and wrote out this 42-page power point presentation detailing their sexual performance, pictures of the men, their names, everything. she sent it to a few friends, and then it was leaked everywhere. that s her, karen owens. the most infamous author at duke. she s naming names. karen ranked their performance on a bar graph. we re hiding their identities, though karen didn t. she wrote it like a thesis. excelling in the realm of horizontal academics. she writes about her sexual exploits from her sophomore year through her senior year at duke. she just graduated. karen calls each money a subject and sex with them, data collection. she brags about having sex in the duke library during finals week, and in suvs. but karen also came off vicious, saying of subject number one, it was over too quickly. here on the duke campus, it s the hot topic.
texas politicians. three congressmen here called for steps up efforts. to detour border violence. and as you may have hard. texas governor rick perry called on mexico s president, calderon, to get this man s body returned to the united states so his family can have closure to this incident. that s the latest from here, tamron. now back to you. thank you, janet. coming up, a duke university student creates, if you can believe it, a mock thesis on her sexual partners. little did she know, but she probably should have expected, it s now public. then democrats are getting support from a group that they would least expect. why the nra is now backing a lot of candidates on the left. plus super women. who is the most powerful woman in the world? not wonderwoman. some of these women. we re going to tell you who makes the top of the list. stufy, can i get a refill?
i skimmed parts of it. it was very detailed. karen says she often met the min at campus bars, like shooters, the sex often fueled by alcohol. in my blackout stage still managed to crawl into bed with a duke athlete. she claims all of them were athletes. most duke lacrosse players. a sensitive issue since the duke lacrosse scandal of 2006. a stripper accused three players of rain and at a team party. in 2007 the charges were dropped, but the damage was done some here say this new sex scandal won t help the reputation. this is the last thing this university needed. karen s thesis has gone viral, posted on several rankings. she sent the presentation to a few friends. then they e-mailed it around. then they e-mailed it. and so on. a growing problem. nothing is amongst friends. if it s shared online, it s shared with the entire world. young people need to realize
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why is it such a mystery? in florida another tea party backed republican marco rubio just finished a town hall meeting. it follows last night s heated debate in the senate race between rubio, governor charlie crist, running as an independent and democrat kendrick meek. i think it s always nice to listen to the governor attack myself for positions he himself held six months ago when he was trying to be the biggest conservative in the world. you haven t been drinking the kool-aid, you ve been drinking too much tea. you don t know where charlie crist is. kelly o donnell joins me live in washington. a lot to talk about. carl paladino with the mystery announcement. you have now apology offered to joe mansion in west virginia. well, he s the democrat governor of west virginia who have very popular in the state. yet he s in a tight race to get the senate seat that belonged robert byrd for so many years. it was expected mansion would have an easy victory. polling suggests