for instance, randall kennedy black professor at harvard law school. what did my raise have to do with that? sometimes it does. fine. explained that i don't think it should be randall kennedy, a black%, professor at harvard law school. if it is relevant, say why it is relevant. if you are not prepared to say why it is relevant then they should not mention the fact that i am black. >> host: one of your colleagues just died u.s. the professor 21 derek bell. the first black member of the harvard law school. >> host: is that fair to say the first black professor at? >> guest: it is if you are writing a story and you talk about his place in the legal academia or harvard law school, then the fact he was the first member of harvard law school faculty is relevant. but on the other hand, if we simply talk about a subj

for instance, randall kennedy black professor at harvard law school. what did my raise have to do with that? sometimes it does. fine. explained that i don't think it should be randall kennedy, a black%, professor at harvard law school. if it is relevant, say why it is relevant. if you are not prepared to say why it is relevant then they should not mention the fact that i am black. >> host: one of your colleagues just died u.s. the professor 21 derek bell. the first black member of the harvard law school. >> host: is that fair to say the first black professor at? >> guest: it is if you are writing a story and you talk about his place in the legal academia or harvard law school, then the fact he was the first member of harvard law school faculty is relevant. but on the other hand, if we simply talk about a subject of affirmative action and/or the war on drugs or anything else and talk about the view of derek bell, then it is just derek bell and he has a few like anybody else. i don't think a racial identity should in the unexplained way be part of the st

why is it that money and of going to a place like harvard? does it worry you where the money comes from? >> i would be worried because in a position of raising money? i have a very strict not corruption principal about what context i will participate in raising money and what relationships i would get myself into so i can speak in a way that nobody doubts is a function of what i believe. it was the enormous gift to me to be able to come to the center already fully in dallas with got the most recent gift that was in place before i came. she made a commitment to give it from a legal dispute number of charities. it is enormous gift to me that i could do my work and not worry about the issue of how i raise money. if you need to worry about that question, people worry if you are focused on the right way about how to raise your money. i'm not a fundraiser for my center. i met her a number of times. i'm happy to work on a number of things. i am erik and the context of people who do not have to worry about money in a way that migh bring into question

you are harvard law professor. president obama was a student at harvard. first lady michelle obama was your research assistant. you were invited to the redding but you didn't make it. talk to me about the relationship and wrestling with this kind of book. >> hi wouldn't say i have a real special idea. i knew of barack obama when he was a student. the reason why i knew and saw him and i think he talked a couple times when he was a student and the reason why i knew of him is he was a quite outstanding student. president of harvard law review. first black president of harvard law review. several of my colleagues talked about this remarkable student they had, barack obama. that is a very unusual thing. lot of smart students of harvard law school, very smart, very outstanding. he really did stand apart. i knew of him that way. the first lady, michele obama, i knew a bit. she went to princeton. i went to princeton. when she came to harvard law school, we met, very impressive student, very well organized. she did some research for me. i have not stayed in touch w

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there was an absolute reaction from harvard law school. they said this is the most horrible book that has ever been published. how did this guy get into harvard law school? [laughing] there is some mistake. you know, there were people who wanted to take my diploma away. anyway, in the last 35 years, though, they've mellod out. you know? they've had me back. they've given me awards. it's incredible. and why is that? is that because they've changed in mir heart? no. it's because the television program gave them so much publicity. i don't mean to be cynical. i do like harvard law school. but come on, guys. >> ok. tony, you dedicated your life to the law and to justice. and you're known to take on the most impossible cases. do you think the justice system works? do you think it has value, at least the value that we seek to attribute to it? where we say in justice for all? >> nothing meaningful from an attorney comes from the seeded posture. it doesn't mean that anything meaningful comes from an attorney when he rises. let me share in respect t

program. -- funding a harvard program. he was a jewish lebanese banker. he died in a fire that attracted white media interests. it was due to arson. why is it that money and of going to a place like harvard? -- ends up going to a place like harvard? does it worry you where the money comes from? >> i would be worried because in a position of raising money? -- if i were in a position of raising money for the center. i have a very strict not corruption principal about what context i will participate in raising money and what relationships i would get myself into so i can speak in a way that nobody doubts is a function of what i believe. it was the enormous gift to me to be able to come to the center already fully in dallas with got -- and that the even without place before i came. she made a commitment to give it from a legal dispute number of charities. before i came to the center. it is enormous gift to me that i could do my work and not worry about the issue of how i raise money. if you need to worry about that question, p

you are a harvard harvard law professor. president obama was a student at harvard. the first lady michelle obama was your research assistant? >> guest: yet she was. >> host: you were invited to the wedding and unfortunately did not make it. can you talk to me about the special relationship been wrestling with this kind of a? >> host: first of all i wouldn't say i have a special -- i knew of barack obama when he was a student. the reason why i knew how them as a student and saw him, think we talked a couple of times when he was student. one reason why i knew of him is because he was quite an outstanding student who is president of the harvard law review, the first black president of the harvard love review. several of my colleagues talked about this remarkable student they had, barack obama. and that is a very unusual thing. there are a lot of smart students at harvard law school, very smart, very outstanding. he really did stand apart so i knew of him in that way. the first lady, michelle obama, i knew a bit. she went to princeton, i went to princeton so when she ca

the harvard/yale game.ale's quarterback is a contender for the nfl draft with a stellar academic record but is getting the most attention for a big game day decision he's got to make. the story tonight from nbc's anne thompson. >> reporter: at 6'4", patrick witt is every inch the football hero. the senior quarterback, the most accurate passer in yale history. >> the big play -- >> reporter: the decision-maker. >> what a pass by patrick witt! and yale is back in this ball game. >> this could very well be the last time i step on the field. >> reporter: on saturday, november 19th, he faces the most difficult decision of his 22 years -- to be in new haven, connecticut, to lead yale against harvard at noon or in atlanta, georgia, to interview for the prestigious rhodes scholarship. >> i keep on hearing the phrase "it's a good problem to have" from people, but it doesn't make it any easier to decide. >> reporter: he's a history major with a 3.91 gpa who left big time football for the academic rigor of yale. >> he

harvard blows out yale 45-7. wow. >>> san jose state beat navy 27-24 to snap a three-game losing streak. brandon ruttily scored twice and had over 100 yards rushing and receiving. the spartans improved to 4-7. >>> many people felt that the raiders gave up too much when they traded for carson palmer but so far, it's looking like a pretty good deal for the silver and black. palmer has thrown for over 600 yards and five touchdowns in his two starts. [ indiscernible ] >> that's why you go out and get that guy because of what you just said. let's take the other scenario, i would have brought somebody here that i didn't know, and put him on this football team ands okay. let's see if you can get us to this point. i can guarantee you we wouldn't be in this situation right now. >> you can see the raiders and the vikings tomorrow morning right here on cbs 5. as for always, stay tuned after the game for the 5th quarter. >>> john skelton will be the scarting quarterback for the cardinals against the 49ers tomorrow. arizona h

it was a harvard student. he said my best friend co-founded facebook and no one has ever heard of him. i had heard of facebook. i know what it was. it had to have been -- it gets messed up because of the social network movie. before it came out, 2008 or so. right before "21" came out. the e-mail was my wife forced me to be on facebook so i knew what it was but it was something i used to look at parties i wasn't invited to. i went to drink with this guy. it was eduardo savrez and he was really angry and a little drunk and wanted to tell me a story. that is how i got into it. its 91 send an e-mail to you? >> guest: time ago to guy for every college kid who does something ridiculous or crazy. because of my book they have a big college audience. these kids want to tell their story. i have become that guy and knocked over a lottery scam or whatever it is. they will call me. i get 30 or 40 of these a week. this was just one of them and usually they are not something i would want to do but this one caught my eye. >>

. >> stephen: that's the harvard of evanston. (laughter) >> yes, the harvard of evanston.cheers and applause) >> harvard is the northwestern of cambridge. (laughter) >> stephen: oh, really. i thought it was the dartmouth of eastern massachusetts. (laughter) well, listen, here's my real beef with you. >> okay. >> stephen: you're a comedian. >> yeah. >> stephen: every night-- once a week-- (laughter) you go on t.v. and you tell jokes about the news. that's inappropriate. (cheers and applause) do you feel any responsibility that the young people... pew research study says young people get their news from guys like you more than any other place. do you bear any responsibility? >> well, you know, i feel like sometimes the mainstream straight news option that americans have don't fulfill them and so.... >> stephen: oh, we don't? >> not all of them. >> stephen: we don't, okay? >> i'm saying it's sometimes nice to make light of the news. >> stephen: make light. okay, famine in somalia, go. come on, funny man, starving children. tickle my funny bone. >> there are certain things tha

a dating site for harvard men. it was to help women meet harvard men. harvard guys spend a lot of time figuring out way toes to the meet guys, so they needed a computer programmer, and they hired mark. mark just wanted to hang out with them because they were like the cool kids on campus, but he didn't really think much of their idea, and that's essentially around the idea he became came up with facebook. and he went to his friend, eduardo, and said if you put up the money, i'll create the company, you'll be cfo, and you can have 30% of the company. and that's where it began. it was just two college kids, and then mark wrote facebook, he created it from there. >> host: so, ben mezrich, from the time of that e-mail to the publication of your book, how much time passed and what kind of research did you do? >> guest: well, things got really crazy. what happened was i hung out with, you know, ed eduardo and all the people i needed. it was about a six month process of, you know, interviewing and things like that. and the

so he went to harvard law school. i say given the upbringing that he had and the tumultuous past that he had, good for him that he did that. >> scholarships. >> yeah. i don't like what rick perry is trying to insinuate here, that somehow, oh, if you come from privilege -- well, you know what, if you come from privilege, you still have to apply yourself and dedicate yourself. he still was the chairman of the harvard law review here at harvard university, and i think barack obama being the first african-american president certainly worked his tail off to get to where he is and he should be commended. i'm a hard-core right winger. >> david, this is one night we're going to let ron christie end the discussion. because you can't beat what he said. ron, five stars. thank you, david corn, thank you, ron christie. you'll pay for it with your republican pals tonight. >>> up next, you won't believe it but michele bachmann actually says she hasn't made a gaffe ever or done anything that caused her to drop in the polls. what is t

enemy of the people, by definition and the irony he was discussing income inequality and even the harvardon editorialized calling these students, showing they showed ignorance and a lack of self-awareness. the fraction of the student that left, the lesson, they're the ones that really need to be in at that classroom and learn a little more. >> paul: and the question is, how is it that greg mankiw could get tenure at harvard in the first place? when you've lost the crimson you've lost america. >> remember if you have your own hit armis send it to

three scores, harvard scores 45 unanswered points to win in a blowout.y won nine straight games and are now 9-1. usc and oregon on deck. >> that's it for abc 7 news at 4:00 o'clock. i'm alan wong. >> thank you for joining us and saturday night football is next. the big game.

now, in my harvard law school class of 1955 -- >> guest: right. >> host: we had 560 students. we had 13 women. women were never alawed into that law school until 1950. 13 autoof 560 women, maybe two blacks, and i don't think one hispanic. >> guest: uh-huh. >> host: the hispanics at harvard were children of south american dictators. >> guest: in georgetown, we had that, rich kids; right? >> host: is that a good thing to wistfully go back to the country we grew up in? >> guest: what i say here is, look, all these kids raised up in the tradition to be american, and when they were in law school with you, harvard law, you're in the top law school. all right. were kids kept out of there because if they were kept out who were qualified and unqualified guys got in, that's wrong. what's happening now is i write in there, you read in there, white working class kids are conservative, and christian kids are the most discriminated kids in these ivy league schools according to the study quoted in there. i don't like that. it doesn't bother me that in the nfl african-americans are overrepres

he has a senior and never beat harvard.arvard won the last four games. >> a tough option. >> he may be an nfl quarterback. he is pretty good, too. >>> coming up, glittering treasures from a hollywood legend going up for sale. >> a look at elizabeth taylor's mow jaw-dropping gems when we come back. ,, state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? [ crying ] i miss you, jessica! jerry, are you crying? no, i just, i bit my tongue. [ male announcer ] get to a better state. >>> today's tip of the day is yukon gold potatoes one might have favorites. at one time hard to find. just a few gourmet stores would have it but now they are available just about anywhere and great price on

ryan fitzpatrick, the quarterback out of harvard hits david nelson. we're used to seeing, look what he does. he runs down the sideline and gives the ball to his girlfriend who is a dallas cowboys cheerleader. isn't that sweet? buffaloes only touchdown of the day cowboys beat the bills 44-7. here are the updated standings. the bills lost three of four, tied with the jets in the middle of the pack at 5-4. patriots in first place at 6-3. how about the dolphins. they won two in a row. two teams rhett hot, giants and 9ers, san francisco off to the best start since '97. a tight game into the second half. third and three. eli manning with a nice touch slow to mario manningham in the corner of the end zone. he taps both feet down. giants take a one-point lead. in fourth quarter sflan pulls ahead. broken coverage here. alex smith, vernon davis, nobody on him. watch the leap at the end. 31 yards for the touchdown. 9ers take the lead. 34 seconds, eli manning with a chance to tie it fourth and two, batted downality the line of scrimmage. down seven right there. 4

>> hard harvard. >> you're in the top law school. the church was bulldozed. at 5:00 the police came they cleared out the parishioners and the priest. they bulldozed this beautiful church that early polish immigrants built. you know where that church was? it was where the shub ri of the parking lot of the general motors plant was. >> i don't believe in that. >> here's the point. >> right. >> that community was half black and half polish and eastern european live anything very small but clean prepared houses, little flowers and>x gardens. >> sure. >> peacefully. >> sure. look, i grew up -- >> but who disintegrated it? >> the politicians did if they granted -- how can you grant general motors the right to tearñx down private homes? eminent domain, you've got the interstate highway system, sometimes you can take lands for private purposes but i would yee with you 100% -- >> upheld by the michigan supreme court and reeppedl-- >> we don't have much more time but i do want to ask you. you said religion, race culture and tribe are the four h

mark zuckerberg is heading back to harvard... not to finish earning his degree, but to recruit interns for his little company known as "facebook." you know the story by now. you know the story by now. zuckerberg developed the website while attending the prestigious university in massachusetts. he dropped out in 2004, and moved the startup to silicon valley. it worked out pretty well for him. they may be the bane of bay area drivers. why a new study may change your mind about bridge tolls. and we've all been there. waiting for the cable guy to show up. so how much time and money do americans waste? we've got the math coming up. ============b r e a k ============== thanks, lawrence. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, [ male announcer ] imagine there was a way to keep high-tech jobs here in san francisco. a way to renew blighted neighborhoods like mid-market and the tenderloin by helping emerging industries expand and hire more workers. a way to give incentives to companies that produce clean energy jobs. one man found a way to do all this and more. ma

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