I know — it’s not Plamegate. No indictments, no intrigue. Just a basic threat to our national existence.
Read MoreThose from families with the highest income and education levels finished college at more than double the rate of high-scoring students from the lowest socioeconomic grouping.
Sandy Baum, a College Board analyst, said the data showed that college completion increasingly was “not about academic preparation; it’s about money.”
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Read MoreI can’t keep up the pace every day, but when I do put one together lately, I try to combine an American “Daily Pulse” with a view of editorials from somewhere else in the world. Today, Africa. In America, Republicans question their identity, Hitler ads backfire in Virginia, and evolution remains a hot topic. In Africa, Egyptians worry about American imperialism, and Kenyans worry about starvation. Read, enjoy, and visit The Daily Pulse for regular entries, and “Your Home Town,” a place to add your own interesting, offensive, or utterly insane editorial content.
Read MoreGreenspan had a big speech on oil (via the Energy Bulletin) two days ago.
Journalists focused mostly on his upbeat pronouncement that higher oil prices would have a real, but limited, impact on growth.
I would like to focus on some ignored parts of his speech which deserve a new countdown diary, despite the lack of headline-generating spot oil prices.
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Tuesday, Oct. 18 — Could the CIA leak investigation turn into an accountability moment for the Bush administration and the way it handled intelligence before and after taking the country to war?
Jim VandeHei and Walter Pincus write in The Washington Post: “As the investigation into the leak of a CIA agent’s name hurtles to an apparent conclusion, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has zeroed in on the role of Vice President Cheney’s office, according to lawyers familiar with the case and government officials. The prosecutor has assembled evidence that suggests Cheney’s long-standing tensions with the CIA contributed to the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame. . . .
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“In the course of the investigation, Fitzgerald has been exposed to the intense, behind-the-scenes fight between Cheney’s office and the CIA over prewar intelligence and the vice president’s central role in compiling and then defending the intelligence used to justify the war …
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