so you were named great teacher by columbia university. >> that's true. >> stephen: okay. if you are such a great teacher, can you teach me mobby dick in two minutes at four gs. >> i will give it a shot. >> stephen: all right, let's do this thing. so do you like roller coaster. >> i hate them, i'm terrified of them. >> stephen: okay, it's going you are going to love it. so-- i guess my first question is, if mobydick is such a great move novel, why do people have to be forlingsed to read it. >> they don't, i know people that read it voluntarily. >> stephen: are they teachers. >> no just people that find it opens up their imagination. >> stephen: so why is this the great american novel? >> it was a crazy new country. we needed a crazy new novel. >> stephen: how old ask it. >> about 155 years old. >> stephen: wow. >> it has it broke all the rules of novel writing. >> stephen: do you think americans have the patience for a 160 year old 800 page novel and please tell the people who are watching people on the roller coaster. wait, let's see how well you know the book, on three s

is jeff sachs at columbia university, making comments here in paris this morning.de 10 years ago by the mayor of london, mayor livingstone really got started the idea of cities at the time 20, gettingumber, together to figure out what to do at the local level. mark watts worked for him and is now the director of c 40. it is now a larger organization. mark: about a third of the remaining global state carbon will be decided by decisions made by neher's -- by mayors over the next 40 years. francine: the end game is basically that by sharing information, mayors get smarter about -- s atever it is, there real difference at the political level. mayors a collaborating aobally on climate change, in way that this rather eluded the national leaders. tom: we talk to business leaders today, and they seem to have a new -- explained the linkage of capitalism into what is often not a capitalistic structure, which is a city. how do these two come together? mark: they have understood that it is not a choice between i'm a change or economic growth. carbonies with low growth will rai

columbia. exxonmobil threatening colletti university saying the research that is done around this, wrote a lettere president of columbia lee bollinger, is misleading, is wrong, and threatening the money then given to columbia. >> worse than that, i remember writing letters complaining about the fact that exxonmobil was funding changes to textbooks in grade school and junior high school to make it sound like we didn't understand climate change, and we didn't -- there was no evidence that humans were causing climate change. so, yeah, that sounds like criminal activity to me. the captainsst of of industry actually say they would like to be part of the solution. they have children and grand 7, 2 -- grandchildren, too. if our government would give them the incentives to do that by putting arising fee on carbon, they would love to be part of the solution. i think that is true for most captains of industry, as i call them. but our governments are not doing that. so i really blame it on our governments. they pretend they're doing something, like what they're doing here. this is a fraud. they should be sm

how exxon has responded right up to challenging the president of columbia university because columbiaurnalism students were involved in the investigation? exxon has said very broadly that the reporting is inaccurate, that we are cherry picking, and that they have never stopped doing climate research. they are -- they're talking points basically don't address the main thrust of our stories in the stories done by columbia graduate school journalism that were published in the los angeles times. none of us said exxon stopped doing climate research. they did not. and exxon, yes, continue to do climate research. what exxon has not really responded to is why despite the research that it did to the 1970's and 1980's and really continued on a much less a vicious scale to the 1990's, they took a policy position that cast enormous doubt on climate science. the closest they've come to responded to that is to say, well, our policy positions and what our scientists do are different things, which is interesting and makes you wonder how much science informs other decisions that they take. so that is

. >> reporter: at this year's state of the union address, senator gillibrand had a guest, columbia university there to represent victims of sexual assault on campus. >> people are me because we as a community do care together. >> reporter: indeed in making her story public emma has become a sentity. her performance art carries that weight where she dragged a mattress with her everywhere on campus got significant press conference. while she's still known worldwide as a symbol of rape survivors, somewhat less known is the complicated story behind it all. paul nungesser raised in germany, attended columbia. >> he was accepted in 2011 as a john j. schoollar. as far as he and his family were concerned the universe was opening up to him. >> reporter: paul was nungesser's attorney. paul met emma as freshman in 2011. they became friends and sent each other private facebook messages. before the school year was out they had become sexually intimate. >> she was quite explicit with him in terms of the kind of sexual relationship and activities that she wanted to have with him. >> very much so. in fact, t

a couple words, we have started a new publishing venture at columbia university. all of the books, we published six books the year, they look like this, at an issue of an orderly six times the year and only one story in injury issue, the same size and at uniform design and each book is about one aspect of globalization. in the aggregate, more things about globalization, you can look at columbiaglobalreports and see what we are to. we are learning the book publishing business, one of the things we there is each of book, globalization, many different things to many different people. .. >> >> lined with pineapples and ming gaucheries. -- may go trees. of breeze of perfume in the florida with its tropical climate cray a unique experience. on that day on the other side of the world after the dow jones suffered the worst week ever. the country was completely broke for as long as they could remember. the annual gdp was 740 million -- $740 that year. the country was negotiating with the imf to help the poorest countries. still today infrastructure is abysmal. even the par

>> what first appeared to be a repeat win for columbia in the miss universe contest. >> i have to apologize. >> quickly became one jaw dropping gaffe for pageant host steve harvey. >> the first runner up is columbia. miss universe 2015 is philippines. >> it took about a minute for harvey to correct himself after apparently reading his note card with the winner on it wrong. this is exactly what's on the card. i will take responsibility for it was my mistake. it was on the card. >> even the celebrity judges were shocked. fellow contestants quickly surrounded ms. columbia to comfort her. philippines showed grace. >> everything happens for a reason, so i'm happy. crowning. >> yes yes. >> isn't it. >> it's very 2015. philippines looked stunned. the broadcast ended with the crown being exchanged. don champion, cbs news. >> awkward. miss usa olivia jordan was named second runner up. they had that part right. >> they both handled it with such grace, i have to say. but you feel for both of them. >> that's why live television is not easy. >> i guess so. >> let's get to

here t. >> miss universe, 2015 is 2015 columbia! i have to apologize.unner up is columbia. miss universe 2015 miss philippines. listen, folks, let me just take control of this. this is exactly what is on the card. i will take responsibility for this. it was my mistake. it was on the card. horrible mistake, but the right thing i can show it to you right here, the first runner up is columbia. it is my mistake. still a great night. please don't hold it against the ladies. >> oh, my goodness. jim here, correspondent, jim, every time is like the first time, i was just as horrified every time i see it. >> don, you are generous because it is actually two minutes between mum colombia's name being announced and that apology and that edit. i saw it with my daughters and my son before i came here. i've seen it several times and i thought it would be easier to watch. it was harder to watch. they were cringing knowing what was coming. it's tough. it is so hard to watch. they had to take the crown off her. because you're looking and you're thinking, is the director,

the top earner is columbia university's president with 4.6 million dollars in total compensation. >>> disease is attacking the world's crop and threatening the the fungus is a more potent version of the panama disease. right now there is no known way to stop the fungus. >>> the hunger games kept its top spot at the box office for a third week. "the hunger games" part two the final installment of the series, earned more than $18 million over the weekend in ticket sales. holiday horror comedy debuted in second with $16 million. million. >> i hear good things about all three of those movies. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange, thanks a lot, jill. >>> up next, field rush gone wrong. some houston cougar fans looking roughed up by security guards. i brought in some protein to get us moving. i'm new ensure active high protein. i help you recharge with nutritious energy and strength. i'll take that. yeeeeeah!new ensure active high protein. 16 grams of protein and 23 vitamins and minerals. ensure. take life in. do you know the secret to a happy home in these modern times? it's a housew

is really, if you like the legacy, of graham and dodd when they were in columbia university as professors. they were those who gave warren buffett much of his inspiration. it is all about research, more than anything else. she is somebody who lives and breathes her company. buy her own admission she is she with the company that follows, selects, addend avoids. betty: it is interesting because value investors look at buffets, tt, but she was not in this in the beginning. >> her story begins when she graduated columbia university. she had a degree in sociology. she was in the human resources department at goldman sachs. assigned to the 401(k) plan to th for the firm. should while she was there should became captivated by the thinking that drives the performance of the plan. she did not have a finance degree so she goes back to columbia, gets an mba, and after getting her degree she winds up at morgan stanley, and then piper jaffray, and then really in the past decade she has been a fidelity. for 13 years or more she has been following these companies. at fidelity she follows retail at appar

we will also look at how exxonmobil has targeted columbia university and its journalists who exposed exxon's massive climate cover-up. then extreme carbon inequality - the richest 10% of the world's population produce half of the earth's time it, harming fossil fuel emissions. the poorest have come about 3.5 million people, are responsible for only around 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions. we'll speak with oxfam's tim gore. the new report out today, it finds the richest 10% of people on the plane of the responsible for the most greenhouse gas emissions. the poorest, just 10%. need to address it. amy: and while world leaders come and go from cop21, one couldn't leave home. maldives president mohamed nasheed deposed in a coup sits in a prison cell. all that and more, coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting live from the cop21, the u.n. climate summit here and paris, france, where police have extended a ban on public demonstrations. the ban, established in the wake of the november 13 attacks, was scheduled t

columbia university and the london school of economics. had you gone to a good program at one of the better considered state schools, or taken a stateside business degree, instead of heading off overseas, how would you be different? and how would the resume that you presented to your early employers be different? >> i would think it would be very different. with a name like ruchika, i have heard hiring managers once i've made the cut, oh, that's an unusual name. and i think when i haven't read frank answer book i'll be honest here, but i have read his op ed, the examples he sites are wealthier white kids who did not end up going to very recognized colleges and still had a degree of success in ligh life. and i don't think, certainly i have the tenacity and i have the determination so i would like to believe i'd be able to make it this far, regardless. but i would be lying if i said that those credentials or my resume did not get me as far as i've come to date. >> quickly before i say good-bye, did it force you to work harder and by forcing

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columbia. >> oh, big mistake at the miss universe pageant. as quickly as miss columbia was crowned, she lost the title, because it was never really hers. oh, good afternoon, i'm erika von tiehl. now, miss philippines was declared this year's winner but not before that rather confusing chaotic moment on live tv. cbs news correspondent don champion reports. >> drama played out on live television last night. but first appeared to be repeat win for columbia, a the miss universe contest. >> i have to apologize. >> quickly became one jaw-drag gasp for pageant host, steve harvey. >> the first runner up is columbia a miss universe, 2015 is philippines. >> took minute for harvey to correct himself after apparently reading his note card with the winner on it wrong. >> this is exactly what is on the card. >> this is exactly what's on the cards. >> even the celebrity judges were shocked, fellow contestants quickly surrounded miss columbia, to comfort her, back stage, miss columbia, and philippines, showed grace. >> everything happens for a reason so i'm h

a new study led by a columbia university professor shows they don't have a huge effect.ut enough to sway a close election, and increase in voter share by 1.7 percentage points on average. interesting. >>> the san yule survey of america's most admired woman and man is here. hillary clinton takes the top spot for a record 20th year. second place mallely yew saf today and. president obama has more than triple the mentions. for the silver medal a tie between pope francis, and donald trump. unlikely partners. we should note this poll was conducted just before his proposed muslim ban. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. all right, political analyst and best-selling author ellis henican is here. good morning to you. a little surprised by that one? >> i can't believe we didn't make the list this year. >> i'm shocked. >> good morning. there's always hope. >> always next year. >> all right. let's talk about new hampshire. this is getting pretty interesting now. trump now taking aim at christie, although he trails by a few points, even in new hampshire. >> mm-hmm.

the highest paid college president was at new york's columbia university that made more than $4 million. >>> an unusual weekend at the box office. holiday horror comedy "krampus" far exceeded expectations grossing $16 million. it came in second from the hunger games. "moneyer game" had $18 million "moneyer game" had $18 million. the top prize for the second consecutive weekend. >>> gases continue to tumble. the national average is $2.03. prices in massachusetts a little higher than that ringing in at $2.11. but that number is expected to drop. >>> a new clothing line to support the foundation named for the youngest victim of the the martin richards foundation will be selling these t-on their web site after numerous requests from people online. some from the peace bridge logo and others the mr 8 logo. proceeds go to the foundation. martin was the youngest victims of the bombings. >>> an extravagant proposal in boston this weekend. richard took his girlfriend on a helicopter ride over the city. the two first met in copley square and sunday he hung a banner on the roof of copley place aski

just a few words, we have started a new publishing adventure at columbia university. all of the books is called columbia global reports we published six books per year. they look look like this, each one is like an issue of a quarterly, and there is only story in every issue. they have the same size in uniform design. each book is about one aspect of globalization. so in the aggregate, we will publish a new can look at our website which is columbia global reports and see what we are up to. we are looking about the book publishing business, one of the things we have learned is that each book, even though we all have globalization it means many different things to many different people. the launch of our first book which was about the secondary mortgage market was not in brooklyn. lotta people in suits and ties and then this is more appropriate to this book. to tell you a little more, has anyone ever heard of william ackman? so significant only that if you people have. he is is the hero to american youth evidently. the come up when you get home, he is a bad boy wall stre