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Anglicized. >> growing up there was problems about how to pronounce my name, but they would ask me how to pronounce my name. >> reporter: shocked is not what phuc bui diem nguyen expected when she started her class this week when her professor asked her to anglicize her name because it, quote, sounds like an insult in english. >> he was being an ignorant person and just trying to not my name. she felt his request was discriminatory saying it sounding like the f-word and he said it was so crude w...

Wearing p.j.s and curlers and saggy pants. she says it sets a bad example. under the items that wont be banned, but the parents should dress as if they are going to church or work. sweatpants are acceptable, but hair must be neat, and the so we are joined by the broward county school representative ms. osgood, and thank you for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >> and i have to speak up. what did you see that was the straw that broke the camels back? >> well, im in the schools that i repres...

Community, ran a pawnshop. she had the honor of serving as school representative in her final year before she went to oxford where she studied chemistry. but it was her father who was her biggest influence. it was he who impressed upon her the living beyond your means, a lesson she took to heart. >> one of the most immoral things you can do is to pose as the moral politician demanding more for health, more for education, more for industry, more for housing, more for everything. and then when you...

>>trace: now the movie theater massacre in aurora, colorado. the prosecutors are asking the judge to turn over records from the university of colorado about the shooting suspect. holmes opened fire during a midnight screening of the batman movie last night killing 12 people and injured dozens more. we expected a hearing to begin moments from now. and now, live for us from colorado. what is so important about the records? >>reporter: trace, there is a wide sweeping gag order in this case. there i...

for gas, once again becoming the new normal. whats behind that sharp price hike? wolf blitzer is off today. im candy crowley, you are in "the situation room." an alleged plot for a suicide bomb attack on the u.s. capitol busted today in an undercover operation. officials say a moroccan man is under arrest after accepting a vest he believed was filled with explosives. cnns brian todd is at the courthouse in alexandria, virginia. whats the latest there? >> reporter: candy, were told th...

Do. and you cant be 100% sure that this child will not engage in sexual activity on campus. >> now, the law also requires the school to try to make reasonable modifications to accommodate an h.i.v. student but, shep, the school says no amount of modifications can change the risk of sexual contact among teenagers who are, well, determined. >> shepard: one school representative is said to have uttered or proclaimed even we dont take kids like that. >> yeah, shep. the plaintiffs lawyer claims that ...

medically unsound and against the law. this is happening by the way the week of world aids day and its happening 26 years after another teenager named ryan white was barred from going to class because he was hiv positive. back then ryan white showed you could be hiv positive and not pose a threat to fellow students or anyone else. the question tonight, have we not learned anything since then? three years ago congress specifically amended the americans with disabilities act to explicitl...

Door of the governor of the great state of minnesota. and rather than just looking at the door and seeing if hed walk in or out, they were demonstrating. they were talking about welfare. >> well, thats slightly important for a parent maybe to sign off on, that there might be a political agenda attached to that school field trip. usually its like can you bring a car seat to sign off on that? who is going to be driving? >> or promise want to bring a carbonated drink. >> or candy bar or something. ...