I am pleased to introduce tonight speaker Professor Emeritus at virginia, the university he chairs the History Department the editor of a five volume collection of letters as well as the author of dissent of the Supreme Court and the nations constitutional dialogue the lies in the state for affirmativeaction is part of the national dialogue. Many of us have struggled to explain the policy and how it works. In his new book the affirmativeaction puzzle traces to through the present day with Historical Context how affirmative action takes on racism. On the cover Orlando Patterson rates it is a comprehensive account for this nonwhite version of affirmativeaction and in the challenging historical task that no other issue divides americans more it is meticulously researched and honestly crafted work to draw their own conclusions about the value of this experiment. Please join me to welcome Melvin Urofsky to harvard bookstore. [applause] thank you. As a historian my mentor always told me to s
Earlier. There are two kinds of trading halt, the kind caused by some sort of computer malfunction and the kind where government stops trading because stocks are in free fall and its the only way to break the velocity of the decline. Trust me you want to be in the trading hall caused by the computer crash and the New York Stock Exchange and not the one with the stock market crash namely the indices that trade in china, but you wouldnt know it judging by todays horrendous action. The dow tumbling 261 points and the nasdaq tumbling 1. 75 . There were not one, but there were two marvels today. The first was that the New York Stock Exchange went down and, i dont know, nothing really happened. Trading got rerouted to other exchanges and as painful as it is to say it got to the market was as bad on the other exchanges as it would have been in the New York Stock Exchange. I can remember a time when the New York Stock Exchange was the only game in town and this outage would have caused widespr
Same chicken with the same serial numbers as the ones making people sick p6317, 6317 a and another one. Why do they put stuff out with salmonella . Reporter the u. S. Department of agricultures food safety and Inspection Service issued a Public Health alert saying 278 people got sick with strains of salmonella heidelberg in 18 states predominantly california and that the illnesses are associated with raw chicken products produced by foster farms at three facilities in california. That chicken is still being sold right now. We found it on the shelves at a local grocery store. Thats because no recall has been issued. I dont know why they are not recalling it. Reporter this ucberkeley professor, dr. Lee riley, says you should chick it long enough to kill bacteria but its the companys responsibility to make sure meat contaminated with salmonella doesnt get out to the public. Could it be a problem at the plant . This same thing happened back in the spring of this year, maybe they have somet
Eastern time. And in europe some markets have already closed early. The nikkei did hit 15,000 briefly for the first time in six years. Our road map begins with Holiday Cheer for the market. It might sound like a broken record but once again stocks set to open at fresh highs. Today is another important day for retail. Some stores are staying open for as much as 100 hours straight to try to take advantage of the late rush. But with new data showing a drop in sales, will those extra hours be enough to boost holiday totals . And what was the most important story for your money . Its not over yet but weve got that answer for you. And were joined by Dennis Berman, Business Editor and columnist at the wall street journal. The bulls are in a pretty jolly move this Christmas Eve, nasdaq closing at its highest level in more than 13 years, all three major averages posting their strongest fourday winning streaks in over two months. For more on this record market rally, lets bring in paul hickey, c
Lee, new jersey, where it all went wrong for new Jersey Governor Chris Christie. We have a live report from ft. Lee where that towns mayor is not very happy that the new jersey governor is making that those of you in iowa, why do you care . This is a man who is considered the front runner for the Republican National nomination for president in 2016. Is it all blowing up on him now . Were going to talk about that coming up. Ben white will join us. I want to hear what he has to say. And a scandal in the courtroom world. Alcoa hit with fines for corrupt payments totaling more than 100 million to a middle eastern country. Alcoa ceo cKlaus Kleinfeld will be here to join us. Also a ford executive knows when ford drivers are breaking the law because they track their owners with a gps. They know where theyre going, when theyre going and how fast theyre going. Ford says it does not share that data, but wouldnt Car Insurance Companies Like to know Something Like that . And wouldnt they pay dearl