i represent harvard.is of an economist who has so manipulated the data that they are living proof that if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything. i do think the statistical modeling is helpful. now the proof is often in the pudding. how do you model a holistic process quantitatively? you try to think about the situation as it actually is in real life. sffa didn't use that model. [bill] when professor card modeled harvard's admissions process, considering all the applicants, considering all the quantifiable information that the admissions office itself considers, and considering the information year by year, the way that the admissions office does, he found no statistical evidence of discrimination. [bill] race is considered as one factor among many in harvard's admissions process. harvard itself determined long ago that diversity of all kinds was in the best interest of the college and its students. on the screen now, your honor, is an excerpt from the 1996 report by then president

and that, of course, was harvard college in the 1630s. and the kind of college that harvard immediately really set up to become was a college very similar to the colleges and universities that you would find in the europe that they had left behind, which in england would either be oxford or cambridge, which on the continent might be the university of paris, the university of bologna, the university of pisa all across europe. these colleges taught a curricula them in which the central part was the teaching of the six liberal arts. they were not teaching you technology. they were not teaching you sociology. they were not teaching anthropology. those things hadn't even been heard of. you were taught in colleges and universities of 17th century europe. you were taught. the six liberal arts and chief among those arts was the art of logic. logic, the art, as they said, of discourse nursing. well, logic was how you discovered things. and the body that logic offered rated upon was authority. you did not. and here's the great difference between th

host: why did you choose harvard ? dr. blackstone: it's interesting because my sister and i went to a specialized high school in new york city, considered one of the most competitive schools to get into and being in that environment, the messaging i was getting at harvard, the number one school in the rankings, having such history that that was the place to go. when we got in there was no doubt, and so we had taken resources that it had to offer. in retrospect, i should've considered an hbcu like howard. at that time i was caught up in what is success traditionally. it is easy to say that now as a graduate in a privileged position. but i think going to harvard college and medical school opened doors for me in ways that if i had gone to another school, it would not have. host: you talk about the history of hbcus. dr. blackstone: yes, what i love about "legacy" as i shine a light on systemic issues. the history is important to include because i wanted to connect the dots for a broad audience as to why in 2024 we are seeing s

harvard. harvard. undergrad. well, so i didn't know anything about harvard, honestly, until my speech and debate team went there for a tournament. we were pretty good on our team and we traveled around and we raised money to go to different tournaments around the country and harvard was one of them. and it was really the first time that i knew anything about harvard. and i'll never forget my grandmother, who i'd also talk about in the book. this is my mother's mother, who was just the most wonderful person but also didn't really know much about, you know, the fancy schools. when i get into harvard, i tell my mom, take me over to grandma. i want her to know and i run into her, you know, and i say, grandma, grandma, i got into harvard and she said, oh, i word baby, this. so when well, it's this kind of and i said, i said, no, grandma, not not howard. i know. i said, i'd like washington, d.c., i want to go there, but this is harvard. it's in cambridge, massachusetts. and she said, oh, well, i guess harvard is a perf

why did you go to harvard and why did you drop out of harvard?ohn: i had some wonder and wanted to explore. i like school, i just really wanted to get out somewhere else and i think that sometimes for people who grew up somewhere in a small community. that's a common sentiment. and that's why i ended up at harvard. we actually started stripe when we were in cairo -- in college. i was in harvard, patrick was down the road at m.i.t.. we talked about this idea but this was 2009 where there was a huge number of internet businesses. if you talk to any entrepreneur they would tell you that this was their biggest frustration, but we were 19 and 21 at the time. we were not experienced in the industry. what was interesting if stripe is obviously regulated financial services firm. it's probably helpful that we had no idea of what it would entail. it's actually pretty complex. but we gradually got into it. david: you did when you're at harvard and he dropped out, did you say to your parents i'm going to be the next bill gates or mark zuckerberg or they didn

but the reason i the main reason went to harvard, apart from the fact that, well, you know it's harvard, is that i did plan to spend my entire life as a criminal lawyer in chicago. i love chicago, and i plan to spend life there. and i really thought that if i didn't go away at some point in my life i would always feel like i wonder if i just stayed here out of inertia. so going away to the east coast meant that if i went back to chicago it was intentional and it was choice i made not just a default position. and that is what happened. i did go back to chicago and i became a prosecutor in the cook county attorney's office there. randy, you mentioned calumet city. you mentioned being jewish. you have a chapter, your book entitled dirty --. yeah, well, one of the benefits of growing up in calumet city, as opposed to growing up in scarsdale or westchester county or skokie, illinois for a --, is that we're not under the misleading impression that we're some kind of large number of people where if a third of the group or or a half of the group i think american -- sort of unrealistic. and i fe

would mean that russia and nato are more very audible. jeron is a senior research associate at the harvard kennedy school. i asked her what we should make of lot of improvements, latest comments on russian using nuclear weapons as well. steven, this is the latest instance of the long string of nuclear rhetoric and signaling that has been coming out of moscow since the beginning of this full scale invasion . this is significant. we knew that the russian leadership has been reviewing their military nuclear doctrine. and the general expectation has been that the russian threshold for the use of nuclear weapons will be lowered. there's been a lot of talk about this by russian liter, inspired by russian commentators. and so here we have a preview right there. there are a few significant things to note. one is the previous version of the russian doctrine adopted in 2020, allowed, also a re, a nuclear response to large scale conventional attack. but only in extreme circumstances where this, the very survival of the state was at stake. now we, we understand from mr. perkins speech today. this form

i'm already on a chair and senior research associate at the harvard kennedy school. thank you very much. i and his reminder of our top story is this, our, israel's top army commander has put troops on alert for a possible ground assault and loving on. hundreds of civilians have been killed and is really bombardments and humans as 90000 people have been displaced since monday, flooding his legs, he has sold the un in new york that only victory for his country and in the war with russia. the training president, also warning world leaders, the russia plans to attack ukraine's nuclear power plants. that's all for now. we'll be back soon with more headlines. in the meantime. check us out online dw dot com. i'm seeking beardsley in berlin. thank you very much for watching the can you see what old cars hi is have to do with you production? here's a hands on really indeed much now on youtube. well, i believe is a here in new york to meet for the united nations general assembly. and for climate we to bomb is this one of the country's most impacted by climate change. i'm meeti

pete: he's got two harvard degrees. brian: i don't even know where my harvard degree is.e's got two, kennedy school and the business school. brian: all right, 44-2. -- 4-22. pete: just a couple of elitists -- [laughter] 4-2. oh, i got him. brian: the spin serves -- pete: they make you go into the net. rachel: what number are you at? pete: 5-3, i'm ahead. i get him on that one. rachel: come on, brian. good, good, brian. pete: oh, i got him. got him. brian wroib i threw that last one. pete: olympic level are. 6-4, it's the over. brian, good try. he's a better ping-pong player than he let on. brian: that was pretty good for me, actually. rachel: t not over. you might still win many basketball. brian: why am i breathing heavy after that? that's the sad part. [laughter] rachel: a challenging real estate market has deterred many americans, especially young americans, but our next guest says the best time to buy is ahead. they'll explain. ♪ ♪ don't mind me. i'm just the flu. i'm quite harmless, really. and when people ask, “but aren't you linked to dangerous flu complications li

mach, you asked whether when asked at the time whether harvard was embarrassed by professor, a harvard spokesman stated that all of its faculty had strange interests and quote, they are all weird and one way or another can you talk about not harvard but this with sagan and dr. mach yeah so john mach becomes one of the most fascinating of ufology in the 1990s as he pioneered is really the scientific study of people who report abductions. and i spent a couple of chapters of the book looking at the phenomena of alien abduction once and what what mark really to understand and there are a couple of people in this world who sort of study this actually a very famous artist named budd hopkins, who's a writer in his own way, who gets interested in this, a couple of others. and and john mack calls them experi answers because he does not want to. prejudge one way or another what actually happened to these people and that alien abductions really. come to the fore. this in the late 1960s and then really peak in the 1980s, early nineties and the the psychiatrist to study them really believed that so

harvard should be nervous.ntly anti-semetic and illegal. >> you look at the democrat party. they're all about reparations, to combat racism. why is racism and bigotry okay if it's against jews. >> that's the question. the senate judiciary committee decided to have a hearing on heg anti-semitism. they had to talk about all forms of hatred. jewish people are the targets of 65% of all religiously based hate crimes in the united states. senate democrats can't say that. dick d durbin and bernie sanders were stonewall this, refused to allow jewish students to speak and testify. if the democrat party wants to keep the jewish votes they would make efforts to reach out to us. the biden, harris administration has not met with jewish students like me. we tried reaching out to them. they ignoreds us. >> we're seeing some shift in the jewish vote. not as much as as we would have expected. i've seen 65, 35. it used to be 70, 30. >> in favor of democrats. >> in favor of democrats. i would expect in this moment that it would b

today he brought his conservative outlook fully formed to harvard and harvard law, where his professor, laurence tribe, told me he still wrestles with how a student so thoughtful and curious could have such blindspots about race. perhaps where he grew up became an adherent of the nascent race neutrality theories that took hold of conservative legal in this day of the group. the view grounded in opposition to bussing and school integration as hostile to whites that any effort to eradicate racial is itself racial discrimination. he clerked for william rehnquist at the u.s. supreme, a man with a very personal connection, voter intimidation, as he personally took part in some of the most toxic efforts to challenge individual latino voters in arizona in the early 1960s. in a chamber so crucial to the developing of the conservative legal movement that it has been described as the federalist society, before there was a federalist society, he was fast tracked there to its next crucible. ronald reagan's department of justice. john roberts 26 years old and just off his not far removed from the w

today he brought his conservative outlook fully formed to harvard and harvard law, where his professor, laurence tribe, told me he still wrestles with how a student so thoughtful and curious could have such blindspots about race. perhaps where he grew up became an adherent of the nascent race neutrality theories that took hold of conservative legal in this day of the group. the view grounded in opposition to bussing and school integration as hostile to whites that any effort to eradicate racial is itself racial discrimination. he clerked for william rehnquist at the u.s. supreme, a man with a very personal connection, voter intimidation, as he personally took part in some of the most toxic efforts to challenge individual latino voters in arizona in the early 1960s. in a chamber so crucial to the developing of the conservative legal movement that it has been described as the federalist society, before there was a federalist society, he was fast tracked there to its next crucible. ronald reagan's department of justice. john roberts 26 years old and just off his not far removed from the w

harvard says black students make up of 14% of new students this fall, down from 18% last year.the college lost a critical supreme court case in june, 2023, resulting in a nationwide ban on race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions. several other top schools have reported similar results. >>> "reuters" says boeing faces a possible strike tomorrow as workers threaten to reject a tentative labor pact. 30,000 workers in portland, oregon, and seattle are expected to vote today on their first full contract in 16 years. some workers are upset the deal does not include bigger raises and other improvements. in order for a strike to happen two-thirds of workers must support a work stoppage. most would need to reject the deal. >>> the "associated press" says election workers say widespread problems with the mail system could disrupt voting. in an alarming letter to the u.s. postmaster general, top election administrators in all 50 states warned of persistent deficiencies. for instance, they say over the past year mailed ballots that were postmarked on time were received by l

i hate harvard law stinks. he graduated harvard practice law. married a very wealthy woman. abigail brooks. but he he stood up to his wife. i said, you're wrong on this you're wrong on that. you've sacrificed family to your ambition, your career, and yet they they came very close. they were very close. charles francis adams was a civil war ambassador ambassador to great britain. and, of course his his children are henry brooks adams famous literary figures. it's a hell of a family, really. well, almost more than i could handle. but. hey, it was my boss. well, we're probably talked about before, but i wanted to ask you, and i'm not sure this the most appropriate time given last night about. two of you know you've worked with a lot of these great american leaders. which one would you like to go to dinner with him? of all of them. where do you would you situate john quincy adams in all these leaders that you've studied, but in the also the longer story of american leadership? well, he as president, he ran toward the bottom in terms of rank get these surveys. you know i'm presid

and i also thought maybe part of it was that because i was at harvard and he had a about harvard he said his father used to tell him if you brush up against the grindstone of life, you'll have more polish than any harvard yale person ever does. but said i just somehow didn't believe him. and then i thought maybe it was because i was a young woman and i was constantly chattering to him about steady boyfriends, make sure everything was okay, even when i had no boyfriends at all and everything perfectly. until one day he said he wanted to discuss our relationship, which sounded ominous. he took me to the lake like lbj wine, cheese, a red checked tablecloth. and then he said, doris, more than any other woman i've ever known in my heart. and then he said, you remind of my mother. so. anyway, that relationship really allowed me to become author of the first book, lyndon johnson the american dream. because of all those conversations, what a gift he gave to me. and that's really why i wanted to study presidents after that does the privilege of having a young person like that being given that gif