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Keep on Rocking in the Friedman World

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

With Ford shuttering its plants, and GM sending its workers into early retirement, the US auto industry is ailing badly. New York Times columnist Tom Friedman says that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Plus: Irish reporter Carole Coleman, who angered President Bush with her probing questions, on putting the press back into pressure, Joel Klein and Noreen Conell on wooing teachers with homes, and 69 New Yorkers get caught in a Houdini moment over the East River.

Room and Board of Education

Joel Klein, chancellor of the NYC Department of Education,
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Noreen Conell, executive director of the Educational Priorities Panel,
-discuss the Board of Education's plan to subsidize housing for teachers in challenging schools

» Department of Education website
»Education Priorities Panel

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When Press Comes to Shove

Carole Coleman, former Washington correspondent for RTE, the national broadcaster of Ireland, and author of Alleluia America!: An Irish Journalist in Bush Country (Liffey Press, 2006)
- what happens when a member of the foreign press pushes George W. Bush's buttons

»Website for "Alleluia America! An Irish ...

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Keep on Rocking in the Friedman World

Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)
- how America can keep the fat of the land in a flat world getting flatter.

»Thomas Friedman's website

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Long Day's Journey into the City

Sam "Gridlock Sam" Schwartz, New York Daily News traffic columnist,
- on commuters' long distance relationship with Manhattan

» Sam Schwartz's Daily News column

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Condi's Lawyer

On this day when so much attention is focused on the departure of a much-mocked press secretary and Karl Rove's re-assignment, it's worth having a look in at the ever-thoughtful Washington Note, where Steve Clemons dissects a dinner talk given by Condoleezza' Rice's legal advisor, John Bellinger.

A highlight from his comments:

There are a lot of things out there that are just simply wrong. And so I have gone out to Europe to meet with people, to answer questions, to explain the legal framework that we're applying. And I'll just give you one or two examples so you get a sense of the generalities I'm talking about.

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Photo File: Coleman, Friedman


Pushy, sure, but inappropriate? Irish journo Carole Coleman


Tom Friedman, high priest of 'glocalization' and hybrid cars

[Listen to Coleman on the BL Show today. Or to Tom Friedman]

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Required Reading: April 19, 2006

In which (holy moley!) Rove shrinks and McClellan disappears, Bush plans a petro-tussle with Hu, the FBI demands a dead man's papers, airports spurn express lanes for frequent travelers, NYC offers new teachers 15k incentive, police lineups look more unreliable, and The Voice sheds writers.

"McClellan Out as White ...

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