Blast in beirut, mohamed chatta, an outspoken are speaker,. South sudan, said they would step in if the two sides failed to end the fighting in four days. Another 72 u. N. Peace keepers arrived in south sudans capitol on friday, joining thousands who are already there. Those are the headlines, america tonight is next. On america tonight, bis buzz, behind a legalized cash crop now hit a new high. At the end of the day, it makes me a little bit giddy. Also tonight the arc of greatness in our everyday lives. How we take for granted these extraordinary views. And the artists behind them. Its almost as if they were dropped here from the 14th Century Building some of the greatest buildings our country has ever known. And footsteps. Tracing the past, an ancient art and the experienced spirits aging to lead its rebirth. Good evening, thanks for being with us, im joie chen. In the state of colorado, recreational pot smokers, beginning on wednesday marijuana users will be able to buy the drug le
Married someone she shouldnt have, but in her mind she felt this man she would never be cheated on. She struck in her mind a devils bargain. She was deeply in love with george, but scraired to cross the line and marry him. The way she did it was she said, well, at least, this means i will never be cheated on. She married one of the most famous ladys men of harlem, and he was cheating on her within months, if not week, and that continued throughout her life. Her daughter was killed in vietnam, and two years later, josephine hung herself in their apartment while george was reading in the living room, and many of the women in this book did come to sad ends. Do you have a piece to read to us about josephine . Yes, i do. With peoples permission. Okay, one microphone is enough. I think the selection displays how in so many ways her marriage was based on an idea, not a reality. Their ideas and fantasies about each other consumed realities of who they were, and that built their faulty relation
Enabling [inaudible] its minds boggling howment of tens of billions dollars we have wasted in countries like iraq and afghanistan building while elephant projects of no earthly use and actually battling the insurgency. The Water Treatment plants. Im not sure why we were doing it. I think its something we call the gratitude theory of counterinsurgency. If you give them cool stuff, they will like. You a. If you give them cool stuff and not in control of the area, the other side claim credit for it. And so if you build stuff inside the city but dont control the city, guess what, they will claim it. But the larger problem is if you dont have security, it doesnt matter how much people like you. Theyre not going to come over to your side if they get killed for doing it. Theyre not suicidal. Theyre not going commit suicide because they love a Water Treatment plant. So you have to have basic security. And to establish basic security. You have to have men with guns on the street 247. Its the es
Understandings, different experiences, and somewhat different outcomes, and some absolutely understood that, and the reason they wanted to be voluntary negroes was effort on their part based on fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase, was to dispel the one drop myth, was as ad race radical way of saying that any reliance on blood or biology to determine race is ridiculous. Race is a social construction that works politically. Some of them were very canny in using it that way. What they didnt understand is that at the time, the phrase voluntary negro with a lot of currency in the day, it felt to the one preferable. Those who were volunteering negroes were blacks who looked so white they could have passed for white, but chose not to, and the most famous and celebrated voluntary negro was walter white behooves so white he was almost translucent. You cant get whiter. Blond hair, blue eyes. He refused to be identified as white. He encysted on his black identity, which he could claim beca
His party. It may be the most promising lead in the search for flight mh370 which disappeared a month ago. Australia today said a ship detected two longlasting sounds in the indian ocean consistent with pings emitted from a planes black boxes, stronger than those reported by a chinese ship. Crews are rushing to find the flight data recorder since the batteries only last about a month. Lisa stark is in washington. What are the new developments . What do they say to us, what do they tell us, what do they mean for the search effort . They are the best evidence yet that they may find the ship. Everyone is sounding a word of caution. We have had so many false leads. As you mentioned an australian vessel shield heard what ocean shield heard what appears to be a pinging noise, for 2. 5 hours. Here is what the man in charge of search said. Significantly this would be consist with transmissions from both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. Clearly this is a most promising l