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Transcripts For WMPT PBS NewsHour 20091225



captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions brown: good evening. i m jeffrey brown. millions this day celebrated the holiday even as blizzards disrupted travel in the midwest. warner: i m margaret warner. the latest on the storm that brought snow to the midwest including the latest on last night s attack on pope benedict xvi at the vatican. brown: one of chine s leading dissidents was sentenced to jail. warner: the controversy over the future of pensions for retired state workers in california. spencer michels will have a report. people beneficiaries would not be at risk because we re on the hook for those payments regardless how well and how poorly pension funds do. mark shields and david brooks look forward on health care and back on the decade. warner: efforts to reform washington, d.c. s public schools. then tells us what s ahead. we have been totally disrespected. we have been treated like we don t matter. reporter: that s all coming on t ....

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