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...good grades and prizes and lots of positive feedback from teachers and admiration from fellow students. Kids who do well at school are less likely to do drugs or get picked on and turn psycho like those scary children in suburban schools. That's the thinking. Not to mention that if we have smart children, it means we must be smart...
Then the serious business of forgetting began. For decades Oklahoma history books made no mention of the riot. Police and state-militia documents disappeared. Tulsa went back to being a city so segregated that for years it used paychecks of different colors for its white and black teachers. In the 1990s a few determined Tulsans, both black and white, succeeded in creating a state-appointed "truth commission." Hirsch, a onetime reporter for the New York Times who interviewed more than 100 people for this book, tells that part of the story with quiet dispassion...
...defense bill suggesting the Navy finish the vessels and put them out to sea as a morale booster for troops. The clause reads that the sea service should consider buying vessels "under construction in a U.S. shipyard" for leisure use, housing or a command ship. Though it doesn't mention the ships in Pascagoula, they're the only ones that fit the bill. The Secretary of the Navy last week said he would consider the idea, but it's "probably a stretch...
...into the Enron implosion. It was the week in which the daily swirl of revelations - from whistleblowings and shreddings to political connections and ominous-sounding congressional investigations - really got underway. It was also the week in which Wall Street finally started to acknowledge how unreliable corporate accounting, not to mention corporate analysis, had become. Suddenly everybody had stopped talking about the recovery - and began scouring the ticker for the next Enron-in-waiting, so they could sound the alarms...
...Connelly describes the woman she plays in A Beautiful Mind--Alicia, the wife of the brilliant, mad mathematician John Nash--as "forthright, gutsy, irreverent, a bit of a black sheep." Those qualities are certainly present in Connelly's luminous performance, but perhaps out of modesty, the actress doesn't mention her own shining, salient characteristic, which is intelligence of a particularly watchful kind...