correct me correct me if i was keeping an eye on classic to play ;-semicolon 20 a-uppercase-letter, 25 that persistent lies in castle rock with more about trooper donahue and the crash that took his life. speak as you can imagine, several states state troopers is a it that this is something to tonight and's forgiveness and the deficits about today's loss, one mistake wou and should have could have and should have been avoided. a somber evening to. >> to put cody donahue an 11 year veteran with state patrol killed in the line of duty. the something that has become much too frequent in our community and quite frankly needs to stop the correct eat at 1:30 p.m. trooper donahue was investigating the crash on i 25 just south of castle rock when he was struck and killed by a truck. >> there is a criminal investigation that is ongoing at this point right now he gives a give the douglas county sheriff's office has taken the driver of the truck and custody and is working with the district attorney on forthcoming charges he peak it is appropriate tonight and probably will be appropriate to arrest

buckley put it, he said something to the effect of john wrote all the good songs, not so for paul, semicolon and what struck me ab about it was even bill buckley fell prey to beatle mania in a sense, because he was referring to them by their first names the way the rest of the world does. paul -- [laughter] you know? >> i don't think there's any record of pop ever having uttered the word ringo. [laughter] now here's a scholarly project. >> so i want to get to questions from the audience. before i do, however, james, might you have any questions for christopher? >> yes. can you tell us again how brilliant i am? [laughter] >> have i mentioned how brilliant you are? [laughter] >> so christopher and i have only met once before today about 10 or 12 years ago, and that was cursory. i should point out, too, that at no point after providing his assent that the project may go forward did he seek any input or control until the very end -- >> [inaudible] >> and there was one eulogy that we had looked at and, again, for space reasons not included that he asked be included, and we did so. so there was no

narrative powers derive from getting the language right; every clause, every preposition, every semicolonscribed as shakespearean, most often in reference to the history plays. and, yes, his mastery of character and of narratives design, his rendering of ambition and its discontents call to mind richard, henry iv, henry 5, but it is on the level of language that bob's affinities are most apparent. rhythm, balance, the poise of his sentences undergird and drive the stories he tells.ir that is the source of their power, the propulsion that drives bob's chapters and books forward, the pulse that keeps us turning pages through the night. bob's sentences and the books they constitute have made us conscious of the ubiquity of power, of its presence in the most intimate aspects of our lives, of its capacity for great good and even greater or -- greater evil, of the need to recognize its often invisible exercise and the imperative to resist its abuse. that is a gift of a rare order, never more critical than in these days.ev please join me in saluting the master of american letters, robert a. caro