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org gunn state visiting ucla. reese nelson sitting it out after eye surgery.d the rebound down. malcolm lean jamming at the buzzer. ucla takes the lead into the break. honeycutt spotting up outside the arc. knocking down the three-pointer. bruins win it. juan porter. outside the arc. hits the three-pointer. he had 16. then porter again making the steal. to kendrick longmeyer. oregon outscores them in the second half and wins it by 10. the full 30 minutes of highlights including all the action if a very busy saturday in college basketball. tune in later tonight after boxing for "the final score" presented by burger king. until then enjoy the second half. >> steve: welcome back to the "acura halftime report." we're back in berkeley. cal has a great guard and free-throw shooter in jerome randle. don maclean talks with randle about his time on the line. >> hey, jerome, take us through that free throw routine. >> first, i come up, come up to the line. make sure my feet are parallel and my right is always in front of my left. take a deep breath. let it out. kiss my

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to enter go to www.pac-10.org and click on the entry link. washington state two possessions, two turnovers. they volcano had the a shot in the second half. california, two possessions, two offensive rebounds and two baskets. >> don: they got to establish thompson again. he had 26 touches on 32 washington state possessions in the first half. that was by design. they got to get it to him. and cal hasn't won a conference championship in over -- what is that -- i'm not a math major. >> barry: 50 years. this is the 50th year. >> don: a good start to the second half for them. >> barry: they were down 14 against ucla. christopher gets the roll. and they did come back from a 14-point deficit against the bruins. >> don: everything at the rim for cal in the second half. >> barry: and christopher is just in thompson's pocket. which was the bears' game plan to begin with. >> don: the level is up for cal defensively. >> barry: knocked out of bounds by boykin. >> don: this is a different cal team defensively when what we saw in the first half. they've brou

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for more information on the author, go to "washington post" about, and naacp .org. >>> craig shirley author of riggins revelation recounts rall freakin' 1988 presidential campaign. he follows president reagan from his defeat for the presidency of 1976 to his election four years later over incumbent president jimmy carter. ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley california is the host of this hour-long event. >> craig and i are going to do something that hopefully you will find the fun. rather than him getting the and giving a long 30 minute speech in which you struggle in your seat, i thought i would interview craig, asking number of questions about his book and also threw it to the audience if you've got questions as well so we would like to keep this as lightly and living as possible so please as we move forward if you have something you want to throw up here please raise your hand but let me ask the first five or six questions. [laughter] does that sound good for you, craig? >> works for me. >> in our archives, craig, we have hundreds and hundreds of president reagan's r

e-mail us at book tv@c-span .org scaap >>> "after words" with joseph stiglitz and lori wallach continues. >> host: thank you for staying with us and we are going back to the discussion with professor joseph stiglitz and his new book, "freefall." we are just about to discuss the difference between the bush and obama administration approach to the crisis. so in the book you talk about something i think a lot of people don't realize, that some of the top personnel basically didn't change. you talk about obama campaign on change you can believe in but with respect to the economic team and some degree the approach is more like rearranging the chairs on the titanic. what are the differences between bush and obama to the extent that there are in the economic policy but particularly in addressing the crisis. but what lessons do to the continuity of the personal? >> guest: >> guest: there was a clear decision to maintain continuity of the personnel and partly continuity of the policies because they didn't want to -- they were afraid of destabilizing the market. the markets you is this notion of y

>> it is the seed school m.d..org. >> carol beck of the seed school of american. >> paul johnson, in your book "modern times" you kick it off this way, the modern world again on 29 may 1919 when photographs of a solar eclipse conferred the church of a new theory of the universe. two questions. why that date and why that event as the beginning of the modern world? >> guest: well, the world had always been governed for 250 years by new tone in physics. and professor einstein introduced an important modification of that. this was his general theory of relativity, which he produced in 1916. but he also said there are three types by which this theory can be tested. if it fails any one of them, then we must scrap it and look again. he laid down the three tats and the first and most important of them had to be made by observation during a solar eclipse and that had to wait until the end of the war. and it wasn't until 1927 expedition was sent out to watch the eclipse and take measurements, which could demonstrate whether the einstein theory of relativity met the test. well, it did so. and n

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american presidents .org. >> now, a hearing on airline passenger screening.rateful this attack was unsuccessful. at the same time, this has brought forth screenings that need to be addressed. moving forward, we have to make sure the department of research actively closes the gaps reducing the methods the public affects. in response to the failed crigs mass day attempt, president obama called on homeland security to develop and deploy the next depen operation of airport screening technologies. the purpose of the hearing is to report on how dhs will develop and improve on the screening technologies. i am deeply troubled to the lack of attention dhs hasñr pai attention in the past to the i am importance issues. >> the national academy of science discussed the need to pay more attention. 10 years later, in 2007 -- i note that this is on either side of september 11, the national academy has concluded that this is important and concluded that nothing had changed. it is little wonder that the body scanning proptses has developed to be a failure. two reports, n ten y

american org.an assessment as to how well current college students know about their government and foreign affairs and economics. they're not doing very well. they don't know we have three branches of government and do not know traditional review and basic things about the economic system. host: why not? guest: it goes back to the curriculum. kids can not know what they are not taught grade civics is not a priority starting from kindergarten up through college. we think that college is a good place to start. that is where our teachers are trained. that is where our future leaders are trained. host: speak more to the collection of american believes. guest: what we want to do other than looking at how much people know or don't know, we want to see what that impact is on public opinion. we also ask them a battery of questions about american ideals and institutions, public policy, economic policy. for example, is america a force for good in the world? are the founding document of america obsolete? does

it is also online right now at www.c-span'.org.finding out about your job situation, if you have a job, are looking for a job, or have given up looking. our next call comes from michigan. tara is looking. good morning. caller: good morning. i just want to make one little comment. tomorrow, on "q&a," you have a wonderful person, and i encourage people to make time to listen to him. i guess that is right around football time, but it is repeated. now, i am calling because i think my comment is an address to what one of the senators said that they did not want to approve some job because, good heavens, they would want to put unions in, and i am so glad that the unions are out because those people were making wages that they could buy cars, and then, of course, their wages were good enough so that they could take vacations, even to hawaii, where that person is lamenting the fact that there is no tourism. then, of course, they have those good jobs, they can go out to dinner and go to restaurants and help the owners of the restaurants, an

cd collection on line at our website, american president's .org. >> earlier today, mahmoud ahmadinejador is like resolution and the victory of the revolution, it was quite clear that the arrogant powers as the international squanders that pros -- that oppose the -- and hamper any reformist measures, they opposed the orientation -- has been 31 years they have been opposing the islamic resolution -- the islamic revolution. there also hampering the progress of this great nation. for two reasons, have opposed freedom and prosperity. the first reason is related to the characteristics of the iranian nation. they know that the iranian nation in the course of history , the iranian nation in the course of history, due to its great civilization and culture has managed to influence all regional and international [unintelligible] each time they have had the opportunity. they know the iranian nation for centuries, particularly after the advent of islam, they have been a flight of errors of civilization and know very well major parts of the region and the world are being influenced by the civilizati

to learn moreç about those projects, go to c-span .org/stimulus. >> his film was the focus of the recentis a wonderful way to humanize the pastç and to take event and movements that otherwise might seem impossibly remote. per se is somethingxd universal- there is something universal about us some day being on our deathbed. weç all have to wrestleok with questions of immortality, mortality, and those are some of the themes that run through all of this. it is also, frankly, and entertaining book. t(there are a lot of anecdotes designed took humanize all of these people. >> available now at your favorite bookseller. >> up next, and john mccain and joe lieberman call for new human-rights sanctions against iran. it would target individuals accused of committing human rights violations. they spoke yesterday to reporters at the capital for about 30 minutes. for most iranians, the islamic republic is the only government they know and many would rather forget it. 31 years of economic potential lost and the resources of the great and proud nation stolen by a corrupt ruling elite. 31 years of a r

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to find out how you can help, visit us at uso dot org. the uso. morning. welcome to 9 news now special coverage of our region's latest snowfall. it is wednesday, february 3rd. i'm andrea roane. >>> and i'm bruce johnson. our weather team of howard bernstein, devon lucie are here with your forecast. angie goff has traffic but we look at the latest closings and delays. >> we start in virginia where the following school systems are closed this morning. they are -- here's howard. >> good morning. the storm winding down right now. anywhere from one to six inches has fallen during the overnight and devon lucie is with me this morning. he's gathering the totals and we like to get your storm reports, as well. you can submit that on wusa9.com. this started around this evening rush hour. you can see it is almost out of here. one band still coming through eastern howard, baltimore city and just coming in to northwest there and eastern fairfax around springfield down 395 wilson bridge. thenen the moderate snow is lingering annapolis across the bay over to que