to others, twain is simply capturing the way people talked back then. are you censoring twain?we certainly are accused of censoring twain. >> pitts: randall williams is co-owner and editor of newsouth books, publishers of the sanitized edition of tom sawyer and huckleberry finn that replaces the n-word with "slave". it's aimed at schools that already ban the book, though no one knows how many have. williams says they are not trying to replace twain's original, n-word included. >> williams: if you can have the discussion and you're comfortable having the discussion, have it, have it with it in there. but if you're not comfortable with that, then here's an alternative for you to use. and i would argue to you that it's still powerful. >> pitts: the new edition drew powerful reactions from twain scholars, the press, and ordinary readers, and it's worth noting most of the articles don't spell out the word, either. what's it say that people have been so passionate about it? >> williams: i think it says that race continues to be a volatile and divisive subject. >> pitts: in this passa

mark twain writes letters on their behalf. mark twain rates new york and condenses former president at that point can ulysses s. grant to write a letter on their behalf. nothing helps. any 1081, they get back on the ship in a sealed the shanghai. now, they are not altogether sad. it's true they live behind friends. most of them didn't get to graduate from college, but they tell themselves, this is not the end of the world because before we left, all these years ago we were young children, we are promised upon our return to be the new mantra for china. who would be the new lords of the land. and they stand there on the deck, imagining the welcome and strong so would would meet them at the port in shanghai. they are greeted of course by policemen. arrested, accused of being spies. no, they say we are scholars. imagine how strange it must've seemed to the local police, scholars for them were sedentary surly men who are long flowing robes and the perfect chinese. these boys could hardly speak any chinese at all. they spoke some we

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seuss, jim carrie, mark twain or benjamin franklin. >> mark twain. >> he's genius! mark twain?ys guess mark twain. >> time for one more. >> another friend from ohio. april fools' day in 2010 google said it was renaming itself after which of the following u.s. cities. wichita, columbus, topeka or denver? >> topektopeka. >> is everybody ? >> the kid gave him the answer. is it topeka? >> i think the best april fools' joke google could do was say they're releasing everyone's search history. that would be a good one. >>ncluding their private stuff. >> yeah, yeah. >> you guys are a lot of fun. what's your website again? >> collegehumor.com. >> you guys are fun. >>> up next, things get a little salty around here as kathie lee and i go head to head in the condiments competion. we'll be back. [ male announcer ] using frontline plus shows your pet you care... by unleashing a complete killing force against fleas and ticks. and not just adult fleas. what makes frontline plus complete is that it breaks the flea life cycle -- killing adults, eggs, and larvae. and it keeps killing fleas and t

we saw the first twain leave 25 minutes ago. although ut pulled out very slowly.the last of two cars that derailed were lifted off the tracks outside the concord b.a.r.t. station last night. this after a car destined for san francisco derailed. the wheel on the eighth car came off totally and the ninth car, that one came off partial. there were about 65 people on board. three were taken to the hospital where minor injuries. b.a.r.t. had set up a bus bridge between pittsburg bay point and pleasant hill to get people around. today this morning the plan was for b.a.r.t. to run from bay point to concord with a bus bridge to pleasant hill if necessary, then b.a.r.t. would carry people into the city. but that won't be necessary this morning. when we first arrived there about a half dozen charter buses ready to go. but when a train rolled through this morning, all those took off with no passengers. so again b.a.r.t. service fully restored. reporting live in concord christie smith. >>> b.a.r.t. looking good across the board there. >> that's right. good news for folks taki

walt whitman, debating right now over mark twain. he is still available. winslow homer can still be seen. we have to understand this is an important legacy for our country. when you study our greatest artists, they will show us how to deal with each other and our blood lines are intertwined. it is not hyphenated america. it is expressed in those arts. it tells us who we are. we don't have to always speak in slogans. we are related. we have had a history on that land. we have gone through struggles and survived it and come out. it is documented. tavis: how does all of this that you have been putting to the here now impact your composing. i ask you that because you're not just a great artist. more and more you're kicking out these compositions, many of them are complicated. you got notes on top of notes. your compositions are complicated and beautiful all at the same time. how is this that obviously you're wrestling with? how did that impact your composing? >> a composition is a complexity of relationships. i wrote a piece called "blood on steel" about slave

bart officials say some sort of electronic device as they are exiting the twain train. >> finding that if you are listening to your i-pod or listening to some sort of mp3 player and near the door and not paying attention, sometimes someone will reach in and snatch it. the other thing this is not approximately ask ask you for your phone. can i make a phone call real quick then boom they are gone with your phone. >> warned about. that cell phone and mp3 player lap top and e readers the top 4 most stolen items on bart trains. >>> while talking on ripping people off this is a crime that is on the increase again. thieves crawling under your car to get a piece of the engine that is worth a lot of money. heather has some of the attempts to slow these crooks down. he. >> this is the sound that greeted him when he started his foer runner san francisco this morning. >> the engine roared. >>reporter: he was a victim of a popular crime. someone stole his catalytic converter. >> we see thefts a week of the catalytic converter. steady that way for a couple years no now. >>reporter: this is an intact

i came across a quote from mark twain. "it is curious that courage should be so common in the world and normal courage so rare." this debate today -- mark twain died in 1910. it has been going on for 100 and something years. i believe things are not as bleak. . . >> i am on a non-profit board that deals with urban core students in high school by exposing them to fine arts and technology. the kids that i meet over there, the worst backgrounds you can imagine. and i never come out of that building without being uplifted. again they renew my hope. but i'm very confident in our youth. >> as candidates i'm always still a teacher. but one of the things i've noticed with the younger ones is that i don't think there's a lack of moral values. the parents have done a pretty good job with that. but it's about cutting the corners that i find interesting is that i'm a little bit from the old school. do it all, do it right and you get it done. and i think again maybe technology is part of that or finding other ways to do it. but there's

. >> osgood: mark twain once wrote always do what's right when people are looking.e are mitch butler and josh landis of the fast draw. >> a picture has always been worth a thousand words but now a picture can cost you thousands of dollars because cities, counties and states are using cameras to charge you fines. everywhere you go there's a chance that someone or something could be taking a picture of you. and maybe those cameras are keeping you safe. now they're helping the government rake in big bucks. check this out. a town in new york went into google earth looking for unapproved swimming pools in people's back yards. well they found them and fined homeowners a total of $70,000. that's called getting soaked. and thousands of traffic cameras are out there snapping pictures of folks rolling through red lights. one town in illinois collected nearly $1 million in traffic fines this way in less than three months. and the latest thing is a high tech camera that fits in police cars and can scan every license plate in sight. it's connected to a system that knows if you h

mark twain died in 1910. this debate has been going on at 100-some years, and i think things are not as bleak, but i am a half full kind of guy. >> every older generation bemoans the ethical behavior of our youth. the you share that concern, or do you behold ethics in our youth and why? >> that i share that my daughter is the most ethical person? [laughter] because she knows if she runs afoul of me, i have learned things from my italian grandmother. no, our kids are struggling. part of it goes back to pop culture. the role models that they're seeing broadcast on tv i don't think reflect what we want them to see. i think it is more important than ever for parents to set the guidelines and be good role models and have conversations a lot earlier than i know my parents had to have with me. but i think our kids, i am on a nonprofit board, where we deal with urban students, and we expose them to fine arts and technology. the kids that i meet over there have the worst backgrounds that he could imagine, -- that you

as mark twain puts it, it and what you don't know if it gets you into trouble. it's what you know for sure that just ain't so. next slide. the military knows a lot. defense industry knows a lot. all of you sitting here know a lot. you're doing it. you are doing it today and you are doing it save lives and to make sure that we can keep being the best in that we are. this quote by half arnold is really important. the idea of don't get comfortable. you can't rest on your laurels and they can't be experts. we have to be professionals. this half arnold, but there's winston churchill. winston churchill was from coal to oil. that changed the world. military tickets were defensive area. he had to set up structures to flow into the u.k. and they've actually gotten there just in time to have larger battleships to actually make a difference militarily to britain. another thing on energy that's really interesting. making the push for nuclear power. a lot of advances they are. next slide. i just had to but one thing in there for community. and it's really about one thing i l

here, and the federal government has its lienlts and assets -- its liabilities and assets and the twain don't meet. so one would think, particularly those that are saying "privatize" that their opposition to say include social security in large-scale budget tawrks which we need & which are good, and i commend the group of six for moving forward in this direction, but one would think that is an i had lodge can cal -- ideological agenda because they simply want to privatize it. then when you see some of them may want to extend tax breaks for millionaires to permanently, which would increase the deficit by a huge amount and yet at the same time say let's deal with social security, let's privatize it, which doesn't have anything to do with the deficit, you scratch your head and say, i don't think deficit is really what's going on here. mr. nelson: i thank the senator for his erudite analysis. mr. schumer: and i thank my colleague for the erudite question and yield the floor. mr. whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i