universities. i realize harvard is in a unique position.ng out there in terms of the demand, in terms of the numbers of students coming into four-year colleges and even higher education. >> well, harvard does still have this very high level of demand, and our applications are up again this year for the college. but you're right. on a broader nationwide basis, we're seeing a softening in that demand, as moody's just reported. and i think this is something the country should be worried about. because we're in a moment in human history where knowledge is ever more important as a foundation for economic growth, for social mobility, for building the kind of society and nation that we want to be. and so we have to make sure that access to higher education remains open to individuals who can benefit from it and make contributions to our country and to the world. we at harvard have worked very hard to make access open to students of talent. and i think part of the reason for our high numbers of applications is our very generous financial aid policy

from harvard university and her ph d. in social personality psychology from stanford university her work in research on happiness has been honored with the john templeton foundation grant science of generosity grant templeton positive psychology prize and a million dollar grant from the national institute of mental health she's also the author of the critically acclaimed book the myths of happiness dr little mercy joins us now from our los angeles studio a little risky walk of the program. it's a pleasure to be here thank you thank you for joining us let's start out with just the simple stuff what is your definition of happiness well i use the definition that researchers use which is that happiness essentially has two components so the first component is the experience of positive emotions joy serenity curiosity affection and the second component is the feeling of you feel the feeling that your life is going well that you're progressing towards your life's goal so you really need both of those components to be a truly happ

from harvard university or ph d. in social personality psychology from stanford university and is the author of the critically acclaimed book the myths of happiness let's get back to it you mentioned just as we were about to hit the break there at the last in the last segment how you were suggesting that people write gratitude letters or thanks letters of knowledge thinks things like that i remember enough to remember when the boy scout . i don't mandate i guess it was was that you had to do a good deed every day and i remember finding this particularly difficult that the definition of a good deed and i think this changed probably in the sixty's or seventy's but i was you know boy scout the late fifty's early sixty's was. is something that you do the benefits another person and they never know that you did it. i'm curious your thoughts on how you know what we might have lost by just losing that boy scout and presumably girl scout you know ancient wisdom it seems to me. well i hope that we haven't lost it i mean there'

they include harvard university, standford, wharton and vanderbilt universities. each monday we will speak with top professors about key money issues and you can read in-depth at nbr.com, just look for the tab. now we begin our series with the corporate focus on shareholder value. every c.e.o. of a publicly-traded company concentrates on-- most prominently on display every day. that focus on share price hurts the economy, according to margaret blair, a professor at vanderbilt university. professor, is shareholder value first best expressed by today's stock price? >> yes, tom, thanks for having me on this show. the shareholder, the share price is something we can look at and find out what it is almost minute-by-minute, literally minute-by-minute. and so that tends to be what people think of when they think about shareholder value. but in fact some shareholders have a short-term interest and some have a long-term focus. and so what's valuable to one shareholder might not necessarily be the most valuable to another shareholder. >> why do you contend focus on that val

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, 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 theologal 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' body and not realis

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

then somebody said the founding fathers of harvard university or something, but it was never used as a scripter for the -- descriptor for the people who framed the constitution. it's interesting, also, that it really didn't take off until 1941 when a book was written called "founding fathers." but it was immediately adopted by both sides of the aisle although some of the early uses when you go back and track when it starts being used in the '20s more and more often in replacing the word "framers," it's often used as a negative. the founding fathers never meant for us to have pastel-colored postage stamps, or the founding fathers never meant for us to help poorer nations at the time of war. it was used sort of giving these people who framed the constitution sort of a collective veto on certain things. and it was an interesting use of language. and then i got fascinated with harding because harding's misuse of the language was so intense that warren g. harding -- i mean, h.l. mencken created a term which was a description of how badly harding murdered the language. but harding had a in

lot of people out there who were right about what would happen over the last five years, but harvard university professor ken rogoff was. he was on the money with some very accurate predictions about the economy, about where the markets would go post financial crisis. what's next for america and the global economy? ken rogoff joining me once again with some answers. ken, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> thanks so much for joining us. how would you describe the mood in davos and how would you see the economy today five years post the crisis? >> it's a strange mood in davos, where people are not euphoric. in fact, you talk to heads of multinational corporations, businesspeople around the world, they say, you know, things aren't even as good as i thought they would be this quarter, but they're calmer. there's a feeling that the world is not going to fall apart. you hear more about geopolitical risk, cyber security, d less about europe's going to blow up tomorrow. >> so, you're not seeing over enthusiasm but it's certainly better than a year ago? >> yes, it's definitely, definitely calmer. t

chloe was born in london and received a master's degree with distinction in conjunction with harvard university and the moscow art theater school. she has worked as a staff reporter for the daily telegraph and is a freelance writer, her articles appearing on both sides of the atlantic. she is the chief theater critic for the san francisco weekly, theater commentator for klaw. chloe worked for several years in u.s. and uk theater companies and is the recipient of the allen wright award for arts journalism, the sundance institute arts fellowship and the nea fellowship of journalism. in 2006, she received a best columnist nomination at the annual san francisco media excellence awards and her first book on acting was published by farber and farber in the uk and farber, inc., in the united states. let's welcome phillip and chloe >> hi there, phillip. >> hi, chloe >> so, this play, it's been quite a journey. we're talking 3 1/2 years, maybe nearly 50 different drafts and 5 workshops? . >> five workshops, yes. >> so, looking back at the journey, how has it been for you and has it come out as you expec

science of happiness with positive psychology expert shawn achor who has researched and taught at harvard universityicantly. (man) transform your life and the lives of those around you with "the happiness advantage." please welcome shawn achor. [applause & cheers] thank you, and welcome. i'm so excited today to be speaking to you about the incredible science of happiness and how it can transform your life. if you'll give me just one hour of your time, i can show you this incredible science of happiness and how you can use it to not only feel happier but also to create an advantage in every aspect of your life. it turns out we can improve your health, your energy change everything about your connections with other people but here's the thing. you've probably heard speakers and read books about how if you just eat 16 blueberries then you're going to be healthier, then you're going to be happier for the rest of your life. or if you just buy this new exercise contraption and do it for about 20 hours a day, then you're going to feel happier. or if you just invest in this one fund, you're going to have mi

along with professor from the kennedy school at harvard university and what are we going to do to stop the homicides, particularly in the african-american community and we would bleed with each one of them and 85% of them had felony vkzs and narcotics related so when you do r

along with professor from the kennedy school at harvard university and what are we going to do to stop the homicides, particularly in the african-american community and we would bleed with each one of them and 85% of them had felony vkzs and narcotics related so when you do your study look at other factors. you heard from commissioner turman about education. some of the numbers are god awful and the schools have improved so it's a much bigger picture than saying these are disproportionate. statistics, you have to be careful with them. i had a federal judge tell me and guy had 2-kilos of cocaine and it's a victimless crime and go into an area and tell the family that, and the person that over doses and the cost on society and look at it from a statistical perspective and i love what jjcj is doing. you're young and interested in the community and don't lose that and let's get the statistics tighter. and i prosecuted homicides and every one of them was drug related. >> again i mean i absolutely agree with everything that you said. that's why i was recommending a broader health. approach a

i moved into this country in 1996 at harvard university and he is my case manager and through his leadership and graciousous and kindness and getting me to places and where i can get some help and so i told jamal. i showed him all my papers and he knew i have a court date on january 31, and i have been living in this country for 16 years. i don't have any criminal record, and will be grateful for your support and i want to say thank you very much and look forward to your support and anything, questions -- thank you very much. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. and i am sure that all of our offices will be happy to help in anyway we can. i appreciate it. any other member of the public wish to speak? seeing none public comment is closed. i guess madam clerk if we could call item 10. >> item 10 is adjournment. >> so this adjourns the meeting and i want to wish our staff and everyone here a safe and happy holiday season and i want to thank again the commission and our staff for what i think has been a really successful year for lafco, and happy holidays to everyone. enjoy the holiday.

recent book, "the spirit of the law" religious voices and the constitution in modern america, harvard university press. she is also the author of the mormon question and you refer to polygamy a couple of times in our short discussion here. with that -- was that the issue about the mormons, that really kind of got under people's skin and? >> guest: it was the most prominent one. there were others and in some ways if you think, say, questions of access to public places or religious speech in life as a key to the 20th century, then the 19th century, the really big question was would mormons be allowed to redefine marriage for themselvee legal system enough so that polygamy would be recognized and protected as a valid form of marriage by the secular legal system, not just by the church itself. >> host: are there parallels to gay marriage today? >> guest: there have been substantial parallels. one of the key issues for mormon apologists as well as for their opponents was the question of statehood for utah. it became pretty clear early on in american history that states have substantial control over m

is a descendant of a great grandfather born into slavery to the graduate from a place like harvard universityth comedy and satire were get the union for years mocking the very government society that enslaved my ancestors is a huge part of progress and opportunity within that story i think she meant all of those things. >> what is your day job now? >> i don't have a job now. i am a bounder. i would love to start a company called cultivated witt that combines humor and technology to

some economists actually question the very concept of having a debt ceiling neil ferguson of harvard university told business r.c. it's an artificially created problem in the first place. you can always rely on american politicians to make the problem seem much bigger than it is i mean the problems that the united states would be grappling with over the next two months include a completely artificial problem which is the debt ceiling i mean there's absolutely no reason why there should be a specified ceiling to the federal deadline congress imposes that on itself and then having imposed it has to vote to lift it which it inevitably must so this is a pretty awesome official crisis a purely political crisis. and let's quickly run through the markets to see where they finish the week on wall street we saw a lot of selling intel's results really disappointed investors and s. and p. five hundred ending the previous session at its highest level since late two thousand and seven definitely led to some profit taking there over in europe equities and of friday's session mix the foot's again about a thir

. >> kenneth macke is a law professor at harvard university and author of the new book representing. tell me about your book. >> my book is a collective biography of six african american civil rights lawyers who practice law during the era of segregation. it's about the collective struggles with civil rights and racial identities. it's about the fact that to be an african american civil rights lawyer in this era i argue in the book is to be caught between the black-and-white world. both blacks and whites want things. and identify with these particular lawyers. so to be as kind of a lawyer, thurgood marshall and people like him was to not just be an african-american lawyer. >> how difficult was it for an african american to become a lawyer during this time? >> is not difficult to become a lawyer. you have to go to law school like everybody else. it does cost money. but it is very difficult to succeed as a lawyer because no african-american lawyer is going to have white clients to more very few of them will have white clients. most black people don't have a lot of money. if you have mo

workforce mean that its growth will slow after the year twenty twenty and neil ferguson of harvard university tells business he agrees with this is us mint and he expects a global economic paradigm shift. the fiscal situation is far superior to any west european country there is falling inflation the move to flexible exchange rates been successful and then of course we're in the midst of one of the world's great energy boom zen indeed commodity boom and russia of course is perfectly positioned to benefit the russian prosperity in light of the struggling europe while i do think the situation in europe and particularly in the european monetary union there is pretty grim because the outlook in terms of growth can't be good with these enormous public debts and with the chronic imbalances between the german core and the south european periphery i go so far as to say that parts of europe are in a kind of stationary state where do you think the situation is greenmarket in the europe all in the united states i think it is worse in europe but you can always rely on american politicians to make a probl

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biggest is probably teddy roosevelt who writes a letter to the head of the english department at harvard university. and that created its own thing. quite articulate and comes up with some domino theory type words. in his second novel, he said before we can finalize our plans, and the word finalize with such a discordant tone. there were editorials all over the country, people wringing their hands, there was a special column defending eisenhower were creating this verb. they hadn't even heard prioritize yet. it was the same resort of reaction. counterproductive was another one. the first example they can find is counterproductive, which sounds like a military term, once well untrammeled someone within war room. i'm building up to who i think is the king of them all. but lyndon johnson he picked up a couple. again, i'm using every thing i can find. pressing the flesh was a johnson is on. lady byrd johnson comes up with motorcade. it's picked up by time magazine. there was no example of that in writing before. richard nixon had some nice ones. expletive deleted is really his. when they go over the wa

he's also a professor of law and the director of the center for ethics at harvard university.ning us tonight from austin, texas. larry, i would like to welcome you back inside "the war room." >> it's great to be back. >> jennifer: yeah, you knew aaron for 12 years, i'm told and as his mentor and friend -- i'll get to the legal stuff -- but i'm curious what you would like people to remember about him. >> well, i really think of him as the mentor and me as the mentoree. he was around 14 when i first met him, and every single stage of his life, he was pushing people to -- to try to build something that was -- that fit the ideas that he had about what the internet could be, what we could be as a society. by then of his life it wasn't so much internet activism as social act -- activism he got me to change a number of things i was working on because of piercing questions we would push and the standard he held us all too. >> jennifer: let me get to the specifics of this case where he was downloading these articles. what did aaron intend to do with the articles? what was he fighting f

and working together by founding the university of virginia he was trying to create a regional institution, national institution to stop spending, virginians to harvard and northeastern schools and transylvania and kentucky. i am a graduate of the university of the south in suwannee, tenn. which is a combination of rideshead revisited and delivers. if you don't know it. we think of the university of virginia as the suwannee of the county. thank you. i am married to a graduate of the university of virginia so i say that a lot. >> thank you for coming. jefferson question and an obama question. when jefferson's time camelot of new territory into the united states the question of whether it would be slave or free, what were the political factions that were tugging at jefferson and what political considerations ultimately led to his decision whether the new territory with the slave or free anti obama question, he talked about the president has -- what do you say to him? >> i have never been invited so i don't know. bob carroll, we look alike. as i like to say to bob, my guys died along time ago. it is a great question. jody kantor has been riding on this.

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his breath but teddy roosevelt does write a letter to the head of the english department at harvard university saying he believed we should not be splitting intended us. eisenhower's second inaugural he gets up and eisenhower's quite articulate and comes up with wonderful phrases. the domino theory and he comes up of force with the military-industrial complex which has come down through the decades but in his second inaugural he said before we can finalize their plans and the word finalized with such a discordant term that there were editorials where people were wringing their hands. there was a special column for parade magazine. eisenhower from creating this verb out of the word final and they haven't even heard the word prioritize yet but it was this angry sort of reaction that we use used without where that was astonishing. eisenhower did have a very nice way of talking. and created some nice stuff. counterproductive is eisenhower's words rakove the first example was counterproductive which sounds like a military democratic term that somebody would say in a war. this is counterproductive.

professor george mason university school small and an assistant and associate professor at harvard university. she is the author of "virtue and the making of modern and liberalism and the ethics of the moralist." he holds jd and ph.d. from science from this institution, and a and philosophy from the hebrew university in jerusalem and a b.a. in english literature from swarthmore college. norman podhoretz, who i feel silly introducing these people would still, have to. norman paul ha'aretz served as editor-in-chief from commentary magazine from 1960 to 1995, and as the current editor-at-large. he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom by george w. bush. he served as a senior fellow with hudson institute, and he was a senior fellow and is the author of many books and articles including the bush doctrine, with the president said, and what it means in world war iv, the longest struggle against the islamofacism coming and why are jews liberals which for the new criterion is really entitled why are jews still liberals? she was a pulitzer prize scholar at columbia university where he earned hi

this 57th inaugural, we're joined by three presidential historians: annette gordon-reed of harvard university mason university, and beverly gage of yale university. and let me start with you. all kinds of history was out there today. right? >> absolutely brown: what echos did you hear in the president's speech? >> i was very, very much struck by his use of the declaration of independence, the words about all men are created equal to make the case for a comor collective vision what we're supposed to do so in america. his linking with the pursuit of happiness and liberty which is typically thought of as something that is individualistic. the echos of a community, ideas of people working together were very, very strong. i thought it was surprising in a way because he's not a president who often invokes the founders. certainly not by name. this was very, very much on his mind. >> brown: beverly, what jumped out at you? >> i think we a lot of historic occasions being marked here so we had the 50th anniversary of martin luther king's speech in washington. we have the 150th anniversary of the civil

he played football at harvard university and has his own history of concussions from his pro wrestlingmaking his way to the ring, 260 chris nowinski! >> it all starts with my wrestling career. i actually have some of my concussions captured, which is nice. >> what is he doing? >> i had depression problems. i had short-term memory that was terrible for a year and a half. i kept sleepwalking for three and a half years and needed medication. i had headaches for five. that's when i decided maybe there was something wrong with my brain. >> joining me tonight, chris nowinski, co-director of the center for study of cte at boston university and author of "head games: football's concussion crisis." chris, great to have you with us tonight on the program. how many athletes in all contact sports do you think are suffering from cte? >> oh, we can't actually diagnosis the disease in living people right now. so we don't know. but we do know is that 34 of the 35 nfl players that we have studied have had the disease, as well as nine of nine college players. we found it as young as people of 17 when th