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have mi have migraines? may be debilitated for days at time or something we would have never mentioned about a male candidate? how did an anti-american terrorist become so trusted by u.s. officials in afghanistan he was allowed close enough to kill seven cia agents? finally, let me finish with a second look at most memorable moment of the week when rupert murdoch's wife wendi supposedly saved him from a pie throwing comedian. call me skeptical but i'm calling it piegate. we start with deal or no deal. the "new york times" reported this afternoon, the obama administration has in...

captions paid for by nbc-universal television moment the earth stopped shaking in haiti good evening, since the moment the earth stopped shaking in haiti just over a year ago now we've heard the warnings, the country was desperately poor and quite unstable before the quake. it remains very vulnerable now, almost a million people spending each night outdoors in tents, the government's been weakened even their presidential palace was destroyed. when the former dictator there nicknamed baby doc, real name jean-claude duvalier, flew in by surprise after a quarter century away in exile,...

how would i respond? i said, i would be interested in talking about that, and that is where that began. >> why were you interested at the time? what were your thoughts? >> being an ombudsman is a difficult but intriguing job to me, and "the new york times" is kind of the pinnacle of the newspaper profession, so i thought it was an unusual opportunity, and i was definitely interested. >> what happened next? >> there were a couple of phone calls about it, and then my wife and i were literally in an airport, and i got a call in my cell phone saying, could you come to new york and talk m...

interested -- if someone were to call me and asked me if i were interested in being the public editor or ombudsman, how would i respond. i said, i would be interested in talking about that. >> why would you be interested at that time? >> well, being an ombudsman is a difficult but intriguing job. it was before i had run. "the new york times" is kind of the pinnacle of the newspaper profession, i believe. i thought it was an unusual opportunity and i was interested in it. >> what happened next? >> what happened next is there were a couple of phone calls about it. then, my wife and i w...

can you remember the moment of you becoming the ombudsman of the "new york times" came to you? >> it came to me in a phone call. i was on my way to being a professor for a semester at davidson college in north carolina. i got a phone call from an editor asking me if i might be interested -- if someone were to call me and asked me if i were interested in being the public editor or ombudsman, how would i respond. i said, i would be interested in talking about that. >> why would you be interested at that time? >> well, being an ombudsman is a difficult but intriguing job. it was before ...