i guess you would have said the same thing about malcolm malcolm x. that he was a career criminal and now he's on a postage stamp. date may second. and even. down on skid row out on the prowl. looking. good news or a smile. i saw a big picture saw what i came from saw was going on now and that's what really helped me over. far. fewer today the reason why i get up and go do what i do every day you know when i go to work for but. as first responders to emergency calls the skid row fire station is good busiest in north america. back in the mid seventy's the city made a policy that skid row would be a contained preserved area much like an indian reservation or a ghetto where the unwashed wanted would be contained literally. for humanitarian reasons that it would be easier to. keep people. here one of the other important things to understand about skid row is that it's not primarily a homeless population and people tend to think it is and it's really critical people understand that because if you think of skid row is primarily a homeless population that's

malcolm webb, malcolm, they're still ausing the icc of targeting african leaders. but now the focus is on the sitting leaders. what can we expect to come out of the summit? >> well, first you have to bear in mind central to this meeting are the trials that have been faced by the kenyan president and deputy president. they've both been charged with inciting violence. and the deputy president's trial has already started. his trial is meant to start one month from now. so outcome from here cannot legally change that situation. any message from here would be political rather than legal in terms of pushing for any kind of immunity. countries here can reach a consensus. they could put out a statement asking the u.n. security council but they can be deferred after certain conditions and can only be deferred one year after time. >> what about those who are not so critical of the icc. what arguments have they been making in the last couple of days. >> the countries that have been mostly against the people who are--let's just be clear. kenya has been critical of the icc, tho

malcolm it. what is your epitaph, i still have this this difficulty of reading malcolm gladwell books, if a mar tian had come up to me and said who is this malcolm gladwell? >> a fellow canadian, someone who has more hair than me, i don't know, someone really curious, shared the object of his curiosity with as many as he could. >> we'll wait for that. malcolm gladwell, thank you for joining us and thank you for joining us on (vo) al jazeera america we understand that every news story begins and ends with people. >> the efforts are focused on rescuing stranded residents. (vo) we pursue that story beyond the headline, past the spokesperson, to the streets. >> thousands of riot police deployed across the capitol. (vo) we put all of our global resources behind every story. >> it is a scene of utter devastation. (vo) and follow it no matter where it leads, all the way to you. al jazeera america. take a new look at news. >>> this is al jazerra. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to the news hour, i am darren jordan from al jazerra's news centers in doha and lon do. these are the top stories. phase one complete, inspectors say syria's chemical weapons equipment has been

malcolm gladwell who ended up writing it. what is your epitaph, i still have this this difficulty of reading malcolm gladwell books, if a martian had come up to me and said who is this malcolm gladwell? >> a fellow canadian, someone who has more hair than me, i don't know, someone really curious, shared the object of his curiosity with as many as he could. >> we'll wait for that. malcolm gladwell, thank you for joining us and thank you for joining us on talk to al jazeera. when i was a little kid, i just really loved the news. >>news was always important in my family. >>i knew as a kid that was exactly what i wanted to do. >>i learned to read by reading the newspaper with my great-grandfather every morning. >>and i love being able to tell other people stories. >>this is it, i want to be a part of this. >>this is what really drove me to al jazeera america. >> welcome to al jazeera america i'm jonathan betz. live in new york. online enrollment on healthcare.gov has literally ground to a halt. >>> new spying allegations and report set to be published in el mundo newspaper,. >>> and syria sets a plan for getting rid of its chemical weapons. >>> and remember the life and legacy

malcolm x. this is my favorite malcolm x's speech called what's your name? [videotape] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> malcolms and gentlemen. it's just so stirring and i want to show you one more idiot and i will show you a couple of features and then i will show you what we recently did. i told you that wally shankar was my advisor in 1973 and a 1968 he became the first african to win the nobel prize in literature. my wife and i were his guests and this is stockholm december 10. [videotape] [applause] >> while he was the chairman of the board of editors of the encyclopedia and then i and i would editors in chief. we digitize 170 books so you can buy up with this thing which costs about 40 bucks at the library. it's fully searchable. type in the word darwin and it will take you right to the page. we have lacked history that goes from lussier, and -- from ethiopia and it goes to the present. if we go back to the feature in a second edition with quincy jones we get a black history timeline that goes from 1870 -- ♪ we even have a feature -- look at this. the racist tradition as part of our past too. ♪ ♪ >> that

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malcolm will be discussing those questions. >> thank you, commissioners, kim malcolm director of san francisco puc. i don't have your questions before me. but i thought i would just tell you that most of the questions are in the nature of question of opinion of the commissioners and i wouldn't presume to represent their various, their five of them who expressed different concerns at different times or different expressions of support at different times. i will say we are putting together a draft that addresses some of the underlying factual irrelevancy example the green tariff and issues we've tried to address in the way we've redesigned certain parts of the program or how the rates have been calculated. can i answer any specific questions for you? >> well, maybe you can summarize for us all the different ways that between the months of say february, march, until august 12th, different rationals that the different public commissioners used to delay this program and ultimately kill this program? >> well, i don't know that i would want to characterize their actions in any particular way or with any particular motivation. we did make several changes to the way this program was designed and the rates were set. for example, in response to some concerns that we heard from our commission from members of l.a. lack -- lafco and the board we tried to bring the rates down and in relation to build out. >> you tried to get the rate down? >> we got the rate down to 11.5 cents. when i joined the puc in april it was at 14.57 cent from 12.8 cents which is what general manager presented to the board of supervisors last september. we got the rate down primarily from changing the resource mix from the products we purchased from shell. we also reduced our own internal budget and there were some changes that happened in the market that allowed us to bring the customer rate down and finally shell agreed to a few changes to the contract that were favorable to us, small, but they made a difference. >> what were those changes? was that in the letter issued in late july or other changes? >> no, that letter referred more to the resources they were trying to procure on our behalf. one of the things they agreed to do was to reduce the $11 million collateral by $1 million in the first year and half million in the second year. because we asked them to calculate the rates with more of the unbundled recs, the price went down, and we also eliminated a volume band. this is getting technical. but that saved about a half cent in the rate they were going to charge the city. >> do you recall that we had a joint meeting in july between lafco and the public utilities commission? >> yes. >> do you recall what point issues were raised by the committee and why they chose not to approve not to exceed rates? >> in july, i know they wanted to wait and have the commission staff talk to members of the labor council and other labor groups. so we did meet with several members of the labor leadership in the city over the course of about a month. >> then when you had reported back on those meetings to the public utilities commissioners, what was the response from public utilities commissioners about those meetings? >> i don't recall specifically the meetings didn't resolve anything in particular. the meetings -- >> according to the public utilities commissioners what was supposed to be resolved? >> well, i know some of them expressed concerns that some labor representative were not supporting the program going forward. >> like i bw which has been running a mail campaign for months, decrying the program and the shell contract? >> ibw was the most vocal opponent of the program as far as i know. the labor council did actually issue a resolution with certain conditions and we discussed those conditions with them and talked about how the city might be able to work with them to make it a program that would be acceptable to them or at least improvement. >> when those conditions were discussed with the commissioners, after there was a meeting with labor, did they mention anything about their concern about labor after that or did they still express there wasn't any concern? i actually never heard they made any statement after they delayed the meeting from the labor standpoint. they never expressed that again and the next meeting they had was, we don't like this program. it was pretty much just because. >> again, i wouldn't put words in their mouths but i didn't know there was anything outstanding with the issues. we agreed to keep talking together. >> there were no real labor issues before it at all. it was all construction or running, no contract yet, no workers and nothing yet that really needs to be negotiated. >> nothing specific. we did talk about a build out plan and how we might proceed with that, some ideas for that. >> which is still not immediately before us, before the puc? >> the staff did not present a specific build out plan to the puc. we did present some ideas and suggestion for how we might proceed at lunch and there after. >> okay. thank you. >> all right. thank you. >> so next we wanted to -- some more questions. sorry. lafco staff informed me that staff presented a not to compete rate at 11.5 cents. what do you see at the prospect at the program going forward that we would actually be able to meet pg & e's rate if we were not doing that but it's still a possibility for that happening? >> we started to do some analysis of whether we can get down to the pg & e rate with a hundred percent renewable product. we haven't completed that analysis and it would depend on many things and how the commission and supervisors would want the build out if we get at or below the rate of pg & e, we might not meet any margin. it also would depend on the type of what it looks like we execute because they still haven't given us any final number. that will happen after we get a rate after we would get a rate for our customers. >> and this maybe a question for miss hale, i have been told by the general manager that there are tremendous needs to resolve in the power generation side of the puc and especially what was highlighted with the rim fire that some of the facilities have deteriorated from the rim fire and also need renovations and the general manager said to me that in order to renovate these facilities we need more customers and we want to actually grow local power and local build out for these power sources. if you can talk about what the plans are for the puc and how we intend to fulfill that? >> yes, barbara hale, assistant manager for power. we do have a balanced financial plan, a balanced 10-year picture. part of the way we have shown the balanced budget for heche power enterprise was by capitalizing that need. it includes improvement to some of our major pieces of infrastructure of one, for example, mountain tunnel that conveys water to the powerhouses is a joint asset. so it serves both a water and purpose. the current estimate of that one 1 piece of the system are upwards of 350 $350-450 million. that's a need not present in the current capital plan. what we've been looking at is how does the utilities address funding needs. rate increases? increase that pays us revenues. >> why wasn't that considered as part of the wis epiprogram? >> it only because it a joint asset, it could have been considered part of wii sip, i suppose, a boars -- a portion of the asset by power is partially funding. you only address the water portion of the funding through wii sip solution.ey way, the 55 percent of the power side of the puc would have remained unfunded. >> 55 percent? >> yes. all asset shared between water and power, 55 percent to power and 45 percent to water. that's true for all of the assets on the heche system. they are classified as either water, power or joint. and when it's joint, power pays 55 percent of it. when you look at the capital plan as it's approved by the capital planning committee through city's process you see a balanced plan that's funding because of the large needs are not funding and are deferred. with the rim fire, that's exacerbated. hopefully only exacerbated on a cash flow basis because we'll be reimbursed by the disaster fund, but just the same we'll have a cash shortage as we fund our way through recovery from the fire. the estimates at this point are about $40 million of unfunded improvements that need to occur now that the fire has been suppressed and we are in recovery mode. we are very happy to be in recovery mode but we have a cash need that needs to be addressed. that's probably what general manager kelly was referring to which is our financial picture prior to fire and post fire, and the needs are raised rates, increased load. we are looking at the increase load option. >> so, can you elaborate on that option, what you need to do to increase load? general manager kelly said get new customers. what are why you ideas and plans on that? >> that would certainly be an option under the act that allows us to build a conveyance system in a national park. we are obligated to transfer the benefit of that system to the public and we are allowed to serve municipal and commercial electric customers. so that would be an option. we are under the charter, the city's charter responsible for assessing the fees ability for new customers within a context of redevelopment. that's most likely city structured process for that. >> what are the areas of redevelopment, bayview hunters point, treasure island? >> yes. >> i was told there may be new customers like pg & e and if there are not already pg & e customers there might not be a legal mechanism or might be different? >> it's certainly a clearer road ahead when we look to areas of the city where our pg & e is not already providing a service under the federal power act. we can work with pg & e in a public access tariff they have that is approved by the general regulatory commission to referee -- receive from them distribution service that allows us to get power to those new customers like the redevelopment areas you referred to. that's not an effort without unsefrnlt pg & e has filed a new whole tariff distribution at the commission that would substantially increase the cost of object obtaining that service and places new terms on that service that make it more challenging. that's before the federal energy regulatory commission today and we are in designated settlement conversations with parties on that filing as we speak. we expect to be before a fork judge in that case. that's some of the complexities behind the solutions to finding a financial fix to our pickle. >> so, with i talk to kelly, he said that the staff is not really working on power and looking around sources around power and this was what i was told. my response was, this sound fine and good for the heche power system, but we still want to give direction and we have certainly clear indications from the board of supervisors that we want the work continued. what kind of work is being done in your department? >> i think the areas that we are hearing of broad mutual interest is the local build component of the community choice aggregation program we've been talking about. so staff is working on more fully developing that concept. as you know we had a draft with stake holders in concept and hadn't presented it to our commission and you referred earlier when you were asking miss malcolm questions about the lack of detail and there is no labor work force definition there or real work defined in that local build paper. and we would agree with you and one of the tasks that general manager kelly has given us to build out more detail like that in the local build plan that we have drafted where we would be able to answer some of the questions that have remained unanswered about local build in terms of projected work force, what's the still sets that would be needed, the hours that will be needed. that circles back to the question of that you were asking earlier about rim fire and financial needs. we are very much a utility dependent on 1 generation system that heche hydrosystem. we have some local solar but in the event of an emergency like the rim fire like we just experienced we are reminded of our vulnerability of being so dependent on that asset and that also influenced the general manager at wanting to look again at the plant. >> it can build a local power sf need if

malcolm awake. shake off this downy sleep death's counterfeit and look on death itself. up, up and see the great doom's image. malcolm, banquo. what's the business that such a hideous trumpet calls to parley the sleepers of the house? speak, speak. o gentle lady, 'tis not for you to hear what i can speak. o banquo, banquo our royal master is murdered. woe, alas. what, in our house? too cruel anywhere. what is amiss? you are and do not know't. your royal father's murdered. o, by whom? those of his chamber as it seemed had done it. their hands and faces were all badged with blood. o, yet i do repent me of my fury that i did kill them. wherefore did you so? who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral, no man. here lay duncan. his silver skin laced with his golden blood. and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature for ruin's wasteful entrance. there, the murderers steeped in the colors of their trade their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. who could refrain? help me hence. look to the lady. let us meet and question this most bloody piece of work to know it further. let's briefly put on manly readiness in the hall. well contented. what will you do? let's not consort with them. i'll to england. to ireland, i. but let's not be dainty of leave-taking, but shift away. [music] thou hast it now, king cawdor, glamis all as the weird women promised. and i fear thou play'dst most foully for it. yet, it was said it should not stand in thy posterity. but that myself should be the root and father of many kings. if there come truth from them, may they not be my oracle as well, and set me up in hope? but hush no more. here's our chief guest. tonight, we hold a solemn supper, sir. and i'll request your presence. let your highness command upon me. fail not our feast. my lord, i will not. to be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus. our fears in banquo stick deep and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared. there is none, but he whose being i do fear. he chid the sisters and bade them speak to him. then prophet-like, they hailed him father to a line of kings whilst on my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my gripe, no son of mine succeeding. if it be so, for banquo's issue have i filed my mind. for them, the gracious duncan have i murdered to make them the seed of banquo kings. both of you know banquo was your enemy. true, my lord. so is he mine. we are resolved, my lord. we shall, my lord, perform what you command us. it is concluded. banquo, thy soul's flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight. nought's had all's spent where our desire is got without content. how now, my lord why do you keep alone things without all remedy should be without regard. what's done is done. we have scotched the snake not killed it. but let the frame of things disjoint both the worlds suffer. ere we will eat our meal in fear or sleep in the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us nightly. better be with the dead whom we to gain our peace have sent to peace than on the torture of the mind to lie in restless ecstasy. come on. gentle my lord sleek o'er your rugged looks. be bright and jovial among our guests tonight. ere the bat hath flown his cloister'd flight, there shall be done a deed of dreadful note. what's to be done? be innocent with the knowledge dearest chuck, till thou applaud the deed. night thickens and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood. good things of day begin to droop and drowse, whilst night's black agents to their preys do rouse. thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still, things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. it will be rain tonight. let it come down. o, treachery! [music] you know your own degrees, sit down. at first and last the hearty welcome. both sides are even. here i'll sit i' the midst. there's blood upon thy face. 'tis banquo's then. 'tis better thee without than he within. is he dispatch'd? my lord, his throat is cut that i did for him. thou art the best o' the cut-throats. my royal lord, you do not give the cheer. sweet remembrancer! now, good digestion wait on appetite and health on both! your majesty. may't please your highness sit. the table is full. here, my good lord. what is't that moves your highness? which of you have done this? - what, my good lord? - what, my good lord? thou canst not say i did it. never shake thy gory locks at me. gentlemen, rise. his highness is not well. sit, worthy friends. my lord is often thus, and hath been from his youth. pray you, keep seat. he will again be well. are you a man? ay, and a bold one that dares look on that which might appall the devil. o proper stuff! this is the very painting of your fear. why do you make such faces? when all's done, you look but on a stool. prithee, see there! behold! look! lo! how say you? what, quite unmann'd in folly? avaunt and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee! thy bones are marrowless thy blood is cold. thou hast no speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with! this of this, good peers but as a thing of custom. hence, horrible shadow! unreal mockery, hence! you have displaced the mirth broke the good meeting with most admired disorder. my lord. i pray you, speak not. he grows worse and worse. question enrages him. at once, good night. stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once. good night, and better health attend his majesty. a kind good night to all. it will have blood, they say blood will have blood. what is the night? almost at odds with morning, which is which. i will tomorrow to the weird sisters. more shall they speak, for now i am bent to know, by the worst means, the worst. i am in blood stepp'd in so far that should i wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er. you lack the season of all natures, sleep. come, we'll to sleep. we are yet but young in deed. double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble. fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and bake. finger of birth-strangled babe ditch-deliver'd by a drab, make the gruel thick and slab. cool it with the baboon's blood, then the charm is firm and good. by the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes. how now, you secret, black and midnight hags! what is't you do? a deed without a name. i conjure you, by that which you profess, howe'er you come to know it, answer me. speak. demand. we'll answer. tell me, thou unknown power-- macbeth! macbeth! macbeth! beware macduff. beware of thane of fife. dismiss me. enough. thou hast harp'd my fear aright, but one word more-- he will not be commanded. be bloody, bold, and resolute, laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm macbeth. then live, macduff. what need i fear of thee? but yet i'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate, thou shalt not live. macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until great birnam wood to high dunsinane hill shall come against him. that will never be. macbeth shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath to time and mortal custom. yet my heart throbs to know one thing. tell me, if your art can tell so much shall banquo's issue ever reign in this kingdom? seek to know no more. infected be the air whereon they ride, and damn'd all those that trust them! ho approach. i did hear the galloping of horses, who was't came by? there are two or three, my lord, sent to give the word. macduff is fled to england. fled to england. ay, my good lord. time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits. the castle of macduff i will surprise. seize upon fife. give to the edge o' the sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls who trace him in his line. no boasting like a fool. this deed i'll do o'er this purpose cool. my children too? wife, children, servants. my wife kill'd too? i have said. front to front bring thou this fiend of scotland and myself within my sword's length set him. if he 'scape heaven forgive him too. come to the english king our power is ready. our lack is nothing but our leave. macbeth is ripe for shaking. in this slumbery agitation what, at any time, did you hear her say? that, sir, which i would not report after her. this is her very guise. and upon my life, fast asleep. how came she by that light? it stood by her. it stands by her continually 'tis her command. out, damned spot. out, i say. one, two, why then 'tis time to do't-- hell is murky-- fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? what need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? do you mark that? the thane of fife had a wife. where is she now? what, will these hands ne'er be clean? no more o' that, my lord no more o' that. you mar all with this starting. go to, go to--you have known what you should not. here's the smell of the blood still. all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand. oh, oh, oh. this disease is beyond my practice. wash your hands. put on your nightgown. look not so pale. i tell you yet again banquo's buried. he cannot come out on his grave. even so. to bed, to bed. there's knocking at the gate. come, come, come, come give me your hand. what's done cannot be undone. to bed, to bed, to bed, to bed to bed, to bed. god, god forgive us all. the devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon. what soldiers, patch? the english force, so please you. take thy face hence. i have lived long enough. my way of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf. and that which should accompany old age as honor, love obedience, troops of friends i must not look to have. but in their place curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath. how does your patient, doctor? not so sick, my lord as she is troubled with thick coming fancies that keep her from her rest. cure her of that. canst thou not minister to a mind diseased pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart? therein the patient must minister to himself. throw physic to the dogs. i'll none of it. come, put mine armor on. give me my staff. i will not be afraid of death and bane till birnam forest come to dunsinane. [music] what wood is this before us? the wood of birnam. let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear it before him thereby shall we shadow the numbers of our host. the confident tyrant keeps still in dunsinane. 'tis his main hope. and none serve with him but constrained things whose hearts are absent too. advance the war. our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn. wherefore was that cry? the queen, my lord, is dead. she should have died hereafter. there would have been a time for such a word. tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow. creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time. and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. out, out, brief candle. life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. thou comest to use thy tongue thy story quickly. as i did stand my watch upon the hill, i looked toward birnam and anon, methought, the wood began to move. liar and slave. within this three mile may you see it coming, i say a moving grove. if thou speaks false upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive. i pull in resolution and begin to doubt the equivocation of the fiend that lies like truth. fear not, till the birnam wood do come to dunsinane and now, a wood comes towards dunsinane. arm, arm, and out. ring the alarum-bell. blow, wind, come, wrack. at least we'll die with harness on our back. now near enough. your leafy screens throw down and show like those you are. they have tied me to a stake i cannot fly but bear-like, i must fight the course. what's he that was not born of woman? such a one am i to fear or none. turn, hell-hound, turn. of all men else i have avoided thee. but get thee back, my soul is too much charged with blood of thine already. i have no words. my voice is in my sword thou bloodier villain than terms can give thee out. thou losest labour. let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests. i bear a charmed life that must not yield to one of woman born. despair thy charm and let the angel whom thou still hast served tell thee. macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped. accursed should be that tongue that tells me so. i will not fight with thee. then yield thee, coward. i will not yield. to kiss the ground before young malcolm's feet and to be baited with the rabble's curse. though birnam wood to come to dunsinane and thou opposed, being of no woman born yet i will try the last. lay on, macduff. and damned be him that first cries hold enough. shakespeare has furnished our speech with so many quotable lines and phrases, most of them so familiar that we have forgotten their source. in fact, someone once said of a shakespearean play that the trouble was it was so full of quotations. therefore, when we read or see a shakespeare play and encounter some of these old friends tucked into the lines here and there we almost unthinkingly respond "ah, that's a quotation," forgetting who it was that said it first. such moments of recognition we experience while listening to macbeth. for example, the witches query "when shall we three meet again?" and their, "double, double toil and trouble," and, "fair is foul and foul is fair," or the phrase, "the milk of human kindness" in lady macbeth's speech and her unforgettable "ou

savoy, the lindy hop, the birth of bebop to its victory at malcolm x is writing about when he first comes to harlem in the autobiography of malcolm x, so it's before they become the icons they are walking the streets of harlem. and so the '40s is a fascinating -- for me, a fasting period and unlike any other periods that have come before and sort of paving the way for what would come later. i thought it was worthy of pag pages. >> just the work of these women, how does it follow on what i'm thinking of the support was given to her work follows the model and patronage in a way, or the institutions that ann petry was working with. could you talk about that lineage that made their work possible, with its many artists and writers, political? >> absolutely. i think they were, not just my women, i think they are of a generation -- when we think of the '20s you can think of relationship of patronage with black artists and often think of individuals who are individual patrons or who are making access to certain publishing houses and things like that available. i think in the '40s what you get our people who are much more self-consciously

malcolm gladwell says. gladwell, whose book sales are perhaps second only to the bible, has a new book out on the subject. it's called "david and goliath: underdogs, misfits and the art of battling giants." malcolm, thank you for joining me. >> glad to be here. >> dave and goliath, one of the most famous stories in the world. you retell it. explain why. what is the real story? >> well, i think we have -- we have exaggerated the extent to which david is an underdog in that situation. and i think that feeds into a very dangerous line of thinking, which suggests the only way that we can ever drive his is by some improbable miracle. in fact, this is an insanely fun thing to do when i was doing my book, you talk to the endocrinologists, rabbis, israeli defense force people, anyone you want to talk to about the david and goliath story, the sling in david's hand is not a child's toy. it is one of the most devastating weapons in ancient warfare. david has superior technology, right? once he decided to break the rule, he's the guy in charge. and then, there's goliath, this -- all of these hints in the biblical story, in samuel, that goliath is not what he appears to be. in fact, this is where the rabbis come in. the rabbis have been putting this out for years. he doesn't sound like a big, terrifying warrior. he is led down onto the valley floor by an attendant. he moves really slowly. takes him forever to figure out that david is not intending to fight him in a sword fight. and he says these strange things as if he's not perceiving the situation properly, and all of these endocrinologists have solved the puzzle by, look, he sounds like a guy with acromegaly, which is why he's so big, but often has a side effect of constricting your optic nerves. goliath can't see. he has restrictive vision. so here you have a kid with superior technology up against a lumbering giant who can't see this far in front of his face. that's not underdog versus favorite. that's something very different. and i love the reconfiguration of the advantage, i guess. >> the point you're trying to make is the people who are seemingly underdogs can actually have surprising strength? >> yeah, the categories -- i mean, the large intellectual project of the book is to try to figure out -- we have intuitive categories of what an advantage is and what a disadvantage is. and i want to suggest those categories are faulty, that we're putting all kinds of things in the wrong box. and so, in case of the story of david and goliath, we are infat ra -- infatuated with goliath's size, and the audacity, the ability of one party to change the rules. and gain the upper hand. i don't know why we would underestimate the latter set of characteristics and overestimate the former. >> let's take another one you look at, which will strike most people as highly implausible. you're saying that in many circumstances it might make sense for somebody not to go to harvard, or to a fancy ivy league. >> yes, yes. >> and if america is anything, it is the holy grail of american achievement, is to go to a fancy ivy league university. >> not just america. it is the holy grail of fareed zakaria. you are a graduate of two of the finest. >> yes, but tell me why it might not make sense. this woman, caroline sax. >> yeah, the same line of thinking, are two intuitive categories of advantage/faulty. i look at, this is a chapter concern, with whether you want to be a big fish in a little bond, or a little fish in a big pond. and i use the specific case of kids who go to college intending to study science, math, and engineering. and we know the vast majority of students who start out in the -- pursuing the three fields drop out. over 50%. the question is, who drops out? and the answer is, so some -- 50% of the kids are thwarted in their ambition to become -- have a science, math, engineering degree. who gets thwarted? well, it's not the least-intellectually capable students who drop out t is rather the students who happen to be at the bottom of their class, regardless of what school they're at. so the bottom half of the class at harvard in science and math drops out. and the bottom hart of the class at east tennessee state in science and math drops out. even though there's a vast difference in their ability, it's the, what matters is the -- is their relative sense of their own accomplishment relative to the classroom they're a part of. so in other words, when you go to an elite school, you increase your risk of falling in the bottom half of the class. and, thereby, you increase your risk of failing to get the degree you intended to get. if you're going to tackle a difficult subject like science and math, you should attend the school where you have the greatest chances of finishing in the top third. now, for some people, that is harvard. if you're a genius, fine. >> but does that mean in general that you find there is a surprising degree of success that comes out of people who have been big fish in small ponds? >> yeah, so there's some really fascinating research that looks at the publication rates of economics ph.d.s within seven years after they attend -- they get their ph.d. and what you find is that the very, very top students at harvard, yale, m.i.t., chicago economics, they publish enormous amounts of papers, superstars. but it drops off quickly. in other words, even the 70 -- the kid in the 75th percentile isn't publishing that much post-graduation. why? they've had their confidence shaken in grad school. they look around and they see this cohort of people who are clearly more able than they are. by contrast, the top students at relatively mediocre schools publish a huge amount in the tom journals after getting their ph.d. in other words, their experience of being at a school where they were top of the hill was so profound and so empowering that they entered their academic career with much greater confidence. >> when we come back, we'll talk about why dyslexia may be good for you, but also, malcolmertaining to millions and millions of many people. infuriating to others. we'll ask him about his critics. . hp is helping ups do just that. soon, the world's most intelligent servers, designed by hp, will give ups over twice the performance, using forty percent less energy. multiply that across over a thousand locations, and they'll provide the same benefit to the environment as over 60,000 trees. that's a trend we can all get behind. they're the days to take care of business.. when possibilities become reality. with centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matters. with custom communications solutions and responsive, dedicated support, we constantly evolve to meet your needs. every day of the week. centurylink® your link to what's next. medicare open enrollment. of year again. time to compare plans and costs. you don't have to make changes. but it never hurts to see if you can find better coverage,

malcolm is known for trying to change how you view every-day life. he's bestselling author of "the tipping point." >> we all know the biblical story of david and goliatgoliat. i spoke with malcolm gladwell and he has a different take on this age-old tale. listen in. >> the sling that david has in his hand is not a child's toy. it is one of the most devastating weapons in ancient warfare. he has superior technology. once he decided to break the rules, he's the guy in charge and then there's goliath with all of these hints in the biblical story of samuel that goliath is not what he appears to be. this is where rabbis come in. he's been putting this out for years. he doesn't sound like a terrifying warrior. he's led down on the floor by an attendant. moves slowly. takes him forever to figure out that david does not intend to fight him in a sword fight and he says strange things as if he's not perceiving the situation properly and all of these have solved the puzzle by saying he sounds like a guy with a tumor on your putitary gland. he can't see. >> it turns the tale upside down. food for thought is part of malcolmks about it tomorrow on "gps." >> we just got to show you this. halloween we know coming up. one iowa dad is early but give him a pass. he has a really good excuse. sergeant first class traded his fatigues for a spider-man costume to surprise his daughter, jesse at school. he just got home from a deployment in afghanistan. she has no clue he's back. and then the mask comes off and the tears come out. look at that. we think even the sergeant got a little misty there. boy, welcome home. thank you for all of you do. we say to the sergeant and we hope you have good days there with your daughter and your family. >> i love those stories. next on "cnn newsroom," carlos dia diaz rolls in with a preview of the big games. >> an experiment i want to do here. oh! >> ohio. >> these are fans we have at ohio state. a preview. penn state taking on ohio state. we're live from the ohio state university. coming up. not at the rings. i can feel them looking at my thick, flaky red skin. do i tell them it's