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People only saw you as an athlete because you thought there was more to who you were as a person. I tell these guys, basketball is what you do. Its not who you are. You should never the notion that what you are looking at, whether you are a ball player or a baseball player, that minimizes who you are. Uhhuh. Its what you do. You know, its not who you are. The motion that you let a sport event dictate the type of you know, like thats all i am right. I have known that from the beginning. I hope to...

Well the numbers from the philippines is staggering. The latest report says 10 Million People have been affected by typhoon haiyan, and one Senior Police official put the death toll at at least 10,000. Getting in and out is a major obstacle. President obama issued a statement about typhoon haiyan. He said, i know the incredible resiliency of the philippine people and im confident the spirit will see you through this tragedy. The United States is providing significant humanitarian assistance and ...

Now your smirks. Reporter two men confessed of badly beating a man at a baseball game and what they did to set off a judge during their sentencing. There really is no middle class. Reporter the widening income gap in one American City and what is causing the divide between the rich and the poor. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy. After days of blood shed in ukraine that left dozens of people dead, all night crisis talks may have a cease fire agreement and the presid...

Youre watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. Booktvs Online Book Club selection for october is representative john lewis walking with the wind a memoir of the movement. As a young child, i tasted the bitter fruits of segregation and Racial Discrimination, and i didnt like it. I asked my mother and my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents, why segregation . Why Racial Discrimination . And they said, thats the way it is. Dont get in trouble. Dont get in the...

Its really the not going to sleep call. It wasnt too bad out there, thank god. Thank you for coming. Thank you to heritage and a special thank you to my friend calling for providing some advice over the last couple years and a number of different aspects of my life. Think you are having me and constantly being available even though i probably annoy you. Thank you very much. I appreciate. I want to talk to about 50 or 20 minutes i want to start with my job with and white tv in the Police Departme...

Attack which you may get some of these ransoms are getting two or 3 million. So its a high profit margin business. Basically people go out and recruit. But the to do is mix people are inexperienced and experience people. Say of someone whos called a jumper. The person is the first person who boards the ship. Thats the most extreme, the purses been there before and thats a person makes the most money. Thank all go out, one of two ways. Go out and what are called motherships which are small fishin...

This is the description of de l la idiotidiots. These were rebound, published later in the nineteenth century. But what they document is Napoleons Campaign in egypt and artists rendering of the landscape of egypt, pyramids, architecture, architectural elements, elements of the hieroglyphs, egyptian pottery, maps, diagrams of the layouts of pyramids, different historical sites around egypt. This is an era where there was no photography. This was a way to document and detailed the things napoleon ...

Fear. Reporter the 35yearold veteran signed a 10day contract with the Brooklyn Nets playing his first game in l. A. He is focused ons his role on the team more than his role in society. I dont have time to really think about history right now. I just have to, you know, focus on my job tonight. Reporter collins let his guard down last spring announcing in Sports Illustrated he is gay. At the time the veteran was not with a team. The nets were the first to pick him up. Collins says the past 10 mon...

Speeding. One of them hit a third car killing the driver inside. Were live in fairfield. We understand the victims family has just visited the scene there. Reporter yes. We spoke with them a few moments ago. They identified the victim as 31yearold ron bracket. They set up this memorial within the past hour honoring a father, son, brother and uncle. Tearfully we watched his sons write messageses to the father of three whose youngest son is only 2 months old. His family said he was visiting a frie...

Innocent bystander in all this and now all you see is the shattered glass behind me. Police got a call from lopes road and canyon hill drive after the scene turned into an incident. A black Toyota Tundra pickup and an intinty were racing when the two vehicles got to the intersection the mazda was trying to make a left turn into the residential area. The pickup drove around the mazda but the infinity ended up hitting the drivers side of the car. One witness described what happened next. I looked ...