“The US has to go back to the drawing board,” says legendary journalist Helen Thomas of US policy in the Middle East and North Africa. As Egypt throws off its regime and protests ripple across the region, she notes that the world is waking up to the fact that people under repressive dictatorships can and will fight back–and use nonviolence to achieve their aims rather than invasion.
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WOLF BLITZER: Mona, the protests in Tunisia led to a revolution there. In Egypt led to a revolution there.
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CNN’s Ivan Watson reports on the musical sounds that accompanied the popular revolt in Egypt. Hussam al Hossainy and Remy Esam are featured
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Mona Eltahawy comments on how Egypt’s peaceful 18-day revolution didn’t just bring down a dictator, it also toppled stereotypes about Arabs, who are often seen as violent and as a people who crave an iron-fisted strongman.
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“Hello, I’m an Arab and I toppled two dictators in one month!
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Dr. Marque has this college freshman’s prescription!
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One of the greatest ever actors, Sir Christopher Lee, is given the highest honour awarded by BAFTA – The Academy Fellowship (ie Lifetime Achievement Award).

Very sad to see how frail he is.
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DemocracyNow.org –
While the Egyptian military has agreed to some of the protesters’ demands, the military has refused to lift the emergency law or to release the thousands of political prisoners jailed by the Mubarak regime. To explore the situation, Democracy Now!
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Just days after the Egyptian labor movement joined the popular uprising that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the ruling military council has called on labor leaders to halt strikes and protests. “Egyptian politics didn’t begin on January 25th,” says Barnard College Professor Mona El-Ghobashy, who has written extensively on politics and social movements in the Middle East and North Africa, “There is a pre-history to this revolt,” she says.
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The popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have raised questions about the stability of several other governments in the region. Over the weekend, thousands of peaceful demonstrators in Yemen clashed with police and pro-government supporters.
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Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat was in the streets of Cairo as Egyptians erupted with joy after learning President Hosni Mubarak had stepped own following 18 days of street protests that began Jan.
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On Monday prime-time, JEOPARDY! champions will face off against IBM’s new supercomputer, Watson, developed to dominate human brain-game champs.
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President Obama visits Parkville Middle and Center of Technology to discuss “key priorities in the 2012 Budget…”
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With the President’s Fiscal Year 2012 Budget proposal, NASA will continue leading a quest to win the future and help the nation innovate, educate and build by working to protect Earth, uncover distant worlds, and expand the frontiers of technology.
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Gary Jackson was born and raised in Topeka, Kan. He received his MFA from the University of New Mexico.
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