when he got back to princeton that spring, ellen was furious. she accused him of the emotional love for mary. he went on vacation to england that summer and ellen went to an artist colony in connecticut. she had given up her art work in order to devote herself to woodrow. now she took it up again to have some part of her life that was not entwined with his. all that summer he wrote her pleading letters begging to be forgiven. we don't know what she wrote because all of her letters are missing. we think that she probably burned them. at the end of the summer woodrow wrote her a very happy letter. obviously she had forgiven him and he said it is even better to be loved if you don't deserve it. so wouldn't you think that he would stop the -- meeting mary peck? he didn't. as soon as he got back to the united states he and ellen went up to massachusetts where mary lived with her husband during a summer. hy don't know why she did that. it could be that she wanted to see this rival. it could be that she wanted mary to see her aunt to know she had a bet

once he became a professor at princeton, he was a popular professor. he began to be invited to make speeches and she helped him a great deal of his speeches as well, providing those apt quotations when he needed them. he was invited to give a very important speech for the 150th anniversary, the founding of princeton. and they collaborated closely on that speech. we found manuscripts with corrections in both the buyer and ratings and at one point she said, the ending is a little slack. you need to make it soar. you should read a poem by john nelson. she told him which poem to read. if you compare that to the speech, you can see it's exactly what he did. the speech is all of metaphors that obviously came from her experience about art in domestic affairs. don not >> and to think in a career of public service which is what he really always wanted. and but in 1906 with his rosy prospect ahead of them -- 49 years old. and that he might have to give up his career entirely. there was no medication for homework they told him he would poe >> he went on vacation

you were at princeton. >> i was at princeton. >> and you were a college student and you decided, hey,ng like this needs to exist. pretty ambitious of you. >> yeah. issue of educational inequity. >> yeah. >> because actually what i saw at princeton, you could nevee see the depths of educational inequity, but you saw there what you saw on every college campus which is, you know, how differently prepared people are to do well at college just based on the luck of their birth, right? >> yep. >> and our generation was called the "me" generation. wanted to go work on wall street. and i thought that label was completely misplaced. i felt like i was one of thousands of people who were just searching for a way to make a real difference in the world. >> yeah. >> and i thought the problem wasn't the generation, it was the recruiters. all the recruiters for this company were asking us to commit two years to work on wall street and i thought why aren't we asking our generation to commit two years to teach in our highest poverty communities and that was. >> that was the genesis of it. i mean there h

pbs host tavis smiley and princeton professor dr.west visited the campus as part of their recent poverty tour. some of these people had been homeowners not long ago. smiley will highlight the poverty tour all this week on his show on pbs. and i recently spoke with both smiley and west about their tour and how it fits in with the occupy wall street movement. >> i'm hoping very quickly that these five nights of conversation on pbs about poverty in america will do my small part, at least, a small part, to advance this conversation about the poor being renders more and more invisible in this country every day. >> let's talk about the numbers. how many people now qualify as poor. dr. west, were you surprised by this number? do we know how many people exactly qualify as poor and were you surprised by the sheer number of people? >> we don't know the exact numbers. and what's so unprecedented about this, we get a chance to put a human face on poverty, but also to acknowledge that 42% of our precious children of all colors live in or near pov

einstein on the day following his arrival at princeton institute of advanced studies, october 1933.e letter to franklin delano roosevelt,a reconstructed set piece photo of the 1939 warning to president roosevelt from einstein about the dangerous possibilities of others developing nuclear weapons. einstein and his wife elsa in pasadena during one of his visits to the california institute of technology. in 1945, almost overnight, einstein became the conscience of the world. he wrote, spoke and broadcast throughout the last ten years of his life. einstein and several famous american physicists gathered in princeton, new jersey to launch an appeal for $1million to educate americans on implications of nuclear fission. portrait of albert einstein, 1879 to 1955. 76 years of age. that's a lot in those photographs that we can cue off and discuss, but before we do that, did einstein make any commercial endorsements to allow his likeness to be used for marketing purposes that you are aware of? alice? by the way, alice, i should point out that you've done the quotable einstein? you also have a

you know, back at princeton, you were always the guy with the deep ideas.st fascinated me. well, i have to admit... your work shows tremendous insight. thanks. though i've taken another look at your analysis oh, no, i know that tone. and i think i've found a way to address the flaw that you've identified. that's the basic idea. that negates the whole need for the flawed section, then. how about that? great professor charlie eppes has done it again. now, that's hokum. this approach was only apparent because of your work. so i'm going to call this the penfield variation. ( laughs ) great. way to make me feel like a real ass. ( chuckles ) ( knock at door ) alan: door's open. hi, mr. eppes. hi. hi. charlie's supposed to come with us to a seminar. oh, he's out in the garage. hey, charlie, your friends... here he comes. been out in the garage all day. hey, guys, you know what? go on without me-- maybe i'll catch up with you later, 'cause i'm a little caught up with something right now what are you working on? a unified theory of the neural network in higher cogni

the princeton, new jersey, mailbox.he kkg office. >> his obsession helps in my mind explain how the mailbox that was used was chosen. >> meeting for coffee with an acquaintance who is wired for the fbi, ivins denies being the anthrax killer. >> i have no clue how to -- how to make a bioweapon and i don't want to know. >> but at the same time, he admits to memory loss. ivins is falling apart. abusing prescription drugs and alcohol. >> 911, what's your emergency? >> march 19th, 2008. ivins' wife calls paramedics when he collapses at home. >> so you're not sure how long he's been like that? >> i know he was online about 45 minutes ago with a friend. >> okay. do you know what he said in that conversation? >> it was too disjointed to read. >> ivins expects he will be charged with five counts of murder with a weapon of mass destruction. >> it could have been a death penalty case. >> ivins' defense attorney, paul kemp. >> i thought they were going to try and prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law and i did tell him tha

[applause] >> joining us today is melissa harris-perry, previously on the faculties of princeton university and the university of chicago, she is currently professor of political science at tulane university where she is the founding director of the cooper project on race and politics in the south. her belief in the classroom has a critical space for democratic reflection is reflected in the fact that she has taught students from grade school through graduate school. her interest are in the study of african american political thought, black religious ideas and practice, and social and clinical psychology. perth writing frequently appears in many scholarly journals and newspapers. she also writes a monthly column for "the nation." she is a frequent contributor to msnbc. she is the youngest scholar to dubois the the e.b. did ww.e.b. lecture. she is the youngest woman ever to deliver the where dexter. she is the author of the unborn when the book -- barbershops, bibles, and be e.t. -- everyday talk and black political thought." donna brazil has described her most recent book, "sister cinema,"

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princeton university professor and 18 others were taken into custody on sunday after refusing to leavethey were protesting corporate influence. prosecutors decided not to press charges against that groups. >>> engineers will start rappelling down the national cathedral again today, a second day searching more damage from the august earthquake. the same team that check out the washington monument is searching for loose parts in the north and south towers of the cathedral. engineers say that the cathedral is structurally sound. it has been closed since the earthquake and they hope to reopen by november 12. >>> 55 degrees outside. >> highlights from week five of "dancing with the stars." which celebrities hit their stride and which ones might be in trouble. >> a spectacular stunt in texas. a dust storm blowing through the area. >> another check on traffic and weather close to home. that's every 10 minutes. we will be right >>> time for a check on traffic and weather every 10 minutes. >> let's check in with adam caskey. good morning. >> good morning. i want to talk about the weather patter

webster was a yale man and madison was princeton and john adams was harvard. washington wasn't a college guy, he was impressed on the interesting idea and he's a great delegator so he said i will give it to mr. madison it seems possible. he gives it to madison and once the pamphlet becomes instrumental in the drafting of the constitution and then in 1787 webster is at the constitutional convention against to be cut in these moments are evolving into the murphree and shaker

. >>> hundreds of protesters taking part, the princeton professor led it down union street to protest corporate greed. this is st. louis, missouri. the protests of the big banks, holding protests and chanting corporate greed has got to go. >>> we've been adding videos in our slide show on the occupy wall street. you can go for more on abc2news.com, click on the slide show for some of the latest images. >>> a skate boarder was killed. brandon was hit while skate boarding. he was hit from behind by a car. the car fled the scene. when it's dark the highway is too dangerous. >> he was skate boarding and the car didn't see him and hit him and ran. >> when it gets dark, it's not safe. nobody can see you. >> witnesses describe the car and police found it and the driver. that person was taken in for questioning. >>> police in anne arundel county trying to id a man killed in a crash. they spotted a pickup truck and try to pull it over. the truck took off and police followed. the driver lost control. >>> a baltimore family needs your help finding a loved one. he's an alzheimer's patient last se

. >>> at the supreme court yesterday, 19 people, including prominent princeton activist cornell winston were arrested. they had both anti-war and anti-corporate greed mess aenls. >>> tens of thousands gathered in washington yesterday for the official dedication of the martin luther king jr. national memorial. nbc's brian moore has the details. ♪ >> reporter: on a brilliant autumn day on washington's national mall, dr. martin luther king jr. took his place alongside lincoln, jefferson and washington. >> you will stand for all time among monuments to those who fathered this nation and those who defended it. >> tens of thousands attended the official dedication of the king national memorial. an event that weaved together musical tributes with political calls for social justice. >> do what we must do to create a better world. >> reporter: it was a celebration of a simple minister turned martyr, a towering figure in american history who stood barely 5'7" tall. >> now he's 30 feet tall along down on everybody. >> reporter: for dr. king's children, it was a day to celebrate a legacy that lives

home schooled and then, into the catholic school and all of that and then stanford and then went to princeton for seminary. >> let me go back, being with tuberculosis, that was very, very serious. it was a full recovery. it was a full recovery. i have lesions on the lung that show that i have it, but no tuberculosis. the doctor said i don't have to worry about it any more than anyone else. >> you were home until 3rd grade and then went back to the campus school and again, once you were out of high school, where did you go? >>> stanford. >> what did you -- >> well, son of a professor. my education cost me $25 a term. now, match that! >> what did you major in there? >> well, i started out thinking i was going to be a lawyer. my dad was and so forth. came the time of the kamikaze planes in world war ii. i was studying comparative religions and recognized the comparison with the planes and the shinto. maybe the questions of the world are ideological and not legal. i thought about the ministry. i didn't think i would be a pastor. i went to seminary and got a lot out of it personally. i discovered

sims is a professor at princeton. >>> treasure hunters have struck it richover the coast of island. a florida-based crew found the wreckage of a british ship sunk by a german torpedo in 1917 in the north atlantic with 20 tons of silver onboard now worth 18 million dollars marine exploration plans to recover that silver next spring. the british government gets 20%. last month odyssey discoveredder in ship with an estimated 200 million dollars of silver onboard. -- >> 80/20? 100% when it comes to chance of light rain today? >> absolutely, at least drizzle. up to possibly half an inch in the north bay. good morning, 11:20 south from south beach you can see how limited visibility is due to drizzle and lou clouds, moisture and warm airstreams -- streams in. clouds are thicker than they were a couple of hours ago. in case you weren't with us at the top of the show, i've broadened the picture to show you that the bulk of the heaviest rain is in the sierra, all rain, not snow like our last system. behind this we are going to have drizzle and even light rain during the afternoon that's what

sims is a professor at princeton. >>> treasure hunters have struck it richover the coast of island. a florida-based crew found the wreckage of a british ship sunk by a german torpedo in 1917 in the north atlantic with 20 tons of silver onboard now worth 18 million dollars marine exploration plans to recover that silver next spring. the british government gets 20%. last month odyssey discoveredder in ship with an estimated 200 million dollars of silver onboard. -- >> 80/20? 100% when it comes to chance of light rain today? >> absolutely, at least drizzle. up to possibly half an inch in the north bay. good morning, 11:20 south from south beach you can see how limited visibility is due to drizzle and lou clouds, moisture and warm airstreams -- streams in. clouds are thicker than they were a couple of hours ago. in case you weren't with us at the top of the show, i've broadened the picture to show you that the bulk of the heaviest rain is in the sierra, all rain, not snow like our last system. behind this we are going to have drizzle and even light rain during the afternoon that's what

foreign policy since world war ii published by princeton your chapter on richard nixon is entitled richard nixon and henry kissinger to read >> royte because henry kissinger was just an exceptionally important figure. we will only include a handful of people that were not and nixon and kissinger were a team. at the end of the day he made the decision and kissinger said of himself but kissinger is probably the best certain string of republican foreign policy by which i will call realism and that emphasizes balance of power international behavior of other countries and internal behavior the need to carefully coordinate to read the kissinger approach is different from the bush approach and the ronald reagan approach so kissinger is deserving of special mention for the reason. as bernanke went to china in 1972. what did that to for the republican foreign policy expectation? >> at the time it was a popular move. with the general boating public -- voting public there was a conservative who were very skeptical because their point of view was with a horrible dictator and long term united states pr

joining us now from los angeles are tavis smiley and professor cornell west who teaches at princeton university. so professor, dealing with you, where am i going wrong here? >> well, i think you're going wrong because i think the lens that you're using still is not acting on fact that 1% of the population, we've had 100% income growth go to the top 10 peppers. 1% of population had 81% of the income growth in the last 25 years. what does that mean? those brothers and sisters there at the plaza, i was blessed to be there with them. and i'm blessed to be part of their movement, they're not calling for entitlements. they want jobs with a living wage. they know that corporations do not pay taxes. $2.3 trillion of off shore tax havens for the well to do. working people pay the taxs and they're also losing jobs so you have to look at, my dear brother, bill, from the vantage point of poor and working people and the ways in which you tend to want to promote rather intensely not only doing well but then too greedy. my brother. >> bill: we're chasing stanley o'neill down the street, i don't thi

. >>> and civil rights activist and princeton professor cornell west is due in a d.c.rt this afternoon. he was one of 19 people arrested in a protest called occupy supreme court. west refused to leave the grounds of the court. he joined the protest after leaving the dedication of the new martin luther king memorial. >>> happening today, president obama is hitting the road talking about jobs. the president is embarking on a three-day bus tour across north carolina and virginia. mr. obama is trying to gain support for pieces of his jobs package after republicans in congress blocked the overall bill. the president will begin the tour in asheville this morning, making several stops in mostly rural communities across both states before wrapping up the tour in virginia. >>> first lady michelle obama will honor a number of schools across the country at the white house today for their lunchroom practices. each school participated in a one-year program called the healthier u.s. schools challenge. it encourages lunchrooms to serve more fruits and vegetables and develop healthier

. >> in your book published by princeton, in a chapter on richard nixon is in town of richard nixon and henry kissinger. >> right. >> why. >> because henry kissinger was just an exceptionally important figure. i mean, i only included a handful of people that were not presidents, and nixon and kissinger really were a team. at the end of the day nixon made the decision. he was the president. but kissinger, he is probably the best living represented today of extreme republican foreign-policy, which i would call realism. and that emphasizes balance of power to manage a national behavior of other countries, the need to carefully coordinate diplomacy, the kissinger approached is very different from the bush approach and very different from the reagan approach. and so i think kissinger is deserving. >> richard nixon went to china. what did that to its republican foreign-policy expectations? >> well, at the time it was a popular move. with the general boating public it was popular. there was a group of, you know, conservative consistently conservative republicans, the national few who were very

aparte, un estudio de la universidad de princeton revel que el flujo de indocumentados de mxico a estadosoxima a cero.. es decir entre la gente que viene y la gente que se va, es como si no migrara nadie.. por su parte, yuri ya tiene un pie fuera de estados unidos.. s.o.t. 11:48:00 si no logro traer a mi niña yo me regreso porque no tiene caso estar trabajando todo el tiempo y pues realmente y apenas sacas para tus necesidades diarias y a costa de un sacrificio muy grande.. cu ----las personas que estn casadas y desempleadas enfrentan otro obstculo financiero. take vo ---entr en vigor una nueva ley, que esencialmente , dice que los cnyuges que "no" tienen empleo... no pueden utilizar los ingresos de su pareja, al solicitar una tarjeta de credito. ---la ley, fue en respuesta a las prcticas antiguas en las que las compaÑias crediticias, no investigaban la solvencia financiera de las personas a las que se les otorg una linea de credito. ---las alternativas, dicen algunos expertos en finanzas personales, es solicitar una tarjeta de credito "mancomunada ", o pidale a una persona que le preste

. >>> civil rights activists and a princeton university professor cornell west was arrested in dc this afternoon. he was among 19 protesters demonstrating at the supreme court about corporate influence on politics. police abreast -- arrested a group. west attended the dedication of the martin luther king jr. memorial on the mall. >>> now more on the highly anticipated memorial dedication. it has been decades in the making. today, finally, thousands of people gathered to celebrate the first memorial of the african-american on the national mall. president obama thinks the civil rights leader for making it possible for him to reach the white house. [unintelligible] >> a historic moment. thousands would not miss. >> you have to realize where we come from and where we have to go. >> before 5:00 a.m., crowds filled independence avenue. it was filled with songs. and calls for change. they are trying to keep the dream alive of martin luther king jr.. >>from his daughter to his sister. >> i witnessed a baby become a great hero for humanity. >> it was an emotional day. >> it makes me want to do

. >>> author, activist and princeton university professor cornell west was among 19 people who were arrested yesterday while protesting on the steps of the supreme court. the demonstrators are a part of the stop the machine protest against corporate influence in politics. west is a well-known academic professor, whose books include "race matters "and "democracy matters." >>> we have a programming note for you. tonight at 7:00 p.m. we will broadcast dr. martin luther king's i have a dream speech. television stations are rarely allowed to slow the speech, but following yesterday's dedication of the dr. martin luther king jr. memorial, his family is allowing us to show it. so you can set your dvr, and make sure that you are watching tonight on 9news now at 7:00 p.m., for this rare opportunity to witness a piece of history. >>> redskins fans want to know who the team's quarterback is going to be next sunday. rex grossman was benched yesterday, after he threw four interceptions. that makes 11 turnovers in five games. the redskins's defense stepped up to keep philadelphia scoreless in the second h

sims is a professor at princeton university. >> one gigantic gourd. >> and this squashed the competitionat this year's great pumpkin weigh off. we'll be right back. gjgjgjgj >>> coming up at 6:00 breaking news out of gilroy. there is a shelter in place on third street because of a gas line break. we'll have latest on that. >> fall out from last week's cement plant shooting how a rampage took one work years widow with nowhere to turn. >> and managing traffic jams and why it made things worse for everyone, deal wigt a year later. coming up at 6:00. >> and now, what you've been waiting for, half moon bay pumpkin festival. and he's from the bay area. >> and he took home the top prize for 1700 pound pumpkin and a prize of $10,224. >> it top aid previous record and fell short of the world record of 1800 pounds. and he says he was surprised how much it weighed. >> top pumpkins will be on display this weekend in half moon bay. and that is huge. >> it did work. about $6 a pound or so. >> and world news is coming up next. i'm cheryl

. >>> so what rights activist said the princeton university professor will not be facing charges after being taken into custody outside the u.s. supreme court. he and 18 others were arrested yesterday after refusing to leave the area. it is against the law to protest the signs on the court grounds bread he joined the anti-work group october 11. >>> a special election is being held tomorrow in prince george's county to replace leslie johnson. she was forced to resign last july after pleading guilty to destroying evidence in a federal corruption probe. her husband also pleaded guilty in that corruption case. the polls will open tomorrow at 7:00 and will close at 8:00. >>> president obama will be in virginia tomorrow as he continues his three-day bus tour that started in north carolina today. the white house says it is official business. critics say this is nothing more than a campaign trip. >> in less than 24 hours, the bus tour will take president obama to virginia, about 65 miles south of richmond. >> too many people are looking for work. to many families are looking for that sense of

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. >>> 19 people, including princeton university professor cornell west was arrested while protesting on the supreme court. the demonstrators are part of the stop the machine protest against corporate influence. dr. west is a well-known writer. >>> indy car drivers and fans are mourning the death of indianapolis 500 winner dan wheldon. the 33-year-old died in a fiery 15--car pileup at the las vegas motor speedway sunday. three other drivers were injured. wheldon is the indianapolis 500 champion. >>> there was talk of a possible controversy between rex grossman and john beck. >> maybe it is back. after yesterday's game versus the eagles, the controversy is now the talk of dc sports. grossman had what can only be described here as his worst game of the season. he threw four interceptions, only completed nine passes before he was benched for beck. beck would go on to lead the skins offense on a touchdown drive, but it wasn't enough to overcome the eagles and michael vick. vick had one touchdown one interception and a 20-13 win over the skins. the skins are now 3-2 on the year. no word wh

thomas sargent is a professor at new york university and sims, a professor at princeton. sargent got his b.a. at uc berkeley in 1974. the committee said they were selected for their research on cause and effect in the community. they have developed -- developed methods for developing. >>> state regulators adopted permanent rules last week, banning all rail line operators statewide from using their cell phones while on the job. as part of the rule, video cameras must be installed to monitor the activity of muni operators. operators are allowed to have phones on them but the phones must be turned off and put away. >>> time is running out for the nba and the lockout. david stern says if no progress -- progress is made he will cancel the first two weeks of the season. the players representatives won't 53% split. >>> game 2 of the american league championship series takes place this afternoon. it was rescheduled due to rain yesterday. the detroit tigers and texas rangers will play right here on ktvu. coverage begins in just a half an hour at 1:00. >> the ktvu channel 2 news at

simms is a professor at princeton. >>> republicans and religion. preacher with ties to another candidate calls mitt romney's mormon faith a cult. john hendron is in washington with more. >> reporter: the "m" word is out in the open in the republican presidential campaign. >> in my estimation mormonism is a cult. >> reporter: mega church pastor endorsed perry. describing mitt romney and huntsman, both mormons as members of a cult. perry accept the endorsement, not the cult comment. >> pastor, thank you for a rousing introduction. he knocked it out of the park as we like to same >> reporter: romney sought to rise kennedy-like above religion. >> poisonous language doesn't advance our cause. let no agenda narrow our vision or drive us apart. >> reporter: with the conflict highlighted a deep seated problem. is mormonism a cult? don't ask herman cain he won't say. >> he's a mormon, that much i know. i am not going to do an analysis of mormonism versus christianity for the sake of answering that. >> reporter: don't ask michelle bachmann. >> this is so inc

at princeton today, sims joked that he and sargent have sparred >> not so sure to say that we have worked together. we have a series of continuing arguments. many of which are still going on. as i slowly persuade him of the error of his earl yes position. >> holman: the two men said they had no quick solutions to today's economic troubles. sims said, "if i had a simple answer, i would have been spreading it around the world." deadly clashes erupted in syria over the weekend. at least 31 peoplwere killed, human rights activists reported. they said troops loyal to president bashar al assad fought army deserters around the city of homs. seven people died there. and in damascus, mourners at a funeral were sent fleeing when gunfire erupted. at least three people were killed. in libya, rebel forces claimed they've taken most of moammar qaddafi's hometown of sirte. fighting in the town, on the mediterranean coast, has raged for weeks, and sporadic gun battles and shelling continued today. but the rebels raised their tri- colored flag outside the convention center, and fired guns in celebration.