I DEMAND that you read something
I will offer very little of it, because my only purpose on making the demand is to steer you to the words of someone else. His name is Roger Cohen. For years he wrote for the International Herald Tribune. Now from time to time his work, often powerful, appears in the New York Times. As does the piece I want you to read, Dreaming of Mandela. Cohen is white, Jewish, and grew up in South Africa. Th
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An illustration of what is seriously wrong with education
can be seen in the contents of an email I just received from Education Week, the single most important publication in the coverage of education in this country: Education Week would like to extend an exclusive invitation to you for The Capital Roundtable’s conference on Private Equity Investing in For-Profit Education Companies, being held on Thursday, July 25 in New York City. As a partner, we ha
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If you do not remember who Coleen Rowley is, she was an FBI Special Agent and Lawyer in Minneapolis, where she served as chief legal advisor, who became well known because of the paper she wrote for FBI Director Mueller detailing how FBI headquarters had mishandled the request of the Minneapolis Field Office for a more complete investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui. He was in custody and the Field Office felt there was sufficient evidence to warrant examining his computer, a request that was denied by headquarters. Rowley became famous as a whistle blower, was one of three female whistle blowers (along with Sherron Watkins of Enron and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom) named as Time Magazine's 2002 Persons of the Year. After retiring from the FBI she ran as the Democratic-Farm-Labor candidate for the 6th Congressional District of MN (against John Kline) in 2006.
In today's
New York Times she has a series of 11 questions she believes Senate should ask of James Comey before confirming him as Director of the FBI. I strongly urge people to read
Questions for the F.B.I. Nominee.
Below the fold I will explore several of those 11 questions.
