outrage in los angeles. cbs s mark strassmann reports on a los angeles city council meeting erupting with anger, after racist comments were revealed in a secret taping. a cbs news investigation the never-before-seen text messages linked to brett favre and mississippi s massive welfare scandal. and, remembering angela lansbury. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. russia s revenge continues as its missiles rain down from the skies across ukraine for the second straight day. air raid sirens sounded during the early morning rush hour, as residents took cover in bomb shelters and subway stations. multiple cities across the country were hit with fresh rockets and kamikaze drone attacks, as the death toll continues to rise.eath toll continues t russia s military appear to be targeting residential areas, including a scho
There isnt one. That was me being very diplomatic. We are done. Thats it. I apologize. [applause] this is hopefully not a forever conversation. Professor claudes book is available. He will be with us until 6 00. Into the conversation of who we are, where we are going, and how we get there. Please join us again july next year for the 19th harlem book fair. We are working very hard towards our 20th year celebration. We are excited about that. The book fair is becoming a public conversation. Not so much the their but what happens in the book fair, such as with the professor today. So we are hoping that what we do, what we all do together is engendering many more public conversations and perhaps some ideas of how we can maneuver, manage, create a new sense of self as we move forward. So thank you for supporting the harlem book fair. Please day for the next part of our presentation, and then the award. Max rodriguez, thank you so much. [applause] this is booktv on cspan2, television for ser
Back after vietnam. It was a big battle on campuses what do we do. After 9 11 student would have appropriate military presence. Military conflict with the civil rights which is a proper agenda. So groups organized to bring it back and after congress and the president did away with dont ask, dont tell which was a policy that marginalize gays in the military, came back in the ivy league. Host whats the negative effect of not having rotc on a College Campus . Guest it limits the intellectual diversity of the university, foreign policy, military policy are important parts of national life. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Look at the war in iraq, very controversial but it is an important part of national policy, always has been. It should have a presence on campus. Also the book has really two things. One is the intellectual diversity of universities. What is what people been writing about in recent years over the split between the Civil Society and the military. 1 or less of our
Reality, stop working one by one which is already happening. Thank you so much. Thank you all. [applause] thank you so sonia. If you dont mind folding your own chair and you can get your book signed up here and books are for sale right at the front. Thanks. [inaudible conversations] when i tune into it on the weekend, usually is authors sharing their new releases. Watching the nonfiction authors on book tv is the best television for serious readers, on cspan they can have a longer conversation and into the subject. Book tv weekends, they bring you author after author that spotlight the work of fascinating people. I love book tv and im a cspan fan. Youre watching book tv on cspan2. This week we are in Anaheim California with the help of our local cable partner time warner, next gustavo arellano, author about ask a mexican, talked about stereotypes he witnessed as a latino american. The idea for ask a mexican actually came from my editor at the oc weekly at the time. He would always ask
Advice column if you will will people send in questions about execute under able to answer them. I wasnt offended by the idea of ask a mexican but i did want to do it at first because i did think anyone would care. In journalism you want to do stories that people will care about one way or another. You dont care people like you for a job long as theyre reading. Other who want to read an advice column about mexicans . He kept insisting we need to fill in a space in the paper that wakes im like okay fine ill go back then he said it will only be one time. It would be a surgical satirical column, joking. I remembered, he asked it to me before. I go back and this was both an advice column. If we have to start off with dear mexicans, why do mexicans call white people gringos . My response was a slightly harsher word for gringos, mexicans dont go gringos gringos. On the gringos call gringos bring the. Mexicans call gringos i wrote it, filed a. I thought whatever. I could stand by this. Its fu