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Courtney Rose Brown's “The First Time” was also staged at Circa Theatre. Playwright Courtney Rose Brown looks at the struggle with having the right to share your work on a stage In my last year at university, a lecturer told us that we were in control of our production and our future, and promptly left the room. The rug was pulled out from under our Doc Martens. We looked around with wide eyes, mouths open, desperately seeking a leader. The Pākehā men in the room seemed to jump at this opportunity. The rest relaxed a little, but slowly grew frustrated about being put in this position...

But at the same time, given that he's so frail, the government doesn't want to cause undue panic. when i was there earlier this year, i asked people what happens if mandela is no longer with us? people are concerned there may be some unrest and panic because he is such a figure head. >> not only in south africa but around the world. why is he so important to everyone? >> because it's so important what he did. the end of apartheid in south africa only ended in 1990, and he's the person who took the country peacefully from anti-apartheid to one of the most democratic constitutions in the world. ...

Hoping that nothing would happen? well, one person who clearly understands the ongoing threat is laura logan the courageous veteran cbs reporter who was savegely attacked by a mob of egypt thugs during the so called arab be spring uprising. speaking this past week in chicago she had this to say. >> i knew that we were being lied to and i knew that the american people were being misled and when it comes to issues that i care about like issues of national security i don't think that politics should dictate your national security policy. and i don't know a journalist that likes being lied to. >> ...

spring offensive. that threat follows this deadly attack in kabul but a taliban suicide bomber two hours after president obama left afghanistan and the taliban claiming it's just a sign of things to come. let's go straight to nick payton walsh in kabul. when the taliban says spring offensive, tell us exactly what that means. >> reporter: well, something they were talking about two weeks ago but today their statements shortly after barack obama left made it clear they consider it a new operation ahead of them. something they called al faruq, an arabic term referring between a person w...

Time, but, what is your take on what the president is going to try to accomplish tomorrow in there are a bunch of different audiences for this speech. >>juan: right. well, the first thing, and this is interesting, to say that he is pro democracy. in a way that he is going to now become more aggressive because if there is anything that marked u.s. policy it has been that it has been halting. some places we support the spring uprising and some places we don't, and it is in the clear why. and, i think, tomorrow he will make it clear and second, he tries to regain momentum in terms of the israeli-...