we own 20 clobbers? to we own 5 kilometers? do we say we have persistent coverage of any road at all, any certain amount when we have isr, whether it is man or unmanned, watching that road? . .@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n extreme peril of operating. especially in the east and the extreme falloffs on either side. twice as large country from iraq. >> but less road than iraq? less asrs, less msrs. only one quart of

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