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Drezner pointed out this series of articles in the Chicago Tribune about one family and their trials and tribulations with Bush’s new education reform law. Reporter Stephanie Banchero spent 10 months with this family — they’re very well written. I think the story illustrates the difficulties of these types of situations very well. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

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Well, my cousin, Martin is off to Thailand. Now he should be somewhere over the Pacific, en route to Singapore, his first stop. We wish him well. From today’s NYT: Steve Jobs wants to tear down a huge house that he owns in Woodside, CA (west of Palo Alto/Menlo Park)? It’s a gorgeous house. This is the one time where I’ve seen Steve make a design error. Juneau, AK doesn’t have a road? And now they want one? The Palestinians…

Associated Press, July 6 2004: NEW YORK (AP) — Dewey defeats … Gephardt? The New York Post, in a front-page gaffe reminiscent of the 1948 headline wrongly announcing President Truman’s defeat, proclaimed Tuesday that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry would select Rep. Dick Gephardt as his running mate. “KERRY’S CHOICE,” read the headline over the Page One “exclusive” story. “Dem picks Gephardt as VP candidate.” The story, which ran without a byline, was accompanied by a file photo of the…

“Fuck yourself,” said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency. . . . There is no rule against obscene language by a vice president on the Senate floor. The senators were present for a group picture and not in session, so Rule 19 of the Senate rules — which prohibits vulgar statements “unbecoming a senator” — does not apply, according to a Senate official. Even if the Senate were in session, the vice president, though constitutionally the president…