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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Correction: Bryce Harper Is Actually In College, So He Can Skip College Sooner � The Quick and the Ed

Correction: Bryce Harper Is Actually In College, So He Can Skip College Sooner � The Quick and the Ed

Correction: Bryce Harper Is Actually In College, So He Can Skip College Sooner

Yesterday, in arguing that college isn’t for everyone, I wrote:
Of course college isn’t for everyone. Just last week, the Post profiled 17-year old high school senior Bryce Harper, who definitely shouldn’t go to college. Instead, he should (and will) become a professional baseball player and earn millions of dollars.
I had assumed that because Harper is 17 years old and about to enter the baseball draft, he mush be a high school senior. Wrong! Last night an editor of Baseball America emailed the following:
You mention Bryce Harper and call him a high school senior. This is false. Harper was a sophomore last year at Las Vegas High, but got his GED over the summer and enrolled at the College of Southern Nevada this year, where he’s been taking classes and playing baseball. This

Virginia apologizes

We’re sorry.
In November, in a fit of buyer’s remorse and the change fever that we saw in last night’s elections, Virginians elected Ken Cuccinelli as our Attorney General. Cooch, as he is not-always-affectionately known, has since taking office decided that what he really wanted to be was Chancellor of the Commonwealth’s higher education system.
That’s the only explanation for his announcement that he is investigating a University of Virginia professor for fraud. Professor Michael Mann is a leading researcher in climate change.
And Cooch doesn’t believe in climate change.
The purpose of science is to tell us about the natural world, whether we like the answer or not,” said Alan