Thursday, February 19, 2009 Two stories from the This Changes Everything Department: * Blackwater Security Worldwide Inc., which has run up a portfolio of atrocities under contract in Iraq, has changed its name to Xe. (Pronounced “Z.”) * Meanwhile the Republican Party, having unashamedly run up debt for eight years, has renamed itself the Prudence Party. Members…
It shouldn’t take a Ph.D like David Berliner to tell us what’s wrong with the way we do accountability in schools. He sees parallels in baseball, too, and he’s no Joe Dimaggio. Sporting analogy: When you put too much emphasis on home runs, he points out, people strike out more. When you put too much…
It has the look of a full-length action thriller, and in this case, “full-length” understates it by a bunch. The sweaty man, two arms around the bulging briefcase, steals away in the dark of night, his necktie swinging. Having evaded security, he hustles off, panting. Home free. But wait. The camera zooms in on a…