i decided to go to princeton. i may free black man. i go where i want to go. it shows you the degree to which the liberal class has a certain moral vacuous and is when it comes to these kind of issues. i did criticize my dear brother larry summers for being part of the economic team that president obama chose coming right out of the shadow of the wall street oligarchy and therefore making it a priority fort wall street to bounce back strong and four main street to suffer. that is a critique of policy. tavis: the third part of this article you have been most taken to task for, "he feels most comfortable with upper-middle- class white and jewish men who consider themselves very smart, savvy, and very effective in getting what they want." there are those who suggest this is anti-semitic. >> no, absolutely not. look at his advisers. look at his appointees. this is more national hockey league than the national basketball league. if we had a national football league like to point the were you have all these brilliant brothers and sisters, you would have a different

>> i taught at princeton briefly, i taught at u.c. berkeley, university of pittsburgh, for a year i was at the hebrew university at jerusalem and currently at boston unive >> you have? >> yes, indeed. >> i got my degree in '79. >> you're the professor of the appreciation of scripture, you've been doing that for what? >> since '90. >> for nine years. three books to your credit? >> that's true. >> i notice that you retreated from some of your statements from your first book, "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews." what changed in the 11 years between the publication of these two books. >> my first book was "from jesus to christ." and that was published in 1988. and "jesus ofished a few months. what changed is time elapsed, i continued to work in the field and learned more. >> isn't it the all-important question of why jesus was killed, you now believe he represented a limited threat to public order during the festival of passover rather than a major threat to roman rule? >> i don't think anybody thinks he, including pileate that jesus re

smith, a creative writing professor at princeton university. her recely released third book, "life on mars," reflects on the relationship between our lives and the universe. we sat down with smith recently at her home in brooklyn. >> i grew up in northern california in a town called fairfield, which is kind of exactly between san francisco and sacramento. a small suburb. i'm the youngest of five children. the last section of the poem is directly about my father. it begins when my father worked on the hubble space telescope. it really was my attempt or the opportunity that i took to go backwards and think about that moment in our family when my father was still this all powerful figure who would live forever. the questions that were being asked not only by the scientists and engineers but also the children. i remember the pride with which he opened this volume of these first amazing photos that showed us things that we had only imagined in fictional terms before. so much of my poetry begins with something that i can describe in visual terms so t

is a princeton graduate. and he gave the most eloquent and persuasive speech about public service that i had ever heard or will ever hear. it was an evening event, and all of us just sat there listening to this brilliant -- he called himself an agent, and he said, what was it, something about -- >> eggheads unite? >> exactly. and i think all of us who were getting ready to go into the military, all of us came away with a sense of responsibility and one of the things he said was that young people in our country have responsibility to help guide and direct the course of our country. and that the power of the american political system is virtually without measurement. and if america were to stumble, the world would fall. and it had an impact on me, and i have put up a website with hundreds of memos that i believe support the book that we've got here. and you can go to an end note and go to the website and accuracy the entire memo if i quote a paragraph. i'm almost positive with a adlai stevenson speech on that w

but this is all on collins he has to deliver a fire in princeton message. >> fire and brimstone message >>pam: thank you, vern we will be back, with much more news, ahead.

. >> there is a lecturer of islam policy at princeton university and a former advisory to the israeli security services. he explains what the implications are. >> a very important symbol of al qaeda, and the importance was in preaching. he was preaching the operations. it is a very substantial blow to al qaeda, but there was a long stage >> how serious you think this threat is for a serious apprise all and 4 al qaeda to regroup and coordinate some type of revenge attack? >> there is the killing of bin laden, operations. a gulf state, like north africa. there is leeway, and the question is whether al qaeda is capable to prepare the ground for the operation for september 11. i am quite sure they will have spectacular retaliation. >> in other news, a nato air raid on saturday night killed the son of gaddafi. some grandchildren were also killed. >> amid some chaotic scenes and under the eye of nato, they held a funeral today. the remains were accompanied by one of the more prominent elder brothers, by now well-known. he has tight clothes protection. his family feel threatened, .-- >> the

both studied at princeton and studied under the same political theorists. here we are 2 guys in our shared park in berkeley my son the same age as his daughter. why out of the 2 of us only one has bottom an adult. >> i'm never getting married. she sank back against the ground. i sat then next to her i could smell fabric softener. >> this is nothing hoeky about loving something with all your heart. that's not how anyone has loved me. that's why they leave me. i'm everyone's good luck charm but mine. >> she was right. there was nothing hoeky about a great love to span a lifetime. >> love struck couples staring into each other's eyes. waitress with tired legs waiting for the end of her shift receives a visit from johnitto. he turns, one last time to the faces above the steaming plates before he's out. into the neon lit street leaving behind a trail of rose petals, dark as sacrificial hearts. >> if we killed you now, if we took aim for your belly with our cross bow or laser sight and pulled a trigger or let a tipped arrow rip through the night air, there would

she's now returned to princeton to teach. joshua cooper remo, managing director of kissinger associates. before that he was "time" magazine's youngest ever world editor. and kishore mahbubani has been a career diplomat representing singapore around the world and heading its foreign office. he's now the head of the school of public policy. welcome to all of you. kishore, the killing of osama bin laden, how has it been perceived around the world outside of the united states? >> i think the world is better off with osama being eliminated. nobody cried when he left the scene. but at the same time i was actually very troubled by the celebrations that you saw in america about his killing. because it seemed to imply that hey, the problem is over, we can now carry on. the fundamental problem of disconnect within america and islam yuck world in america at one point, muslims, still remains. it is important to not believe that the killing of osama bin laden has solved all their problem, indeed and there's probably a greater need now for

a graduate of princeton and harvard, she is unlike many first ladies before her. she has a natural ease and even though she is clearly not, she seems ordinary. the young girls that she met were smitten. >> memorable. mission accomplished. >> coverage of the visit in the u.k., but not in the u.s.. >> it is interesting that this is not the lead story. there are the target of the people are so focused on in america. the images that will resonate with american audience, present obama drinking a pint of guinness, tracing that ancestors respect your and that meeting i am told by the white house that the president and the first lady have been very much looking forward to that. they got that opportunity with william and kate and that will go down very well back in america. we'll be watching out to sea with the president does in europe and whether there is an outcome. >> that brings us to the end of this special broadcast from london. thank you very much for watching. see you tomorrow. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the globe

. >> i got into harvard, princeton. >> would you believe she is only 15? what this teenager did to get into almost every ivy league school. you're going to hear from her coming up. ,,,, i'm a curious seeker. i am a chemistry aficionado. diphenhydramine. magnesium hydroxide. atheletes foot. yes. i'm a people pleaser. if elected, i promise flu shots for all. i am a walking medical dictionary. congratulations virginia. inflamed uvula. i'm virginia. i'm a target pharmacist and i'm here to answer your questions. that would be facebook founder mark zucker-berg s no longer in t >>> he is worth billions but is just now buying his first home. >> about time. that would be facebook founder mark zuckerberg. he is no longer in that craigslist apartment. no, his new digs in the silicon valley. a rather modest five bedroom, five bathroom, $7 million home courtesy of his 600 million plus facebooking friends. >> it comes with a saltwater pool, sunroom, heated floor, sweeping porch and a lot of privacy, ten-minute drive from his menlo park headquarters. he probably paid cas

travelers are being advised not to travel north of princeton or newcastle by train. james cook reports. >> the power of a winter storm at the start of a scottish summer. all day the coast was pummeled by waves whipped up by the wind. it is pretty spectacular and hard to stand up as well. right about now, the ferry should be sailing in. that is not happening today. there are problems up and down the west coast. for these divers a trip along the shore was fraught with danger. the bus is not usually this risky in may. and tonight, long after rush- hour should've ended, thousands were struggling home. the road bridge was closed. the m62 was blocked. and falling trees killed a woman and a van driver. those that watch the weather passing, say this storm is surprising. >> it is unusual to get a deep area of low pressure close to scotland. with the trees in full leaf, it is causing problems getting trees down. >> that has brought the rail network to a standstill tonight and left as a -- tens of thousands of homes without power in scotland and northern ireland. in county down

tavis: join me next time with ahead of this nfl players association plus princeton professor cornelll i know is his name is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference, you help us all lived better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley with every question and every answer. nationwide is proud to join in working to end economic illiteracy and working to end obstacles and one at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and from contributions from viewers like you. thank you. ♪

the president was there to recognize michelle sherer, princeton grad, award winning chemistry teacher, fluid in sign language. >> at the maryland school for the death, michelle thought ap chemistry for the first time in history. explaining concepts like kinetics using only her hands. >> reporter: michelle won teacher of the year. >> america will only be as strong in this century as the education that we provide our students. and at a time when our success as a nation depends on our ability to outeducate other country, we desperately need more michelles out there. >> reporter: michelle makes the point she chose this profession. and today the president announced he's looking for 100,000 just like her. fantastic teachers in math and science. >> and to help those teachers succeed i called on congress to fix no child left behind. >> our students need a program that is not just focused on testing. being prepared to do the work that employers and professor will expect them to do when they get to that stage. >> but i can think of no other profession that can say we make every other profession

he was not only professor at princeton can do to president of princeton. he driven a number of the excavator intellectual president. his first wife really helped him write his speeches. she knew a great deal of poetry. she critiqued his speeches. she told him when he thought he wasn't being clear enough and contributed a great deal to his thinking over all. the second wife really had not had that kind of education, but she worked very, very closely with them all during his presidency and when he suffered a massive stroke 18 months before the end, she knew his mind so well that she was really able to carry on, even though he was ill. >> thank you very much for your time. >> tha

and not those who go to harvard and yale and princeton and the greatest schools in america but those work very hard and persevere. and i think the key thing is more and more people i talk to about this and give the credit to tom friedman who talked about this, the love of the ability to learn. because the stuff we all learned in college is not really relevant to today. and even if you're an engineer, you have to be able to keep learning and have that sort of love of learning. >> the process of learning. chris: thank you so much for that, mike duffy. >> you absolutely do. chris: we're not going to the university of phoenix in 20 years? >> we hope these universities and colleges are around in years. that's the challenge for america. chris: tell meometh [ asst mgr ] what are you doing? fixing the name. it's fiber none. looks like one. well, i know. i put an "n" there. ah! fiber one honey clusters cereal! that's really good! it tastes good, so there can't be fiber in it! it's actually got about half a day's worth of fiber. [ asst mgr ] it says so right on the box. [ fiber seeker ] really

. >> she taught maryland school for the death and graduated from princeton. don't know why she's teaching high school, but she's really great at it. >> it's something to see your teacher side by side with the president of the united states. >> i was kind of like amazed because i was like taught by the teacher of the year in america. i mean, it was kind of like, wow. >> my classroom bulletin boards are covered with pictures of students i've taught over the past 14 years. students who are my daily inspiration to continue my commitment to teaching. >> now this is one of the bulletin boards that mrs. shearer was talking about in her speech. it is full of pictures of her former students and at the very center is her formula for success. >> michelle's specialty is taking students who are normally under represented in science and helping them discover the scientist within. >> i wanted to drop the class, but she basically wouldn't let me drop it because she knew that if i tried, i could do it. >> if we want really to give education in america the weight it deserves,

moving on from kitsch to princeton and even a whole host muscovites have home a mother who has been for ten roubles and one hundred thousand rupees most sculptures and paintings who have a simple office and meanings well with that food brings this to this week's guests as owner of the our gallery in the capital touches shifrin drives an extravagant pieces make statements. let me see you again so tell me your experience regarding russian kids have brought. young company we opened the only year and a half ago on the russian market. and we have two departments are dealing selling promoting arts young artists and there was an exhibition hall in moscow used also doing our own exhibitions independent. concerts gallery. is there money to be made out of it. and it's always checking that such a key industry. is easy of course to work with a well known names. on the market already it's easy to pick someone all for example . number all works he sold old radio on the auction and already has some stable price and already has a well known name i mean some people in the muscularly to all the dogs for

moving on from kitsch city to princeton and even a whole. half hour home and whether it was going for ten rooms one hundred thousand reviews most sculptures and paintings one of the subtle office and textual meanings well with that forged brings us to this week's guest as owner of the our gallery in the capital trying to shift flyers in extravagant pieces and make statements. read see you again so tell me your experience regarding russian contemporary art. the young company we opened the only year and a half ago on the russian market. and we have two departments are dealing selling promoting our young artists and there was an exhibition hall in moscow used also doing our all in exhibitions independence is a. concept gallery and is there money to be made out of it. it's her it's and it's always taking and it's such a key industry. it is easy of course to work with the well known names. on the market already it's easy to pick someone old for example. and then go all the works he sold already on the auction and already has some stable price and

we're talking about professor cornel west of princeton university. what's he saying?ans overwhelmingly support president obama. there's no question about it. 95% voting for him. but there are some african-americans who believe that president obama hasn't done enough for the poor and working class, and activist cornel west had a stinging critique of the president. january 2008 in south carolina. democratic candidates prepare to debate. princeton university professor cornel west strongly endorsed then senator barack obama. >> i think he's got the vision. he's got the newness. he's got the freshness. >> reporter: fast-forward to this week. west is now strongly criticizing president obama, calling him "a black puppet" and "black mascot of wall street." >> well, when i look at the mass unemployment, mass underemployment, mass incarceration, especially in the black community, but i'm talking about poor and working people across the board, it seems they have a very low priority. it seems to be an afterthought. that's what i mean when i say one becomes a puppet for corporate

it was supposed to be a simple graduation prank, but turned into something much bigger for a tiny princetonesota. the seniors wanted to set the world record for coke geysers. the geysers aren't new. you have seen what happens when you drop one of those mentoes candies into a diet coke. you get your name in the guiness book of records. they are waiting for official word, but it did look impressive. with a rain, 300 plus of your friends. >> it's five-year-olds graduating from junior and kindergarten. i'll let you know erica is responsible. have a great night. we'll see you tomorrow. thanks for watching. bye p. bye. [ jerry ] look at this! you got a state-of-the-art man-cave, but the savings account of a cave-man! hey sports fans check this out. [ beep ] oops, my bad. earn more with interestplus savings at capitalone.com. that's new school banking, baby! ooh, 3-d! instead of earning bupkus, your savings could be earning three times the national average! three times more. go online to capitalone.com. what's in your wallet? what's this do? [ beeping ]

. >> the message is about dreaming big and aiming high as she did, princeton, harvard, and top lawyer and being mom-in-chief is right up there. >> the most important thing to me is raising strong women and raising my daughters well probably because that's what my mother did for me. i push my girls and more importantly, i love them a lot. that's what i feel for all of you. i want you guys to feel that in your lives so that you can be excellent, ok. >> and then it was almost time to say goodbye. michelle obama has often pointed to her own humble origins growing up on the south side of chicago as the closest example of regardless of ballgame, high achievement is always possible. with her commitment to education, she has inspired many young people with a single comment. it's good to be smart. for some, this was the second meeting with the first lady. >> it was definitely more exciting now. being in oxford and also getting to hug her as well. >> michelle obama wants these girls to have more than just a day trip to oxford. they are smitten by her face in them. >> inspirational. >> memorable

from princeton. what is enough? it's almost as if barack obama is brought before the school council because he stuck some gum underneath his desk, or it's as if barack obama has to show his papers to prove legitimate. i know these are extreme metaphors. the reality is that barack obama has been called to account by a man who has nothing near the intellectual credibility or the social standing that the president has. >> schieffer: do you think barack obama should have gone and taken that last step? >> well, he had no choice. in the sense that, and i think brother gerson is right. he uses it to his strategic advantage, but he had no choice but to give in to the vicious bigotry out there to say let's put an end to this. "finally, i want to step forward and prove that i am a legitimate american." but he is standing in for the rest of us as african-americans. we are constantly questioned as to our legitimacy whether we belong or not, and barack obama is our big brother in that case, and an assault on him is an assault on

religion ethnic background and all this in europe we are becoming more and more diverse so be should princeton's to today most countries are respecting the rights of. homosexuals and lesbians which is unusual it is not a new problem and but the fact that we recognize their lives it symbolizes development in order to start to be becoming more and more diverse and we have to respect it and we kind of do have a video so when for instance the president sarkozy said this about will call i can understand because he also added and. the transfer america's good it's also that. we should know a lot of parallel societies to develop that i don't we should not have parallel societies and in the societies that develop their own laws. because everybody should have something. the same basis the same laws but not only on the political the political sphere and mean i mean on the summit level but on the grounds roots of the we are witnessing today the rise of extremist praised far right parties enough for a big point is. extreme popular point is this that mean that the whole european project has its risks. you see

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growing violence in syria princeton's national community to apply pressure on the country sanctions with a predicted call for regime change some feel there are echoes of libya plus. it's no secret that al qaida has been sending terrorists to russia and is continuing to do so present preventive says al qaeda agents are often among militants killed in anti terror up aeration in russia's north caucasus. in business the latest creation from after the lot of granta has been given the official thumbs up by vladimir putin i'll bring you the story of more interest around twenty minutes time with a full business bulletin. just after nine pm here in moscow you're watching the artsy international news channel is wednesday night i'm kevin zero in with a top story european m.p.'s have called for the union to have a permanent seat to the u.n. security council critics of the initiative though say that the e.u. rarely speaks with one voice anyway it has enough problems at home to solve without this bushel as the latest from brussels. there's been a furious reaction across the world and in brussels itsel

there is no private interests in the princeton i hope that it's true so maybe if there are people worried about making money so much they'd make things better i think we're done with is it and i phones i pads there's no they can pass next five minutes do you children i do does my concern you that it does but i think we're ok the world in and last week and they were four billion years the sun burns out so they will be ok you know back in the thirty's we used to build projects that bastid for for one hundred years well they built it will tell us that hoover dam is going to last a long time projects like that. they should last a thousand years because hopefully will be around in about us and us right you put my buddy had to work and he's in construction so there's a lot of that too it is a fight against the corporation mine mainly. because you know i mean it's from a purely economic front of you taking. cost a lot so it was going nowhere and the planet or the corporation. it's whether or not you think we're building society responsibly the bottom line is with lives and our planet on the line

representatives of the world's biggest investment have met with prime minister princeton to discuss the fund that russia is setting up to attract investment that sen billion dollar project will be formally launched in st petersburg at the economic forum in june. the newly appointed head of the funds management reveals some of their plans to businesses. to track fifty to ninety billion dollars of congressmen's from the leading funds the next five years i think it's really important for them to get a goose rate of return in russia and each way they will keep investing and to do the confidence that was given to ministers by prime minister putin is a catalyst that will help to see if you can keep crease investment into the russian economy. rosemary to the markets now we sell the commodities and oil is trading below one hundred dollars a barrel for west texas period it's losing despite u.s. reporting unchanged crude inventories contrary to expectations of an increase. of korean stocks trading in positive territory best still however shrugging off news that dominique strauss town has resigned

moving on from kitsch to princeton and even a whole bunch muscovites half home a mother is being fixed and readings and one hundred thousand reviews most sculptures i'm playing things have subtle officer meanings well without food brings us to this week's gets a lot of the argument in the capital time to shrink the rise in extravagant pieces make statements. let's see you again so tell me your experience regarding russian contemporary art. we are quite young company we opened only year and a half ago on russian markets. and we have two departments are dealing selling promoting our young artists and there was an exhibition hall in moscow used also doing our all in exhibitions independence is a. concept gallery and is there money to be made out of it. it's how it's and it's always checking that such a key industry. is easy of course to work with a well known name. on the market already it's easy to make someone whole for example. number all works he sold old radio in the auction and already has some stable but he has a well known name i was some people in the moscow will eat all the dogs

gulf arab states to end yemen as critical crisis has collapsed after princeton under the sunday reforms to sign it is the third time he stopped short of putting pen to paper second insisting which would simply be running amok unity needs a simple no earlier the western and arab and bass of the storage of broken the five had to be free and trucked in an embassy. part of the crackdown has claimed more than one hundred fifty lives since the rest of joinery. and ashcroft is expected to get a new way today and could reach the u.k. by the end of the week according to the met office one of the saturdays eruption of the country's most active volcano norway and greenland set to close their responses marston's main international airport has been shot and no flights grounded experts see little charts of a repeat of last year's mask with more pain that is the difference i started looking at going on. a moscow dolphinarium which offers therapy to children suffering from physical and mental disabilities faces addiction there building needs urgent repairs but the center has nowhere else to go. they ma