New Orleans As a post-turkey break and some relief from being a witness to the LSU-Arkansas game, watched in the midst of all of our Arkansas family, the son and I snuck off to the movies to see No Country for Old Men made by the Coen brothers (Fargo fame) based on the book …
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Doing Good
New Orleans There was a filler article in the local paper that one read in some desperation for a touch of news on a Thanksgiving morning. The upshot of the sympathetically written article reprinted from the Washington Post focused on how hard it was to find jobs “doing good” especially for young people committed …
Low-Income Ivy Sweepstakes
Washington Here’s another news flash. Seems some of your super-expensive ivy league and ivy league wannabe schools have realized that it is just too damned expensive for low (and moderate?) income students and their parents to have a shot at breaking the iron cage of social stratification in our country. Somehow a four year …