journalism
Charlie Rose talks with Teach for America Founder Wendy Kopp
Charlie Rose featured an interview with Wendy Kopp, the Founder of Teach for America (official website) last week. For anyone interested in education the conversation is a fascinating one, following the recent publication of her book One Day, All Children…: The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way.
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Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials
Ed Brayton via Tom Kirkendall notes that American Family Association has a policy at its new outlet, OneNewsNow, never to use the word “gay” but to replace it with “homosexual” - which is all well and good until someone named Tyson Gay turns in a record time in the US Olympic qualifying rounds. The result […]
History is Written by the Wikipedia Defenders
According to Eve Fairbanks whose excellent article, Wiki Woman, appears in next weeks New Republic.
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Favorite Near-Word of the Day: Pajamahadeen
Yes, Pajamahadeen, which I learned about in Sarah Boxer’s excellent article, Blogs in the New York Review of Books. Do not dwell on why I did not know about this word before hand (I am ashamed) but be glad I am sharing it with you now. It is a frightfully interesting mental image.
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Charlie Rose Saves Laptop, not Face
I noticed Charlie Rose looked a little worse for wear the other night. According to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch (who recently appeared on an excellent segment) Charlie’s sustained his injuries saving his new MacBook Air after tripping in a pothole. Now that’s dedication.
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Gladwell on FBI Profilers, new book on the workplace of the future
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Blink and The Tipping Point takes on the subject of FBI profilers in typical fashion in Dangerous Minds: Criminal profiling made easy.. Noting the successes of well-known profilers throughout the FBI’s history - James Brussel, Howard Teten, John Douglas and Robert Ressler - Gladwell turns to recent empirical research to […]
Washington Post Series on Cheney - The Angler
The Washington Post has just concluded a four part series on Vice President Dick Cheney called ‘The Angler’, playing off the code name given the Vice President by his secret service detail. Cheney is in fact an avid angler - one of my roommates once had his afternoon of fishing in Montana interrupted by a […]
Life on a Mag Crew, Story Worthy of Dickens
Two days after graduating from high school last June, Jonathan Pope left his home in Miamisburg, Ohio, to join a traveling magazine sales crew, thinking he would get to “talk to people, party at night and see the country.”
Over the next six months, he and about 20 other crew members crossed 10 states, peddling subscriptions […]
ESPN: Hoops of Nazareth
ESPN has a great in-depth article on Hoops of Nazareth. It’s a great story, as much about the town as girls hoops. Worth the read.
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Most Interesting Fact I heard Today
“There are more Ethiopian doctors in Washington D.C. than in all of Ethiopia.”
From NPR: Hospital Gives Ethiopian Women a Chance at Care
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