were really just getting started, a freshman at yale when that movie comes out? >> right. >> you decided to stay in school and finish up your degree at yale. >> yes. >> i assume, and i could be wrong, after all these years that you made the right decision to stay? >> oh, gosh, yes. you need that cocoon for a while. you need to figure out who you are, what you think and what you believe in. you need to have a life before you start acting. i wasn't ready to jump into hollywood. >> this town is predicated on the belief or notion that you have to strike while the iron is hot. and you don't become a hit in a movie and then leave to finish up your degree. you bucked against that though? >> i know it sounds perverse, but i wasn't that into money, which sounds crazy because i had no money growing up. you but i believed i could make money at any time. there is this perverse belief that you have to strike while the iron is hot because you won't be able to make the money down the line. the fact is you can make the money down the line. pam greer did the oprah show, and i wen

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> amy chua is a professor of law at yale and author whose books include "world on fire." the latest is "battle hymn of the tiger mother." she joins us from new haven, connecticut. >> thanks for having me. >> one would have to live under a rock to not hear about this tiger mom controversy. it seems every television network and major magazine does a story. you say you think you have been misunderstood by this controversy. >> the greatest misunderstanding is the idea that i wrote this as a parenting guide, trying to tell other people how to parent. i wrote this book in a moment of crisis. it is really more. it is supposed to be very funny. that is a misunderstanding. it is a self parody. some people get it and some people do not. in has been difficult conveying what the book is supposed to be doing. >> you made a number of media appearances. i am curious why you think it has been difficult to get the message you wanted out. does the media have any complicity in that? >> the book was introduced to the public and an excerpt in th

this is a device developed at yale university. actually as a agent for children with certain hemological disorders. you as i -- as i mentioned, you can't make something for personal use. keeping your eyes open for applications of things that are already in the public domain, this is actually kind of marvelous, you know, almost an intuitive idea. so the pediatric endocrinenologist at yale used to device for insulin. i'll show you a picture. this is one the current models -- well, not the current. but half of the size. exposed buttons, the whole pump was exopods, there's no cover to this thing. the knobs were not programmed according to insulin units. so you had to figure out the algorithm of translating what the pumps could provide into adequate amounts. the initial group had to be relatively intelligence, relatively insightful so they couldn't make mistakes. they didn't have the ability to really adjust the basil rate this is with model either. another view of the same thing. this is the second generation autosyringe pump. you can

i want to go to yale law school, and so i need to get the best grades i possibly can. then once i'm in yale law school i need to get the best possible grades so i can get a clerkship in my dad's chambers. and without that, i'm never gonna be a supreme court justice like my father. this matters immensely. when you say, "the best grades you possibly can." i mean, possibly within what limits? are you willing to cheat to do it? are you willing to steal to do it? of course not. this is just one of the obstacles along the way. and i would advise you to put it on this side of the line. one of the things you don't do to get the best possible grades, is to alter your mind. well says who? i mean, i'm not going to cheat. i'm not going to break any rules. if they tell me i can't do this and it's going to be a violation of an honor code, i'm not gonna do it. i think you are breaking rules. i think you're breaking maybe rule number one: you play the hand you've been dealt. well, i mean, you sent me to the princeton review prep classes. - i regretted doing that. - ( laughter ) i'm ju

i said, at the yale school of medicine. he found my files within a half an hour. >> woodruff: the show had a long evolution. while working on other projects, smith eventually interviewed more than 300 people. several productions were mounted. by the time it landed in new york at second stage theater last year, it had a new relevance because of the big debate over health care reform. >> interestingly enough, in 2000 is when i first did it. it wasn't really... we weren't really talking about it yet. so as i went to new york and it was really a part of the national conversation, i decided to focus it down so that it could be the human side of the health care debate. >> woodruff: the leaner piece now examines health care in america through the eyes of 20 different people, focusing on questions of access, disparity, illness, and mortality. >> so the short-hand description of what this is about is it's about health care. but it's really about much more than that, isn't it? >> well, i say that it is about the vulnerability. human

you could send a youth to 3 years in law school in stan ford and yale. beyond that, every year we have looked to issues of critical importance. not only locally but throughout the nation. 2 years ago, we looked at undocumented youths particularly those from honduras and other countries where a hostile relationship were being deportd and sent back without parental support. so this year, we focus on the problems of guns and violence in our schools. both to and from schools and at schools. we raise this not as an insend iary issue. but as the headlines read and give the impression that youth themselves are to blame for these incidents that we often hear about involving guns and gun violence. but to recognize as a society, we have done little to decrease the proliferation of guns on our streets. we have done little. it's just like the war to drugs. you know, it seems almost strange toous those words since it's been such a failure. but the same thing we've seen with guns. particularly those of you who work with youth and in the communities, which are plagued

i studied art and architecture at yale university for seven years. charles mohr was my professor. i also studied with vincent, who is called not only real cost as lecturer but the most authoritative voice in -- who is not only their best lecturer. he said, do not let them get away with its. he referred me with a firm in chicago that has had a great deal of success and that is incredibly important that this beautiful landscape designed by thomas church not be destroyed. i spoke with an hour and a 45 minutes. he was astounded at things he had not seen. as jackson pollock said when somebody said he should sell the -- study nature he argued, i am nature. you cannot draw a credible and boundary between people and nature, so i support a huge population of sparrows and warblers, beautiful and rare birds. there are chickadees, a flock of 25 goldfinches, and they are all there right now. my daughter move in when she was about eight months old. my son was born in park merced. we will not been able -- we will not be able to replace a place where children can play it safe of traffic. >> i am

la universidad de yale firmÓ un acuerdo con una universidad de perÚ para devolver miles de reliquiasos 120 mil trabajadores indocumentados que se estima viven en indiana. despuÉs que esta semana se votÓ 7- 1 a favor de la aprobaciÓn del proyecto de ley sb590. >> hace publicidad a nivel nacional para posteriormente postularse a nivel nacional. es todo el juego que trae. >> no es asÍ, dice el senador republicano que trajo la propuesta de ley. >> el mensaje, dice, es que la inmigraciÓn ilegal no serÁ tolerada mÁs en el estado de indiana. durante seis horas el comitÉ escuchÓ los testimonios a favor y en contra de la ley similar a la sb1070 de arizona, que permitirÍa que: >> en esos momentos, si yo no fuese una seÑal de luz, despuÉs de que parÓ la policÍa, indagar sobre mi real situaciÓn legal. >> esta pareja dijo haber cerrado su negocio porque no podÍa competir con otras compaÑÍas que contratan a indocumentados. >> podrÍamos haber hecho lo mismo, pero no queremos cometer un delito o crimen en nuestro paÍs. >> los que estÁn en contra hablan de los aportes a la economÍa de una poblaciÓn h

[laughter] did it matter he went to yale law school or one of the world's leading experts serving on the appropriations committee. >> the best athlete in the white house. >> one to another, ronald reagan characterized by a clifford as the amiable dunce. then people read his letters and saw that this man was thoughtful, knowledgeable, a nd while not a micromanage year, a strategic leader and a superb and highly successful strategic leader, george to be bush was described as not curious, not knowledgeable, he had gone to harvard business school, yale, and clearly was an intelligent human being. i did not know the man. i worked with his father in congress but did not know george w. bush. i watched him as a president and he asked penetrating questions and worked his way with foreign leaders in a skillful and engaging manner that develop relationships that were constructed for our country. but yet people made fun of it. i don't know quite what it is about our society that does that. i must say i have watched a lot of presidents and george w. bush, if you think what he did with the surge i

he's an assistant dean of academic affairs at yale university.e welcome alfred guy from new york city. like the tie! >> thank you. thank you. [cheering and applause] meredith: all right, alfred. how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling great, meredith. meredith: yeah... >> i'm feeling great. meredith: you told me yesterday that inside here you're ok, but your head is feeling like it's going to explode, right? >> yes. yes. it feels almost as big as the room. not in a good way. meredith: no, not in a good--well, you've done--tell me a little bit about that tie. that is--that is something. >> [sighs] thank you. so, um--so, i have a pet bird. her name is ketzel. and, uh, my sister-in-law, who really likes art, she bought me this tie sort of to honor our bird. meredith: oh...oh, does that look like ketzel? >> it kind of does, actually. she's green and orange. ketzel's much louder than this. meredith: i was gonna say, this is out there.

[laughter] didn't matter that he going to yale law school. did matthews one of the world's leading experts on u.s. budget having served on the appropriations committee. >> not to mention the best athlete at the white house. >> exactly. they contend he was a stumbling him. you go from one to another. ronald reagan. he has been characterized as an amiable dunce here and then people read his letters and saw that this man was thoughtful, knowledgeable, and while not a micromanager, a strategic leader. and a superb and highly successful strategic leader. george w. bush was described as not curious, not knowledgeable, and he had gone to harvard business school. he had gone to yale, i guess and was clearly is an intelligent humane been. -- human being. i did not the man. i worked with his father in congress but i did no george w. bush, and i've watched him as a president and he clearly ask penetrating questions. he worked his way with foreign leaders and a skillful and engaging manner that developed relationships that were constructed for our countr

you know, when i started out in college in the 50s, it was one jewish professor at yale, one at harvard, one at princeton, two in columbia, because they made a concession. [laughter] the anti-semitism which we talked about earlier as existing in america was very strong, and the role of the new school played here was fantastic, and i think that's why you had brand out there later after the war were grateful for what the new school had done. >> this small publisher eventually took off? >> eventually it took off. partly because of one individual and that sold, you know, like a million copies in hard cover and several in paperback. >> he won the nobel prize. >> yes, and because the political noise around the book. the first printing was 4,000 copies, which was the right printing for a long russian novel, and then things took off. you can't always guess what the right printing's going to be. >> that's not the only thing. did they now publish the essays of charles lindberg's wife? >> right, i guess from the sea, which may be a title you are familiar with more than the other books we talked ab

we have also highlighted here some of the recruitment and retention efforts for yale students as well. through the site support, we have done a number of presentations with d-lack and began to look at the alignment with the child development program. so assuming that -- that we have full classes, the cost of -- we wanted to take a look at the cost of all middle school students if they were to have a seventh class or period. it would be approximately 5.57 million annually. this number can be phased in, as language programs where built. so i think there are ways -- there's way that is we can begin to phase it in. even given the fact that we're in a budget crisis. we're exploring our approaches. perhaps prioritizing english learners and dual language programs. there's a critical need for that. in the middle schools, when we did place the programs of particular sites, one heavy consideration was that we have a critical mass of at least 66 students, two full classrooms at any strength so we could build a master schedule. we have -- we do that -- we done that. there are outliars that we wer

after graduating from yale he started writing jokes for jack parr and johnny carson, then in 1968 he got a show of his own and here is a look at that show. >> i had forgotten when you came in we did the one run through, your first reaction to my voice is the thing i was remembering. >> i'll never forget my reaction. you take that, too? >> yes, why don't you run that and if it's... well, let's say you look at that. is it rolling at the moment? >> i feel like watergate (laughter) >> this is a dirty trick. will we be sued by alan fund for this. here it is. ♪ ♪ a fine romance with no kisses, a fine romance ♪ my friends this is, we should be like a couple of ♪ hot tomatoes, you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes ♪ a fine romance... (laughter) >> rose: how dare she! making fun of your singing. >> she's the judge of my singing. >> rose: would you stand for that are? >> no, not in a day. >> rose: so the dick cavett show ran on abc from 1968 to 1975 and then on pbs from 1977 to 1982. since 2007, he's written an online opinion column for the "new york times" and guess what? he has a new

. -- how did an art major from the yale get interested in this? >> i was doing some research in the library for a theater company. i heard about the internet and said i would check it out. i was given by my mother the idea that the internet was a giant library. when i got there and saw the social aspect of it, it was the most interesting thing i had ever seen. there was this kind of giant left turn. i was extremely fortunate in two ways. they were willing to teach me how this thing works. there were not a lot of people who had formal degrees in any of this stuff, so i was kind of accepted as one of the tribe, a laggard liberal arts major who was trying to understand the new technology. i just over five years hammered out a new life for myself. >> what is cognitive surplus? >> it is the combined free time and talents of the world's population, well over one trillion hours a year. it allows us to pool that time and surplus in the private attention into large, a collaborative projects. wikipedia is the best example of that. a lot of people contribute

that, i think -- >> maybe willmore kendall. >> who was his professor at yale. >> yep.d then a bit later, milton friedman. >> to that list maybe i'd, also, perhaps add one of bill's closest friends, namely henry kissinger. they went way back, and i think that henry had a, i think it was a mutual, a mutual influence. but they were very close. >> yeah, yeah. and hayek. >> you'll note how many libertarians there are among those. >> yeah. well -- >> that was always a part of bill buckley. he was, of course, a very devout roman catholic, very much a believer of the church, followed the church, believer. but also he did have a very strong libertarian strain in him, no question about that. >> in fact, it's interesting, his starting -- he started the column in '62, and in be i think it was '66 he did his first collection. it included some longer pieces, but it was mostly a collection of columns, the jeweler's eye. and then he did those collections, oh, every two or three or five years up until 1993 or '4, and that was the last one, and that is happy days are here again, and tha

but then decided to get a degree on the side, first english at ucla and then his masters at nyu and yaleook of short stories. >> i'm really inspired by james. he kind of makes his decisions very free from fear. and i think that's a place a lot of us would love to get to. >> reporter: so, we gave them one last assignment. to ask each other one thing they still don't know. >> this year is the year of hollywood pregnancies. >> yes. >> anne hathaway, when do you -- do you have any dreams of getting married? >> yeah, i have to start thinking about, like, motherhood. so, i'm imagining, hopefully within the next five years, i will be a mommy. i'd like that. everything i want to know about you, i don't want the cameras to be rolling for. i have to think about what diane sawyer would ask. and i'm really bad at this. if you were a color -- >> you are really good. >> and we'll be watching to see how it goes. oscar night on abc, sunday night at 8:00 eastern. and david muir will be here this weekend, watching too. i'll see you back here monday. have a great weekend. good night. >>> white out in the s

. >> host: how did an art major from yale get interested in these topics? >> guest: well, you know, by accident. i think like a lot of people who got interested in the internet in the early '90s. i was actually doing some research in a library for a theater company i was running. and my mother who's a reference librarian said, oh, we've been learning about this thing in library school, you should know about it, it's called the internet. i said, okay, mom, i'll check it out. and so i was given by my mother this idea that the internet was a giant library. so i thought of it as a source of information. and when i got there and i saw the social aspect of it, it was the most interesting thing i'd ever seen. and so there was this kind of giant left turn, and i was extremely fortunate in two ways. one, i was using a service that was populated by cranky but brilliant you nix system administrators who were waiting to take time out to teach an untutored new by by me, this is how this thing works. and, two, i was at a time when there weren't a lot of poem who had -- p

rossini they call it the mafia like the white shoe boys the harvard princeton yale bullets bombs and banks club the poison ivy league paid hands off don't judge them you know it's disgusting what's going on hey who's obama's chief of staff of bill daley where is he from oh former vice chairman of j.p. morgan chase who was the treasury secretary under bush oh. oh henry paulson where was the from warmest your goldman sachs keep going down the line you know wall street saw jack washington hands off with the big boys only read the people are the ones that have to abide by the laws so it's always easier to blame the mom when in doubt just playing the mob if you're able to it's a last game spend but you know it's a process made out of conscious you and other folks are bringing this issue to light for example charles ferguson the director of inside job winning author last night here said what he had to say about all of this was i'm. i must start pointing out that three years after own horrific financial crisis caused massive fraud not a single financial executive is going to change and that

over 100 years ago, a nonprofit organization affiliated with yale university established a school in the capital city of hunan province. the school has developed into a school of medicine, a renowned institution of higher learning in the province. more than 70 years ago, during the second world war, a general headed the american flying tigers to talk about -- to fight against the japanese invaders. they made important contributions to chinese war of aggression against japanese, and it will always be remembered by the chinese people. on memorial museum was built for the future generations. in september 2010, within 300 chinese and americans, including president jimmy carter, and flying tigers and their families, attended a peace festival to commemorate those who had dedicated their lives to world peace during the second world war. >> [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] >> hunan is just one of the chinese provinces. it is a vibrant province with past development. in 2010, gdp -- 1.9 trillion yuan, a growth of zero or 4.5% of the previous year. th

among those when people are talking about the top private schools in the u.s., we are not harvard or yale but we want to be in that next group. we are only 100-years old, so we are still getting started. but they have to have a sense what the institution does is important and they can have an important role in it. once they see what they can do fits in with that vision, and they will help. if it is not moving forward and improving, it will not want to be a part. it requires a vision they can buy into and support, and knowing there will be follow-up. that this will occur and it is not just based upon this particular year. the image and commitment is bigger. that is where your board comes in. >> what percentage of college freshmen are pac? >> that figure is going down. president.re there are still not as many master's levels. there are many phd's and some variations on different doctoral degrees. you are seeing more lawyers become university presidents and what used to. it does not have the independent research level a phd does. >> if you had to start over again and choose another professio

in colleges like yale and all of the country people are just dying to work for teach for america to go into the inner city to teach $20,000 per year or whatever they get. there is the idealism that is there that needs to be tapped. for america enthusiasm resume padding, i suppose that is say time consuming way to pass the resume but i think there is a real desire to do something to make the world better but i think we live in an age where it is hard to do the right thing and hard to have the time to develop yourself to be ready for here was someone that chance comes. we live in a society a great distraction. we live in a society where we are sold on pollute station believably materially well off we have no idea how well we really are. so we are dissatisfied if we don't have a new car or don't have the latest computer or flat screen tv. none of that really matters but they are distracting and take your mind off of how lucky you are on a day-to-day basis and how much great work there is to do. so above all else we live in the age of distraction and that undermines the powerful urge peopl

people are talking about the top private schools in the united states, we will not be a harvard or yalebut we want to be in the next group. we are only 100 years old this year. we are still in the menu is getting started from that respect. they have to have a sense that what the institution does is important and that they can have an important role in it. once they see what they can do that whenever level fits in with that vision and then they will help you. it is just giving you money, that will not do it. if it is not improving, they will not want to be a part of it. it requires vision they can buy and to, support, and they can see how they do it and then knowing that there will be follow-ups. it is going forward if not just based upon this particular year or project. the image and commitment is bigger and that is where the board comes down to ratify. >> what percentage of college presidents have a ph.d.? it is over 90%, but it is going down. there are more j.d.'s. there are not many just master's level people. there are few, but mainly it is ph.d., some ed.d. and some variation of di

the world about their extraordinary discovery at the american physiological society concert held at yale university. the word had spread about the work being done in toronto and they were the most anticipated presentations of the day. the audience was packed with diabetes experts, including elliot johnson, frederick allen in À la clues a researcher from the lead company. from accounts of that day come when no macleod introduced an team. it describes the research and detail, but repeatedly used the word we, which meant it seemed like he was trying to take credit for discovery that macleod had little hand in creating. when he finally took to speak on his face is red with rage, his voice is so quiet that those in the audience struggled to hear him. but he did manage to convey that at that very moment that they were gathered in new haven, connecticut, there is a diabetic dog named marjorie in toronto who had lived without a pancreas for an unprecedented 42 days. at best he could marjorie of life is an extract may know from fetal pancreases. after the speech, they were approached by eli lilly

at yale. he has been teaching since 1972, a long time. but all of us, i think, have lived that long so we're with you. he has authored many books in addition to those i mentioned, in addition to scholarly articles, journal articles, and newspaper pieces. a little over three years ago, i remember it very well, because i was sitting back there then, professor ellis gave a fascinating lecture in this hall based on founding brothers which had just been published. i seem to recall that during the period tha ..arious people in that book, adams, jefferson, hamilton, franklin and so forth, he thought was the greatest. my memory tells me that he demurred, indicating that the question has remained unanswered, but, perhaps tonight we'll have an answer. professor joseph ellis. >> the answer is washington. if the question is not who is the greatest, in the ali, "i am the greatest" sense, it is a question of who would you thrike have a who would you like to have a beer with, it's adams. the honesty in the man who will tell utt truth. i am on this horde

best, and macleod told the world about the discovery at the american physiological conference held at yale university. the word had spread about the work being done in toronto, and they were the most anticipated presentation of the day. the audience was packed with diabetes experts including elliot johnson, frederick allen, and alan clues, a researcher from ely, lily, and company. from reading banting and the clouds accounts of that day we know mccloud introduced panting. he described the research in detail, but repeatedly used the word we. when he finally stood to speak his face was red with rage. those in the audience struggle to hear. he did manage to convey that at that very moment that they were gathered in new haven, conn. there was a diabetic dog named marjorie in toronto who have lived without the pancreas for an unprecedented 42 days. they had kept marjorie alive using an extract made from people pancreases. after the speech they were approached. a man who instead of spending the holidays with his family in indianapolis had left, christmas morning just to be in attendance that day

the first graduate of yale university from china sponsored numerous chinese coming to america. a former chinese minister to the net the state's. he believe in reform. they put together what is called the red dragon conspiracy, a conspiracy to launch a revolution, carving out two provinces of southern china to make their own republic. absolutely incredible. they approached american businessmen for funding and finance. too risky a proposal. it just so happened that homer lea turned to be in office. in 1909 he read a very successful book discussing american defense and principally have the japanese might invade and possibly attack california. out talk about that a little later. it's called "the valor of ignorance." it came out in 1909 to rave reviews. in 1910 when the red dragon conspiracy was foundering homer reputation wind up to the offices but the revolutionary on the right. he wanted to overthrow the entire manchu dynasty and take control of all of china. a number of revolutionary attempts. he became the principal foreign adviser. in the summer -- excuse me, in the fall of 19

for coming to harvard he taught in the philosophy, at dicks, and economics at yale. currently working on a book, the ground for justice, an essay on global political philosophy. joe will do his thing and afterward for the final we will have a debate which i will be moderating. i expected to be quite spirited. for authority to fight for the final 30 minutes we will open and up to questions from the audience. >> well, thank you very much for the introduction. my thanks for organizing this session and my thanks to carol and jennifer for offering to participate in discussion. i should say that i grew up just down the road and went to college a little further down the road, it feels like a kind of homecoming to be here today, and it's nice to be back, and i'm looking forward to the discussion. in a book that provides the occasion for this workshop, many book, but cheap. in the book that provides the occasion for this workshop i offer an argument as to why we should grant amnesty to a regular migrant. when i say we i'm in the united states. i'm still an american citizen, e

or you're too arriving at princeton, utah at yale, cornell and duke. he and i collaborate along with the bow shall he to recognize the beauty beat the boys copy which published in 1989th and second edition by the ester university press in the year 2005. the heaviest textbook called thinking it through published in 2003 as a standard introduction for students of contemporary philosophical thought. his 1992 book, in my fathers house, which i have to confess is my favorite is essential reading or anyone interested in contemporary thought to which a globally connect to. "cosmopolitanism: ethics in a world of stranger" prescribes a pragmatic and wholly ethical philosophy of how we can get a log and are globalized, interconnected, but also divided world. obvious work including three smart and entertaining mystery novels is discipline crossing and his first and last, deeply invested in human rights and individual liberty. the honor code brings that these concerns to the question of how moral progress happens. he looks at successful campaigns against practices

[applause] >> timothy snyder as a history professor at yale university and the author of several books including the reconstruction of the nation and the red prints. to watch other programs about this topic, visit both tp.org and enter world war ii in the search bar in the upper left-hand side of the page. >> we are here talking with brigitte gabrielle. >> islamic militants therein by the islamic minority and bringing back their islamic counterfeit. so that's what the book talks about. it talks about the history of logical islam code is doing a summary now, what is happening in the united dates as well and why we need to be more idealized to understand what radical islam is coming from. >> what are some of the findings you have. >> well, we are finding out that the radical islamic terrorist are organized by the year for the united states or in australia. they are not working together. they are linked together through the internet. we are finding out that al qaeda, which means the base in arabic is nothing more than an umbrella organization with many other radical organizations that com

he was a visiting professor at harvard and yale law school. he is a graduate of northwestern university and harvard law school. thank you for coming today and please proceed. >> in 2010, something happened in this country that has never happened before. congress required that every person enter into a contractual relationship with a private company. the federal government does require you to do some things perdue must register for the military and submit a tax form and allow census form and serve on a jury. the existence and nature of these duties illuminates the truly extraordinary and objectionable major of the individual insurance mandate. each of these duties is inherent in being a citizen of the united states. each is necessary for the operation of the government itself. each has traditionally been recognized. in the united states, sovereignty rests with the people. if congress can mandate that you do anything that is convenient to its regulation of the national economy, that relationship is now reversed. congress would have all the discr

let me go, if i could, to a concept that was proposed by professor grets at yale. i think he's now at columbia. he made a proposal that we go to a system that's really a hybrid, which is what most countries do. he proposed we go to a consumption tax with the vast majority of people, take 100 million people off the income tax system completely. substantially, reform and reduce the corporate rate, broaden the base, and he argued that this would dramatically improve the efciency of collection, that is that we would have less leakage in the system. number two, that it would make america far more competitive. let me just go down the line and ask if you have looked at dr. gretz's work and what you think of his proposal and what it would mean for both helping us reduce the deficit and at the same time improving the competitive position of the united states. doctorsterly? >> i tried to outline briefly in my testimony. i think there are a variety of fixes that would be better than current law. i would say what michael gretz suggests is better than what we have now. my quest

institutions, i think mostly there are notorious cases where donors, you know, like the basses went back to yale saying, you know, this isn't working the way we wanted, but for the most part i think when you think of the billions of dollars that get transferred to higher education, i think our relatively staff of our profile of achievement. on the other hand, donor intent is very complicated. maintaining it over time is very complicated, and i think part of what i wish higher education would do would be to teach philanthropy to undergraduates. it's a great interdisciplinary field. you do history, philosophy. you do finance, therefore mathematics, economics, and just as we have latin america studies and we have early roman studies and all else, why not philanthropic studies? part of what we need to do is offer courses and at least minors in this field so that people become familiar with donor intent and with how philanthropy has changed our country, and how we have become who we are because of the power of philanthropy. here, people who never would have had an eyelash of a chance get to be major

so i -- when i wrote the first book -- i taught at duke university and did a pointer fellowship at yale to give myself some of the media credentials, but you still -- there's something addictive about journalism. c-span: in all this time, did you ever get a sense that you want to be on the other side of the line and be in the government? guest: no. no. let them make the mistakes. it's more fun being the critic. sure. i mean, there are times that one thinks about it. could you do it -- could i have done it better? and i'll never know, because that's not my role. c-span: what role, behind the scenes, does a journalist play with officials of the government? do they often come to you and say, "tell me what's going on"? do you find yourself -- i mean, are you ever concerned that they want to know more from you than you're willing to tell them? guest: oh, sometimes, but there are two different kinds of relationships. one, when you're a foreign correspondent overseas and diplomats of all nations are primary sources, and there's often a dialogue between the two. what do you hear? what are the i

saw at yale university we were excited when we saw that we team with the up with the citizens science alliance who hosts milky way galaxy zoo among other universe projects to let the publ isc to let the public participate in discovering planets at theplaneunter. planet hunters got word.tarted the when we started the project we discussedd among ourselves and wewe really thought there was about a chancet 50/50 chance the project was completely floored becausetures that galaxies zeus shows beautiful pictures people get to look at. we are showing brightnesseasuremen measurementsts of stars. but in just a few short weeks we have over 16,000 dedicated users and they send theirssia greetings from turkey, russia, poland, spain the canary islands, brazil chile, oneanothe country after another. it's amazing. mor they have made more than first 1.3 million classifications just 35 using the first release of 35 days of public release data. they've identified hundreds of solid transiting candidates and a binary system that were not, of coue, they' publishedre before so they are the li eager to see t