had quarter twain or mark twain and got too high. he's recording the depth of the water, and he means they're two and a quarter fathoms or two fathoms in ozark. here's that hair i was mentioning. why would we bother about his hair? this is what we call a well tested example. isabelle lyon, connection problem. click to open intel wireless troubleshooter for help. i don't think so. all the help i can get. any case, it's well attested because isabelle lyon is attending a haircutting in new hampshire when mark twain is almost 70. 1905 she dates it, she describes it in great detail, and she includes this swatch of his hair. what good is that? well, here's another thing that was found in that bible. i don't know if you can see the hair down here. this is the same clipping, flipped over. the clipping has been folded at the bottom to hold on to the hair. this is a poem. it's not a poem written by mark twain, it's actually taken from a magazine. but this says up here, for margaret. and it was our supposition, actually, that this was jane clem

to others, twain is simply capturing the way people talked back then. are you censoring twain?ndall williams: 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. >>

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twain shows up in here, he has a couple of appearances.he was actually, when asked, pretty open about his opposition to it. took a lot of flak for it. he was one of the two most famous person in what was called the anti-imperialist lead. andrew carnegie was the other famous guy in it which was this very strange group of people which also included mrs. jefferson davis, another absolute segregationist whose objection to the war was ha american white boys would come back with filipino brides, and we had enough mongrelization in this country already. so strange bed fellows. but his line was something like the american eagle shouldn't sink its talons into any other country. and he had been very, very pro the spanish part of the war because he feldt like the cuban people did need relief from the evil spaniards who had colonized them for 300 years. some of the ve he is of his opposition to the war he put that in envelopes and said do not open until i'm long dead with some of his other writings. but he did catch some flak, and you see some of that

mark twain was a lecttrer. ú& right. >> .and aavery amusing one, so the occasion for him speaking to he's giving a lecture. ann's not a lecturer, so, it, i had to actually writeúú&ad find two or three sentences that i could sliver in that suited the purpose that iú needdd very wwll, so i would always those are the sections that make me feel very nice because i know that is exactly how she said it. >> right. >> but i, i earned to get her, get her better..3 >> well, you got, ou got, no, knew, knew how to get the way that she would talk, but i'm also, you did it a little while ago, kind of almost absentmindedly. >> yeah. >> her, her voice. >> yes. >> you sound remarkedly like her. >> well. >> to people ho listened tt her for many years, you sound like her. >> i think in the play, i, i, i am not a genius that thaa sort of, at dialect. >> yes. >>>and i did have a dialect coach. >> and she's been incredibly helpful to me, and, and actually once, once we have -inished this, this spring engagement i will work more on the dialect because, you know, i've been wearing a lot of hats - producer a

postal service unveiled this stamp of mark twain. it went on sale for the first time yesterday.wn for his novel, the adventures of tom sawyer. >>> let's check in again with rosemary. >> our temperatures loon soaring -- will be soaring by 5 degrees. maybe even 7 in inland spots. upper 50s expected for the coastline. low 70s inland, with mostly sunny skies. for the afternoon, widespread 60s coast side. mid-80s inland areas. our temperatures this morning, a couple degrees warmer, with s area. just low clouds banking along the coastline. a few patches of fog. 77 expected for vallejo this afternoon. some of the warmer areas, 81 santa rosa. 85 antioch. 84degrees in concord. 70degrees in areas along the oakland stretch. head into the santa clara, it's going to be nice and warm. 78 expected san jose. 75 in mountain view. head closer to the coast. 70degrees expected in san mateo for the second half of your day. nice today, slightly warmer tomorrow. we've been talking about it a bit this morning. a big switch in our pattern. we're going to see the possibility of rain move in tuesday into

and i said, well, because mark twain wasn't available and he's not.atter is, your people here know that the truth goes down better in a democracy when it's in humor, but you do a splendid job of juxtaposing. you don't attack people. you put what they said ten years ago and what they said last night. that's what good journalism is about. it's about comparing. it's not declaring it. >> jon: well, that's very kind of you. i feel like we're not to dye that man's mustache, but thank you for putting us in the same sentence. we're going to take a commercial >> jon: bill moyers. you know, something you said earlier reminded me of one of the interviews we did in a book with susan jacobi. you were talking a lot about the language of keeping things hidden and the language of deception. it seems like the public discourse is now the language of deception, and news media, whose job it would be to defog the room, are pretending that they can just not even referee but i don't know, mod rated wouldn't be the right word, narrate. it seems like the news media today just

any time shania twain fell down she got right back up. last night was no different.>> kyra, you can't keep shania down. she was at the cmt music awards, was on the way to do that when she slicked on what looked like a pretty slick walkway and it had to hurt. she's a true pro, she got right back up. and went to the stage to give the award. shania called it one of the most embarrassing moments of her life. if that's how you feel you're doing pretty good. she tweeted out a video response. let's take a look at what she said. >> i department hurt myself. i have a bit of a sore thumb, and i -- i am going to auction off those shoe, as soon as i can. i never want to see those shoes again. or maybe i should keep them as a souvenir. think about that one. i don't know. shania said we think he made a fool of himself. tripping at an award show, regardly embarrassing, right? >> absolutely. if you're a fan, i listened to her music in a long time. knowing what she's gone through, from percent parents to ex-husband, she's a true fighter. the greatest news that we'll hear now, her fut

and i said, well, because mark twain wasn't available and he's not.but the truth of the matter is, your people here know that the truth goes down better in a democracy when it's in humor, but you do a splendid job of juxtaposing. you don't attack people. you put what they said ten years ago and what they said last night. that's what good journalism is about. it's about comparing. it's not declaring it. >> jon: well, that's very kind of you. i feel like we're not to dye that man's mustache, but thank you for putting us in the same sentence. we're going to take a commercial [ man ] ♪ trouble ♪ trouble, trouble trouble, trouble ♪ ♪ trouble been doggin' my soul ♪ since the day i was born ♪ worry ♪ oh, worry, worry worry, worry ♪ [ announcer ] when it comes to things you care about, leave nothing to chance. travelers. take the scary out of life. host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? host: does it take two to tango? ♪ ♪ anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. what's the most amazing ...was

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. >> and mark twain?broad which was the most popular novel he ever wrote. he was there but briefly. he has a walk-on, joe, so to speak in my book. >> that's okay. mark twain that's what you need. that's what you need. >> i hate to keep going through the cast, oliver wendell holmes, truly great justices in the history of american jurisprudence. >> that was not him. it was his father. oliver wendell holmes seen york the great poet, essayist, started the magazine "atlantic monthly," devoted his entire professional career to medical science, saw nothing incongress grew white house about that being both a poet and physician. taught at harvard medical school more than 35 years. what they learned in paris as medical students was so far ahead of anything available here, when they came home, they -- many of these medical student, american medical students transformed american medical education and thus transformed american medical care. tremendous, tremendous influence and effect. could i have written a whole book

. >> he was a friend of mark twain at? >> he was. that was much later in life. he went to wall street. he became the partner. he gave a funny testimonial talk. >> reed was 63 when he died. >> sheep died in 1902. -- he died in 1902. >> he was the speaker three times. as you were doing your research, when did you start to really like him? how many books have been written? >> i am afraid that my sales would go to the hypothesis. people want to read our lives. there are a number of biographies in washington. he just came out with the doorstop. the powers that be in commerce line up behind the biographers taking up a known this subject. i had a pretty good day job. i was able to do this for the sheer love. it was a deep rooted and abiding love. you were kind enough to ask me a reed about. -- to ask me about reed. think of all the people who have lived and died in america. you cannot know them all. to me one would do worse by choosing him. >> you have the diary. what else did you do to make yourself familiar? what it did to start writing? >> 1 procrastinates. -- one p

. >> ups and downs for shania twain. she took a fall in the music awards. she has a short thumb. shania will be in las vegas. she starts a caesar's palace show. i am chris on the red carpet in los angeles. >> our review of super 8 is ahead. >> giants and dodgers tailgating together and breaking bread with tommy lasort a. >> and a rare bloom in san francisco. it is said to smell like a dead horse. >> nice. >> later, the san jose bus tour for homes. they are abandoned properties. >> you don't expect to see giants and dodgers tailgating together. they are getting cooking tips from legendary la manager in an awareness for prostate cancer. they competed with the former giant to see who could grill the best steak. it is part of a campaign to raise funds for prostate cancer research. >> i lost my mom to cancer. anything dealing with cancer is special in my heart. jt snow won the cook off. here's tommy. >> thanks in part to a research. the death rate has dropped 50 percent in the last decade. >> terrific. there is a stinky flour. the so-called dead horse lily opened up and the smell of r

let's hear it for mark twain. he's wonderful. i can't stand the thought that people are going to throw out huckleberry finn and put nappy hair in. you know, that's not the way. let me ask-- one of the things people who work in the area of fighting off censorship, we tend to demonize people who want to censor. there is a sense that, you know, "these are the people who walk into walls, "and they're not well-read, "and they-- they're just determined to shut out the world." but are there times when a parent could go to a school administrator and say, "look, my son or daughter is reading this in the fourth grade, and it's really not appropriate"? would that always be wrong? i think a thoughtful-- a thoughtful parent coming into school to talk about something is always welcome. it's the zealot that we all jump away from. thoughtfulness is appreciated always. is it--is it, then, that teacher's job to change the book? i don't know. (mannino) well, i'm hoping that the decision-- people make bad decisions. i mean, not every book that's tau

[cheering and applause] oprah: thank you, shania twain.ptioning made possible by king world] [captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--] e police reported three arrests there with the parade. after the parade the mavs went to their arena where 20,000 more fans were there waiting for the celebration. that was quite a playoff series. i thought that was great. both teams really brought it. >> mark cuban paid for that entire parade, right? billionaire owner. >> he can afford it. there you go. >> chump change for him. >>> we'll be right back with more "world news now." ♪ hó >>> welcome back. time for the topics burning up the yahoo! search engines this week. politicians were a topic that many people were looking up. i wonder why. >> not too surprising. a high profile murder trial piqued interest, as did a certain holiday i have to say is my favorite. yahoo! web life editor heather cabot has the details. good morning, heather. >> happy friday, guys. the race for the white house made waves on line this week as republicans

i do not know if you know what mark twain said about cincinnati.fter his seventh visit he was on a train ride and a young reporter asked him his impression. he said that it feared the world was ending tomorrow, he would was ending tomorrow -- he would get to cincinnati as fast as he could. [laughter] i told some folks yesterday that my father was so conservative that he prohibited premarital sex because he thought it might lead to slow dancing. [laughter] so, do not be shocked with my conservatism. i have been blessed to be the mayor of my home town, the secretary of state and treasurer for the great state of ohio, representing the united states in that band of confusion, the u.n., as president george h. w. bush's ambassador to the u.n. in charge of the human rights portfolio. i had the opportunity to work with josh bolten. let me put it to you plainly. elections are about winning. because elections matter. i want to give you a couple of examples and then tell you why i have been spending his time working. working to build, precinct by precinct, wo

talking points is the thelma and louise remake she did for the show along with sha nigh -- shania twain stories as fighting continues in libya, western powers and arab nations are meeting to map out a possible future for the country. the talks going on right now in abu dhabi will focus on what libya might look like without current leader moammar gadhafi. more than 1,000 refugees have fled from syria and crossed the border into turkey in the last 24 hours. they've left because of fears they would be attacked by syrian security forces. one student demonstrator told cnn the military is closing in on the city of jisr al shugur, that's where the syrian government says 120 of its troops were ambushed and killed last weekend. >>> here in the uk, another phone hacking scannedle is coming to light. this one involves phone taps of prominent figures including kate middleton, tony blair and prince edward. according to the guardian up in, the alleged hacker was working for rupert murdoch. that is it from the team here on "world one." do stay with cnn for the latest on the day's top stories from me a

that line about being a comedian is harder than what i do and if you were a tree, would you be mark twainthe tape or the web video, and we should probably make clear here we're not talking about what aired last week on fox news sunday, but what everybody watched and is commented on on the web, the longer up edited version of it. >> no, the statement about fox news did air. the statement that stewart made about it being -- >> and since you both referenced this point, let me just jump in- >> something about bill senior that got bleeped from the -- >> you say bleeped. the interview was edited. but first let me play jon stewart acknowledging that he made a mistake when he practice this argument that polls showed that fox viewers were the most misinformed. >> ultimately poe lit fact declared my statement false. i defer to their judgment and i apologize for my mistake. fox said less than 10% of obama's cabinet appointees have worked in the private sector. poe lit fact said that's false. fox said white house political director once served as right hand than to the air corn oig chief. scored that

shania twain, love her. she is a ten. everyone has a little spill.i'm going to say before you see it. she hit a slippery spot. she popped right up. we get it. she popped right up. she, by the way, she has, her book has been a bestseller for a long time. she is going to vegas because she is goiig to be performing in vegas. >> what they call an extended -pgig or something like that. she will be an artist in residence the way shania has done and barry manilow. good ffr her. >> at the cmts we had the band perry here. they won "if i i do young" for this song. their brother -- they're brothers and one sister. they are so cool. >> look how cute she looks. >> we love them. a lot of fun. >> oh, to be so young. >> should we move on to the weiner update? i think we have to. how could we not? >> a new day and new update. >> "new york times" is reporting that anthony weiner's wife is pregnant. >> about ten weeks along. >> it sounded like if everything we are reading is true, he sent the text messages after he knew she was pregnant. that was all going on. >> just

and do you find that you wake up every morning like shania twain and just say "why not?" why not? >> jimmy: is she on a journey? >> she's on a bus crying also. >> jimmy: why is she on a bus? >> why not? [ laughter ] that's the frame of mind when you're watching own. >> jimmy: so no particular reason. >> yeah. >> jimmy: but you are watching own, which is what's important. >> i can't believe you're having sarah ferguson on next week. >> jimmy: are you excited about that? >> "finding sarah." i want to find her right now. that is going to be fantastic. where she was trying to sell the husband for 500 pounds. for like a handshake. a million if he hugs you. oh, that's going to be yummy. >> jimmy: yeah, i got to get into that with her. >> yeah, they're all good. >> jimmy: isn't that a crime? shouldn't she be in jail right now? >> no, she should have a reality show on own. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you brought some photographs. i know you were in new york last week. >> well, now i'm really running in the high fashion couture world, where i belong. >> jimmy: are you really? >> yes. now that i

mark twain and gave it that name that was not intended to be a compliment. it was to be extravagant, and that means stopped the gilded age. the politics were fascinating and there were so many things in researching the book that i talked about in the book that has resonance today. i don't go into this in the book so much, but i like to point out the first burr controversy actually took place in 1881 garfield was running for president and his vice president was chester arthur. by the cut dtv to a good about getting a book on jester published. you think that cleveland is tough. but the rumors of the time or that chester arthur had been born in canada. his father was an irishman and his mother was canadian from quebec and they emigrated from vermont but the story that when she was pregnant ready to give birth she went back and had the baby there which if true would mean chester arthur was not an american citizen because neither of his parents anybody born in the u.s.. i would point out we do not have the birth certificates long or short form for chester arthur.

>> not always but most often we stay in the hotel delouvre because that's where mark twain stayed, it's where hawthorne stayed, united states samuel b. moore stayed and it's flight the heart of... as you know, rht beside the louvre on one side an the palace royal on the over side. and we look out our window right up the avenue of the opera to the opera houses. it's exactly the view thas in the end sheets at the back of the book. >> rose: oh, ye, there you go. >> and that image is taken from a postcard that my mother brought back from paris when she was seven years old in 1907. it was in our attic. >> reporter: let me touch several bases you have talked out. number one, when you decide this when you say "i found my subject what's the next step for you? >> the form. what's the form of the book. and once i have the form and i'm ready to go... >> rose: what's formmean? >> structurethe architecture. where does it begin? how does it end? where does it end? what are you going to leave out? every work of art, painting, nothing is in it by accident and at best nothing is in the book by accident.

after all, i'm sure we're all familiar with mark twain's famous quote. he once said the coldest winter i ever saw was the summer i spent in san francisco. now ain't that the truth. well, right now, though, i can tell you it's pretty clear in the city. san francisco expected to reach about 57 degrees today, but i do think it's fair to say we hoped memorial day would bring much-needed warmer temps. low pressure is moving over the bay area today, expected to bring some rain and thunderstorms that could also produce some hail even. now, how about some weather factoids for the month of may. typically we all know the east bay is pretty warm. in all of may, the east bay only had two 80-degree days compared to 17 days in the 60s. keep in mind the average highs for the east bay range in the upper 70s to low 80s. now, on the bright side, the drought here in the bay area officially over and we should finish our rain season 100% to 125% of normal. so that's looking on the bright side of things this morning. now, we've made it to wednesday so i'm sure we're all looki

after all, most of us familiar with mark twain's famous quote, he said, the coldest winter i ever sawhe summer i spent in san francisco. now, the city expected to hit maybe 57 degrees today. still, i think it's fair to say we all had hoped memorial day would bring some much-needed warmer temps. as of today an area of low pressure moving over the bay area expected to bring some rain and thunderstorms that could even produce some hail. now, this weird weather has resulted in some weather factoids for the month of may. in all of may the east bay only had two 80-degree days compared to 17 days in the 60s. keep in mind the average highs for the east bay range in the upper 70s to the low 80s. most people out here today say this weather is pretty bizarre. i ran into some folks visiting from florida who actually say they don't mind it. >> june 1st we would expect to get different weather, but that's okay. we'll enjoy it anyway. >> reporter: because it's hot in florida? >> it's getting into the 90s already. >> reporter: so this doesn't bother you some. >> not too much. if it doesn't go below 5

caller: mark twain said get the facts first. you can distort them later. host: and we will leave it there. "richland --ing's "richmond times-dispatch," u.s. department has approved they new districts drawn up by this general assembly this spring. westchester, new york, on a line for democrats. caller: i wanted to follow-up on the comments, the last couple of guys who called on the democratic line. i have to say that sometimes i think you'd do a great job and i love watching this. it would be nice if sometimes the moderator's like yourself would jump in when one of your guests really goes -- the cliche is of left field. or right field in the previous case. they get so far away from the facts. the inconsistencies in both parties are pretty amazing. i think that is why people like ron paul and libertarians appeal to as many people as they do. even when they are wrong, at least they are morally consistent. and it would be nice if you would jump in a little bit more, i think, and keep the facts on the table straight. host: give me an example of where you think

think about what the costs of life were you in twain versus now. i submit almost in every case your water bill, your cable bill, your garbage bill, your utilityity bill, certainly the price of gasoline now is a lot higher than it was in 2008. nonetheless you got the same amount of money. so it's going to have draconian impact, this bill, and underlying bill, on the department of agriculture and food and drug administration. so i'm concerned, i think the gentleman is very intended to protect the programs that i care a great deal about, but i think the 5.8% across-the-board cut on top of what we have already cut is just too much. yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from pennsylvania. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. holden: i ask for the yeas and nays. the chair: the gentleman ask for a recorded vote? mr. holden: question. the ch

i do not know if you know what mark twain said about cincinnati.er his seventh visit he was on a train ride and a young reporter asked him his impression. he said that it feared the world was ending tomorrow, he would was ending tomorrow -- he would get to cincinnati as fast as he could. [laughter] i told some folks yesterday that my father was so conservative that he prohibited premarital sex because he thought it might lead to slow dancing. [laughter] so, do not be shocked with my conservatism. i have been blessed to be the mayor of my home town, the secretary of state and treasurer for the great state of ohio, representing the united states in that band of confusion, the u.n., as president george h. w. bush's ambassador to the u.n. in charge of the human rights portfolio. i had the opportunity to work with josh bolten. let me put it to you plainly. elections are about winning. because elections matter. i want to give you a couple of examples and then tell you why i have been spending his time working. working to build, precinct by precinct, word

>> carrie underwood, taylor swift, miley cyrus or shania twain?does -- >> folks, talk about moxi. she was 11 years old and she made the rounds at the labels in nashville with her karaoke tracks atrack s and she had to wait two or more years. she got her start at the blue bird cafe. >> you know who else did? >> garth brooks, two years before taylor was born. >> you just made her feel bad. >> who knew that? that's great. which singer's career took off after being a vocalist on the 1970s game show "name that tune." it was carly simon? kathie lee gifford, aretha franklin or carol king, which of those four tanfantastic singers was? >> carol king. >> well, he'll know about you after he listens to your cd. >> as all of america knows, it was, of course, kathie lee gifford. >> oh, oh! >> yes, she must have been 5 or 6 years old at the time. >> sing it, kath. >> what's that? ♪ you used to be the one >> is there any more glorious sound than the sound of your own ice? >> yeah. ♪ hey there >> this singer got his start by making homemade videos on youtube, the

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. >> shania twain. >> i've been told a particular date. >> tell me. tell me. >> i can't, but what are you hearing? >> it will be massive and it will be televised. if you lose your invite in the mail they will televise it. ryan seacrest is putting together a deal to televise the entire deal. it will be a two-hour. >> i'm sure every great celebrity in l.a. will be sitting there. >> darn right. >> it will be massive. >> it's this summer? >> it's this summer. >> whrm her sister khloe got married they televised it on e. >> i love weddings. >> what about nick lachey? >> his brother drew is across the street at new york live and he told me any day now they'll get married. he's the best man and they don't know the day. >> they will film that one, too. >> which kind of surprises me a little bit. >> after "the newlyweds" and they made a lot of money on it and made them big huge stars, but what a price they paid for opening up their home and relationship to the cameras. >> nick hasn't got the memo that reality tv