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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110519:01:55:00

gentle was that? i as a free man have the right to defend myself. and i'm scared to death of people like you who might tell me i'm not allowed to defend myself. because write this down, i am allowed to defend myself. >> what do you think makes a proper american? >> a proper american? >> yeah. >> to start with, a positive spirit, if you met my family and friends, my band, my team, management, everybody. they get up early, they kick ass all day long. they cover every detail. they wallpaper, carpet bomb, get the job done and we go to bed and we get up and start over again. that is the quintessential american knowing that by effort and by dedication and focus and the drive for excellence that the rewards will come your way according to your dedication. that's the american dream. >> i reserve my right to disagree with you, but i like

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110519:07:55:00

>> start with a positive spirit. really a herculean work ethic. not just a work equity ig but one that drives -- if you met all my family and all my friends, my band, my team, my management, everybody, they get up early. they kick ass all day long. they cover every detail, they wallpaper, carpet bomb, ge the job done, and then boom, we go to bed late at night and we get up and start over again. that is the quintessential american. knowing that by effort and by dedication and focus and the drive for excellence that the rewards will come your way according to your dedication. that's the american dream. >> i like passionate people. >> i'm a passionate -- >> so i reserve my right to disagree with you for a few things, but i like the passion with which you argue your case. >> especially when the passion is founded on such positive forces. i just want to play killer rock and roll. it's perfect. i just want to go hunting and balance the herbivores. >> why don't we end on a moment of accord? that way you play a little rock and roll. which i know i will enjoy. ted, let me thank you first for

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110519:04:55:00

really loving. my way is the only way. how gentle was that? my way is about i as a free man have the right to defend myself and i've got to tell you, i'm scared to death of people like you who might tell me i'm not allowed to defend myself. because write this down. i am allowed to defend myself. >> i didn't say you couldn't. what do you think makes a proper american? >> a proper american? >> yeah. >> start with a positive spirit. really a herculean work ethic. not just a work equity ig but one that drives -- if you met all my family and all my friends, my band, my team, my management, everybody, they get up early. they kick ass all day long. they cover every detail, they wallpaper, carpet bomb, ge the job done, and then boom, we go to bed late at night and we get up and start over again. that is the quintessential american. knowing that by effort and by dedication and focus and the drive for excellence that the rewards will come your way according to your dedication. that's the american dream.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110519:10:54:00

application of an undocumented student. >> it's difficult to say that they would deal with an undocumented student differently. what is really in place is the diversity business which is a big industry on campus so the illegal or undocumented student is really a nuance to an existing problem and the chief consideration is -- which is the answer to your question is one of preparation. that's the concern to us interested in excellence in our flagship campus, our research, our opportunity to open doors for our students is the preparation and, unfortunately, the admissions office is pretty inclined to use very different standard for students, they're not allowed to keep quotas for minority students or what not. so what one has is the euphemism a student has is a good story to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110519:10:56:00

flagship campus, we'd like to think we're the flagship because we're focused on that excellence and the difficulty. bringing the students in and expanding this at the expense potentially of very well prepared students who we love to come in. especially in an era where we're worried about science and technology, math, it's not helpful to bring students in that don't have the adequate preparation because they're not held to the same standards and they go away and according to all the data i had available to me at the time, ultimately go off and get no degree. so it's not even helpful to the students in the program. >> interesting stuff. all right, jim, a professor at the university of maryland. sir, thank you very much for joining us live. >> thank you for having me. >> interesting story. straight ahead, do you like your hamburgers rare and juicy? well, in one state, forget about it! it's illegal, the burger ban controversy top of the hour. man, does that look delicious? and he was collecting food

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110518:19:48:00

but in this case this young woman is the victim of a sexual and physical assault, her day to talk about this in public will come when she has the opportunity to step into the courtroom and tell her step to the jury. >>shepard: the tone for -- attorney for the alleged victim in the assault case of dominique strauss-kahn. >> no shortage of studies of food and wine. and now another one to add to the mix. scientists are saying coffee could be a live safer for some men. that is excellence news. we will get to the bottom of this. how many stories have you heard about coffee? when you are 35, coffee will tell you, when you are 38, it will make you great. when you are 39 it will kill you. why pay any attention to the coffee surveys. dent -- don't do too much of anything and you will be fine. stay tuned.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110515:15:46:00

for their kids. if the kids are not in a good school or not with a great teacher they get changed so we make sure we demand the best. when the parents demand it, the school systems will respond. >> jamie: it sounds like kids could get lost in this system and they don't have to. so your encouragement of people to stand up and take action. p.t.a. is still the way to go, get involved? >> p.t.a., but also individually. what i saw happen in harlem in the city was amazing. we opened up 40 charter schools up there. parents got actively involved. now they are the strongest source for excellence. last day on my job, man came to headquarters and said to me his whole life changed because his first kid got in a dead-end school and went nowhere and is now in prison. his second kid got into a great charter school called harlem success and the second kid is teaching him to read. this is doable. we have to insist it gets

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110514:13:46:00

nearly 50% higher than a decade ago. so for those who have yet to declare a major, what are the most useful degrees? the daily beast ranks them like this, number one, biomedical engineering, followed by business, education, software engineering and petroleum engine engineering. the least useful college mayors, fashion design, advertising, agriculture, and horticulture. you need to take whatever you're good at and whatever someone will pay you for. tiger mothers already know all this. they're pushing their kids for absolute excellence in their field, but do all the ville lol and math beat competitions help them succeed after school? ♪

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110508:21:50:00

sledgehammers. >> reporter: what's the benefit of having more african-americans in the classroom? >> was a we get to talk about our experiences and talk about the way things used to be, the way they can be, we give them hope. in our community being smart is not cool, you know. being a teacher is not cool. hopefully when i come into the classroom i expose them to what a black man can do, excellence. you all make me feel like i taught something this year. >> reporter: steve perry, washington. so just like your house and office, it can get so cluttered. same goes for your old computer, old files, resumés, all of it. time to clean them all out. we'll tell you how.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110502:15:49:00

terrorism? >> well, thomas, it is the same as when bin laden and his people moveded into pakistan. it is an excellence operation with hits and special operations forces and a classic operation and local law enforcement or once in a while a predator and reaffirms that this is the central aspect of counterterrorism. >> when we talk about the death of osama bin laden, and a long time coming in many estimations, what does this mean for retaliation, michael, and secondly, what does it mean for a secondary power figure the rise? >> well, retaliation, certainly, if al qaeda has a operation in the hopper, they will try to get the momentum back after this terrible blow to the organization, but it is going to be difficult to do it. they have no need for motivation to attack us, so it is going to be hard to attack us, but the other concern is a lone wolf. to replace bin laden is impossible. that organization was created by him. he was the leader of the organization and maybe not as operational in the past, but fo.

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