harvard, you are better than a. juan: in terms of this long history of the country failing to live up to what was done during slavery, this calls to mind henrietta lacks story with johns hopkins and the benefiting from her cells. it also comes at a time when at least if you for the first time, presidential candidates raising the issue of reparations for descendents of slaves here in the united states. i'm wondering g if you can put t in that broader context of the reparations issue? >> certainly. even though this is well-founded and propoperty law, , we would e naive to assume people won't see this as s a reparations lawsuit. however, we understand that courts do not want to create laws. they leave that for the legislature. but make no mistake about it, it is landmark in its scope because it will be the first time that descendents of african slaves in inrica have been compensated any way, fashion,n, or form from an american institution. and remember, harvard is readily believed to be the leading american educational

many: you applied to colleges and harvard and harvard, you got into.o get into harvard, you have to be top of your class. were you surprised or did you think you were going to get in? entirespent my professional career working on probability. odd stocks to go up versus down. when i applied to college, i played the same game. using a typewriter, i typed about 13 different college applications. david: so your chance of getting in each of them, you applied to 13 colleges? ken: i will get into one of them. david: you were the president of the mass club in high school. i guess you were good at math? ken: i was pretty good at math. david: you got into harvard and when you got in, did you decide to go right away or you wanted to see if the other schools would accept you? ken: that is a complicated story. my father's business partner was a princeton graduate. princeton was my first choice and my father had a falling out with his business partner just before the time you pick when you are going to college. my dad said it would break his heart if i went to princ

it was used in a racist study by a harvard biologist. renty's great, great, great granddaughter says harvard makes money with the photograph that should belong to the family. her lawyer spoke yesterday. >> harvard is saying to tammy lanier and her family that renty still is a slave. he still does not own his image. >> lanier wants harvard to turn the photos over and cease to damas. checkou powerball tickets. last night's drawing could have made someone a half billion dollars richer. cher. i'm an ice cruncher. so i was excited about all-new colgate total. it has sensitivity relief, so i don't have to give up doing what i love. aren't we lucky. new colgate total. do more for your whole mouth. you won't find relief here. congestion and pressure? go to the pharmacy counter for powerful claritin-d. while the leading allergy spray only relieves 6 symptoms, claritin-d relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure. claritin-d relieves more. (door bell rings) it's ohey. this is amazing. with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you ok

i went to harvard.laughter] david: well, that has broken the heart of the princeton development people. [laughter] ken: one of my partners at citadel, who i have had the pleasure of working with for two decades, served on princeton's investment committee oversight and has done wonders to help princeton feel better. david: the legend is you began trading convertible bonds out of your dorm room. ken: that is true. my freshman year, and i am at bloomberg, so i have to say my gratitude for the press, i read this article saying the home shopping network was overpriced. having read this article, i bought contracts and home shopping network, and low and behold, the stock cratered shortly after i bought these puts. when you make a few thousand dollars as a freshman, you are rich. this is the moment you have dreamed of. that was what really started my interest in trading. david: you have never been that involved in it before? ken: i never traded a financial asset before then. david: your classmates are doing oth

i went to harvard.laughter] david: well, that has broken the heart of the princeton development people. [laughter] ken: one of my partners at citadel, who i have had the pleasure of working with for two decades, served on princeton 's investment committee oversight and has done wonders to help princeton feel better. david: the legend is you began trading convertible bonds out of your dorm room. ken: that is true. my freshman year, and i am at bloomberg, so i have to say my gratitude for the press, i read this article saying the home shopping network was overpriced. having read this article, i contracts and home shopping network, and low and behold, the stock cratered shortly after i bought these puts. when you make a few thousand dollars as a freshman, you are rich. this is the moment you have dreamed of. that was what really started my interest in trading. david: you have never been that involved in it before? ken: i never traded a financial asset before then. david: your classmates are doing other thi

bill gates and paul allen they were after harvard and get a computer store at the bookstore in harvard square there was a magazine popular electronics january one thousand seventy five and it had a picture of the l tear on the cover that was the gun that was fired the start of the race for them the old to all the dinosaur of posts in the computer who's a rudimentary tool a mix of total switches and flashing lights it is reborn thanks to bill gates and paul island by creating a programming language for the ultima called basic they provide it with intelligence. level lucia knowing. the languages thing was what they were passionate about bill gates and paul allen's goal in one hundred seventy five was to dominate the languages business on personal computers that's why they left harvard immediately afterwards in april nine hundred seventy five gates and allen start their company microsoft the purpose is to sell basic but above all to develop new software for future computers also in one thousand nine hundred eighty five in palo alto california another do you steve jobs and steve wozniak hi

from harvard college but it is a piece of paper kids aren't worth thank you. getting jobs forty percent of the college graduates are underemployed for example. and of course it's too costly were ripping off the costumers ok i mean i don't really go to remington here because that was the key word customers consumer rights here remington and i think that should be that should be the wake up call for us and i think that's the trajectory in which we should look at this scandal here consumer rights go ahead remington in washington exactly as a consumer advocate and as the millennium on the panel i just have to say that it is unfortunate but you know guess what this wasn't something that we dreamed up this wasn't something that we said hey i would love to get into six figures of debt in order to get and then we were told essentially that this was the best way to move up in the ladder and that's why this case is so shocking because these parents and these children they have immense wealth and privilege and no matter what they do they'll be able to move far but for a

despite that, harrison chen was rejected from harvard. he is supportive of a lawsuit against harvard claiming determination against asian-americans saying that college process has "created institutions have failed to reward merit." harrison chen joins us. harrison, when the story came out and you saw complicity of some college officials, do that surprise you at all? >> not really, i guess. >> laura: what do you think about this? how does this make you feel after having got rejected at harvard? harvard is not one of the schools i believe implicated. not yet, harmeet says. yale is in a number of other top schools. these are wealthy people who can pay people either to take their tests, you actually took your own test, correct, harrison? you didn't pay someone to take your test question ? he took your test and they had people pay or they photoshopped heads on athletic bodies and falsified athletic records. this clearly is a far cry from the merit-based system you're asking for. >> definitely. i would deftly say that. >> laura: what are the st

and he wrote to the president of harvard saying you can't do this. it will sully the reputation of my dear alma mater. but the occasion went forward. there were dissenters on the faculty and they decided, ok. we can't stop this. but we will show jackson up. in those days it was not unheard of -- and it was still accepted practice on certain occasions for academics to give their addresses to deliver their papers in latin. their traditional language of intellectuals in the academy. and so without telling the president of the university whose reputation was on the line, sure, i'll be happy to speak on this occasion. and it was a commencement and there were several speeches. and the speakers before jackson stood up and gave their speeches in latin with the belief that this would really flummox jackson. he obviously would not know what was happening. and he would be so embarrassed that he would be humiliated and he would be shown up. and that would be the end of it. now, as i say with explaining these historical stories, context is necessary. this was at

, so we've got to our kid into princeton or harvard. a lot of it had to do more so with the parents than the children. >> father beck taught me, the eternal quest for me, the appetite will never be sated. >> keeping up with the joneses. that's what my mom would say, we don't need to keep up the joneses, we're the lemons. >> only got to impress one person whereby yourse person, yourself. >> nice singing. >>> this is "cnn tonight," i'm don lemon. while we're waiting for the mueller report, awaiting that mueller report and with the second manafort sentencing due tomorrow, democrats are lining up on both sides of the impeachment debate. did you notice that? there's a side that says, hold on, it's too soon for all of this impeachment talk. >> i think that with regard to impeachment, we're a long way from that. we're a long way from facing that. we have to know all the facts. we don't know all the facts. once we know all the facts, then we'll have to make judgments. >> look, i'm going to wait for the mueller report. we have to see what the mu

the marshal plan was announced in a harvard commencement address. so he's going to give this announcement on the current state and he's going to deal with attempt by the harvard faculty to embarrass him. so jackson stands up. and he says, e pleuribis oonan, sinaquanon. and sat down. enough of you know latin to get the joke. but anyway that's the best i got from a joke from jackson. and i have to confess, i have to confess that that story is probably somewhat exaggerated. it's in the nature of jackson wasn't particularly funny guy. but one of the things that you see in the evolution of the presidency is not always that the presidents are the ones telling the jokes or telling the stories, but the president becomes the object sometimes the butt of the stories and the jokes in a way that wasn't true. really was considered sort of le majestique. but with jackson things are fair game. the office of presidency evolved until somebody like, well, the next really sort of ordinary person to get elected president is abraham lincoln. and abraham lincoln is perha

david: you got into harvard. you decide to go right away or see if other schools would accept you? ken: my father's business partner was a princeton graduate. my first choice. my father had a falling out with his business partner. my dad said it would break his heart if i went to princeton. i went to harvard. [laughter] has broken theat heart of the princeton development people. [laughter] ken: one of my partners at had the who i have pleasure of working with for two decades served on princeton investment committee's oversight and has done wonders to help princeton feel better. david: the legend is you began trading convertible bonds out of your dorm room. ken: that is true. and i am atyear, bloomberg, so i have to say my gratitude for the press. article sayings the home shopping network was overpriced. low and behold the stock created shortly after i bought these put whens. -- puts when you make a few thousand dollars. as a freshman, you are rich. david: you have never been that involved in it before? ken: i nev

renty and delia were forced to pose for the photographs in 1850 by a harvard professor. their images were used in a recent harvard conference titled "universities and slavery -- bound by history." this comes after administrators at harvard and other elite universities have admitted they were founded largely through the labor of enslaved african people and profits generated by the slave trade. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amneststy international is accusing the united states of covering up civilian casualties in a secretive air war in somalia targeting the militant group al shabaab. the u.s. has carried out over 100 strikes in somalia -- in somalia since 2017 as part of a military campaign involving reaper drones and manned aircraft. for years, the pentagon has claimed no civilians were being killed in the air strikes, but a new report by amnesty has found at

harvard law school, nominated by president obama. 97-0 by the u.s. senate. they don't vote 97-0 on anything or anybody anymore. she read in open court about paul manafort, "he thereby cheated the u.s. treasury out of over $6 million in tax revenue. why? not to support a family but to sustain a lifestyle at the most opulent and extravagant level possible. more houses than a family can enjoy. more suits than one man can wear." robert, you've been around for a lot of the rise of paul manafort. certainly have covered his tenure with mr. trump.

harvard infrom boston, steven levitsky. good morning to you. guest: how are you? host: how did you come to this idea of democracies dying? guest: i studied democracies and democracies in crisis for a long time. is actuallyxpertise latin america, a region unfortunately that has a fair amount of experience of democratic breakdown. i have been working on this issue for a long time, nearly 30 years. only since the 2016 campaign, my co-authors and i began to see things in american politics that we had only seen in other parts of the world, not american democracy. host: what are some of those parallels? guest: the one that really got us talking during the 2016 trump's was donald beginning to say that he might not accept the results of the election, beginning to claim the election was rigged, that there might be fraud, and that if he lost, he might not accept the results of the election, questioning the legitimacy of the electoral process. it is something i have never seen in my lifetime in the united states. we have seen both in europe and the interwar period, , aticula

ambassador to native who is now at the harvard kennedy school of government. how much of an escalat this of a long-running conflict? nicholas: well, it is certainly a threat to israel and israeli civilians. if the particular israi family might not have gotten into the bomb shelter, they might all

naacp president and current harvard kennedy school professor cornell william brooks told the washington post, quote, having served as vice president to the first african-american president in us history, and all he has seen in intervening years, would he stands behind that? his spokesman said the former vice president still believes he was right to oppose busing. 's for immigration biden said he didn't by the concept we have suppressed the black man for 300 years of the white man should be held back quoting again i don't feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather, i feel responsible for the sins of my own generation and i will be

big john thompson watching georgetown host harvard in the n.i.t.d, second half, georgetown down one. mn cclungthe drive. n him.fenders scores on the pretty reverse. the freshman making plays like this all year for georgetown. he had ten. later in the game, harvard with a star of their own, tied at 65. bryce aiken drives, steps back and hits. team high 18 for him. harvard takes the lead. does not look back. they beat georgetown 71-68. ending the sehoyas' on. >>> meanwhile, one more sleep until maryland basketball. the terps practicing earlier today in jacksonville getting ready for their first ncaa belmont.game against they've been waiti ining since . this team is confident and calm ahead of the big dance. >> i think everybody's really excited and just can't wait to get on the court and start playing and i think everybody's on the same page right now, as you see. in everybody's face. can't get to get it going. >> we come into this game confident. obviously, belmont is aeay good team. we're also really good nkam. i thi we look at this as just a new u

. >> with west point and harvard. i know they slipped in some history and, of course, west living and breathing history. what do you think of this former secretary of state tirnd turned vice president? >> it's pretty remarkable. think back to these times i was reminded he had a staff of 7 or 8. i wonder what that government shutdown looked like when you 7 people. amazing leader and incredibly smart and left a

well scientists at harvard university in the united states have released a new study into the way animals regenerate their bodies they've uncovered what they call a d.n.a. switch which might one day lead to humans being able to regenerate lost limbs now there are plenty of examples in nature some species in salamander can regrow severed legs of some lizards and shed their tails to escape danger and then regrow the other animals go even further jellyfish for example can regenerate their entire bodies after being cut in half and him and he can do the same. or you want to speak now to one of the researchers behind this discovery i'm joined by andrew gallagher from cambridge massachusetts he's opposed doctoral fellow in the department of going to mimic and evolutionary biology at harvard university it's good to have you on the show so i mean does this study tell us that we're on the way to understanding and maybe one day being able to regrow a lost a limb and mean if i were to lose my arm one day maybe i would be able to grow a new one. yeah i think that we're still a ways away from applicati

harvard university in the u.s. is launching a probe after a chrissy t. attack on the campus call for one of its law professors to resign it comes after faculty rummel sullivan decided to join the legal team representing disgraced hollywood film producer harvey weinstein and he said he has more. down with the dean doesn't care these are just some of the angry slogans held by protesters on campus at harvard university why the meeting me if meant it to me to me to me to be to me to me to me who. only this time the accused has not been inappropriate towards women the right side with disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein has assembled his legal dream team he can afford the best and that includes a top harvard law school professor ronald seven he's tried to explain the simple right to a fair trial but the students are having none of it it's particularly important for this category of the defendant to receive the same process as everyone else perhaps even more important to the degree we deny unpopular defendant basic due process rights we cease to be the count

harvard law professor faces a backlash after joining the legal. hollywood film. canada's prime minister fights for his political life after his former attorney general says she was pressured to high level corruption case. good morning. news update the. headlines again no end in sight to the political crisis both russian and u.s. draft resolutions have failed to pass at the u.n. . by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield maduro and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the venezuelan people the time for a peaceful transition to democracy is now they're going to use them with us finally we have reached the culmination of the american workers created double standards show over venezuela washington and london have both again robbed an entire nation of billions of dollars in the same time pushing them to accept a pittance due to regime change as they say you first of all create great humanitarian problems and then you call upon the whole world to solve them we look forward to genuinely free and fair elections. and to a gover

meritocracy we have obviously athletics but we also have legacies twenty percent of those who go to harvard are there because someone else in their family went there and of course money we have that story two point five million dollars was given to harvard by christmas father and behold he went to harvard so there's a lot of money and this is a lot of privilege and wealth and income inequality that we need to talk about in the and that's certainly one of the critiques out there is that these parents that have been charged tried to use their money in the wrong way that there is more respectable means. essentially doing the same thing as in the case of kirshner and the coaches played a role in this they were sort of. auctioning off these slots that they have that they can choose on the college sports teams what does this does this tell us anything more about the influence the influence of political influence on cap on campus sports teams and sort of their influence in the university industrial complex here you know i mean i i remember when i was in high school a nerdy. reporter my school news

i was a nieman fellow at harvard. at harvard at the time there was not a single professor of labor history. at this point now, there is only one major newspaper that employs a full-time labor reporter. that's "the new york times," and it is steven greenhouse. and he has a lonely job. now, many people advocate heartily for free trade today, but there aren't a lot of people speaking up for the defense of the working people in america. and in fact, that is what frances perkins devoted her life to doing. is to talking about the problems of working people and try to find ways to solve those problems, ways that could also keep americans businesses strong and prosperous. now, if frances perkins were standing here today i can almost assuredly tell you what you think she would be talking about? she would be talking about jobs today. should be talking about how to generate jobs and how to bring good paying jobs back to america. she would be talking about smart employers who are finding ways to grow their workforces, economic po

bill gates and paul allen they were after harvard and at a computer store at the bookstore in harvard square there was a magazine popular electronics january one thousand seventy five and it had a picture of the l tear on the cover that was the gun that was fired the start of the race for them the old to all the dinosaurs of posts in the computer who's a rudimentary tool a mix of total switches and flashing lights it is reborn thanks to bill gates and paul island by creating a programming language for the ultima called basic they provide it with intelligence. level lucia knowing. the languages thing was what they were passionate about bill gates and paul allen's goal in one hundred seventy five was to dominate the languages business on personal computers that's why they left harvard immediately afterwards in april nine hundred seventy five gates and allen start their company microsoft the purpose is to sell basic but above all to develop new software for future computers also in one thousand nine hundred eighty five in palo alto california another do you steve jobs and steve wozniak h

again, i go back to that suit for harvard.vard's any worse than anyone else, but it's in a suit. people don't know the mysterious ingredients, the secret sauce that goes into the admissions process, and they want to keep it that way. elizabeth: exactly. and there are nonprofits operating on their nickel. watch what felicity huffman says in an episode of desperate housewives. >> a donation? now they want a donation? >> apparently, we're in competition, and a generous donation will insure our kids beat 'em out. >> how generous? >> $15,000. elizabeth: that was the amount huffman was alleged to have paid to improve her daughter's test scores. that's down to the exact dollar amount. >> yeah. the irony is the man behind this scandal pointed out you could go the route of i'm going to donate a library, but it was a lot more expensive than even his expensive services, and they wanted guarantees, right? elizabeth: it just feels rigged and unfair, and for them to act so hip -- hypocriteically, let's tell the rest of the world how to thin

a harvard scientist and novel prizewinner. in 1953, a few years after dr.nders' work made the way for the polio vaccine, he and his team turned their attention to measles. the first objective, to find and grow the measles virus. blood samples taken by dr. thomas peebles from children with natural measles were injected into cultures of human kidney cells and incubated. with techniques like these being carried out today by dr. samuel cultures brought in from the incubator are checked for any changes in the cells. obtaining even one successful growth of pure purulent measles virus is one of the most -- of pure v is one ofasles virus the most difficult laboratory achievements. finally, in 1954, one culture obtained from an 11-year-old measles patient begins to show remarkable changes in cell structure. these might be caused by the measles virus. dr. enders is called in to observe it. to prove that it is the measles virus, they decide to inject it into the only animal that will contract the disease, monkeys. monkeys, which have never been exposed to measles. in

members of the council continue to shield rural and his cronies also the news for this morning a harvard law professor faces a backlash after joining the legal team of disgraced hollywood film producer harvey weinstein. and canada's prime minister fights for his political life after his former attorney general says she was pressured to quash a high level corruption case. good morning a.t.m. for the first of march live from moscow. thanks for turning to us today hope you stay with us here for this world news update where venezuela is in the headlines first again no end in sight still for the political crisis there was both russian and u.s. draft resolutions of failed to pass at the u.n. . by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield maduro and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the venezuelan people they're going to use them with us finally we have reached the culmination of the american workers created double standards show over venezuela we look forward to genuinely free and fair elections. and to a government that reflects the will and aspirat

toldson: if i am not mistaken, jared kushner went on to graduate from harvard with honors. in fact, and i don't know the precise numbers on it, but there was an extraordinary amount who graduated from harvard with honors. there has been a lot of talk about grade inflation at some of these so-called elite schools. when we look at the complicity in this, we look at all the players involved, you have schools like harvard and yale who don't just want the smartest students but they also want the wealthiest students. they are rewarding the students by giving them academic experiences that is not just about rigor but about positioning them into a certain social network. we do have to look at this entire system. amy: and then you look at the whole battle over affirmative action and you see what is the real affirmative action here. prof. toldson: yes. out are quick to point any non-merit-based s system that i given -- giving advantage to somebody who truly has some barriers and hurdles to overcome, whether schools,ism, poor a lack of resources to get certain things. there are certai