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As qualifyiedyied as the other, the other one, in this case, the asian is not let in. >> diversity, you may not be able to measure its impact but it enriches the educational experience its important for students to be exposed to a variety of people. just like you want football players, you want people from all over the country and different backgrounds. >> show me the statistics of the benefits. because you can measure the harm. students who are put in a university who arent qualified tend to ha...

By definition taking one student less qualified. >> diversity you may not be able to measure its impact but it enriches the education experience. it is important for students to get -- to be disposed to a variety of people. just like you want football players. you want pick lowcolo players. people from all over the country and different backgrounds. >> you can measure the harm. students who are put in a university who arent qualified tend to have lower graduation raids, lower grades. you can dem...

People of differing backgrounds and viewpoints was greatly diminished. income inequality and class segregation of the type described by charles murray in "coming apart" has only made things worse. hey, thats no way to go through leading a full life. go out of your way and seek experiences with individuals who dont look like you and dont see the world the way that you do. good things will result for you and for society. and finally, run. never once have i regretted running unsuccessfully for the ...

This conflict would ebb and flow. we knew there would be ups and downs and we would see scenes like ramadi. but with ramadi a few key points to make here. its not like what we saw in mosul. in the 96 hours since isis took ramadi, the iraqi forces have held their lines on the outside of the city. weve advised them and helped consolidate those lines and planned for a counterattack. and iraqs political leaders at the same time came together from all different parts of the country, all different sec...

Theyll be a few middle class types, as well middle class backgrounds. >> all ages right? >> they are generally over 30 but 27s not rare. generally these guys are in their 30s, 40s, 50s. >> one leader of the bandidos spoke to the nbc affiliate in austin. this is how he described the group. take a listen professor. >> we do not break the law as a whole. we do not encourage it. you do not have to be a criminal to be a bandido. we will not take criminals if we know they are criminals. we dont want t...

Restaurant. one biker apparently ran over the foot of a rival biker gang member in the restaurants parking lot and that sparked a dispute that continued inside the restaurant, eventually spilling back out into the streets. meantime preliminary reports of the autopsy reveal the nine bikers who died in the shootout range in age from 27 to 65. seven of the 18 bikers injured are in the hospital this morning, all in stable condition. 170 bikers remain in jail right now, all charged with engaging in o...

Are of concern to the clinton campaign. theres this one regarding her e-mails, and the shroud of obfuscation, and the e-mail stuff. you talk about her progressive priorities. i wonder if you think the money complicated her message about income inequality and battling the uneven scales, if you will in the american economy. >> i think if she takes the opportunity that she did today it doesnt complicate it at all. she came from a middle class background. her husband came from a real working class b...

Angle, and it blurs out backgrounds and really focuses your attention on particular scenes and people within those scenes. >> theres sort of two ways people make these tilt shift images. on one hand, people use actual tilt shift lenses sometimes. but then people started figuring out ways to do it in post production. >> the thing that makes it feel like toys, its a combination of two things, really. the first thing is when you see the focus is falling off, that immediately cues you to think that ...

Average person by age 26 and why different there? >> well, that is true. across the united states we are seeing areas that are doing good things for children with poor backgrounds, and there are really five characteristics of the things that are improving the kids outcomes, and places that have higher education k-12 education, and more two-parent households, and the community has more community engagement and less income inequality and those are the characteristics of the places that seem to be ...

And take them rue the radicalization process, in fact, its much more mundane. terrorists usually come from disenfranchised background, secular backgrounds. its notes that luke at them and say, o these are radicals who care out these things and thats how it works. the tsarnaevs fit the profiles perfectly. the question is how does it go from a small tragedy to this giant tragedy of killing three people and traumatizing the entire city of boston. >> marsha, we appreciate your insight on this story....