s results where it counts in the company's revenue, maier is not moving the needle yet. search advertising is holding its own, but the core disdisplay ads is stagnant at best. she says she needs time to launch new products which will draw bigger audiences which will lead to higher sales. and investors seem to be listening. she's putting a fresh face on what lots of people had begun to see as a stodgy company. her face. there is that "vogue" spread and she began hosting earnings calls as live video, something a less te telegenic ceo might avoid. she'll have to deliver on those top-line results and avoid product stumbles like last year's fantasy sports outage and this month's yahoo! mail fiasco since yahoo! needs every loyal user it can get. for "nightly business report," i'm jon fortt. >>> a wake-up call about coffee. the price of coffee beans plunged this year, but the cost of that cup of joe barely budged. big coffee sellers who have been brewing up higher profits all year long say there's a good reason for that. kate kelly explains. >> reporter: coffee's had a rough ti

>> uh, yes, i'm very surprised. >> maier, who has a phd in psychoanalysis, isn't lazy.imply disillusioned with the french workplace, which she says values busy work and corporate politics over true productivity. and her book has resonated beyond french borders. the rights have been sold to more than 20 countries, including the united states. and let's not forget that you wrote the book in your spare time because you're only working 20 hours a week. >> yes, it's true. >> so you must think americans are insane. >> no, because, um, americans, i think believe-- believe more in future than french people. we, french people right now, we don't believe the future will be better than now. so we don't have any reason to work. >> why? >> i don't know. maybe... [chuckles] maybe we're an old country. we are depressed. [laughs] >> an old, depressed country? >> [laughing] yes. >> [laughing] well... there may be some americans that agree with that. >> [laughing] possibly, yes. but the food is very good. >> the food is very good. [laughs] >> when we return, there's trouble in vacation p

award, to be added to a list of award receptions at in the last five years alone includes pauline maier, philip hamburger and charles taylor is humbling to say the least. i'm grateful to the intercollegiate studies institute for selecting my book from among any -- from among many others which i'm sure also worthy. i would like to express my particular gratitude in public to mark henry for his standout hospitality. i will speak for public about 30 minutes or so, and would be happy afterwards to answer any questions that anyone might have. needless to say, a brief presentation like this one cannot hope to convey the fullness of a book that's nearly 600 pages long. but i do hope it will give some of you who have not yet had a chance to read the book some sense of its console aims and arduous. and i should just say that the actual size of the book is somewhat smaller than the representation. you need not worry to get home with you should you buy a copy to "the unintended reformation" is a work of historical analysis that takes the present that its point of departure. it does not aspire to b