Monday, November 21, 2005

Post-Katrina Recovery Update

10 a.m. (ET)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency warned 150,000 Katrina evacuees that it will no longer pay for the hotel rooms they're living in as of Dec. 1. We talk about what these families will do, the ways the government will continue to...

Jerome Karabel: "The Chosen" (Houghton Mifflin)

11 a.m. (ET)

A sociologist details the history of admissions policies at Harvard, Princeton and Yale and details how these polices have mirrored shifting notions of merit in the culture at large

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