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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Jersey Jazzman: Ravitch Kicks Rhee's Book-Selling Tail

Jersey Jazzman: Ravitch Kicks Rhee's Book-Selling Tail:




Ravitch Kicks Rhee's Book-Selling Tail
You'll remember earlier this year when Michelle Rhee's auto-hagiography, Radical, was published. I tracked the sales for a while on Amazon; maybe I missed a higher number, but this was the best sales rank for Rhee that I could find, a little less than three weeks after her book was released: As I wrote at the time: According to Amazon.com, Radical was released on February 5, 2013, almost th


Jersey Jazzman: Chicago Mayor Emanuel Closes New School Before It Opens!
Jersey Jazzman: Chicago Mayor Emanuel Closes New School Before It Opens! [parody]: Chicago Mayor Emanuel Closes New School Before It Opens!CHICAGO -- Rahm Emanuel has become the first big city mayor to close a school before it has even been built. "When I announced I was building this new [expletive deleted] school yesterday, I thought you [expletive deleted] in the press would leave me alone