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by michael lewis-- himself a graduate of princeton, class of 1982. lewis went on to become, briefly, a wall street derivatives trader. and then a best-selling author of numerous books, from "liars poker" to "the blind side" to "moneyball." here's a brief excerpt from his talk. >> my case illustrates how success is always rationalized. people really tonight like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. as they age and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. they don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. there's a reason for this-- the word doesn't want to acknowledge it, either. . >> don't be deceived by life's outcomes. life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. above all, recognize if husuccess, you've also had luck. and with luck comes obligation. you owe a debt, and not just to your gods-- you owe a debt to the unlucky. i make this point because, along with this speech, is something you're very likely to forget. >> brown: the sp

well i actually i was recently back at princeton for a reunion and one of my friends he said i was so surprised that a guy would find that to be a negative thing and i said you get brownie points for every but it's true of a lot of guys. they're immediately turned off by a woman who is educated i don't know i think it's still a societal thing. to the guys who are dating of course are not but i've had many women from other schools not just ivy league schools but you know schools of equal caliber you know rice university or north western you say you know we're out with a guy decided for once to be honest and not you know it around the bush and the guy literally goes to the bathroom and never comes back. and it's absurd because it's it's just information it's where you got into school when you were eighteen and sure it says what does it say about you it says you like to read books you are intelligent your motivated but i really don't understand why that is the reaction but unfortunately it is still true in this day and age. you know what your parents think about your degree and also abou

>> princeton. new i'm an independent. -- now i'm an independent. i have been across the political spectrum. but there has been -- there has been a consistency in my thinking in the sense i was always very concerned with issues of individual liberty. and it was a matter of understanding how those play out in the world. >> you are an independent. what does that mean? >> that -- vis-a-vis party. i'm not registered with a party. >> if you had to put a label on you today, what would it be? would it fit any -- you said free market -- >> well, i would say classical liberal or libertarian. or as i say in the book, dine mist which is a term -- dynamist in? >> did you vicinity that term? >> i did. trying to get at the idea of people who support this open-ended idea of progress through decentralized trial and error as opposed to through some type of planning or through saying that progress is a myth. i would say that most libertarians are dynamists. >> you have a set of rules on page 116 of what a dynamist. is that right? an overview, rules one, allow individ

college, hampton city, vmi, lawrenceville, and the institution up the road, from lawrenceville, princeton university. i will refrain in the interest of time from detailing and dazzling you with the multiple disciplines and enormous diversity of subject matter which he has taught. at these institutions. he currently serves as president of the harry frank guggenheim foundation and as a visiting lecturer at princeton. he is a vmi alumnus. a rhodes scholar. a vietnam veteran, an ardent red sox fan. the author of five books ranging from novels to biographies. most recent among them his ulysses s. grant which is simply the finest brief biography of grant which we have. presently he is finishing a biography of another great general and statesman, george c. marshall. in short, he is that rarest of phenomena in modern academics, a renaissance man. james i. robertson recently retired as alumni distirng wished professor of history at virginia tech where he founded and directed the virginia center for civil war stud dis. professor robertson had done nothing other than to write the definitive biograph

ten miles away and the result was a battle of princeton and again another victory. so washington had won four victories in this very short period and they were very different one from another. and it was frederick the great looking on all of this, saying this was the greatest military feat he had ever seen in the conduct of that campaign. and that was only the beginning of that campaign. it went on in which all together the american army and the militia fought something like 80 engagements. they were very small, mostly foraging parties, but what they did was slowly wear down the british and the hessian troops who were in new jersey. it was a heavy blow on that force. then as the revolution went on, there were something like 24 campaigns. washington and his two lieutenants who commanded in the same open way, that's green and lafayette, commanded in ten of them and they lost many battles, but they won nine of those campaigns. nine campaigns. there were other -- all the other campaigns, maybe something like 13 or 14 depending on how one counts, were commanded by other

>> i taught at princeton briefly, i taught at u.c.keley, university of pittsburgh, for a year i was at the hebrew university at jerusalem and currently at boston unive >> you have? >> yes, indeed. >> i got my degree in '79. >> you're the professor of the appreciation of scripture, you've been doing that for what? >> since '90. >> for nine years. three books to your credit? >> that's true. >> i notice that you retreated from some of your statements from your first book, "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews." what changed in the 11 years between the publication of these two books. >> my first book was "from jesus to christ." and that was published in 1988. and "jesus of nazareth" was published a few months ago. what changed is time elapsed, i continued to work in the field and learned more. >> isn't it the all-important question of why jesus was killed, you now believe he represented a limited threat to public order during the festival of passover rather than a major threat to roman rule? >> i don't think anybody thinks he, including pi

i must say when i was teaching at princeton how frustrated i got because so many of the kids would say, i'm not going to do that. i'm not going to do those jobs because that's terrible. politics has gotten awful rather than saying, i'm going to go in and change it. and i'm trying to think of what made that difference. then once i was in a wedding here in denver. and i began to think, maybe some of us are to be held accountable for their attitudes. at this wedding, what would happen is when anybodymy age would hear anybody the bride and groom's age say they were thinking about going into geology, teaching, the law, doctoring, whatever it was, whoever my age was one of those, would move in on that kid and say, you don't really want to be a teacher. you wouldn't believe what's happened. or you don't want to go into the law, or you don't want to be -- and i began to think, what do we want them to be? baseball players? i mean, what have we got left we would say, that's great. the mentoring and bringing along and making them really feel may not be perfect, but if you get in, maybe you can he

when i was teaching at princeton i was teaching people getting their master's in the school of public service. the woodrow wilson school. so you think, okay, these are kids getting their master's in public service. when you say, who's going to run for office? no one raises their hand. i thought i was in the wrong class. i'd say, what is it you want to be? they had say, maybe george stephanopoulos. or someone like that. you know. and if we're not attracting these bright, young, wonderful people, if we're not reinstilling them with the faith that they can get in there and truly make a difference, we're in trouble. now, to go back again to show how that changed a bit, you know the story about my sharing the chair. the wonderful thing that happened was in 1974, we had the watergate babies come. and we had so many people come into congress that it was kind of like all the people moving into colorado after the war. you couldn't encircle them all and shape them ul up fast enough because there were too many of them. and they got through some huge reforms. like you didn't get to be chairman fo

affairs at princeton since 1985. mr. chairman, welcome. >> thank you. chairman casey, vice chairman brady and other members of the committee, i appreciate this opportunity to discuss the economic outlook and economic policy. kplik growth has continued at a moderate rate so far this year. real gdp rose at an annual rate of 2% in the first quarter, after increasing at a 3% pace in the fourth quarter twof 011. growth last quarter was supported by further gains in private domestic demand which more than offset a drag from decline in government spending. labor market conditions improved in the latter part of 2011 and earlier this year, the unemployment rate has fallen about one percentage point since last august and pay roll employment increased 225,000 per month on average during the first three months of this year, up from about 150,000 jobs added per month in 2011. in april and may, however, the reported pace of job gains slowed to an average of 75,000 per month, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2%. this appare

the damage is accumulating as we speak >> reporter: and krugman, nobel laureate, princeton professor, "new york times" columnist, is determined to do his bit to turn things around. >> the economics is actually quite easy. it's only politics that's standing in the way >> reporter: the easy economics krugman told us at his home in princeton is that government should spend to boost the economy because the private sector, for various reasons, simply won't. >> markets are great things. most of the time you want to let markets rip. but there are certain times and certain conditions under which you don't. when you're in a prolonged slump, a depression, that's when you need government intervention. >> reporter: no wonderrugman's me oice orts a photo of an economic activist: president franklin delano roosevelt. but it was science fiction master isaac as move back in the 1950s and his vision of a manageable world -- manageable through the analysis of data -- that inspired the teenage krugman to study economics. and maybe it also inspired him to fantasy, as he did last year, about an other world

there is a significant distinction to be made in those days between princeton and william and mary. william and mary was not a rigorous academic environment. it was a school in which enlightenment thinking dominated. on the other hand, it was run by the colonial church of virginia, the episcopal church. if he had gone there, madison would've had a different kind of nurturance of his intellect and he encountered at the college of new jersey. the college of new jersey at the time was run by john withers then, who is a recently immigrated scottish presbyterian divine. and in the college -- at the college of new jersey, madison encountered particular current enlightenment thought that led him to have a very skeptical attitude about human nature. the one way you can distinguish revolution, most notably the french and russian is that the people at the head of the american revolution tended not to think, as leaders of the french and russian revolutions bad, that if their political program were successful, we would be a kind of transformation of human nature. .. why you certainly should not

i was commuting from princeton to washington during the week and coming back on the weekends. didn't work. i just could not be the mom i needed to be for my kids and do that kind of jobs. i did it for two years. >> you ended up going back into academia as we mentioned. you said when you did leave that you knew you were leaving and it was going to be hard to do because leaving to spend time with your family is a euphemism for being fired. that's what you wrote about. is that perception still there? is that for all of us? it doesn't matter how high-powered the job. when it comes down to it, if we choose our families over the job, does it mean we're therefore giving up the prospects of what our career can be. >> i think that phrase, you announce in washington you are leaving to spend time with your family, it's a euphemism for being fired says it all. it tells us how our family, society sets it up. it means you couldn't really leave to spend time with your family. that's not possible. it must be a euphemism for something else. >> you're fired. >> under-secretary for defense polic

this was developed by princeton math ph.d., warren smith, but essentially like a golf score where lower is better. it measures how satisfied the voters are with the system. the best in storm runoff voting. i advocate to get in amend. think very much. >>hank you very much. >> richard winger. i i hav i have been a poll worker for years. they work for very low money. there is a problem that these core of people will get exhausted, especially under the proposal in that gubernatorial years. we would have elections in june and september and november, and it is not just the poll workers, but a whole army of city employees who are out in the field helping them. i feel it is expensive and not worth the money. >> thank you very much. next speaker. take my name is jim lindsay. thank you for doing this in the summer. when i heard about this, my gut reaction was a late april fool's joke or something. we will really have more elections? that is what we need? i tried to find out what the cost was. the lowest i have seen as 3.3 million. the highest number was 4.2 million. split the difference, because

. >> of princeton discounted councilwoman charged with reckless driving after going 100 miles an hour on the capital beltway will go to trial today. she was cited for an unsafe lane change after being pulled over in february. she was charged with reckless driving. she said she was running late for an appointment. she could be fined $510 and have her license suspended. >> our county police investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old boy. if a resident founded in the field yesterday evening along frederick rd. nw of ellicott city. police of not release his name, but they say he is from baltimore county. he is in stable condition. police don't believe the gunshot was self-inflicted. as police are searching for a man was stabbed another man in takoma park, this happened late yesterday afternoon near new hampshire and eastern avenue as. the suspect amended the victim's backpack, which had a laptop inside. witnesses believe the thief targeted him because he saw him walking from the mcdonald's. >> i think he saw him walking from there. prexy produced a knife after they struggled and assaulte

11, and then i was sent to the american boy choir school, a boarding school for singing boys in princetonarpenter came here as a young boy. when he first came to the boy choir school, i was up in my office upstairs and i heard someone playing the gershwin "rhapsody in blue." and it was very good and i knew there was no one on the faculty here who played that. i thought there must and new parent, they're playing it. so i ran down the steps and here was this little boy playing "rhapsody in blue" on the piano and just marvelously well. so i knew we had a talented kid coming. >> this was my musical life had really already begun by that point but this was the point at which i came face-to-face with this deep, deep conviction that music was more than just a work or calling, it was an unavoidable addiction and if it were illegal, i would end up in jail. fortunately, i haven't. >> several of the kids have become superb musicians. some are really top singers now. good instrumentalists. cameron, of course -- well, we have several who have become top organists but cameron beats them all, i think. i

a recent graduate of stanford, found his way into the orbit of the charismatic michael roach, a princetonwho had made millions in the diamond business and become a buddhist monk. right away, ian's mother and sister say they were suspicious. >> he always just seemed a little creepy to me. >> reporter: so, your first impression was -- >> creepy. >> reporter: it didn't change? >> no. >> he promised the highway to enlightenment. >> reporter: what is he asking for in return? >> total dedication. >> reporter: in your view, is michael's group a cult? >> yes. >> reporter: roach is a highly trained monk in the same tradition at the dalai lama. in recent years, he and other bu dilss have been critical and embarrassed by some of roach's decisions, like living with women, growing out his hair and building a global following of adoring others. under the sway of roach, ian thorson changed dramatically, according to his family. >> he was not his own person anymore. >> reporter: did you feel like you were losing him? >> of course. >> he was totally changed. even his hugs weren't hugs, they were, like, sh

that left officers and a person injured t happened at 10:00 last night on west eighth street in princetonnot far from 880. >> a female officer stopped to question a man. one of them was on a bike. the two suspects got into a scuffle with the officer. she deployed her taser and then had to use her firearm. >> she describes that the suspects were going for her gun. able to pull out her gun. fired one shot and hit one of the suspects in the leg. >> one of the suspects suffered a nonlife injury. and it was a second person at the scene. they went to the hospital during the scuffle and she was treated and released last night. >> a dozen people gathered to highlight the city's programs for victims of violence. >> mothers and other relatives of other crime victim it is join city leaders at city hall. >> christine said she got involved after attending the funerals of two murder victims in her districts and seeing the relatives left behind. >> when you are standing and listen to a mother who lost four children and talk to another mother who lost her son last year. there was another mother who was h

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i was commuting from washington -- from princeton to washington.ome on weekends with my kids. i was in washington for two weeks -- during the week. i know a number of men who are in that situation. they miss their family, too, but their wives were back there, they were taking care of their kids, they felt those pressures quite differently than i did. and i am saying that women absolutely, you know, if they choose to be home more with their kids, they have to understand there are some jobs that they're not going to be able to hold, but then, and that's what's critical, then we have to redefine our cultural expectations so that when they're ready to come back and hold those high pressure jobs, those jobs are still possible for them to achieve. >> let's just establish and stipulate that we are talking about an elite subset of women who have very good educations, very good jobs, very good opportunities. we're not talking about single parents, not talking about the vast majority of american men and women struggling to take care of family, jobs, two and

there is a wonderful study done by a sociologist at princeton and attract several hundred graduates that wanted to start their own company and he wanted to talk about social networks influencing innovation. he found that those who have a more diverse social networks and spent time with people not at all like them, computer scientists have spent time with novelist and filmmakers, there were three times more innovative than those with predictable social networks. this is true. it is important to spend time with people that think differently because they will provide new ideas. tavis: you offered some actual concrete ideas about how you might want to embrace text in the workplace, and it is helping creativity as professionals, how might the ideas that you're offering challenge us to rethink education. >> 95% that of the draw. of the time they are high school seniors, 90% of kids are convinced they are not creative. over 12 years of school, we convince most is that they are not creative, we have officially killed it off. the good news is that picasso is right, we have to find a way cannot ki

was appointed by senator bill frist in '05 and senator mitch mcconnell in 2007 and graduated from princetons in philosophy from oxford. let's kick off the discussion and go in the same order that we did. this alphabet cal order. let me begin by saying it was in 2008 when the presidential campaign was in full swing. hit privilege of serving my country in diyala province in iraq, but even in iraq we received reports of this presidential race and this new candidate of hope and change, and one of the essential elements of hope and change for this new candidate was that he was going to break through the partisan divide on religion. he was going unite catholics and evangelicals to a greater degree than ever before under his banner and it was going to break the republican and conservative stranglehold on this religious conservative vote. that was the promise and that's what was going to happen. what happened? >> let's start with tim gagline. thank you, david and good afternoon, everybody. you're right, david, not on the way that president obama intended, but he has indeed united evangelicals and c

for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it has been set back by princeton review noted states but not alone russia france china the u.k. all have their share responsibility. disarmament agreements are not being honored. what is happening now it is that there are countries are able to write a draft shod over international law because there isn't sufficient body of protest from within that country ordering them to these basic principles. french polynesia was pressed into the midst of the nuclear tests. when we accompanied them to ground zero with guns pointed ready to fire who are we going to fire at i wonder the issue clearly crabs. yep we're going to be there was a russian or american invasion why don't know with the end of the cold war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared so a lot of the people who were activist under star moment issues moved their activism to the environment or fighting globalization or other issues and no one today is fighting in the streets for disarmament and nonproliferation. the

princeton university press published his book "american constitutionalism:from theory toy politics in 1996" and in 2002 he received the felix frankford distinguished teaching award from the graduating class. steven, welcome. >> thank you very much. and i certainly echo, jonathan, the other speakers by saying professor rotunda and the law review have put on a great symposium. this is a great idea and i'm glad it's been so professionally executed. watergate is often thought of as a domestic crisis, essentially involving president nixon's efforts to undermine his political opponents. legal scholars have not been as familiar with the substantial evidence that the origins of much of what we call watergate line lye in the conduct of foreign policy by both the johnson and nixon administrations. so, my talk today is going to be what you might call understanding warunderstand ing watergate as foreign policy and looking at watergate after the disclosures happened. historians of the vietnam war, there was a link between the domestic operations used to counter the war's critics in watergate. in t

degree from princeton and a graduate degree from the university of oxford.adies and gentlemen, dr. rich land. let kick off the discussion, and we'll go in the same order that we did, this alphabet call order, and let me begin by saying it was 2008 when the presidential campaign was in full swing. i was -- i had the privilege of serving my country at that time as a judge advocate for the third armored cav regiment in diyalah province in n iraq, but even in iraq we received reports of this presidential race and this new candidate of hope and change, and one of the essential elements of hope and change for this new candidate was that he was going to break through the partisan divide on religion. he was going to unite catholics and evangelicals to a greater degree than ever before under his banner, and he was going to break the republican and conservative stranglehold on the religious conservative vote. that was the promise. that's what was going to happen. what happened? let's start with tim gaeglein. >> well, thank you, david, and good afternoon to everybody.