you have an interest in shakespeare and sophocles and educational, across the board, ecumenical, if io, a holocaust undertaking, and a utah elegist -- and in egypt elegist. -- and an egyptology this party when you find time for this and how was your day divided up between this extraordinary step besides electric interests? >> the other interests are probably taking more time than the electricity because i am slowly handing authority over to chris crane who will succeed me at exelon. you can get astonishing things out of history books that once the succession is clear, the nobles tend to gather around the successor. one just has to accept that that's the way it is. >> let's go to these interests one by one. why ancient egypt? >> i am a history buff and i have been since i was 10 years old. my travel focuses on papal of this -- places of historical interest and i read history every night and i tend to read in splurges. i go for one period and then i get interested in something else. the truth is, the older i get, the more i care about how the book is written because i don't have patienc

i did not expect sophocles' but a little bit. >> the man who said put an aspirin between your legs, i want to send him a copy of the, sutra. >> the census bureau has just told us that 30% of americans have a college degree. nearly 11% have a graduate degree. 50 years ago that number was 6%. something is going right in terms of the educational process. >> low point for me would be the pop culture phenomenon of chris brown and the singer rihanna getting back together to collaborate. more so for what it says about consumer culture and a culture of young people who did not see any problem with him, and in user, getting back with her, and enabling. hite point -- i do not think i had any high points this week. maybe last week, the westminster guard show -- dog show. >> an enormous number of people going through university. are they better educated? our people better read? i come out of the generation more people did not go to university. journalists and never went to university, at least in the countries i was familiar with in my youth -- britain and zimbabwe. we thought people who had been