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Diversity. to be able to have a variety of contexts that can address the wide range of experiences that people come back, that they say are the things they remember and that haunt them. >> so when i woke up days later, i couldnt feel my legs. couldnt move my head left or right. so i didnt know if i was quadriplegic, paraplegic, i didnt know what was going on until the nurse explained it to me. i was having a hard time sleeping. i was having a lot of nightmares. and just memories and flashes. so ...

Who is sort of a loner and socially awkward in school. that could so fear people who are different in school and create negative stereo type that way. i think wloofrs hands you put the gun into. >> heres what was more powerful about the way they set it up. it was scary because people watched it and identified with the victims. or potential victim of gun violence. and that is unusual. because the reason why so much media and pop violence glory identifies violence is because we see it through the ...

Now theyre -- >> neil: theyre ubiquityous. this happened few days ago when potential hill the irs was looking at facebook pages and how can they claim $26,000 a year in income, et cetera. first what appears to be infringement or the suspicious turn, then that triggers the other venues. >> that is essentially the way that searches and ease ours -- seizures york in many contexts. the thing about this type of seizure, seems really distasteful the irs can get e-mails but the law doesnt say, where wo...

Now had more experience with firearms than i have because he went out shooting with me, and then he went out with a bachelor party and shot multiple handguns and multiple -- an ak and a bunch of things that had recoil modifications. hes just as pro-gun control as he ever was, which is much more than i am, but the fabric of hissening completely changed about what the difference was from firing my shotgun, which he fired and was comfortable firing, to an ak. >> one of the things you say -- one of ...

Believe, where they interviewed lots of, at least a couple black people going on the market and they would explicitly remove references to their race from their resume. not all of them. just enough so that they were not perceived to be too black. so in a professional predominantly white setting, the pressures come from the fact that certain institutional norms might be at odds with stereo types about race. and you dont want to be perceived as the angry black guy. you dont want to be perceived as...

Advocates can hope for is a decision that basically finds some way to strike prop 8 down without having any effect beyond california. >> pete, as you talk about justice kennedy asking the questions of imminent legal injury facing those thousands of children that you referenced that are growing up in same-sex households for their parents, they say that they want their parents to have full recognition and full status. this is according to reports that are in front of me right now. however, also, k...

Brown v. board case. we dont want separate, but equal. we just want equal, nothing more, nothing less. >> victoria, this week we had senator portman talking about changing his position in effect because a member of his family came out and that affected his view. is this, in a sense, a demographic movement that however much people may oppose is literally like a wave that will eventually sweep over? >> martin, earlier this week the pugh center came out with a poll showing that a third of people wh...

Coming from commodity taxes. >> thats right. >> going back to the distinction between lula and chavez, they both came out of very different contexts, right? chavez came out of a context of complete collapse and he basically was presiding over the reformation. lula was elected in a very complex, established political system. that to a large degree, the left, the ptl built after the -- >> the workers party. >>y yes. after the dictatorership. so there was much -- in chavez was in brazil, would he b...

Probably something even north korea doesnt understand. i found the events of last week incredibly dispiriting. the fact that america, this great superpower, has this demeaning political system here. >> no one wants to say it, and some can accuse me of being harsh in the language. but we have been parachuted into the valley of the stupid. the united states -- this is dumb. theres nothing smart about this. but i do think that americans need to see it now in the context, which is one of the more im...

Incredibly dispiriting. the fact that america, this great superpower, has this demeaning political system here. >> no one wants to say it, and some can accuse me of being harsh in the language. but we have been parachuted into the valley of the stupid. the united states -- this is dumb. theres nothing smart about this. but i do think that americans need to see it now in the context, which is one of the more important contexts. each side is now running a political campaign for the next election. ...