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What's the best book you've read in the past year...
...replacing McDonald's cuisine with freshly prepared, price-competitive, high-end food. "It's convenient to eat horrible food, and it's so difficult to eat great food. It's O.K. to eat flaming-hot Cheetos and never read books or eat vegetables," he says. "This is where we've come as a country, and I'm not cool with...
...Hanks deserves our admiration, but is he really our "chronicler in chief" [March 15]? I've been reading World War II history for more than 50 years, and when I read that Hanks thinks the writing of academic historians is "often too dull to grab regular people by the lapel," I flashed on the works of Rick Atkinson, Richard Bessel, Martin Gilbert, Richard Overy and a hundred other academic historians who have made the war real, capturing both its grand scale and its smallest details...
...Green Seat at the Table" [March 15]: President Obama promised to curb the influence of wealthy special interests in Washington. Your account of venture capitalist John Doerr's clout is the best illustration I've seen that nothing has changed except the name on the door...
...Child Left Behind law, advances the bold ideas with which this Administration has already become closely associated. The President wants to link billions of federal dollars to initiatives like ending the achievement gap between white and nonwhite students, evaluating teachers and awarding performance bonuses to principals and teachers who've earned them. On the basis of what we know has worked in New York City with our 1.1 million schoolkids, we'd give Obama's plan a solid B--a great start, but it could use a little improvement. Here's what we think works and what could be even...