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>> "the fugitive" was a character study. >> beware the eyes of strangers, keep moving. >> everybody wanted to see what happened to "the fugitive". >> im about ready to give up. >> when it ended, it broke the viewership records set by the beatles on ed sullivan. it was one of the first tv shows that actually went somewhere. >> you know, youngstown is not exactly on our course. >> in a lot of ways, television was showing slices of the world that people may have never seen before. "route 66" was an...

>> thats the crash i should say where they believe it was essentially pilot suicide. >> correct. >> yeah. >> we started faulki eed talkin people to get a character study. is this the way he normally handled himself in the cockpit? did he do these things? we found on the day that he did, he took this airplane down, he was out of character. he didnt do things that he had normally done. and i think that in the investigation of this event, they should be asking those questions. theyll be interviewin...

Something intentional with the 737 in indonesia -- >> thats the crash i should say where they believe it was essentially pilot suicide. >> correct. >> yeah. >> we started talking to other people to get a character study. is this the way he normally handled himself in the cockpit? did he do these things? we found on the day that he did, he took this airplane down, he was out of character. he didnt do things that he had normally done. and i think that in the investigation of this event, they shoul...

737 in indonesia -- >> thats the crash i should say where they believe it was essentially pilot suicide. >> correct. >> yeah. >> we started talking to other people to get a character study. is this the way he normally handled himself in the cockpit? did he do these things? we found on the day that he did, he took this airplane down, he was out of character. he didnt do things that he had normally done. and i think that in the investigation of this event, they should be asking those questions. th...

Hip-hop, misogynistic hip-hop is not only a problem of a symptom of a root pathology but its a symptom of an industry that focuses on selling sex and violence. kids grow up in new york city listening to boom bat rap, wootang. theres kids that grew up with hearing music about sex and violence and they think thats how you have to be to be a rapper. you cant say that means that these absurd lyrics can be used as a character study. >> in this case the appeals court made the right decision, but if yo...

In a way, were simply doing a character study about a marriage and a beautiful marriage. a long and relationship to be celebrated, but the fact that its a same-sex marriage, i dont think this story has been told in this way. which is a, it is a way which i think can make a mainstream audience just that little bit more -- >> and you dont see a lot of older gay men or relationships portrayed in the media, but for younger people, gay and straight, the whole gay marriage thing, its the new civil rig...

Over a five year period to get facials so they got to know the family. they got no know the mom and daughter and they saw the family go from a normal immigrant families everybody working hard, the kids getting scholarships to private, to really good schools, to slowly but surely becoming very religiously devout, to becoming religiousdel lots, to the end of the day talking about conspiracy theories, september 1ing isth was plotted by americans and it was a manufactured thing to have an excuse to ...

>> hot time by aaron bentley says you should cover the kids and hats off to the students for having the guts to create an upset tradition. some truly great reporting from spencer ackerman who was on the show last night. he got an exclusive interview with an american-born jihadi. he agreed to speak from direct messages on twitter and said i believe in attacking u.s. interests everywhere, no second thoughts or turning back. he writes sentences like that make it likely hamady will be the next ame...

He talked about going to the new play and it brought up the most fascinating conversation. bob herbert sounding like all of us are getting old. how did it play? >> a character study of mike mclamary and bob was there during the great tabloids hey days of that group who were in that play. its a story about a guy who really, really wants to be jimmy breslan. its nora eflons last play and mike is dying of cancer. you hear sentence after sentence these poignant things like what is life all about? >>...

What are we supposed to think about this guy? was he acting out of principle or self-promotion? what are we to make of him? >> all of those things. i spent months working on this story and a vexing character study because he is a very implicated individual. he was trained as a cia officer to deceive everyone around him. he seemed to practice those arts in lots of unexpected settings. what is interesting about the case, at least in my take on it, was on the one hand his character is fascinating, ...