The economist of course, two weeks ago there was a wonderful article in the economist on literary realism. And i will approach you with this and paragraphs of that. For years, had been americas establishment. Their own country the mystery around. American positively fantastic stories and has writers in the manhattan residence cant be bothered to look further than the end of their noses. In this quote, and impale to this moment in history of american literature, mr. Tom wolfe wrote, we need a battalion to head out into the smile look bizarre and predictable august stomping country of ours. And reclaim it is literary property. Yet the trouble of turning yourself into an american is that you immediately expose yourself to being trumped by reality. And better sort of critics are from going over the top pretty using cartoon characters to exaggerate the eagles modern society. But the truth is the opposite predict pales into insignificance compared with the hog stomping reality that he tries
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Is always virus lurking and last week it took installing the markets. Corporations are upping their expectations to earnings. We might get back to fundamentals at some point. Happens hopefully that because that is what it all comes down to, the u. S. Corporate profit outlook. With the virus still lurking, and the idea we are still in the first wave that hit new york first and is now spreading around the country, that has to make it difficult for countries to plan for the future. To the degree they are able to bring up assets for the future, they were brought down. Still lots of uncertainty. It is one of the cases where the proof will be in the pudding. Lets see how many stores look at apple closing their stores. Lets see how the reopening process goes, lets see how the payrolls report coming out thursday goes for the month of june. So much data, so much uncertainty, quite some time before we have a clear picture. Hopefully we do have a reconnection to what you are talking about, move b
On the brink protests in hong kong turn violent as china cracks down on dissent. Tonight why beijing is blaming the u. S. For stoking an uprising and warning of a new cold war. Charth horrific n video showing a mother attempting to drown her autistic son before laterkiappe profiles in Service Americas tough military officer on why memorial day is personal for him. I have soldiers that are buried here that died under my command. Brennan and countdown to history. The return of u. S. Space flight as astronauts prepare to blast off again from american soil. Off again from american soil. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonneell reporting from the nations capitol. Brennan good evening and thank you for joining us. Norah is off tonight. Im margaret brennan. As americans observed this muted memorial day with many of the holiday curtailed the country moved closer to a milestone nearly unimaginable just two months ago. As we come on the air tonight, deaths since the pandemic began. Nati
Space center in houston. Today we will hear more from nasas leadership to tell us more about the mission in the last 24 hours. With us is nasas administrator, jse director, director of the Johnson Space center. The Program Director of the commercial crew program. Space stationnal Program Director, deputy Program Director. The nasa astronaut. Thank you for joining us. We will start with opening remarks, and then we will go to questions from reporters. First up is our nasa administrator. To say, just want congratulations to the nasa team and to the space x team, and congratulations to the United States of america. This has been an amazing two days. We are still at the beginning. We have a mission in front of us. We need to make sure we bring bob and doug home safely. When we think about watching american astronauts for the brandnew, on a rocket, this has been done four times in the history of the United States. Mercury, gemini, apollo, and now crew dragon. Now,actually five times and thi