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The incidents of mental illness and drug abuse tends to be statistically higher among the women. and so they present very unique problems. >> most of these women come from socioeconomic-deprived backgrounds, sometimes parentless, a lot of times victims of domestic abuse, child abuse. they have a concern that a lot of times men dont have in the sent that they have children that theyre interested in and that they take care of once theyre back out there. >> justice, mecca, natasha, dominique, latan...

Enleashe unleash a new era of growth. people from so much different groups and backgrounds holding different political beliefs and practicing different faith malaysia has the opportunity to draw on the strength of its people. the united states embracing that diversity and upholding the rights and dignity of our citizens has always made us stronger. i believe it can make malaysia stronger as well. i welcomed prime minister najib to washington four years ago and we agreed to broaden and deepen the...

Variety of strategies that states faced with these bans already implemented and they have been relatively successful in many cases at creating racial and ethnic diversity. a lot of people have heard of the percent plans at texas, florida and california. >> the top 10%? >> is taking top graduates of high schools throughout the state so thats looking at geographic diversity. theyre also really sophisticated plans. the university of colorado at boulder has recently implemented a socioeconomic affir...

Sleights. snickers, silent judgments that reinforce the most crippling of thoughts. i dont belong here. the refusal to accept the stark reality that race matters is regrettable. the dissenting opinion in the case, perhaps underlies the importance of what the universities are frying totryin achieve and what the supreme court has lacked. di streversity of backgrounds. one of the enduring things, an institution of tenure and that makes it almost automatically the slowest moving branch of government...

Race matters to a young womans sense of self when she states her hometown and nowhere are you from regardless of how many generations her family has been in the country. race matters because, the sleights. snickers, silent judgments that reinforce the most crippling of thoughts. i dont belong here. the refusal to accept the stark reality that race matters is regrettable. the dissenting opinion in the case, perhaps underlies the importance of what the universities are trying to achieve and what t...

Investigators looking with a fine toothed comb through not only the backgrounds of these pilots but the simulator found in the pilots home. nothing. that has to count for a lot. >> i think it does, ashleigh. im sure another thing they had done because i think its routinely done in this country in terms of pilots, when the circumstances of the accident call for it, is something in the form of a psychological autopsy. in that situation you dont need to locate the wreckage or the victims. you can d...

Kind of an illegal enterprise is very distressing. >> you know whats amazing to me, how many people, parents in the suburbs dont get it. drugs are out there. there are a lot of them and interesting enough it is white kids who end up being most of couriers these days. there are more white kids who come from wealthy backgrounds in my experience, and the parents are clueless about it. eric, are you clueless about it? >> im absolutely not clueless. im very well tuned in. you are right. its everywher...

Whats the case for that? >> in an ideal world, universities would be able to use both. but socioeconomic status provides a number of tools for increasing diversity. good example is university of colorado boulder. when they were faced with affirmative action ban, they came up with an action plan they use along side their race based plan. they found the socioeconomic one compared to students that face the same obstacles they did. that has actually increased race -- the admissions race of underrepr...

Kind of an illegal enterprise is very distressing. >> you know whats amazing to me, how many people, parents in the suburbs dont get it. drugs are out there. there are a lot of them and interesting enough it is white kids who end up being most of couriers these days. there are more white kids who come from wealthy backgrounds in my experience, and the parents are clueless about it. eric, are you clueless about it? >> im absolutely not clueless. im very well tuned in. you are right. its everywher...

Why dont you beat them in an election so you dont have this problem? find a candidate that can beat harry reid. hes the worst politician. hes brazen with his cronyism. hes created in a lab. hes got a voice like you are bathing in spoiled milk. >> you know so have taken you out there and beaten him. the republicans have the ability to come up with the biggest jerks with the worst backgrounds. they do it year after year. some of the things going for the gop is nancy pelosi and harry reid. harry ...