my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. it was intense. i stayed there for college, for law school, and i also have a master's in public policy there. those are subjects i decided to study in part because i was very interested in public service and public policy issues and government. i ran for office in part because i wanted to serve the city and really protect all that is so special about what san francisco is. >> we've been talking for years about how important it is to build new neighborhoods, to develop affordable housing, make sure we have transit-oriented sustainable green development that really is worthy of a 21st century san francisco. what we're doing today -- and, frankly, what we're doing this year will have impacts on the city for decades to come. thank you all for being part of this, and i look forward to that mid-cutting. i moved to san francisco 15 years ago for all the reasons that we all love our city. our cable cars. our hills. the diversity of our

harvard university historian and devoted his lifelong study to understanding why some civilizations rise and by others falter. his conclusion was this -- culture makes all the difference. not natural resources, geography, but what people believe and what they value. central to america's rise to global leadership is our christian foundation. the american culture promotes personal responsibility. the dignity of work. the value of education. the merit of service. devotion to a purpose greater than self. and that the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. the power of these values, the sculptor, is evidenced by a recent brookings institution study that senator rick santorum brought to my attention. for those who graduate from high school, get a job been married before they have their first child the probability that they will be poor is 2%. if they are absent, 76% will be poor. culture, what you believe and how you live matters. as fundamental as these principles are, they may become a topic of debate from time to time, so if it is today with the enduring institution of marriage -- marriage

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eliot university professor at harvard university, former president of harvard university, former secretary of the treasury, and former assistant to the president for economic affairs. the moderator will be zanny minton beddoes, economics editor of the economist. i said i wouldn't comment on the resumes and i won't would make a few observations. marty feldstein and larry summers are friends with whom i've had the opportunity to discuss economic issues. in marty's case for many years. and larry's case, for decades. both are excellent listeners, though challenging, to -- they are challenging but they also are excellent listeners, who process what they hear, are open to changing their minds, and then give you reasoned conclusions with a strong grounding. so in addition to their preeminence, they are exceedingly well-suited to the reason discussion of tax reform needs so badly but so seldom gets. i've also had the privilege with being on panels with zanny, and she is not only a decisive moderator, but she frequently knows more about the subject at hand and the discussants. and when i'm on the p

because of my parents, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university.hat is where i went to school. it was intense. i stayed there for law school and have a master's in public policy from there. those are subjects i decided to study because i was interested in public service and public policy issues and government. >> you grew up in the boston area. what made you want to make the transition and moved to san francisco? what motivated you to get involved in politics question marks before i ran for office, and worked in san francisco as a criminal prosecutor and civil rights attorney. i got to understand how much of a be in san francisco is to the rest of the world for social justice. i spent a number of years helping to grow a small business. i got to understand the innovative spirit in san francisco. at night, i volunteered as a neighborhood leader and as feature of an affordable housing organization. i learned so much about the challenges facing our neighborhoods and the special jewels that are the urban villages we live in. i ran for office because i w

find the mark twain quote in the pages book the soon as he accused me of plagiarism i went to harvard university and i said there's been this accusation i insist that you investigated please put an investigator on it they put their pocket former president of harvard with whom i had not had particularly good relations over the years and derek ma came to the conclusion that there was absolutely no basis for any plagiarism. you're listening to worldview from chicago public radio and we've been talking today with norman finkelstein assistant professor of political science at the paul think with me it's always had a controversial ads but the controversy never ends and it's conflict with harvard's alan dershowitz it began in a democracy now radio program several years ago when he alleged that dershowitz his book a case for israel was plagiarized more recently dershowitz is not a one campaign against illegal themes can you get a call the president of the call university has about the middle of this month to decide and when i was dr finkelstein these are faster to paul university who might get his tenur

harvard university, ph.d., religion. georgia state university, professor of religion, five years. boston university, professor of religion, eight years. chairman of the department of religion, one year and currently. newspapers and magazines, contributor to "new york times" magazine, the "wall street journal," slate.com, salon.com. author, three books on religion include ""american jesus," how the son of god became a national icon." hobbies: painful, of the boston red sox, diehard fan, a passion which introduced him to, quote, grand theological themes that would later preoccupy him including why a good god would allow such an evil team as the new york yankees to win so many world series, unquote. besides baseball, tennis. stephen richard prothero. >> stephen richard prothero, your father is also a physician, is that right? >> that's correct. >> did he see the motion picture by mel gibson? >> he did. >> what did he have to say about that? >> he found a real human being wouldn't survive 20 minutes into the movie because it's so violent, there's such brutality is brought on on jesus'

it's just eight years after computer hacker mark zuckerberg sat in his dorm room in harvard university and created what is now known as facebook. today, he took the company public, and day one was a bit of a bumpy ride. facebook barely managed to meet its ipo price. ending a long and tumultuous day for the much hyped company. >> let's do this. >> it started with 28-year-old ceo mark zuckerberg ceremonially ringing a bell at 6:30 pacific time after staying up all night with employees at the company's menlo park headquarters. but the first trade scheduled for 11:00 a.m. was delayed by overwhelming trading volume that also swamped sites like etrade. >> facebook ipo was the biggest, nasdaq had tested all week long, but obviously, it still overwhelmed the system. >> finally, at 11:30 -- >> now it is officially a public company available for everybody to buy shares should they desire. >> the first trade at $42.05, up nearly 11% from the ipo price. on facebook's website, this update from the ceo. mark zuckerberg listed a company on nasdaq, but the stock dropped quickly soon after, trading wel

the schlesinger library on the history of women in america at harvard university. "king of the lobby," today's talk, this is the book. "king of the lobby," which we will hear about today, was most recently published to excellent reviews by johns hopkins university process. it is cathy's third and her third washington, d.c. based centered book. her first, and i'm the director for the center of the books, so i love to introduce through books and this is a book off my own shelves, her first book "capital elites" was published in 1995 by the smithsonian institution press where she was an assistant program director for the his attorney and records. "test meant to union" appeared in 1998, published by johns hopkins university press when she was the deputy director of the american jewish historical society. it is now my pleasure to introduce you to kathy jacob. kathy? >> thank you, john. thanks very much for coming. so la mentations that special interests by spending obscene amounts of money stranglie elg the voice of the people. fears that the nation was going to held in

harvard university ratcliffe college. bampt a. tough university md. couple laddy. georgetown and tust universities school of medicine instructor in pediatrics, 3 years. the permanent medical group. multiple leadership roles including cef of pediatrics and associate executive direor. 29 years all together and currently. hobbies, hiking. sharon levine. >> sharon levine, we are joined by vicki got lick, senior policy attorney for the center of medicare advocacy. are thru? >> i am. good morning. >> vicki, do you have thoughts on what we've been saying so far about the cost implications of by lodgics versus traditional drugs or any aspects of the conversation thus far? >> i have a lot of conthoughts about your conversation. cost is a very important factor and cost very often will cause the population not to be able to afford the drugs. even if they have drug coverage for a biopharmaceutical, very often the copayments are so high that people can't afford the copayments. people are bankrupting themselves in order to get these needed medications and it would be very useful

economics professor at harvard university, ken wonderful to have you on the program, thanks for beingere. >> thank you for having me. >> let's talk about those disappointing jobs numbers on friday, showing 115,000 new jobs created in the month of . unemployment rate down to 8.1%. of course the expectations called for a lot stronger job creation than we actually got. does this mean we've entered a new weaker phase of the recovery? how do you see it? >> well, i think it certainly brings us back to the point that this is going to be a slow, halting recovery. i don't think we're ever going to see 300,000, 400,000 jobs created a admonition at least not for a while. there's just too much debt, too much uncertainty, to really move a lot faster ran we could have 200,000. i mean, that would help. we'd gradually get better. this is just treading water. >> so is that what we're supposed to see at this point in the recovery, 300,000 to 400,000 new jobs created? is that what would be typical of a normal recovery? >> we've been very,oío typical. and they do come to an end. but no, i'm afraid a norm

i will attend harvard university in the fall. i am appointed by supervisor john avalos. i just wanted to mention s supervisor -- as supervisor scott wiener mentioned, i just want to let you know that we are the experts on youth priorities, and these are the things that the young people in san francisco care about. this takes it into consideration, and will forward to working with you guys. just as our share address that. in april, we had a budget hearing, -- just as our chair addressed that. in april, we had a budget hearing. we were looking at the proposals, and even though you guys are facing this $170 million in budget cuts, the $120 million, and $312 million the following fiscal year, it is really big cuts, but we hope that the needs of young people are among your priorities. we know that the board has supported young people through the free muni campaign, and supervisor avalos spoke to us, and we look forward to working with you guys at tomorrow's hearing and really just order collaboration. thank you. and i would like to introduce sarah armstrong to produce our pri

from his beginnings at harvard university all the way until today's worldwide public offering. >> that's. >>> we're going to have continued coverage and live team coverage all morning including mark zuckerberg actually ringing the opening bell this morning from facebook headquarters in menlo park. >> and he'll be singing his own tune inside his head. 4:57 right now. coming up, funny man bill cosby will be in the bay area today. what's behind his special appearance. >>> this morning, the hottest topic in silicon valley, the social offering. facebook, it started as a project in a harvard dorm room, then became a college fad at a few select universities, including stanford. and now in just a matter of years, the social networking

i will attend harvard university in the fall. i am appointed by supervisor john avalos. i just wanted to mention s supervisor -- as supervisor scott wi

you all now them professor of economics harvard university.president at -- former chair of the president counsel of economic advisers. larry summers. former chairman of the national economic counsel. former student of and former professor of -- [laughter] so i think marty, let's start with you. i want to start the conversation by actually working out what should be the priorities of the tax reform today? because tax reform has all kinds of good priorities. people taunt -- the simplifying the code. raising revenue. but many of these are somewhat center depending what your priorities are. put forward different kinds of reform. can you lay out what you think given where the u.s. economy is right now. what should be the priorities? >> guest: larry and i come out of different political parties and afill indication. larry and i were talking about taxes for thirty years. it's not too surprising that there's a lot of agreement. i hope that comes out as we talk about the specific issues. i think about tax reform in terms of the long-term impact. we've

it just like, it felt like this -- by the time i was 19 years old and a freshman at harvard universityajoring in political science, i knew that i was going to be a rock and roll guitar player. you know, but i really turned a corner with my guitar playing where i kind of broke through to a different level of ability, of technical ability, and was able to express myself via that instrument in a way that i hadn't been able to express myself in other forums. and it really felt like this is the thing that i am destined to be. i didn't abandon my studies. because, you know, i was, through no -- clarify this. through no particular genius of my own, i was the first person from libertyville public high school to attend harvard, not because i was smarter than anyone or better than anyone, but no one had ever applied before. it was, you know, like university of illinois, a fine institution, was the -- you know, sort of the upper echelon of places where kids went from that school. and so i felt sort of a duty to myself and my peers to continue with those studies, and to continue to, you know, inte

the discussions will be martin feldstein from harvard university, president emeritus of that national bureau of economic research and former chair of the council of economic advisers. and lawrence summers, charles w. eliot professor at harvard university, former secretary of treasury and former assistant to the president's for economic affairs. the moderator is the economics editor of the economist. i said i would not comment on the participants resonate -- resumes, but i would like to make a few comments. they are friends with whom i have had the opportunity to discuss economics with for many years and decades. both are excellent listeners, a challenging. but they are also exit -- excellent listeners to process what they year and are open to changing their minds and give you recent conclusion of with strong grounding. they are exceedingly well suited to the reason discussion tax reform needs so badly but seldom gets. i have had the privilege to be on panels with power and size of a moderator, she frequently knows more about the subject at hand than the people discussing them. when i

next to her we have sam is the director of he began his publishing at harvard. university of california. he's worked a number of best selling authorities including el wilson and ohio oliver sacs. representing authors and agents is raphael "rafe" sagalyn, who runs the bethesda, md.-based sagalyn literary agency some of the authors he represents down here in the dc area include dan pink, rick akndson and simon johnson. with all that said. i'm going to start off with a few remarks. tell you about the over view of where things are. we'll hear from each of the panelists. we're start off with the question that every publishers ask at every convention. how many people read their books on a kindle? how many people read their books on an ipad? how many people read pint books? okay. that's encouragerring. that's where we are in the publishing industry today. i've been around, you've seen a lot of changes nothing like the change that is going on now. at the end of 011, -- 2011 approximately 20% of sales from major trade houses were digital. that's from almost nothing two years ago. m

is lawrence lessig who is the royal professor of law at law school and center for ethics at harvard university. he founded claetive commons and the foundation for internet society in stanford law school and was previously on the faculty of chicago law school. professor lessig serves on the boards of creative commons, maplelight, brave new film foundation, the american academy berlin, axa research fund and on the advisory board of the sunlight foundation. he's a member of the american academy of arts and sciences and has received numerous awards including the freedom award, fast cast 50 award and being named one of scientific american's top visionaries. >> thank you very much for the opportunity to testify. as you know, since the beginning of this republic, there has been a fierce debate about how best to create incentives for scientists and innovators to discover and to bring to market advances in science that address important public needs. on one side of that debate have been the supporters of exclusive rights secured by the government, the constitution gives congress the power to secure suc

both receiving the support of at least 70 senators and the nominations of jeremy stein of harvard university, a professor there and jerome powell who served in the george herbert walker bush administration as the under secretary for the treasury department getting the support of the senators and now for the first time since 2006 the fed will have a full complement of governors. the postal service saying it is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of processing center the. earlier this month they had written letters to the postmaster general urging the post office to hold off on closing these facilities but postal officials saying they can't wait any longer, congress remains deadlocked on exactly how to help. and when facebook shares go on the market tomorrow, they will start at $38 a share. washington keeping a close eye on all of this, and jamie dimon of j.p. morgan chase confirming he will testify before the senate banking committee. the date is to be determined. he will talk about the company's $2 billion loss earlier this month and as he announced the loss from that hedge fund investme

from harvard university and did undergraduate work on the west coast at stanford university. here is a story from npr, tropical storm alberto weakens off south carolina's coast. this is the first of the season. the piece says it hovered off south carolina and georgia coast sunday canceling tourist cruises and serving as a reminder the 2012 atlantic season is just around the corner. it starts june 1st. >> it does start june 1st. that's why it's impeer tiff congress figures out what they're going to do with the program and don't let it lapse as hurricane season is beginning and brings us a point i think is worth mentioning that the nfip is a very concentrated program geographically. 40% of all the policies are in the state of florida and another over 20% are in texas and louisiana. so it's a very important part of how we protect ourselves against flooding from hurricanes. >> larry, republican, in beaverton, michigan, go right ahead. >> caller: hi. thanks for taking my call. one of the comments your guest made just a little bit ago saying how we can figure out how to share the b

the couple met at harvard university and have been together for more than nine years. >> it's shaping up to be a gorgeous day. we saw the runners out there. it's going to be pretty sunny, and then we have this eclipse. >> the weather is perfect all around. we've got mostly sunny skies along the coastline this morning and waking up with mostly sunny skies yesterday. you've got the sun shining on you and giving you a live look this morning. just a little bit of moisture. it used the a bit of a haze. not bad at all. mostly clear skies today. west northwesterly breeze. generally light around the area. we will begin to see a change. it comes later today. high-pressure hose on one more day and brings a smile to warm temperatures again. this morning our numbers are up. storm tracker to showing you that breakdown. this is going to be the system that brings us a cooling trend. it looks like a high clouds over northern california. not going to reach us in time for that annual or eclipse. we may see a little bit of fog creep into the area because the system brings back the onshore flow. it's goi

the two harvard university professors debate the capital gains tax and tax code. it is about an hour and 20 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> the project began about six years ago and it brought together a truly destictive group of policy experts, academics and practitioners. in that context, we don't endorse specific ideas but we do organize serious discussions around issues that are critical to our economy. and in that respect, we have events like we have today with academic and policy experts and practitioners. when we have papers, those papers are subject to rigorous peer review. we believe that the objectives of economic policy should be growth and competitiveness, broad based expansion of living standards and opportunities and economic security. and we also believe that they can be mutually reinforcing. we support market-based economics but we believe equally that it is vital to have a strong government perform those functions that markets by their very nature will not

. >> and the latest harvard university alumni book is causing controversy including an enry from the na bomber, he graduated from harvard in 1962. the enry lists his occupation as president mer and wards as eight life sentences. he was convicted of killing three people and injuring 23 others during a bombing spree that lasted from 1978 to 1995. the harvard alumni association apologized for publishing this entry. >> and there is a look ats the weekend forecast. >> unusual weather continues. into the sierra there is a winter weather advisory. and from 6:00 tomorrow evening. we expect two to six inches of snow, possibly eight inches into higher elevations and this is strong winds and continuing to have winds tomorrow, and there is a showers chance of showers in parts of the north bay tomorrow, high temperatures are into 60s inland. we've got a big celebration of the 75th anniversary of the golden gate bridge coming up sunday and there is conditions partly cloudy skies, which means partly sunny skies and there are breezy conditions on the cool side. temperatures 58 into afternoon to 54 la

he started facebook as a 19-year-old harvard university student.s average employs today will have shares worth 2.9 million dollars. we asked a tech expert in morning what he thinks about the company's staying power? he tells us, he's impressed. >> they've got almost a billion eyeballs in the two years that we've been working very closely with their prefered marketing develop routine they've definitely matured their understanding of how facebook is going to be a premiere digital marketing experience. i have every confidence in the world, i'm betting my career on it. >> reporter: here are pictures of what was happening overnight. they had an all-night hack-a-thon that's when employees do coding, they work on some project other than what they do everyday. there was a deejay and red bull to fuel the night. they say this is how they celebrate. today's ipo will make facebook larger than many big companies disney, ford, mcdonald's and mark zuckerberg will be ringinging that opening bell at 6:30 this morning. -- amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> our team cove