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do with gate detachment. >> rose: we continue with pulitzer prize winner e.o. wilson and his new novel "anthill." >> i wanted to go home. i wanted to go back to the deep south. i've been away for a long time and live there in spirit, at least in part. and one way to do that is a book. but i also wanted to try something new in a novel and that is to bring the living world in in detail. bring it alive for the reader and make it part of the action, part of the system, even a character. >> rose: we continue with maria barro mow and her "the 10 laws of enduring success." >> in 2008 i'm wa...

>> rose: we continue with pulitzer prize winner e.o. wilson and his new novel "anthill." >> i wanted to go home. i wanted to go back to the deep south. i've been away for a long time and live there in spirit, at least in part. and one way to do that is a book. but i also wanted to try something new in a novel and that is to bring the living world in in detail. bring it alive for the reader and make it part of the action, part of the system, even a character. >> rose: we continue with maria barro mow and her "the 10 laws of enduring success." >> in 2008 i'm watching these people lose ...

Court of appeals from washington. and one more that's on here besides elena kagan, and i'm getting some information from producers here as well, as we're talking. then there was judge sidney thomas as well. but, again, mark, we're hearing that it is elena kagan. we're working to confirm that. so it won't change the balance of the court here. and those are the people who have met there. what do you make of -- why does she stand out in this instance more so than the other three potential candidates here? >> well, don, let's go back to her age. she's only 50 years old. she just turned 50 years ol...

She's never been a judge and had at that point never argued a case before the supreme court or any court, for that matter. >> how are you going to handle that and how are you going to prepare yourself? >> i'm very confident that i'm up to this part of the job, as i am to all the many other parts. i think i bring up a lifetime of learning and study of the law and particularly of the constitutional and administrative law issues that form the core of the court's docket. i think i bring up some of the communication skills that have made me -- i'm just going to say -- a famously excellent teacher. ...

I talk about her, but she is an old friend, someone i know well, and she's a very impressive person, i think she will likely get confirmed. her views are somewhat of a mystery, i must say, on a lot of issues. she's never been a judge before. she's the first would-be justice since william rehnquist in the early '70s to be named to the court without having been a judge first. that's something president obama cares a lot about, getting out of the rut of picking only judges. but there is some mystery about what she thinks about a lot of issues. >> so did you call your old friend up, called her up ...