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one of my assistants who i hired out of columbia university interned for me for two years.had a class with this guy at columbia and said it was fantastic. in the first lecture, he said this. there is a notion that middle east is a region deprived of democracy and freedom. that is simply not true. you are so right. i was talking to this woman as she was driving down the street -- wait, she wasn't driving down the street. anyway, it's a crazy notion. where have i heard that before? he stated every place on earth is in support of the palestinians except for the united states and israel. yet, all of them together don't matter compared to the united states and israel, because the u.s. and israel can do anything they want because of their status as a superpower. ahh. you are so smart. you has a big egg head? you do! a lot of our universities are pushing bigotry. that's what this is. this is anti-israeli, bigotry. anti-jewish, antisemitic. it's anti-american. bigotry. and this administration embraces that thinking, i think have you noticed that? or is it just me? last week i talke

i recall my father met him or was among a crowd when he came to columbia university campus. i don't recall having a sense of my family's response to him at the hotel although local neighborhood kids thought it was rather funny. some went down there. i am trying to remember if i did go down there to check out. i might have but a lot of time has gone by. if your question was how we felt politically, ultimately -- had anyone known that was at the beginning of a long estrangement, i don't know how anyone could have stayed same. >> you talk a little bit about the divide between your family that came out before castro took power and goes relatives who came after. the peculiar advantage of being in that class. they went to new jersey and were able to buy a house and a car. >> my mother used to -- my mother and father are always helping relatives and friends come out with whatever they could. always seemed whenever we were in a state, and ok apartment, not bad. getting along, no locations. we never went to restaurants or movies or broadway show until i went by myself. once with nuns

albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the new school in columbia universityd is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line teacher. a teacher, educators, researchers, writers, consultant, speaker. she is like a mother, auntie, big sister, all in one, for me. she has taught in canada, the caribbean, and the u.s. and has been involved in the development of teachers for two decades. she consults on anti-racist inclusion very and equitable education. she assists school districts and schools to continually restructure themselves for equitable outcomes for all students. the initiative put that puts race -- she designed the initiative that puts race on the table. she is the virtual scholar for teaching for change. she is the author of "reality check," a major report

that -- i teach a course on essay at columbia university and there's some gold-plate students and some okay students and i don't know i realize that that i'm not a luddite at all about the web. but i do think there is some sort of zero-sum game. no, it's not fair. there's some issue with the blog. and the thing about the blog is that essentially a staggeringly gorgeous forms, until a you diderly self-indulgence. it presupposes that anything you might have to say in any order that might occur to you about anything is going to be of some interest to some sorry soul out there somewhere, actually. [laughter] >> and that all of the kind of wonderful spiny harshness of the essay's form that makes it a glory in humane culture is for the most part -- it's not true of all blogs who do think of themselves as crafted in an essayist way in the shakespeare or tolstoyist way. half the kind of, you know, raw self-confidence of the entirely eck tomas -- ectoplasmic way. [laughter] >> but there's the kind of problem. but essays are still crafted and then i discovered actually -- discovered, you know, a

>> researcher, a student at columbia university where it have been involved with no come since high-schooln i have read the autobiography in much of my research has focused on the history of islam in america especially the african-american community. my family is from trinidad i grew up outside washington d.c. area. >> host: now the book is finished were you doing? >> unfortunately dr. marable was the chair of my dissertation and adviser. i am in the process of reconstituting my committee and looking forward to seeing redo to complete my ph.d. program at columbia. >> host: we have been talking about the amount the max book by dr. marable with zaheer ali. thank you. >> host: book expo america the publisher's annual convention new york city regnery publishing is year as well and with a booktv to preview fall 2011 book titles and we're joined by the publisher of regnery. i will start with a book that you don't have out yet because you just signed a deal today. >> you are correct. said big news today is three just signed a big book with donald trump doing a political book this fall in interest

to make a living all right safe a visiting scholar at the center of capitalism in society at columbia university a professor of economics at lebanese american university thanks for being on the kaiser report thank you all right now is going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i would thank my guests say for daytime if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser report at r.t. t.v. dot ru until next time this is backscatter saying bye. for. and again this is the headlines. the greek capital erupts and get plans for yet more austerity measures if the government fails to reduce expenditure it or not the irish both the bailout cash from the i.m.f. which could lead to the country defaulting on its debts. also nato has missile defense plans a serious blow and as a frustrated czech republic drops out. and iran confirms it has no plans to possess nuclear weapons at a key summit to asian leaders and passed on the stock. and those are the headlines coming up next security for the u.s. headache for the rest. were appalled to see how the world views a

your sister is studying at columbia university in new york city. this is in, like, the 1930's, '40s? >> my sister was the first... my eldest sister was the first student that went to america because of the japanese compensation. that money, you know. before my sister's generation, when you went to... chinese are regarded as either coolies or laundrymen. she was the first generation... you know, there is a joke, "knock, knock, there is a chinaman, no laundry tonight." "knock, knock." my sister's generation, "knock, knock, there is a chinese. are you doctor so-and-so?" so there is this joke, you know? >> hinojosa: but i want to take you to... because, you know, your life, again, it's an extraordinary drama. but part of the drama is that you leave, you and your brothers and sisters, you leave, and your mom and dad stay in china. and then china goes under the process of a revolution, and your parents are still there. your dad is still a huge star. but then the cultural revolution happens in 1966. you're already living on this side. and this is the part

of iraq and afghanistan he does have a we're very grateful for your time in the scholar of columbia university if you are thinking thank you. still to come on the program tonight picking up the load how they will look at where the better russian authorities of this time and its. tackle the economic turmoil the country is plunging into. has a car pays its last respects to its late president surrogate the gaps we look at the path he took to believe the republic the long awaited independence. russia's planned all imports of a vegetable so after a deadly outbreak of e. coli bacteria although some are wondering whether the threats being overstated causing the latest out of health risk hype i think sean thomas investigates that. it really is a question of is this the attack of the killer chill congress or just another case of mass hysteria on an international scale this all started within the past month in germany where a new strain of e. coli bacteria was discovered about a thousand people have been killed from that strain germany came out almost immediately and said this new bacteria is coming fro

and talk with safe edina moose a visiting scholar at the center on capitalism and society at columbia university and a professor of economics at lebanese american university safe welcome to the kaiser report thank you all right so if you recently wrote a piece for the financial times called too much aid hobble the arab spring first tell us what are our economic the issues economic issues behind the arab spring and then whether this western aid and debt will address any of these economic issues a lot of these problems were economic it was an exclusively can only a lot of it was a comic and the real economic problems i feel are the government control over the various sectors of the economy which was something that was strengthened over the past couple of decades through international institutions supervision of privatization programs which ended up strengthening the hand of the mubarak and ben ali regimes in those countries and allowing them and their cronies to control more and more of the economic activity of the country and of the switch in rich them while at the same time denying a lot about t

i'm at columbia university now and i'll get smart one day. >> it's been a pleasure. >> thank you. >> that's it for tonight. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >>> good morning from cnn london, i'm nina dos santos. >>> and good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i'm andrew stevens. you're watching world business today. the top stories this friday, june 3. >>> a growing e. coli scare is threatening europe's huge food export market. >> china hits back over cybercrime claims while sony investigates yet another suspected batter attack. >> >> and groupon is hoping that investors will go crazy for coupons. >>> now at least 16 people are dead, more than 1500 are ill in an industry that earns $5 billion from exports to just one market is at risk. an outbreak of what scientists are calling a super toxic strain of e. coli bacteria has spread to ten western european nations with 15 fatalities reported in germany and one in sweden. researchers say they don't know where it's coming from, but suspicions about contaminated projects have caused russia to band imports of all of the eu countries. the e

at columbia university. rezko cough is willing to publicly oppose presidential policies with which he strongly disagrees. although he served as chairman of the foreign intelligence advisor board for president george w. bush, he openly opposed the president's plans to invade iraq in 2003. he predicted the u.s. would be seen as an occupying power in a hostile environment. he served as military assistant to president nixon, deputy assistant for national security affairs for presidents nixon and ford, and national security adviser for ford and george h.w. bush. during his long association with the republicans administrations, he was also tapped by president-elect president obama to head his national security team. as an academic as well as an international business consultant. he has served on numerous advisory councils involving military and national security issues. we look forward to hearing his unique perspective and ability to provide us with a timely overview of the difficult form policy jaundice facing ou

on my left and the left, i suppose, is columbia university's jeffrey sachs. the other side of the table, and i suppose the political spectrum, harvard university's kenneth rogoff. welcome, gentlemen. >> thank you. >> jeff, when you look at these job numbers, if you do the math, we're creating about 250,000 jobs a quarter. that barely takes into account the new entrance to the labor market. i did a back of the envelope calculation, it will be 12 years before we get to 7% unemployment. >> of course, there is a lot of uncertainty right now, but i think what is clear is the economy is dragging, unemployment is high and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. of course, the headline unemployment number hides a lot of suffering of people that have withdrawn from the labor market or working only short hours because they have to. so, this economy is still sick. it is not showing dynamism, and we have serious problems ahead. without a functional washington. >> what do you do with this problem of unemployment? if the unemployment numbers don't go down, even the

in political science from columbia university and his ba from university of michigan. last but not least is christopher crowley who serves as the deputy administrative assistant for the middle east. prior to this assignment, he was usaid mission director in iraq. he joined usaid in 1971 as an assistant. development adviser in vietnam and has served as a regional mission for central asia and director of the program office in india, deputy mission director in egypt. in 1994, he became the first mission director for the west bank in gaza. he holds a bachelor of science degree in physical sciences from the ohio state university, a master's degree in international relations from the university of pennsylvania, and a master's degree in public administration from the john f. kennedy school of government at harvard university. we welcome all three of you here this afternoon. we operate on a five-minute rule so if you can keep your remarks to that time, there is a lighting device on the table that will indicate your time has concluded. we will then ask questions for the same pe

otsuka, born and raised in california, a graduate of yale university, and received her msa from columbia universityher first novel was published in 2003. she lives in new york city and is is just about to publish her new book that comes out in august that's been granted twice including in the new issue of granta. this is a second time in our history we excerpted a novel in back-to-back issues, and the only other time was with mark neumus. we're correcting that now. it's a beautiful novel. next is karen russell. she's chosen as one of the best youngest novellest in 1997 -- 2007, sorry. you would have been 12 in that year. [laughter] she was chosen as one of the best writers under 40. they have not stolen karen. she is the author of st. lucie's home for girls raised for wolves and the author of the new brilliant novel that i'm sure you read about called "swamplandia." finally, francine prose, author of 25 books, fiction and nonfiction, including primitive people, and most recently, my new american life. very scarry alligator about to eat someone on the cover. since -- from march 2007 to recently, she

and national book critics circle award winner, simon schama is a professor of art history at columbia university and also a cultural essayist for the "new yorker" and written more than 30 documentaries for the bbc and pbs, including "a history of britain," "a powerful art" and his newest book "scribble, scribble, scribble." schama turns his warm prose to a fast array of topics. he approaches every subject with gusto and amusement and always has smart things to say. it's truly a pleasure. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming simon schama. [applause] [applause] >> welcome. i didn't drink any of your water. >> you were thinking what the hell is he doing texting? you know, is he even going to look at us and say something to me? did they kindly tell you to turn your cell phones our? my favorite play was spamalot. ladies and gentlemen, i would like you to turn all of your cell cell phones on because the show is complete crap. you know? the reason that i'm looking at this, everyone, is it has on it right now the best thing ever written about spring. and you, class, are going to tell me who

i'm at columbia university now and i'll get smart one day. >> it's been a pleasure. >> thank you. >> that's it for tonight. now here's anderson cooper with "ac 360." >> piers, thank you very much. good evening, everyone. tonight, we begin with breaking news about john edwards. there are reports that the former presidential candidate is likely to be indicted tomorrow on criminal charges. the other possible scenario, edwards and the justice department will agree on some sort of a plea deal. the charges stem from money given to his mistress, rielle hunter, who became pregnant with his child. prosecutors have cob tended the money, which came from two of his political backers, should have been considered campaign donations and therefore reported. edwards' lawyers say it was gifts from old friends intended to keep the affair street from elizabeth edwards who died back in december. first, joe johns lays out how all of this mess began. >> reporter: john edwards, the politician. remember him? >> we have much work to do. because the truth is, we still live in a country where there are two diff

he also taught economics at princeton, yale, and columbia university. dr.aylor has received the bradley prize for his intellectual achievements and the alexander hamilton award for his overall leadership in international finance at the u.s. treasury. dr. taylor is a renowned expert on monetary policy and the creator of the taylor rule for determining what the target rate of federal funds should be for price stability. he served ads the undersecretary of the treasury for international affairs during the first term of president george w. bush. previously he served as a member of the president's council of economic advisors during the george h.w. bush administration. he's also served on congressional budget offices, economic advisory panel. dr. taylor has a long list of publications to his name and a recent book entitled "getting off track: how government actions and interventions cause prolonged and worsened the financial crisis." he's a frequent contributor to the editorial page at the "wall street journal" and other widely read publications on the state of

also here, hassan abbas from columbia university and the asn society.e was part of a report, 2020, building a better future. from washington, shuja nawaz, from the center and has written about pakistan. i'm pleased have them here. my first question is: why is this significant? >> actually the story is significant because pakistan is significant. its role is significant and its future is very important and the killing of a very prominent journalist who has been working on the subject of al qaeda and the militancy, and who has been trying to dig out the facts in a very shadowy world, where access is difficult. >> so it's very important. and the way he was killed, the wahe was abducted, it's something which everyone is concerned about, especially in pakistany context where we seemingly have a very thriving an independent media, dozens of tv channels, hundreds of print publications. so in that context it's very significant to know why he was killed, who were the people, the group responsible for his killings, and then put anytime context and come up with a

joel lash was a jewish man, graduate of columbia university, an intellectual who was very involved in leftist student movements of the late 1930s. um, somehow he became one of her closest confidants after her relationship with hickok waned in the late 1930s. now, as a representative of the press because of her "my day "column, she attended hearings of the house un-american activities committee at which lash, who played a leading and controversial role in his leftist youth organizations, testified. lash first was a communist or communist sympathizer, but then he broke with the communists and became a very strong anti-communist. lash said the two of them had a moral affinity. he introduced her to the machinations of communists within social movements, and eleanor benefited from be his political savvy as he discussed the way in which communists operated within these movements. and years later at the united nations she said that she didn't have much trouble dealing with the russians because she had learned about the communists when she'd been first lady. well, she learned a lot, i think,

he went down to city hall, went to columbia university.having lots of fun in new york city where the policemen who were assigned to attack him because there were all these assassination plot surrounding castro and these were reported in the press every day. none of these turned out to be real but the police didn't know that and castro was completely impossible to protect. he would throw himself into crowds hugging and kissing people with no concern for safety. one afternoon on a whim, he decided to go to the bronx zoo. the press followed, federal agents followed and new york city police follow. castro did what everybody does at the zoo. he is a hot dog and the nets to the elephants. he wrote a miniature electric train and before anybody could stop him, he climbed over a protective railing in front of the tiger cages and stuck his fingers through the cage and pet a bengal tiger on ahead. this is the sort of thing castro did to make people think he was a little crazy. besides trying to save castro from assassins and tigers, americans spent m

>> public schools in new jersey and then columbia university. >> and law? >> from george washington. >> was there a time that you decided i want to be a writer, columnist, a lawyer -- >> i had a fantasy to become a columnist in college, and my first job out of college was national review magazine, and there i was, 22, and wanting to be a pundit. and i thought you can't exactly offer yourself to the world when your 22 or 23 and say, you know, i'm going to tell people what i think about the world because you don't know anything. so i decided to go to law school and get a credential and, so, that was my past. but i kept writing, i remained interest in public affairs. >> you say this book was -- is probably here because of a thunderstorm. >> that's right. >> i was giving a speech in indianapolis, and i was heading back to the airport to come home and thunderstorms had prevented all eastbound flights and so i found myself there with herb london, the president of the hudson institute, and, you know, we knew each other a little bit and we sat down to talk and we'r

matthew waxman, associate law professor at columbia university and expert at national security law and international law. let me start that question. who is right the president or those suing him? >> this is one of the difficult gray areas of the law. it's probably not going to be resolved in a clear way one way or another here. i think that this is an issue that's largely going to be debated and resolved through the political process i'm holding up the memo here the president sent. the white house asserts a few things. number one, no u.s. military troops on the ground. from the beginning, especially now, the united states is in more of a support role, not a leave role. therefore, they are making the case it doesn't meet the bar, legal bar, for defining hostilities. would you agree with that argument? >> i think that's certainly a reasonable argument and those are similar factors that previous presidents have pointed to in arguing that other military operations don't trigger the war power resolution's 60-day limit. on the other hand, there are other packtors here that are -- that are i

he, and he took leave of absence as president of columbia university to be the first military commanderf nato in paris because at the time it was recognized if there was one american we can send to europe who personifies the american commitment to nato, to the freedom of western europe, to america's continued responsibility in the world, it would be dwight d. eisenhower. and last but not least, eisenhower was over in, um -- the story of eisenhower's nomination is often forgotten. in 1948, for example, james roosevelt, franklin's son, had been one of many prominent democrats who tried to get general eisenhower to run for the presidency as a democrat. and eisenhower declined largely on the basis that he didn't think, he was a professional soldier, and he didn't think that it was appropriate for him to be involve inside politics. but by 1952 things had changed, and his great fear at that time was that the republican party, the likely nominee, was senator taft of ohio who was the most prominent isolationist in, in the republican party and, really, this country. and eisenhower felt that the

from columbia university and his bachelor's from the university of miching -- michigan. last but not least is christopher, the senior deputy assistant for the middle east. from 2007 to 2010, he was the mission director in iraq. a minister in the foreign service, he joined usaid as an adviser in vietnam. he has since served in the mission for central asia, and director of india, director in egypt, in 1994, he became the first mission director for the west bank in gaza. he is a bachelor of silence from the ohio state university. master's degree in international relations and a master's degree in public administration from the john f. kennedy school of government at harvard university. we welcome all three of you here. we operate under the 5 minute rule. if you could keep your remarks to that time, there is a lighting device on the table that will warn you when the time has concluded. then we will ask questions for the same period of time. without further ado, i welcome you. >> thank you, chairman. distinguished committee members. thank you for inviting me to appear before

he also taught economics at princeton, yale and columbia university. dr. tayler received a bradley prize for his intellectual achievement and the alexander hamilton award for his overall leadership in the international finance at the u.s. treasury. dr. taylor is a renowned expert on monetary policy and the trader of the taylor rule for determining what the target rate for the federal funds should be priced devotee for the treasury international waters and first term president george liu boesh. previously served as a member of the president's council of economic of pfizer's during five ford and george h. w. bush administration and the economic advisor in hammill. dr. taylor has a long list of academic publications to his name and a recent book entitled getting off track government actions and interventions cause prolonged and worsen the financial crisis. he's a frequent contributor to the editorial pages to "the wall street journal" and other widely read publications on the state of the economy. he earned his ph.d. at stanford university. welcome, dr. taylo

he also taught economics at princeton, yale and columbia university. dr. taylor received the brusquely prize for his achievements and the alexander hamilton award for his leadership in the international finance of the treasury. dr. taylor is an expert on monetary policy and the creator of the taylor rule for determining what the target rates in the federal funds should be for the price stability. he served as the undersecretary of treasury for international affairs during the first term as president george bush through previously served as a member of the president's council of economic of pfizer's in the george h. w. bush administration. he also served on the congressional budget office's economic advisory panel. dr. taylor is a long list of academic publications to his work entitled getting off track, how government actions and interventions cause prolonged and worsen the financial crisis. he's a frequent contributor to the editorial pages of "the wall street journal" and other publications on the state of the economy. he earned his ph.d. in economics at

before coming to georgetown, samer was a fellow at the columbia university, one year of the districter of the graduate studies at new york university center for middle east centers. his work was a period and wide variety of academic, publications incoming international journal of the middle east studies, current history, middle east policy, boston globe, and other weeklies. foreign policy and other publications, his books about culture and politics in egypt was published in 2009, and he is also the editor of the forthcoming volume of politics in the middle east. he was interviewed by a wide range of media and testified before the united states congress. he has received scholarships from social science research also. the fourth foundation and the woodrow wilson center foundation for scholars. in 2009, he was selected as carnegie scholar for his works and understanding of politics. we also have, of course, professor daoud khairallah. he advised financial institutions, governments, and commercial enterprises with financing, investment, and international dispute resolution involving the ar

chris mayor researches housing for columbia university business school. >> even if i have the incomethe best time to jump into the market? >> doug bify is president of the national housing committee. >> and some predictions are that housing prices will fall more. and there are others who are betting on the ability to change. >> with the jobless late of 9.1%, being able to pick up and go where the jobs are is critical. >> i prefer to rent. i like the flexibility that comes along with renting. >> the face of a new generation of renters and perhaps the future of home dwelling this journal. >> there is a lot of evidence people need to have down payments. we need to have viable options for people in their lives not in a position to be owners. there's nothing wrong with that, and hopefully we will eliminate the stigma, and when people buy they will buy for good reasons. >> thank you. >>> and it's their jobs that keep them on the move. mr. clark works at the human resources department at another large store and can see a move in his future. >>> about seven hours away from tonight's showdown