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Last week, even as the A.B.A. and the Catholic Church were coming out in favor of looser lips, free-lance journalist Vanessa Leggett remained in prison in Texas for refusing to turn over her confidential reporting on an unsolved Houston society murder. Texas doesn't have a "shield law," as some states do, protecting journalists from court orders to hand over their notes, and her First Amendment arguments have so far been rejected. Leggett, who could be imprisoned for up to 18 months, is a powerful reminder that no matter what the rules, there's still one sure...
...results of the first significant study to explore this issue. They found that teachers from Teach For America, a highly regarded program that places college graduates in tough urban and rural schools with just five weeks of training, performed just as well as the other teachers in the Houston, Texas schools that were examined. The study was sponsored by the conservative Fordham Foundation, which triumphantly proclaimed that the results prove that "it?s not necessary to spend an extended period in an ed school in order to be effective in a K-12 classroom...
...fast, says the National Commission on Teaching and America?s Future. The Commission points out that in the study, the Teach For America teachers were compared to all new teachers, not just those with credentials. And in Houston, thanks to the emergency hiring of scores of novices, last year 35% of new hires did not even hold a bachelor?s degree. Says the Commission: "To say that TFA teachers do just about as well as other new [Houston] teachers, an extraordinary number of whom are extraordinarily unqualified, is a weak endorsement at best...
...large-scale water diversions from Canada and Alaska, including a $100 billion megaproject to pipe water from James Bay in northern Quebec to the Western U.S. and a bizarre scheme for tugboats to tow icebergs to Mexico. Just three months ago, a Greek company, Aquarius Water Transportation, was in Houston trying to interest clients in pumping North American water into rafts the size of football fields and towing them to parched locales around the world--a method Aquarius uses to haul water around the Aegean...
...attended the military academy and then the police academy because he didn't want to attend a co-ed engineering school?he married Pojarmarn Damapong, the daughter of a police general. Along with his new bride, he moved to the United States, enrolling in a doctoral program at Sam Houston State University in Texas. The future Prime Minister earned his tuition working behind the counter of a Kentucky Fried Chicken while his wife baby-sat to make extra money. Their first son was born there, and retains his American citizenship. Thaksin and his wife would have four more children. Upon...