The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS) - 2002-03-26

Name: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS) - 2002-03-26
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] [music]

[0:13] [music]

[0:18] [music]

[0:19] >> Good evening. I'm Jim Lehrer. On the

[0:21] NewsHour tonight, a summary of today's

[0:23] news, a pre-Arab summit update from the

[0:26] Middle East, a report from Boston on the

[0:29] beginnings of the Catholic Church's sex

[0:31] scandal, a look at President Bush's

[0:33] choices for the federal government's top

[0:35] two health jobs, a discussion of ways to

[0:38] fix the US Immigration and

[0:39] Naturalization Service, and a salute to

[0:42] basketball by poet Robert Pinsky.

[0:46] Major funding for the NewsHour with Jim

[0:48] Lehrer has been provided by

[0:51] Imagine a world where we're not

[0:53] diminishing resources,

[0:55] >> [music]

[0:55] >> we're growing them.

[0:56] Ethanol,

[0:57] a cleaner burning fuel made from [music]

[1:00] corn.

[1:01] ADM, the nature of what's to come.

[1:05] And by SBC Communications.

[1:08] From high-speed internet access and

[1:10] voice services to data transport,

[1:11] [music]

[1:11] networking, and e-business solutions.

[1:14] When it comes to providing what it takes

[1:16] to help the world communicate, we're on

[1:18] it. SBC Communications.

[1:22] And by the Corporation for Public

[1:23] Broadcasting.

[1:24] >> [music]

[1:24] >> This program was also made possible by

[1:26] contributions to your PBS station from

[1:29] viewers like you.

[1:32] Thank you.

[1:33] >> [music]

[1:33] >> Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat

[1:35] announced today he would not attend the

[1:38] Arab summit. It's set to begin tomorrow

[1:40] in Beirut and is expected to focus on a

[1:43] peace initiative from Saudi Arabia.

[1:45] Excuse [clears throat] me. A spokesman

[1:47] said Arafat would stay home and not

[1:49] submit to Israeli conditions. Earlier,

[1:52] Israeli Prime Minister Sharon said if

[1:54] Arafat wanted to travel, he must call