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And she was the name of the book. How well each student scheduled the jobs. Lauren rivera is the author. Presser rivera, how do you define delete. Excellent question. It depends to you last. Ive been looking natalie jobs in jobs in terms of investment banking, Management Consulting and these are in many ways the business says, the baby business elite. They are very, very prestigious positions. With high levels of economic rewards in terms of salaries. Cultural elite, media elite. These are the people in the most tedious and reporting segment. Host is that we begat elite . Guest i think it does. A lot of it is unconscious to. We naturally premature tradespeople similar to ourselves. When it comes to elites whether economic or cultural, theres certain ways of carrying yourself, educational tracks and so forth that are more common and we come to believe that is the best one and what people who have merit, the types of paths th ....
Former management consulting, are you part of the elite system . Are you guilty yourself . I never did interviews for my old firm but i lived in the world for a long time and it is quite tempting tear take the shortcuts that the firms take that we take as humans that you like people who wore similar to you with the shared background i think were all guilty of that battle the fire and unique with that item have the authority to hire anyone at least not yet maybe to put its structure protocols. Host is that britain for minister and students . I got my ph. D. In sociology it was intended to be forced dollars issues of equality if it has an impact for managers and practitioners i am very happy but the intended audience was a sociologist but within a book it is great if anybody reads it is has more public appeal. Host Princeton Press puts out the book for you use the word of polished. Guest that is what they would talk about with comm ....
She discusses her latest book, the new better off. First up here is astrophysicists [applause] thank you welcome to the American Museum of natural history. Im your host for the evening and coauthor of this book talk, i am Neil Degrasse tyson. I serve as the frederick t rowes director of the Hayden Planetarium, a place we all went to as a kid. I was never the same after that. Come back and actually become director. I also want to welcome cspan into this event, they are recording it for book tv, so cspan is in the house. [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the university and i love saying that, welcome to the universe would go to planetarium director school they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately and reduce my coauthors, first, Michael Str ....
When the government turns on you and you are defenseless. They can pretty much but there government behind them self to crush you in many ways. I had a gentleman visit with me and he refused to give the Bush Administration the names of all of the clients after nine 11. He said i cant do it, so they came up with some backdated options and put them in jail. They spent 30 million defending himself. If you read it it is quite amazing to see what went on. This is the hysterical kneejerk reaction after 9 11. Its a a horrible thing of course, but why. But then on my side of the coin were talking i said yeah, gave Osama Bin Laden support, he had a 14,000,000 dollar Million Dollar count. He lived in cambridge, massachusetts. No connection. But granted you think theres a connection he might want to go down that path, but the ....
Director of the hayden planetarium, place we all went to as a kid and i was never the same after that. I came back and actually became director. We also want to welcome cspan into this event. They are recording it for book tv. Cspan inhouse. Pan is [applause] tonights book is called welcome to the universe. I love saying that, welcome to the universe. When you go to the planetarium director school, they teach you how to speak like that. Let me immediately introduce my coauthors. First, michael strauss. [applause] these are my two coauthors. [applause] have a seat so just a bit of an introduction, i talked fori t ten years at Princeton University from 1994 through 2003, and before i transferred all of my activities here to this museum, over that time, i taught a course on introductory astrophysics and i got very popular and people liked it and we moved to vickers pace and we realized we could charge, we could energize the cou ....