fox's heather hedges has the story. >> reporter: behind these gates harvard university has produced some of the most well respected world leaders and trail blazers, but now that pristine reputation in danger of being tarnished all because of a cheating scandal the university admits is unprecedented in the school's modern history. 125 students accused of cheating on a final exam last spring for an intro to congress class. it was a take-home exam, but right on it there were explicit instructions to complete the exam alone. the harvard crimson's rebecca robbins has been speaking with students close to those under investigation. >> very traumatized, very upset about the investigation. there's certainly more to this story. >> reporter: the situation surfaced after the course's professor noticed similarities in 10 to 20 exams. so he notified the administrative board who reviewed all 279 of them. they found roughly half were suspicious. >> they have been determined -- they haven't determined yet if it's specific plain rising of answers or if -- plagiarizing of answers or if it's inappropriate c

he is the hollis research professor of divinity at harvard university. professor cox, welcome. >> thank you, glad to be here. >> as you remember your friend cardinal martini, what stands out? what were his outstanding characteristics for you? >> the first thing that comes to mind is the kind of graciousness, intelligence. he was a scholar before he was a bishop or an archbishop or a cardinal. enormous ciosity. his wiingnss and eagerness to listen all around to all kinds of different people and to learn. but mainly, i think just the word grace. it's customary to call bishops, i think, "your grace." sometimes it fits, sometimes it doesn't. but with martini, it certainly did. he was a gracious and open and personal man. >> and in a gentle way, you have said, i think in a gentle way pretty critical of the catholic church, he told an interviewer a few weeks ago, i read, that he thought the church was 200 years behind the times. how did he want it to change? >> yes, one of his great gifts, i think, was to be thoughtfully critical without being polemical. he co

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still trying to figure out exactly what they are being accused of. >> reporter: in a statement harvard universitylegations if proven represent totally unacceptable behavior that betrays the trust upon which intellectual inquiry at harvard depends. other colleges are taking note. andrea is the associate director of student conduct at the university of maryland. >> they are probably going to use this opportunity to educate students about the importance of integrity and the importance of academic integrity and making sure that students understand it is not just about cheating on an exam or quiz or homework assignment. >> reporter: if it is determined students cheated they could place discipline ary action including being kicked out of the school for a year. >> lynrd skynrd face to face with some of the band members next. humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at libertymutual.com.

. >> and my guest drew gilpin faust is the president of harvard university. oh, i hope he's coming with a sikh envelope, the one-year anniversary of occupy wall street. remember, one is the pepper spray anniversary. this is the colbert report. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome to the show, everybody. (cheers and applause) good to have you with us. please, ladies and gentlemen, please. take a load off. i don't know about you but i had a beautiful weekend. i was down in washington d.c. for the conservative values voters summit. not exactly a gala affair. for some reason the group fighting to defy gay people rights has trouble finding a competent party planner. but i tell you this, it is a great place to hear from prominent conservative voices like jan brewer, circumstance cameron, eric cantor and a 9 millimeter firing at a disk of birth-control pills. but folks-- (laughter) >> stephen: folks, only one speaker down there really appealed to the voters' heart and... well, just heart. >> we will never have the media on our side, ever in this time. we will n

my question is how do i graduated from -- graduated from harvard university and i need to have -- [applause] the students i was around at harvard we have phenomenal conversation. i need to know, i'm in new york now. how do i develop more of a connection defeat these kinds of conversation and networking of these conversation. >> thank you. >> who wants to answer that? >> it's a wonderful system. give that brother a hug for me. i think the important thick for you to give your address on the internet so the people all around the world will be able to relate to you in that conversation. president issue responsibility -- president responsibility.com. >> next. >> [inaudible] there's a bunch of things i want to ask. in respect to what you the panel were discussing earlier about the reason we're here. in respect to the panel before. i would show what's going on in the educational system. what's gong prison industrial and the military complex. given the fact i see perspectively we're seeing the country turn around, turn the back particularly on black and hispanic and asians as well give the fact i t

kazutaka kurihara and koje tsukada were awarded the acoustics ignoble prize at a ceremony at harvard universityn the united states. kazutaka kurihara says he is honored and hopes the speechjammer will contribute to peace and quiet. this is the sixth year in a row that japanese scientists have won an ignoble prize and an award give on the unique and humorous scientific inventions. >>> we'll be back with more updates in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo. for all of us here at nhk world, thanks very much for joining us. have a great day wherever you are.

harvard university, ph.d., religion. georgia state university, professor of religion, five years. bost unirsity, 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 h to, quote, and 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 pictu by mel gibson? >> he did. >> what did he have to say about that? >> he found a real human being wouldn't survive 20inutes int the mie because it's so violent, there's such brutality is brought on on jesus' body and not r

summers, bill clinton 's treasury secretary and president obama's economic advisor joined us from harvard university in davis his view of how the crisis has been handled. >> larry summers, another decision date for the euro. to you think it has been well managed to? >> this is not going to be a happy chapter in monetary history. i have often compared this to the vietnam war. american policy makers always did what was necessary to avoid immediate collapse and never did what was necessary to offer a prospect of a long run solution. eventually, the policy collapsed around it. >> let me ask you, do you believe in a year's time there will still be 17 members of the eurozone? >> there cannot be any guarantees. we do not what is going to happen. we do not what political conditions are going to permit in northern europe. we do not know what will happen with respect to on certain banking systems. but i think there is a proper judgment and having made the commitment to the era, the right path forward is to try to live with it and do what is necessary to make it work. >> if the euro were to collapse, how big o

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 chief of pediatrics and associate executive director. 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 us

access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> and my guest drew gilpin faust is the president of harvard university oh, i hope he's coming with a sikh envelope, the one-year anniversary of occupy wall street. remember, one is the pepper spray anniversary. this is the colbert report. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome to the show, everybody. (cheers and applause) good to have you with us. please, ladies and gentlemen, please. take a load off. i don't know about you but i had a beautiful weekend. i was down in washington d.c. for the conservative values voters summit. not exactly a gala affair. for some reason the group fighting to defy gay people rights has trouble finding a competent party planner. but i tell you this, it is a great place to hear from prominent conservative voices like jan brewer, circumstance cameron, eric cantor and a 9 millimeter firing at a disk of birth-control pills.

. >>> the cheating scandal at harvard university is reportedly impacting some of the school's sports teams. "sports illustrated" and the team's own newspaper says the co-captains of harvard's basketball team are being implemented in the scandal. other athletes are among those implica implicated. administrators aren't commenting publicly. >>> we're learning details about the relationship between amanda knox and her boyfriend. both were freed by an italian court last fall. in a new book, rafael sollecito admits their bizarre behavior may have given investigators reason for suspicion. knox is writing her own book about the whole ordeal. >>> a wounded warrior from southern california can wake up in a brand-new house built especially for him. this is a great story. juan dominguez lost his legs and an arm in afghanistan. his home will make life a little easier. the wounded vet says he's getting a second chance at life. >> the chance to be able to go everywhere inside my house, upstairs, downstairs, every bathroom, every room. it's awesome because it doesn't feel like a prison anymore, like

latin america, africa, and asia, davies' project, in collaboration with the arnold arboretum of harvard university, maintains an active database of more than 3 million trees of 6,000 species. dr. davies: this is a huge data set, which no one else in the world is doing this kind of research. and the idea of doing it right across the whole world is that then we'll be able to come to some generalizations about what's happening to tropical rainforests. narrator: by statistical analysis of a large number of individuals over a long period of time, the team can determine the dynamics of forest growth. dr. davies: what we do is we monitor them every five years. we go and remeasure all the trees. the idea is to try to work out, for hundreds and hundreds of species, their population biology -- that is, the rates with which thegrow, the rates they die at -- to try to understand the whole biology of the species. narrator: stephen hubbell of the university of grgia and the smithsonian tropical research institute is one of the pioneers of this study, which began on barro colorado island in 1980. man: when we fi

she severed a master degree from the harvard university. after the age of 50 she received her law degree? st. louis. she founded eagle forum in 1972a to encourage the grassroots to be p politically active.nd she lead the ten-year battle to successfully defeat the ratification of the equal rights amendment. she is the author of twenty books such as politics, nationa, defense, courts, feminism, andle even then phonic textbook for children called "first reader."s the newest book released this month is no higher power, obama's water on religious freedom. please welcome phyllis schlafly. [applause] [applause]er [applause] >> thank you very much, ann.the and gooda morning students. there are a lot of good books about obama. different aspecteds of his w career.as one o but there wasn't one on a veryti important issue. and that's why i wrote this one, "no higher power: obama's war on religious freedom."rack on october 31st, 2008, barack obama said, we are five dayslly away from fundamentally transforming the united states.s few americans realized h

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

. >> rose: we conclude this evening with the present of harvard university, drew gilpin faust and the filmmaker ric burns talking about her book death and the civil war, and his documentary based on the book. >> as i thought about it and i thought about the numbers of civil war dead which had been estimated and talked about by historians for quite some time, it suddenly occurred to me that this number was enormous. and transposed into our own time, as you said at the outset, would represent 2.5% of the population, nearly 7 million dead in our society. so i wanted to understand that. and i wanted to understand how everyone living through that period must have looked at it through the lens of loss and suffering and bereavement. so i began to ask those questions. >> no one had any way of being prepared for the number of deaths. and they struggled with it in a deeply intimate level. how i do believe in god under these circumstances. how i do prepare for my own end. and we also struggled with it collectively. you know what does it mean to be a citizen, what does it mean to be a government

he has a bachelor's from uc-berkeley, a master's of public administration from harvard university, john f. kennedy school for government, born and raised in san francisco and grew up in the fillmore district. he's an active resident of district 11, where he's done a lot of great work residents. he lives with his wife and two kids. his daughter is with him as well. she's filming him as we speak. his wife maggie, teaches elementary school for the san francisco unified school district. emill has a long history of public service to the city but on top of that he has also a long history of social justice work for decades in san francisco. as an undergrad at uc-berkeley, he was involved in the 1969 third world strike and was very active with united farm workers. as a student he was also involved in the historic struggle to preserve manilatown. as president of the international hotel tenants association he fought along side the ihotel residence and a coalition of students tenants and community activists to stop the demolition of the "i" hotel. he was among the tenants on that notorious night b

this on his resume, he worked for both president reagan and for bill clinton, he is now at harvard university, rick stengel who worked with president clinton on the time magazine cover story that bill clinton authored this week, and let's also bring in round out the team with john dickerson, our own political director. let me just start by asking somebody on the panel, would anybody like to volunteer, did bill clinton say that he wants to temporarily extend the bush tax cuts or did he say not? a show of hands here. who would like to answer that question. >> do we know? >> it was a wonderful, long, complicated answer. the end of which left you thinking, what the heck did he just say? >> yes. nobody knew what the heck he was doing and everybody sort of went on with life. >> and with strategic, not deliberate. >> schieffer: create i think a fog so everybody can find an exit and then when the fog lift everybody is in a safe place. i think he is trying to say basically the commitments of the sequester and of the tax cuts, we can put those off if we can get a deal but that's the kind of thing that

want to get into the political mill you in the united states well actually when i taught at harvard university one of my classes was how pro-wrestling prepares you for politics and it does in pro wrestling murphy's law which applies anything that can go wrong in the match will so you have to be able to think quick on your feet while when you're running for office you may get a question you're not ready for so you have to be able to think quickly second didn't pro-wrestling you sell yourself on the microphone and on t.v. you've got to convince those people to spend their hard earned money to come down and see me get my ass kicked well what is the difference between selling for that money or selling for a vote and finally and most importantly the character that you portray in wrestling may be nothing like who you really are as an individual and i think we've got a lot of elected people that fall right into that the character of a portray in front of a screen is nothing like they really are just in private lives played a role governor jesse jesse ventura thanks so much for joining us tonight tom

. >> harvard university's basketball team may lose to keep players because of a cheating scandal the fraud scandal, cocaptain since several other students are accused of sharing answers on the take home final exam, the answers were all too similar according to professors by withdrawn they can maintain their final year of eligibility. the university of chicago moves up on the list of the nation's top colleges from fifth-fourth the only other illinois school in the top five is northwestern both schools also made the top 25 as best value for offering a quality education and to need based 8 over one month after the lollapalooza music festival the restoration of grant park is finally complete the price tag double what was initially estimated costing $350,000 a fixed the landscape by seating areas and replacing some of the shrubs promoters of the festival initially thought it would cost much more to repair the park. only so many days of shopping until christmas. this season you will not have to fight the crowds there putting the hot toys on layaway it lets shoppers reserve any of 50 items

what does he bring the students at harvard university. what kind of madness is that?ur lou: it's like the fools who thought the euro would replace the dollar and there were these wonderfully sophisticated transatlantic geniuses who said the dollar stays were done.he d haven't we had enough of that nonsense like. >> this guy is not only tolerated, he is celebrated. the two of them, they maintaine a close relationship.town when the campaign came around, this guy skipped town and client interviews and said i'm ady cant leftist and revolutionary. if anybody connects me with barack obama, it's going to hurt president obama. lou: a harvard cynic and a cocoon that protects thiskind ot represented insight intoure. something terrible. >> you areou right.oble when a guy who's sitting in the positi oval office is actually in a ids position to enforce that and use these ideas to strengthen america's role in the world's. lou: you talk about the united states of islam. tell everyone what you mean when those chilling words are expressed in there are three>> a important countries in

a harvard university professor may have uncovered evidence jesus was married. ms. say this fragment of a century-old peiris -- this century-old pub peiapyrus. but they say this is not prove jesus was actually married. >> let's check in with the jacqui jeras to see how things might change today. >> kind of comfortable and cloudy now but we will and cooler than normal with plenty of sunshine. a strong cold front that went through yesterday and brought us plenty of rain. in the metro mostly an inch of rain but our whetherbug network shows four inches here. the western portion of our viewing area. a couple of lingering showers and southern maryland and eastern part of my junior -- virginia. the system really impacted all of the east coast and a real mess at the airports yesterday. today we are expecting better conditions but maybe some delays for you traveling from here to boston to new york city, to philadelphia. look at the cooler temperatures across the great lakes, high temperatures only in the 60's in detroit. today we will see skies mostly sunny here with high te

what does he bring to the students of harvard university? what kind of madness, like the fools who thought that the euro would replace the dollar and wonderfully sophisticated trans atlantic geniuses thought the dollar's days are done. haven't we had enough of that nonsense. >> this guy is not only tolerated, but separated and of course, obama took his courses and retained a close relationship and when the 2008 election, he skipped town, i'm a leftist and revolutionary, if anybody connects me with obama, it's going to hurt obama. he's a cocoon that protect the sillness and represent some insight into the future, and-- you're right the problem is when it's taken by a guy in the oval office to endorse pablam, and encores in the united states. >> and tell when what it means when there are chilling words expressed. >> there are three important countries in the middle east. three significant countries, egypt, iran, saudi arabia, since 1979, iran has been in the hand of the radical muslims. egypt is now on the way to the radical orbit with the bro

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