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The First Daze of School: Interview With a President
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Sunday, November 16, 2008. Interview With a President. In five months I went from tying second graders' shoes to interviewing the former president of the world's 13th largest. I had arrived in Omaha the previous night, my mind permanently swamped with the daunting task of interviewing a figure I perceived as nearly superhuman. What questions should I ask? How should I ask them? And, perhaps most importantly, would we converse in English or Spanish? 8220;How do you like the AP? Is it a round-the-clock job?
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The First Daze of School: January 2010
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Monday, January 18, 2010. Accident Waiting to Happen. If you wait long enough without blogging, an appropriate topic will usually present itself. Sometimes it hits you like a broken wrist, a bloody chin and half a tooth knocked out. Finally, I started my descent into the lower level parking garage, where I had locked my bike every day for the past year. On the 45-degree ramp, I could see the salt crystals the parking attendant had laboriously sprinkled the night before. “Cold out there? I was too timid t...
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The First Daze of School: November 2009
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Saturday, November 14, 2009. Brazil is assuming a new economic and political prominence on the world stage—"taking off," as the editors of The Economist. Would have us believe. That broke out in Rio, killing at least 32, and a blackout. Last week that left parts of 18 Brazilian states in the dark (oh, plus the entire nation of Paraguay, which luckily is not bidding on the Games any time soon—Ciudad del Este 2024! Is now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, considered a developing country). The spotlight of th...
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The First Daze of School: Accident Waiting to Happen
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Monday, January 18, 2010. Accident Waiting to Happen. If you wait long enough without blogging, an appropriate topic will usually present itself. Sometimes it hits you like a broken wrist, a bloody chin and half a tooth knocked out. Finally, I started my descent into the lower level parking garage, where I had locked my bike every day for the past year. On the 45-degree ramp, I could see the salt crystals the parking attendant had laboriously sprinkled the night before. “Cold out there? I was too timid t...
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The First Daze of School: High Pressure
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Thursday, July 05, 2012. Here's something I was reminded of this week. Humans thrive on pressure. Faced with a challenge or a tough situation, more often that not, we rise to the occasion. I felt that this week during my reporting assignment in San Diego to cover a trade negotiation. At first I was apprehensive about the trip, knowing that I would be working nonstop for roughly four days and under pressure (internal and external) to produce at least two articles a day. That excitement culminated on the f...
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The First Daze of School: S-Chip on the Shoulder
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Friday, October 05, 2007. S-Chip on the Shoulder. Yes, it's true: George Bush hates America's children. As if the president wasn't unpopular already (his " disapproval rating. Is hovering around 66%), Bush decides to veto a bill that would expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program. It's time to wake up: the war in Iraq is costing $1.8 billion a week. Which makes the SCHIP. Sure, the above treatment of the SCHIP. Bush basically has two points, which are essentially the same thing: 1) SCHIP.
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The First Daze of School: The Posthumous Genocide
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Saturday, October 13, 2007. History has a way of intruding upon the present.". Dee Brown, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. Ninety-year-old ghosts made a haunt of American foreign policy last week, when the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a resolution. To be the first genocide of the 20 th. Century - became a hot button political issue. Called the genocide vote invalid and unacceptable, and withdrew. A Kurdish separatist group. Although the Ottoman Empire's campaign against the Armenians predates the...
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The First Daze of School: May 2006
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006. Teachers (who coincidentally would be available for negotiations during the next few months) are experts in getting people to do things they don't want to do, what educational psychologists euphemistically refer to as "behavior modification." This is the same principle that underlies the current crisis with Iran: we want them to stop their nuclear program, they would like to continue it. Let's translate this to an educational situation:. Mahmoud: It's not fair! But one NPR commen...
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The First Daze of School: Brazil Under Scrutiny
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Saturday, November 14, 2009. Brazil is assuming a new economic and political prominence on the world stage—"taking off," as the editors of The Economist. Would have us believe. That broke out in Rio, killing at least 32, and a blackout. Last week that left parts of 18 Brazilian states in the dark (oh, plus the entire nation of Paraguay, which luckily is not bidding on the Games any time soon—Ciudad del Este 2024! Is now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, considered a developing country). The spotlight of th...
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The First Daze of School: Bush loses road map; refuses to ask for directions
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Friday, April 25, 2008. Bush loses road map; refuses to ask for directions. Remember the road map? Not the Rand McNally under your driver's seat with the sun-bleached cover and tattered pages; I'm talking about the 2003 plan. By the quartet (Russia - bass, U.S - baritone., E.U. - tenor I, U.N. - tenor II) that was supposed to tame that languishing, 50-year-old beast known as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Supplies to Gaza, which only makes Palestinians more determined to strike back. For the Palestini...
