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Affirmative action. he was a legacy. >> bill: did okay there though. maybe he got in by the strings but he didn't get booted out. >> two standard deviations below the norm. that means he was two spots lower on average than the average. >> bill: not in grad school he went to yale. >> that's a pretty big deal. >> bill: he was doing cheerleading and diverted from his studies. republicans like dumb people? >> that's cheap, bill. i didn't say republicans like dumb people. they like people who don't intellectual in public places. >> bill: there are republicans like me and you don't become more intel...

It looks like it works only if you do it right. so it is a really important calf vee ott. they spent $1.5 million paying 8,000 kids in new york city and nothing happened. so you have to be careful how you do it. >> explain how that works. they got drastically different results in different cities and different schools. so what model worked, generally speaking? >> the model that worked the best was in dallas. it was a very simple, elegant scheme. they paid second graders $2 for every book they read once they passed a computerized quiz on the book to make sure they read it. it was cheap as dirt,...