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. >> reporter: on a quiet little street in princeton, a craftsman is at work.nding countless hours in his attic workshop, he is surrounded by the simplest of tools. >> fastidious is the word. every little speck. >> reporter: with an old iron, a few bricks wrapped in paper, and a smooth piece of bone, 80-year-old bill strong restores and repairs children's books, bringing them back to life. so this is where the magic is made? >> well -- >> reporter: this is where the magic is saved. >> okay. >> reporter: bill has always had a passion for books, but saving broken ones, well, that started as a hobby and then grew into something more. what's the most special project you've ever done? >> oh, there's loads of them. it was a grandfather that brought me a book that his grandfather had given to him, inscribed. and he wanted me to fix it up so that he could catch a plane next week to go to colorado, inscribe it for his grandson. that's nice. >> reporter: for the last several years he's been donating his time and talents to the children's section of the princeton public l
. >> reporter: on a quiet little street in princeton, a craftsman is at work.nding countless hours in his attic workshop, he is surrounded by the simplest of tools. >> fastidious is the word. every little speck. >> reporter: with an old iron, a few bricks wrapped in paper, and a smooth piece of bone, 80-year-old bill strong restores and repairs children's books, bringing them back to life. so this is where the magic is made? >> well -- >> reporter: this is where...
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. >> on sunny weekends, princeton by the sea is crowded for tourism. they come for the seafood and scenary and to be near the spot that giant waves draw surfers from all over the world. life on san mateo county is ideal but not if you are a young adult with a developmental disability. >> lack of jobs, lack of care, lack of housing. >> jeff's daughter is autistic. many of the people on the team have grown up together. >> my older son, patrick is almost 25. >> most team members still live with their families and many are eager to move out. >> get away from my dad. >> dreams but there is no housing in the area for people about w developmental disabilities. so jeff decided to build some. >> to be a place for a gym and dining room for educational programs for those with developmental disabilities. >> they own this property by princeton by the sea. they want to turn night the big wave wellness center a model community. they promise state of the art green buildings and organic farm and 80 jobs for disabled peoplet then to support the wellness center financial
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it was our senior bank would and he came to speak at princeton. he was a princeton graduate and he gave the most eloquent and persuasive speech about public service that i had ever heard or will ever hear. it was an evening event and all of us just sat listening to this brilliant -- he called himself an egghead and as a joke used as a -- was that? something about -- >> nothing to use but your yoke. >> exactly. all of us who were getting ready to go into the military came away with a sense of responsibility. one of the things he said was young people in our country have responsibility to guide and direct the course of our country and the power of the american political system is without measurements. if america were to stumble world would fall. it had an impact on me and i put a pair website and -- hundreds of memos that i believed support the board the we have got here and go to an end those and go to the web site and see the entire memo if i quote a paragraph but i am almost positive we have advice stevens and's speech on that website and i highl
it was our senior bank would and he came to speak at princeton. he was a princeton graduate and he gave the most eloquent and persuasive speech about public service that i had ever heard or will ever hear. it was an evening event and all of us just sat listening to this brilliant -- he called himself an egghead and as a joke used as a -- was that? something about -- >> nothing to use but your yoke. >> exactly. all of us who were getting ready to go into the military came away with a...
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and it was our senior banquet in college and he came to speak at princeton. he was a princeton graduate year and he gave the most eloquent and persuasive speech about public service that i had ever heard or will ever hear. it was an evening event, and all of us just sat there listening to this brilliant, he called himself a naked. and as a joke used to say -- called himself an agenda. >> you're nothing to lose but your yoke. i think all of us are getting ready to go into the military, all of us came away with a sense of responsibility. and one of the things he said was, young people in our country have a responsibility to help guide and direct the course of our country. and that the power of america's medical system is virtually without measurement. and if america were to stumble, the world will fall. and it had an impact on me, and i have put up a website, with hundreds of memos that ideally support the book that we've got here. you can go to an end note and go to the website and actually see the entire memo if i quote a paragraph. but i'm almost positive if
and it was our senior banquet in college and he came to speak at princeton. he was a princeton graduate year and he gave the most eloquent and persuasive speech about public service that i had ever heard or will ever hear. it was an evening event, and all of us just sat there listening to this brilliant, he called himself a naked. and as a joke used to say -- called himself an agenda. >> you're nothing to lose but your yoke. i think all of us are getting ready to go into the military, all...
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they are the ones who have the offices in princeton.say they are in princeton but it is really just a mailing address. the college board also has an elaborate and expensive office space by lincoln center. they are the ones who make sure it gets out to all the right people. >> so much of all this is for profit? >> supposedly none of it is. there is a lot of talk about for-profit schools and how terrible they are. i kept bumping into the fact that it was competitive, these colleges are trying to get the best kids that they could and so on. it reminded me of a friend of mine who studies philanthropy. he has a wonderful saying, nonprofit is the designation in the tax code, it is not an operating philosophy. the schools are existing to maximize the revenue and lower their costs, just as any business would. it is just sort of a freak that they don't have to be for- profit institutions. higher education in america is an incredibly competitive industry, run by people who refuse to believe that they are an industry or that they are competitive,
they are the ones who have the offices in princeton.say they are in princeton but it is really just a mailing address. the college board also has an elaborate and expensive office space by lincoln center. they are the ones who make sure it gets out to all the right people. >> so much of all this is for profit? >> supposedly none of it is. there is a lot of talk about for-profit schools and how terrible they are. i kept bumping into the fact that it was competitive, these colleges...
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both studied at princeton and studied under the same political theorists. here we are 2 guys in our shared park in berkeley my son the same age as his daughter. why out of the 2 of us only one has bottom an adult. >> i'm never getting married. she sank back against the ground. i sat then next to her i could smell fabric softener. >> this is nothing hoeky about loving something with all your heart. that's not how anyone has loved me. that's why they leave me. i'm everyone's good luck charm but mine. >> she was right. there was nothing hoeky about a great love to span a lifetime. >> love struck couples staring into each other's eyes. waitress with tired legs waiting for the end of her shift receives a visit from johnitto. he turns, one last time to the faces above the steaming plates before he's out. into the neon lit street leaving behind a trail of rose petals, dark as sacrificial hearts. >> if we killed you now, if we took aim for your belly with our cross bow or laser sight and pulled a trigger or let a tipped arrow rip through the night air, there would
both studied at princeton and studied under the same political theorists. here we are 2 guys in our shared park in berkeley my son the same age as his daughter. why out of the 2 of us only one has bottom an adult. >> i'm never getting married. she sank back against the ground. i sat then next to her i could smell fabric softener. >> this is nothing hoeky about loving something with all your heart. that's not how anyone has loved me. that's why they leave me. i'm everyone's good luck...
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princeton, from pri university, a look dead deportation and immigration policy. later -- a look at deportation and immigration policy. >> live on saturday, the annual correspondents' dinner, starting with red carpet arrivals. later, remarks from president obama and seth myers. our coverage includes your comments from facebook. >> coming up next, from the university of southern california, a look at same-sex marriage in california -- in america. we will hear from the lawyer trying to overturn proposition 8. this event is just under an hour. >> welcome, and thank you for coming to our final students talk back lunch panel. we co-sponsor these lunches every week along with the college republicans, college democrats, and the daily trojan. as is the case every week, i am joined by a representative from the editorial board of the daily trojan as a co-moderator of our discussion. this is the associate managing editor for print. we are co-sponsored by the college democrats, who i understand elected their new executive board for the 2011- 2012 school year last night. congr
princeton, from pri university, a look dead deportation and immigration policy. later -- a look at deportation and immigration policy. >> live on saturday, the annual correspondents' dinner, starting with red carpet arrivals. later, remarks from president obama and seth myers. our coverage includes your comments from facebook. >> coming up next, from the university of southern california, a look at same-sex marriage in california -- in america. we will hear from the lawyer trying to...
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lord knows princeton has a wonderful assemblage of scholars who do african-american studies, and we want one at harvard. and we've, over the last three years, been able to make several major appointments. evelyn brooks higginbotham and the federal judge, leon higginbotham and, most recently, cornel west from princeton and anthony appiah, the great african philosopher who was at cambridge with soyinka at the same time i was. we've been able to bring all these people to harvard, and we expect to make, i hope, at least four or five more distinguished appointments so that we can eventually have a graduate program, what i hope will be a phd program in african-american studies. see, my generation of african-american scholars take african-american studies for granted. we have always been in the presence of african-american studies at historically white institutions. cornel west went to harvard, i believe, in 1970. i went to yale in '69. afro-american studies was there. there was a math department, there was a physics department, there was the history department and there was afro-am. so it's no
lord knows princeton has a wonderful assemblage of scholars who do african-american studies, and we want one at harvard. and we've, over the last three years, been able to make several major appointments. evelyn brooks higginbotham and the federal judge, leon higginbotham and, most recently, cornel west from princeton and anthony appiah, the great african philosopher who was at cambridge with soyinka at the same time i was. we've been able to bring all these people to harvard, and we expect to...
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he's got a ph.d from princeton-- princeton.e's able to move in many different worlds and i would see him being very comfortable on both the analytic and the operational side of the agency. >> lehrer: finally, why did they bring back ryan crocker, do you think? >> can't do better. >> lehrer: you really can't do better? >> i don't think so. he's been ambassador. he's had the experience in iraq. he's been ambar-- . >> lehrer: but nonin afghanistan. >> he's been ambassador in pakistan, that is really more important than kabul for the outcome in afghanistan. and he's been all over the region. he has the language skills. he has every bit of respect for how he has delivered. >> lehrer: dow wonder why he took the job? >> yes. >> lehrer: really a tough job. >> you know, i think-- i think-- i said, i thought delivery of the message about the policy was very much on their minds in these appointments. but my guess is, and i don't know, that he finally agreed to do this because of how serious he thinks the situation there is. >> lehrer: qui
he's got a ph.d from princeton-- princeton.e's able to move in many different worlds and i would see him being very comfortable on both the analytic and the operational side of the agency. >> lehrer: finally, why did they bring back ryan crocker, do you think? >> can't do better. >> lehrer: you really can't do better? >> i don't think so. he's been ambassador. he's had the experience in iraq. he's been ambar-- . >> lehrer: but nonin afghanistan. >> he's been...
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he'd been the president of princeton university so one would have fought, but his reaction to race almost unpredictable, and very, very harsh. coming after a president who entertained booker t. washington here comes this intellectual who literally -- how do you explain that? >> guest: woodrow wilson in virginia in the south he had also the governor of new jersey, so as you see, president of princeton. but he was sort of thought of himself as a virginia gentleman in the context of those times and was never interested in equality. when he was elected there were high hopes for him in the community that he would do some things differently. but he didn't come he was persuaded by this other cabinet members about him and he actually resegregate of washington in the government and so on and in the fundamental contradiction of our ideals and his ideals. he is the guy that talks about equality among nations and the freedoms around the world he was trying to promote after world war i and get at home he didn't see that was a tremendous hypocrisy and contradiction to what he was trying to do around th
he'd been the president of princeton university so one would have fought, but his reaction to race almost unpredictable, and very, very harsh. coming after a president who entertained booker t. washington here comes this intellectual who literally -- how do you explain that? >> guest: woodrow wilson in virginia in the south he had also the governor of new jersey, so as you see, president of princeton. but he was sort of thought of himself as a virginia gentleman in the context of those...
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for the record, the eight ivies are harvard, dartmouth, brown, cornell, columbia, yale, princeton andity of pennsylvania. to find out what's so special about them, we talked to lee stetson. he spent almost 30 years as an ivy league dean of admissions. >> the ivy league has this image of being one of the more elite and respected programs in the country academically. which we like to think is true. >> but what most people don't realize is that the ivy league was originally defined not by scholastics, but by athletics. >> we end up playing each other in sports, and that's really the bottom line. >> that may be how it started, but today the ivy league is seen by many as the country's most prestigious schools. they're certainly among the oldest. seven of the schools were founded even before the american revolution. there's a legend that ben franklin applied to harvard and was rejected. so he said he'd start a college of his own. and he did. founded in 1740, it was called the academy of philadelphia. later it was renamed the university of pennsylvania. today, penn has more than 23,000 stude
for the record, the eight ivies are harvard, dartmouth, brown, cornell, columbia, yale, princeton andity of pennsylvania. to find out what's so special about them, we talked to lee stetson. he spent almost 30 years as an ivy league dean of admissions. >> the ivy league has this image of being one of the more elite and respected programs in the country academically. which we like to think is true. >> but what most people don't realize is that the ivy league was originally defined not...
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he had been president of princeton university so one would have fought, but his reaction to race almost unpredictable, and very, very harsh coming after a president who entertained booker t. washington, here comes this intellectual who literally -- how do we explain that? >> guest: woodrow wilson is from virginia in the south and also the governor of new jersey and as you said, president of princeton. but he was sort of -- thought of himself as a virginian gentleman in the context of those times, and was never really interested in ecology. when he was elected there were high hopes for him and the african-american community that he would do things differently. but he didn't. he was sort of swayed by some of mount the southern cabinet members around him and he actually we segregated washington and the government and so on and even again the fundamental contradiction of our ideals and his ideals he was the guy that talked about, you know, equality among nations and about these freedoms around the world he was trying to promote after world war i and at home he just didn't see that there was
he had been president of princeton university so one would have fought, but his reaction to race almost unpredictable, and very, very harsh coming after a president who entertained booker t. washington, here comes this intellectual who literally -- how do we explain that? >> guest: woodrow wilson is from virginia in the south and also the governor of new jersey and as you said, president of princeton. but he was sort of -- thought of himself as a virginian gentleman in the context of...
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dr cornell west is among america's most provocative intellectuals a princeton professor and lifelong pioneer of working class rights and racial justice. at this year's left forum conference in new york city dr west's appearance drew thousands of activists aiming to revitalize the american left of their city. once a vocal supporter of u.s. president barack obama dr west tells r t why his opinion has drastically changed dr west thank you very much for taking the time to speak with are taking us to behave dr west you are one of twelve hundred speakers from around the world who have come here to new york to take part in the left for on this year's theme it's called towards a politics of solidarity why do you think an event like this is so important one of the i just want to pay tribute to the visionary figures behind the left for me to play such an important role to sustain a good we are now experiencing a were radical democratic awakening in the american empire in the united states deeply affected by what's going on in northern africa deeply affected by what's going on in the middle eas
dr cornell west is among america's most provocative intellectuals a princeton professor and lifelong pioneer of working class rights and racial justice. at this year's left forum conference in new york city dr west's appearance drew thousands of activists aiming to revitalize the american left of their city. once a vocal supporter of u.s. president barack obama dr west tells r t why his opinion has drastically changed dr west thank you very much for taking the time to speak with are taking us...
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princeton university recently held a symposium looking into these deportations. u.s. immigration policy and national security with homeland security officials, new jersey congressman rush holt and immigration groups. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> i hope i am not butchering. before i continue, and introduce julie, let me introduce congressman rush holt who really does not meet and introduction. he is our democratic representative for the 12 district in new jersey. and he is well known to you because very few districts in the whole united states can brag that their congressman, or their congressman is a rocket scientist, and ours is. and if there was any doubt about his extraordinary accomplishments, as you know, if you have been keeping up with the news, mr. holt recently defeated the ibm computer at jeopardy. this is not the first time he has beat competitors at jeopardy. but this time, and so mr. holt, making time at an extraordinary busy schedule, has taken time in order to open this event with a few remarks. and we welcome you, and we thank you for that
princeton university recently held a symposium looking into these deportations. u.s. immigration policy and national security with homeland security officials, new jersey congressman rush holt and immigration groups. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> i hope i am not butchering. before i continue, and introduce julie, let me introduce congressman rush holt who really does not meet and introduction. he is our democratic representative for the 12 district in new jersey. and he is well...
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linsey davis is at princeton. >> reporter: good morning, george. behavior that's causing all this buzz. there is nothing like a good celebrity mug shot to get people talking. nick nolte. mel gibson. lindsay lohan. and -- wait a minute. that's not christopher walken. that's tony, the 68-year-old new jersey man who allegedly tried to lure a 19-year-old girl into his car at rider university. but in his mug shot, some say he bears an uncanny resemblance to the oscar-winning walken, who is known for playing creepy roles, including "the continental" on "saturday night live." a character known to peter on the edge of being a sexual predator. >> i have an entire stack of magazines under my bed. you would be perfect for. >> reporter: now, usually all this wouldn't make national news. but his looks have won him instant fame on the internet. one person wrote, it's like the love child of christopher walken and dennis hopper, bred with the love child of that mustache and jon voight. police are concerned that he's told them he fancies young women. and he's been
linsey davis is at princeton. >> reporter: good morning, george. behavior that's causing all this buzz. there is nothing like a good celebrity mug shot to get people talking. nick nolte. mel gibson. lindsay lohan. and -- wait a minute. that's not christopher walken. that's tony, the 68-year-old new jersey man who allegedly tried to lure a 19-year-old girl into his car at rider university. but in his mug shot, some say he bears an uncanny resemblance to the oscar-winning walken, who is...
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he had been governor of new jersey and, as you say, president of princeton.ut he sort of thought of himself as a virginia gentleman in the context of those times. and he was never really interested in equality. when he was elected, there was high hopes for him in the african-american community that he would do some things differently. but he didn't. he sort of was swayed by some of his southern cabinet members around him, and he actually recession regated washington -- recession regated washington even though he was the guy who talked about, you know, equality among nations and about these freedoms around the world that he was trying to promote after world war i. and yet at home he just didn't see that that was a tremendous hypocrisy and contradiction to what he was trying to do around the world, trying to protect small nations, sort of minority, just didn't understand these things. and this segregation of washington is really a blot on his record that, i think, even the people who appreciate what wilson did in other ways have to recognize. >> host: now, he b
he had been governor of new jersey and, as you say, president of princeton.ut he sort of thought of himself as a virginia gentleman in the context of those times. and he was never really interested in equality. when he was elected, there was high hopes for him in the african-american community that he would do some things differently. but he didn't. he sort of was swayed by some of his southern cabinet members around him, and he actually recession regated washington -- recession regated...
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yes, he's a former professor at princeton but he's pretty plain-spoken. even about arcain subjects he speaks in ways that the average american does not find intimidating. 60 minutes did a piece on him and i think this is an attempt by him to sort of unwind the mystery. >> the day after his press conference came news that the economy was growing at a slower pace than people expected. what kind of sense did we come away from in terms of what the real condition of the economy is? >> he dressed -- addressed that saying the g.d.p. growth was 1%. he cast that as a transitory, short-term thing afemplet doctor affected by weather and other factors that might not persist very long but the fed has down grade its forecast for economic growth from close to 4 to close to 3. but he did talk about how the economy is on strong enough footing that as the fed fulfills both parts of its mandate, controlling inflation but also encouraging growth, it looks as if the bias has switched to watching inflation rather than stimulating growth. >> is there any policy news coming out
yes, he's a former professor at princeton but he's pretty plain-spoken. even about arcain subjects he speaks in ways that the average american does not find intimidating. 60 minutes did a piece on him and i think this is an attempt by him to sort of unwind the mystery. >> the day after his press conference came news that the economy was growing at a slower pace than people expected. what kind of sense did we come away from in terms of what the real condition of the economy is? >> he...
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the world of global economics that was one of the main topics on the table bretton woods called princeton the u.s. used to billionaire but other place george soros nazis or in the stuff doesn't. if these hills could talk. the economic theory they would expound upon. ladies and gentlemen please welcome ideas they could change the world of futures all predetermined or at least billionaire george soros bringing together ph d.'s and nobel prize winners with the backdrop of historical bretton woods would suggest someone is hoping they will. it was here allied nations came during world war two in crisis searching for stability they formed the international monetary fund the world bank and established the us dollar is the global reserve currency it's here that decades later in the wake of the financial crisis a group of influential economists and former policymakers have got together to try to rethink that very framework to reflect a different world we've got to have a serious problem to restructure the internationally reconstruct the international institutions for the times that we were not for
the world of global economics that was one of the main topics on the table bretton woods called princeton the u.s. used to billionaire but other place george soros nazis or in the stuff doesn't. if these hills could talk. the economic theory they would expound upon. ladies and gentlemen please welcome ideas they could change the world of futures all predetermined or at least billionaire george soros bringing together ph d.'s and nobel prize winners with the backdrop of historical bretton woods...
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the second highest density concentration of such people is in princeton, new jersey. the third highest is in the zip codes of northwest washington and the adjacent montgomery county zip codes. third highest in the entire nation. when i asked my aei colleague michael varona to donate the directory for his harvard class as part of his research, he wrote me an e-mail about the place in northwest d.c. where he lived for 31 years. on my former blog in washington, d.c., where my next-door neighbor's princeton 57 and radcliffe 66, the folks next to them both harvard 64, and the people across the street, yale 71 and he'll law school 74, plus many harvard 66 and yale law 69, just a typical american neighborhood in other words. [laughter] >> when the people out in the rest of the country say that america doesn't inhabit the same planet they do, they are exaggerating only a little. the same thing applies to the new upper class across the country, especially in the city with the most powerful figures in the entertainment, news, i.t. and financial industries live. that's new york
the second highest density concentration of such people is in princeton, new jersey. the third highest is in the zip codes of northwest washington and the adjacent montgomery county zip codes. third highest in the entire nation. when i asked my aei colleague michael varona to donate the directory for his harvard class as part of his research, he wrote me an e-mail about the place in northwest d.c. where he lived for 31 years. on my former blog in washington, d.c., where my next-door neighbor's...
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it was our senior banquet in college and he came to speak at princeton. he was a princeton graduate and he gave the most eloquent and persuasive speech about public service that i had ever heard orwell ever heard -- here. it was an evening event, and all of us just sat there listening to this really and -- he called himself an egghead and as a is a joke he used to say, what was it? >> have nothing to use -- lose but your yokes. >> exactly. i think all of us who were getting ready to go into the military, all this came away with a sense of responsibility and one of the things he said was that young people in our country have a responsibility to help guide and direct the course of our country. and that the power of the american political system is virtually without measurement. and if america would have stumbled, the world would fall. it had an impact on me and i have put up a web site with hundreds of men most that i believe supports the book that we have got here, and you can go to an end note and go to the web site and actually see the entire memo as i q
it was our senior banquet in college and he came to speak at princeton. he was a princeton graduate and he gave the most eloquent and persuasive speech about public service that i had ever heard orwell ever heard -- here. it was an evening event, and all of us just sat there listening to this really and -- he called himself an egghead and as a is a joke he used to say, what was it? >> have nothing to use -- lose but your yokes. >> exactly. i think all of us who were getting ready to...
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and i went to university of princeton and then graduate school at harvard and ended up about 14 or 15 years ago here in charlottesville where i've been teaching european history and atlantic history really ever since. >> host: what's life like at uva? >> guest: it's actually a wonderful place to teach, particularly about the 18th century as you might imagine. the students are excellent. it's, you know, as you've probably seen a beautiful place to live. and it's an interesting place insofar as it's something that occupies a space between a big state public university and a smaller liberal arts school, something like an ivy league school. it's an interesting amalgam of the two. kind of public/private, in-state/out-of-state, and the quality of life here is enhanced, certainly, by there being a number of professional schools too, especially a law school filled with really interesting people. so i've been very happy being here. >> host: tenured? >> guest: yes. >> host: as a tenured professor are you pressured is probably the wrong word, but are you encouraged to write and to publish books
and i went to university of princeton and then graduate school at harvard and ended up about 14 or 15 years ago here in charlottesville where i've been teaching european history and atlantic history really ever since. >> host: what's life like at uva? >> guest: it's actually a wonderful place to teach, particularly about the 18th century as you might imagine. the students are excellent. it's, you know, as you've probably seen a beautiful place to live. and it's an interesting place...
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it was our senior banquet in college and he came to speak at princeton. he was a princeton graduate and he gave the most eloquent and persuasive speech about public service that i had ever heard orwell ever heard -- here. it was an evening event, and all of us just sat there listening to this really and -- he called himself an egghead and as a is a joke he used to say, what was it? >> have nothing to use -- lose but your yokes. >> exactly. i think all of us who were getting ready to go into the military, all this came away with a sense of responsibility and one of the things he said was that young people in our country have a responsibility to help guide and direct the course of our country. and that the power of the american political system is virtually without measurement. and if america would have stumbled, the world would fall. it had an impact on me and i have put up a web site with hundreds of men most that i believe supports the book that we have got here, and you can go to an end note and go to the web site and actually see the entire memo as i q
it was our senior banquet in college and he came to speak at princeton. he was a princeton graduate and he gave the most eloquent and persuasive speech about public service that i had ever heard orwell ever heard -- here. it was an evening event, and all of us just sat there listening to this really and -- he called himself an egghead and as a is a joke he used to say, what was it? >> have nothing to use -- lose but your yokes. >> exactly. i think all of us who were getting ready to...
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. >> the president of princeton busier -- is here. kevin welts, would you like to add something to this? [unintelligible] >> that the federal level, it is largely mystifying sometimes. i hear what some suggest -- the actual impact that creates the fears and suspicions are quite pervasive and quite intense. we are interested in princeton borough and keeping our local streets under control uncivilized and friendly to wall -- and civilized and friendly to all and to the extent that to we have a segment of our population that makes itself invisible to us on account of these fears for prosecution and despite the fact that the chief of police has met with the local population to suggest the attorney general's regulation and what they are for these limited amounts of offenses. there are a lot of other things that can get you caught up, also. it causes people to disappear from the civil component of our society. it becomes hard for police to enforce safety because people will not come out to say what date assault on the street -- what they sa
. >> the president of princeton busier -- is here. kevin welts, would you like to add something to this? [unintelligible] >> that the federal level, it is largely mystifying sometimes. i hear what some suggest -- the actual impact that creates the fears and suspicions are quite pervasive and quite intense. we are interested in princeton borough and keeping our local streets under control uncivilized and friendly to wall -- and civilized and friendly to all and to the extent that to...
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but paul went to princeton. i was talking to him. yap. i mean, honestly this has been an unbelievable journey. and just and eliminating one. it is just, i am learning from our people and others that we are working alongside and communities, and that is exactly what i wanted to write this book. such a mystifying experience. you know conceptually of course kids and low income communities have full potential and could, you know, have an excellent education. now we know actually really it is within our reach to do this. it is not, there is nothing magic about it, nothing out of reach, but there is also nothing easy about it. it is going to take -- honestly, it takes the same kind of thing cannot discipline and leadership that it takes to attain really ambitious outcomes in any undertaking. that is why i say in the and the question is, do we believe this is a crisis? if we do then we need to approach it in the same way that we would approach any great crisis that we know we can solve. that is what i fear we are not doing. >> to switch gears fo
but paul went to princeton. i was talking to him. yap. i mean, honestly this has been an unbelievable journey. and just and eliminating one. it is just, i am learning from our people and others that we are working alongside and communities, and that is exactly what i wanted to write this book. such a mystifying experience. you know conceptually of course kids and low income communities have full potential and could, you know, have an excellent education. now we know actually really it is within...
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. >> burke showed it shibrooke shs speaking at princeton were chagrined to witted speaking from withrench a degree which in france french language and she graduated with honors. >> charlie sheen more trauma. 6 news at to this. now at 6:30, our top stories. more news, more crews, right now our top stories. >>pam: the 6:00 p.m.--new details. closer look at the four women that naso really murdered. team coverage and law enforcement agencies across the country are going to uncover more evidence of the cold cases. kate thompson as the details. >>reporter: here are pictures of three of the four victims all women, all young under the age of 40. each woman has the same first and last initial in her name. this old clipping gives the details of roxanne's debt, shoes 18 jews killed, asphyxiation. found in brush with her feet bound, and she was found nude in brushed choose only--18 when she was killed. >> it is difficult to believe i thought that this was going to be an on salt taste forever. we're able to get closure. -i thought the source going to be non-sal not solved. this will give us closu
. >> burke showed it shibrooke shs speaking at princeton were chagrined to witted speaking from withrench a degree which in france french language and she graduated with honors. >> charlie sheen more trauma. 6 news at to this. now at 6:30, our top stories. more news, more crews, right now our top stories. >>pam: the 6:00 p.m.--new details. closer look at the four women that naso really murdered. team coverage and law enforcement agencies across the country are going to uncover...
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everyone who succeeds at google succeeded because they majored in computer science at stanford, princeton or university of michigan. they got there because they cracked the success code in the united states. >> what was google's original connection with stanford in >> well, the two founders of google were doing graduate work in computer science at stanford at the time, and they were working on a number of projects, but specifically, they were trying to figure out how best to make sense of the web. they essentially were trying to figure out what they did. they were inspired by a lot of work coming from library and information science, inspired by peer review. they were both academic kids. thaifer parents were both professors. they had this idea of peer review that a document of published work is valuable when the community of readers asserts it as valid and worthy of consideration. they took the hyperlink on the web, that kohl lored -- colored text that sends you to another page as a citation as a vote of affirmation, and that information they got from the institution helped us make sense
everyone who succeeds at google succeeded because they majored in computer science at stanford, princeton or university of michigan. they got there because they cracked the success code in the united states. >> what was google's original connection with stanford in >> well, the two founders of google were doing graduate work in computer science at stanford at the time, and they were working on a number of projects, but specifically, they were trying to figure out how best to make...