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In the blink of an eye, a beautiful California day turned upside-down, literally. Christine Lopez and her five year old daughter Leilani were in a terrible crash; their SUV flipped over and landed on its roof. But it wasn't just luck that kept them safe that day. Learn more about the factors that went into keeping Christine and Leilani safe by reading "Saving Leilani" here.
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"We all have our moments," says Yuval Diskin, calm, thoughtful, disturbed. "Maybe you're shaving and you think, 'I make a decision and x number of people are killed.' The power to take lives in an instant, there's something unnatural about it."
The "we" in that compelling statement refers to a very small group of individuals, the men who, like Diskin, have been the heads of Shin Bet, Israel's shadowy, supersecret domestic counterterrorism agency, the men profiled in "The Gatekeepers," an Oscar-nominated documentary potent enough to alter the way you see the world.
"The Gatekeepers" is a coup for Israeli director Dror Moreh, who did what sounds impossible: He persuaded all six living former heads of Shin Bet, the men who ran the agency from 1980 through 2011, to speak publicly for the first time about their work combating violence from both Palestinians and Israelis.
To call the blisteringly candid results eye-opening is not even to scratch the surface.
Riveting from beginning to end, "The Gatekeepers" works in a pair of complementary ways: as a portrait of half a dozen compelling individuals, no two alike, and as a chronological history of the state of Israel from the end of the Six-Day War in 1967 to the present. It's the autobiography of a country, if you will, told by ultimate insiders.
The noteworthy thing about the six is that, though they couldn't be more different -- in fact, they take the occasional sharp jab at each other -- they are alike in a number of intriguing ways.
As befits their occupation, these speakers -- Avraham Shalom, Yaakov Peri, Carmi Gillon, Ami Ayalon, Avi Dichter and Diskin -- are somber, serious and highly intelligent. They're impressive commanders who lack neither the confidence nor the nerve to do whatever the situation demands. Yet these men also demonstrate how soul-destroying it can be for moral individuals and societies to cope with situations that almost mandate behavior that may seem amoral or even immoral. Far from being soulless and uncaring, these complete pragmatists agonize over the right and wrong of what they've done, even if they feel there was no choice.
Interestingly enough, these six also share a belief that a Palestinian state should have been a priority, linked to a kind of disdain for Israeli politicians for not doing more to make it happen. "You knock on doors in the middle of the night, these moments end up etched deep inside you," Peri says. "When you retire, you become a bit of a leftist."
Israel's dilemma began in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, when 1 million Palestinians came under military rule overnight. "When the Arabs surrendered, we had no enemy," recalls Shalom, adding bitingly that when terrorism began, "it was lucky for us: We had work."
Always a controversial figure, even among fellow Shin Bet leaders, Shalom was brought down by 1984's Bus 300 incident. Two Palestinians hijacked the bus from Tel Aviv to Ashkelon. They were captured, interrogated, and then, in an action that caused a huge furor, summarily executed. "We killed them with their hands tied," Ayalon says, still furious.
Shalom talks reluctantly about this incident and clearly feels betrayed by the political establishment. But on one point he is immovable: "With terrorists, there are no morals. In the war against terror, forget about morality."
Not all terrorists, the gatekeepers take pains to point out, are Palestinian. In 1984, Shin Bet arrested militants who came to be known as the Jewish Underground. These men were caught red-handed placing bombs on Palestinian buses in Jerusalem that would have killed hundreds. But because of their political connections to the heart of the Israeli establishment, the perpetrators served minimal prison terms.
The only prime minister credited by the Shin Bet leaders with sincerely believing in a Palestinian state was Yitzhak Rabin, who signed the historic Oslo Accords with Yasser Arafat in 1993 that led directly to perhaps the film's most disturbing section, its examination of the murder of Rabin by an Orthodox Jewish assassin.
"The Gatekeepers" uses expertly selected newsreel footage throughout its length to counterpoint its interviews, and this is especially effective in putting on screen the horrific ways settler activists fomented hatred against Rabin. The interviews with Carmi Gillon, who was the head of Shin Bet during this time, are especially wrenching.
"He changed history, big time," Gillon says of the assassin. "Until today. It gets worse."
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Director: Dror Moreh
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To have at least two people working the Wood County Genealogical Society booth at the Old Settlers' Reunion, we have filled all time spots with at least two workers EXCEPT FOR The following:
Wednesday – 6-7:30 p.m. (1 volunteered so far)
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Bath city councilors are expected to set a deadline Wednesday night for a couple to move out of their condemned home at 45 Windjammer Way.
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As the holiday season kicks off, many of us will start warming up our ovens to bake those cakes, breads, candies and assorted goodies. Living at high altitude provides an extra challenge when following recipes. Although many foods pose few problems, recipes for baked goods developed at sea level can be hard for the cook.Need some expert advice? Come join Eagle Public Library at 6 p.m. on Monday for a special program, "The Science and Art of Food Preparation at Altitude.""At altitudes above 3,500 feet, the preparation of food may require changes in time, temperature and/or ingredients," said Glenda Wentworth, Colorado State University extension agent.Wentworth will offer insights into overcoming those cooking and baking challenges at high altitudes. Topics will include the effects of decreased pressure on food preparation and the adjustments needed.The CSU extension publication, "High Altitude Baking: 200 delicious recipes and tips for great cookies, cakes, breads and more: for people living between 3,500 & 10,000 feet," will be available for purchase. Copies are $14.95.
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We are likely to hear more about the agreement just reached by Google Books which will allow it to scan and put out-of-print books (but not yet of the age to enter the public domain) online for viewing or downloading for pay. Not all of the details were available over at the Google Blog, but this much was clear.
1. The agreement is between Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers and Google. 2. It will apply to all out-of-print books printed after 1923 (thus likely not yet in the public domain). 3. Those who own a legitimate copyright can opt out of the book being offered by Google by a specified date (which was not published in the blog). 4. Those holding that copyright on out-of-print books can establish privacy rights (who can view, etc) and set their own price if the book is priced for selling or withdraw the book altogether. 5. For books whose owners do not opt out, Google can make the book available for viewing or sale at a "reasonable default" price. 6. "This allows access to the many orphan works whose owners have not yet been found and accumulates revenue for the rights holders, giving them an incentive to step forward."
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STANFORD -- Chiney Ogwumike suggested she wanted to be marginalized by a complete team performance. She wanted her Stanford teammates to maximize their play to a level that would diminish her presence.
She got her wish in Tuesday's 74-65 win over North Carolina, sending No. 2-seeded Stanford to the Final Four. Well, kind of.
"I like to be an afterthought sometimes," Ogwumike said. "I think (Tuesday night) I was an afterthought a little bit, which is good because other people were being aggressive."
But the depth of Stanford wasn't the only thing on display. It wasn't just that guards Amber Orrange and Lili Thompson, forwards Mikaela Ruef and Bonnie Samuelson also scored in double figures. It was the dimension they brought to the game: tempo.
The Cardinal is known for its methodic approach. Boasting one of the best post players in the nation, Stanford loves dumping the ball down low and pounding opponents into submission.
North Carolina is the opposite. It speeds up the pace. It shoots quickly, is aggressive defensively and wants to get in the open court. And slowing it up wasn't working.
Stanford's patient, half-court offense was rest for the Tar Heels, at least for the guards. The North Carolina inside players were hanging on Ogwumike like tree ornaments.
"You've got to be physical with her," said associate head coach Andrew Calder, filing in for legendary coach Sylvia Hatchell, who is in remission from a battle with leukemia.
"She is too athletic. She is not as good the further away you push her out. She's outstanding down low. Outstanding."
North Carolina did as good a job as any bottling up Ogwumike. But the game changed when she got her wish, and the supporting cast took the lead.
Orrange started using that smooth ballhandling and calming poise to go at the pesky Carolina defense. She started looking for her shot, knocking down her midrange jumper.
She almost single-handedly kept Stanford in the game after it got into a 13-point hole early.
"Even though we were down, she was playing so well," Thompson said. "She's our point guard. We're going to follow her. She kind of kept us in it until everyone got going."
Then, instead of forcing the ball into Ogwumike, Ruef and Samuelson started taking those open 3s North Carolina begged them to hoist. They made 6 of 12 combined, sending North Carolina's defense into a tizzy of confusion.
On the defensive end, Thompson matched the intensity and peskiness of the Tar Heels formidable guard crop. She forced Diamond DeShields, the best freshman in the country, to rush her shots and settle for difficult jumpers. DeShields -- daughter of longtime major leaguer Delino DeShields -- missed 10 of her 15 shots.
Orrange was also aggressive on the perimeter. Alisha Gray, DeShields' sharpshooting backcourt mate, was 2 of 5 in the second half after not even touching the rim en route to 15 first-half points.
Midway through the second half, the pace, the floor spacing and the aggressiveness favored Stanford. The Cardinal turned an eight-point deficit early in the second half into a six-point advantage. And it did it by making Ogwumike kind of an afterthought and going right back at the Tar Heels.
Eventually, Ogwumike became a forethought. She's too good to stay in the background. She scored 16 of her game-high 20 points in the second half. After Stanford lost the lead with inside of four minutes left, she came up with a clutch block and a layup as the Cardinal reclaimed the lead.
Fittingly, the night was capped with Orrange getting to the basket off the dribble and dropping in a layup with the foul. Ogwumike fell to her knees at her teammates' feet in celebration. Just as you'd expect from an afterthought.
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Neosaurfang, on 16 April 2013 - 12:34 AM, said:
anyone with a working brain should know to respect others. just like fucking idiots that has riots fucking up their own town and other hard working peoples cars, and stores. yeah man. totally right.
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On numerous occasions since I started my Behind the Scenes column, I've been asked, "Have you read Anthony Bourdain's 'Kitchen Confidential'?" To which I always answered, "No." Then the usual banter urging me to read the book ensued. After a respected chef friend of mine recently mentioned the book, I decided it was time to read it. Why not? Amazon makes impulse buying for my iPad so easy. So - on impulse - I bought the book. As I write this, I'm still pouring through it, at times disgusted, at others amused, but at all times intrigued.
Who am I to counter Bourdain's experiences during his lauded career? I've been fortunate in my "amateur career" in noted Vail Valley kitchens to miss the seedier restaurant experiences that fill Bourdain's book, although I'm sure they exist. What I do consistently find are hardworking, often quirky, talented cooks and chefs. I recently found such talent on a hot August Saturday in one of Denver's best restaurants, Luca d'Italia.
Named for acclaimed chef Frank Bonanno's son Luca, this prized member of the Bonanno Concepts family is a small Denver dining jewel on Grant Street around the corner from its Seventh Avenue sister, Mizuna. According to the restaurant's website, its offerings pay homage to Bonanno's Italian roots, including his mother's New Jersey kitchen. Since my early culinary experiences were beside my Sicilian grandmother, it seemed to be the perfect place for me. Needless to say, the lovely dinners I've enjoyed at Luca added to my intrigue and desire to experience this Bonanno kitchen.
With precision, I arrived at straight up noon. After chatting through a brief culinary exploration of Italy with Executive Chef Hunter Pritchett, I was ready to experience the kitchen. For the quantity and quality of what this kitchen produces, it's tiny. Throughout the day and into the frenetic pace of service, I witnessed optimization of space and the ability of chefs, cooks, dishwasher and servers to dance around one another, never missing a beat. These guys were good!
First on Pritchett's list was to make lardo spread. Pritchett handed me a huge metal bowl of lardo - pork fatback cured with salt and herbs such as rosemary. Pritchett uses Berkshire pigs he butchers himself, utilizing nearly everything for one delicious dish or another. My job was to help with the weekly task of grinding and whipping lardo to make "house butter."
As I gingerly placed fatback pieces into the grinder's tube and pushed with a plastic "pusher," I had flashbacks to my grandfather's New Orleans butcher shop. The pusher was not quite my grandfather's beautiful, well-honed piece of wood, but it got the job done.
The grinder spit out long strands of lardo that were then whipped in a huge vertical mixer until the strands merged into a light, smooth paste speckled with bits of fresh rosemary. As he did for the rest of the evening with so many dishes - and with me as a willing recipient - Pritchett gave me a taste of the lardo. For a brief moment, I was back in Italy with house-made lardo spread on equally fresh focaccia. One of life's simple gastronomic pleasures. If I'm going to challenge my body's ability to deal with cholesterol, I'm going to do it with delicious food such as this. Besides, Italians live long, fairly healthy lives, so enjoy! Everything in moderation.
Behind me, chef David Prebish was busy at work with his daily production of grissini. The thin, crunchy flour creations, often mixed with herbs, garlic or cheese, are too delicious to call "breadsticks." Luca's grissini - as tasty and light as their Piemonte cousins - and their focaccia are made daily. On this day, Prebish made more than 300 grissini with fennel seed and Parmesan. But even though grissini are the first to disappear from the wooden bread bowls, the focaccia's delicious, so it's not a national emergency if they run out before you're seated.
While I was mesmerized with my macho grinding task, and totally oblivious to my surroundings, someone flipped on Pandora playing soft rock from '70s as the kitchen filled with chefs and the cooks prepping for evening service. No techno for a change! They all greeted me kindly before returning to the prepping fortresses they had staked out for themselves in the small room.
A word about the kitchen to give you an idea of how it's laid out. The hot line is located along a common wall with the dining room. From the line, Pritchett can keep an eye on the diners - and diners on him - through the small glass window. The small walk-in and freezer are side by side down a short hall from the front of the house to the back entrance. In the room next to the hotline was the kitchen beehive - the garde-manger, dishwasher, prep sinks and counters. It was in that small roughly 20-foot-by-20-foot room that I - the only woman in the kitchen and the oldest of all - happily spent 10 hot hours.
Once Pritchett's full team was assembled, I worked hard to find something I could do. These men were nearly automated as they each worked through their prep lists. They could not have been more generous with their knowledge and patience with my sometime lacking skills. For example, chef Chris Hoffman, who was on his last night before he left for hotel-management studies at University of Denver, called me over to help with the daily production of mozzarella.
I watched as Hoffman poured hot whey into a large bowl filled with Cambria cow's milk curds. After allowing a few minutes for the curds to soften, Hoffman plunged his double-gloved hands into the hot whey, grabbing a large fistful of soft curds. He then expertly worked the curds to form balls, which he then pulled like taffy eight or nine times until the cords were shiny. From there, he rolled the cords back onto themselves to form shiny, smooth balls, which he wrapped tightly in kitchen wrap. Looked simple enough. But it wasn't.
Mozzarella is easy to make, but it has to be done quickly or the curds get waterlogged. Too much pulling and the cords become tough. It's a delicate balance. I was now about to make mozzarella for paying clients in one of Denver's finest restaurants. Oh, the pressure! After a few attempts, each resulting in Hoffman tossing my masterpiece back into the whey, I gave up and just worked like a surgical nurse as I handed him sheets of kitchen wrap. As he approached the last curds - and was obviously satisfied he had enough for service - he urged me to try again. Perhaps I was feeling less pressure or I had watched him repeat the process enough, but whatever it was, I finally made two balls I could be proud of.
As I looked about for more culinary tasks, someone switched the music from my generation's tunes to techno and rap. I knew then that service was approaching.
Suzanne Hoffman is a local attorney, wine importer and the Chambellan Provincial of the Southwest Region and Bailli (president) of the Vail chapter of the Chaine des Rotisseurs. She is passionate about all things gastronomique. For more background information on her "Behind the Scenes" series, go to www.facebook.com/vailvalleysecrets. Email comments about this story to email@example.com.


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Breakfast on Pluto
And I loved it. I haven't had such a purely enjoyable experience of watching a movie in a very long time. It might have been that I was just in the right mood for what Breakfast on Pluto had to offer. But I think there's something more to it.
The movie begins with birds (pretty obviously computer generated). Their conversation is subtitled. "Okay," I said to myself, "this is not a dramatic, sensitive exploration of transgendered life." This is not Boys Don't Cry (never mind director Neil Jordan's earlier Crying Game, a film I haven't seen in a decade, so I can't really compare it). It's not even Stage Beauty, a pretty vapid film with an excellent performance by Billy Crudup as a 16th century actor specializing in women's roles. (Actually, of the various movies about transgendered people I've seen, Breakfast on Pluto is closest to Beautiful Boxer, a movie I liked but thought needed more spirit and panache to be truly effective.)
The over-the-top style of Breakfast on Pluto, kitschy and often flat-out stupid, won me over because it allowed the story a fairy-tale feel, while at the same time Jordan grounded enough moments in some of the grittier elements of reality to create an unsettling and, I found, quite moving dynamic. Cillian Murphy plays Patrick "Kitten" Braden, who since childhood has known he is as much a she as a he. He suffers some of the standard harrassments of any sort of outsider as he grows up, but from childhood he has a puckish, mischievous, and optimistic attitude that is sometimes downright Panglossian, at other times remarkably subversive. Kitten's character doesn't progress -- she doesn't learn from her mistakes or gain insight and wisdom or anything else. This is more a story of her effect on the world than of the world's effect on her.
The story is, indeed, picaresque, and that structure is inherently episodic and even, yes, coy. But handled audaciously, it's also a lot of fun, and can accomplish more than a traditional structure would have. Halfway through the movie, I realized that I was translating the events into a separate story in my head: I was imagining a painful, naturalistic story underneath the one being presented by the film, and so the film became a kind of dreamworld that the "real" Kitten in my mind used as an escape. Now and then there would be cracks, and the two stories -- the one I was watching and the one I was imagining beneath it -- would reveal themselves to each other, most notably in a scene where Kitten is being roughed up in an interrogation room by London cops. Here, as she is being beaten, she fights desperately to hold onto the personality she has constructed. The scene that follows, where she is finally released and pleads to be locked up again for the "security" the cell provides her, is heartbreaking.
The movie is a story of a grand defense mechanism, of the self Kitten has constructed as armor against a world that is, she says, too serious -- a world that considers her a freak, an abomination, a degenerate. A world that kills her friends and steals her mother and prevents her from ever achieving love. Some critics have contended that Kitten is desexed, that, as in so many heterosexist films and books, the queer is acceptable so long as she or he isn't sexualized, but I don't see that as being quite the case here. Kitten's persona distances her from the world of sex, but so does the world itself, because she isn't able to find a path toward a real relationship. She has plenty of friends, plenty of people who adore and, yes, love her, but no lover she can hold onto, because she cannot fit comfortably into a neat category, and she lives in a world that requires, legislates, and enforces its categories so vehemently as to make anything outside those categories invisible and even unimaginable.
The ending of Breakfast on Pluto is uplifting and fun and joyful, but it is willfully so -- if we stop and think about what life Kitten will lead after the credits cease to roll, it does not seem like a particularly fulfilling one, because though she has found some acceptance and joy, she doesn't seem to have many avenues for emotional fulfillment -- despite her experiences in London, she seems to have resigned herself to living as if she is the only person like herself in the world.
Or maybe I'm just imposing a depressing reading on the happy ending, because I find unambiguously happy endings so unconvincing. But I can envision another happy ending -- perhaps Kitten and Charlie will decide not only to raise Charlie's baby together, but to become lovers and live out the rest of their days together. (Actually, since Kitten never had sex reassignment surgery, she and Charlie could be married, because going purely on the basis of genitalia, they are man and woman.)
Meanwhile, I'm just going to start using one of my favorite lines from the movie on random people: "If I wasn't a transvestite terrorist, would you marry me?"
Update 4/20/06: A commenter points to Roz Kaveney's interesting LJ posts about the film and the book, with some mention of TransAmerica as well. Here's the first, and here, after having read the book, is the second. Pretty different interpretation and experience from mine (as would be expected), but fascinating and much more insightful than anything I could offer.
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- Anonymous4/20/2006 8:46 AM
Roz Kaveny (who should know about these things) has written several times about how she enjoyed "Breakfast on Pluto" and also about her own experiences from the same timeReplyDelete
I thought it was all quite enjoyable with a real emotion foundation – a sort of fluffy meringue with a concrete base. Stephen Rea really caught the end-of-the-pier contrived showmanship, and Brendan Gleeson was great fun as a hooligan Womble. It was also nice to see a film where Liam Neeson doesn't die in the second reel, although it was a bit touch-and-go at one point.
Interesting post...I haven't seen this movie, though I want to. Sometimes I like, I'll admit, when things waver in tone or voice or are over-the-top and messy in their construction. A little more Moby Dick, and a little less slick and tied-together the way so many stories/novels/movies are these days. You know?ReplyDelete
I hate when people say things like "these days." But I did it anyway. Feh.
Very much enjoyed your post, especially your focus on the split narrative -- Kitten's fantasy life (evidentally made real despite what we suspect would much more likely have happened to her) vs. glimpses of bleakness (you note the interrogation scenes, yes, though these end with the officers swayed to her sympathies; I think of Kitten begging them to stay in jail).ReplyDelete
I confess I did agree with critics who point out that Kitten is desexualized. Certainly, we know there's sex going on, but the degree to which I asked myself what was or wasn't happening with lovers brought me to the reality of the film's decision to show too little intimacy (and when intimacy was shown, there was ridicule too, such as the band members looking out of the window and making disgusted faces whenever Kitten was around their frontman).
Thank you for giving me more food for thought about the film.


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What is Montessori?
Montessori is an evidence-based, empirically-validated, student-centered and time-tested approach to education, named for Dr. Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy and a pioneer in the study of child development and psychology. Many of Montessori's discoveries, at the time controversial, are now considered common knowledge in the fields of child development and education. A humanitarian and devout Catholic, she was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1907, Montessori founded the Casa dei Bambini, a school for mentally ill and disabled children in Rome. At that time, the mentally and physically challenged were usually believed to be incapable of academic learning. However, Montessori found that when offered the appropriate environment, guidance and materials, the students were capable of great things. Observing that that all young children have an innate curiosity and desire to learn, Montessori said: "free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."
Based upon her scientific observations, Montessori dramatically transformed the prevailing approach to education for all children. "It is not true that I invented what has been called the Montessori Method. I have studied the child, I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method," she said.
History of Montessori education and the Montessori movement
Extraordinary Women: Maria Montessori
Montessori today: the original "brain-based" education
Today, neuroscience confirms what Dr. Montessori discovered a century ago. "Montessori is the original brain-based approach to education because it is based upon scientific principles of human development," says Dr. Stephen Hughes, past president of the American Academy for Pediatric Neuroscience.
Montessori has grown to be the single largest pedagogy and education movement in the world, with an estimated 20,000 schools on six continents, including 5,000 in the United States. While many specialize in preschool (ages 3 to 6) education, Montessori programs can start at birth and go through 12th grade.
Most Montessori schools are private, nonprofit, non-sectarian organizations, but a growing number of religious and public schools (500 in the United States) are also adopting the program. The largest school of any kind in the world, City Montessori in Lucklow, India, has more than 50,000 students!
What makes Montessori different?
"When it comes to education, one-size-fits-all doesn't," says explains MMS Co-Director Suzanne Sanders.
Dr. Montessori developed her unique education approach more than a century ago and she was a woman ahead of her time, Sanders says.
"She realized that, ideally, children should learn at their own pace and be driver by their own interests with adults as guides. For instance, a child who interested in automobiles would learn best about mathematics and science while researching what makes a car run. Montessori education allows children to follow their own paths to develop socially and emotionally as well as academically."
Frequently asked questions about Montessori education
The Montessori classroom: a laboratory for learning
The Montessori classroom is a "laboratory for learning," designed around the intellectual, social and emotional needs of children at each stage of their development.
Students are grouped in three-year age spans in the same classroom: parent-infant (ages 0 to 3), preschool (ages 3 to 6), lower and upper elementary (ages 6 to 9 and 9 to 12), and middle school (ages 12 to 15). Each of these environments is designed to accurately and precisely reflect the natural learning characteristics of the child at that stage of development. Through the use of the prepared environment, research-based materials and guidance by the trained Montessori teacher, children engage in a wide variety of tasks that encourage critical thinking, social interaction and practice with applying logical problem-solving skills — all at the level that is developmentally appropriate for the child's specific stage. Children learn the how and why of what they know as well they gain a rich storehouse of knowledge about the world.
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Did you know that the founders of Google, Wikipedia and Amazon all attended Montessori schools? The Harvard Business Review even calls the CEOs who run America's top companies the "Montessori mafia." That's because Montessori nurtures the skills needed for success the 21st century: innovation, problem-solving, collaboration and curiosity.
It shouldn't be surprising then, that Montessori graduates were noticeably over-represented in a six-year study of successful executives who had either invented new products or launched innovative companies. The study, conducted by Professors Jeffrey Dyer of Brigham Young University and Hal Gregersen of INSEAD, involved 500 individual interviews and surveys of 3,000 global innovators. Among their notable characteristics were a Montessori education and the ability to follow their curiosity. "To paraphrase the famous Apple ad campaign, innovators not only learned early on to think 'different,' they act different," said Gregersen in a Wall Street Journal article.
"It was part of that training of not following rules and orders and being self-motivated, questioning what's going on in the world, doing things a little bit differently," explained Google co-founder (and Montessori alumnus) Larry Page in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters in a 2007 interview.
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Some may attribute the success of Montessori students to their families' socio-economic status, parental educational attainment and involvement or other factors, but a landmark study of inner-city Milwaukee students with comparable backgrounds found that Montessori students outperformed peers on standardized tests in reading and math, "engaged in more positive interaction on the playground and showed more advanced social cognition and executive control." The study, reported in the September 29, 2006, issue of "Science," also found that in higher grades, Montessori-educated children "wrote more creative essays with more complex sentence structures, selected more positive responses to social dilemmas and reported feeling more a sense of community at their school."
Does it work? Montessori outcomes
What do students say?
"The thing I like best about my school is that here are all kinds of people there from so many places and I'm friends with them all. I make new friends every day. The adults lift you. They encourage you, not discourage you," says Chace Boland, a primary student. "I love working on maps and I love working on Practical Life activities. My mom says she didn't know about the maps of the world at my age, and the only continent I have left to do is Africa!"
"We are independent and get to take care of our environment," notes River Schroeder-Neal, a lower elementary student,
"It's not sit down, book, paper, pencil. It's get your hands on it. Do it. Figure it out," explains seventh-year student Jamie Coleman, who collaborated with classmates on a project to map the historic Carriage Trail in South Hills. Hands-on, student-led projects in "real world" settings are one of the hallmarks of Montessori.
"When people are talking to you, you've kind of got a picture of what it is, but you're not really sure. Having the outdoor experience and doing what they're actually teaching is much better and you have more understanding and learn a lot more," added student Jasmine Phillips.
What do parents say?
"We are living in an age of knowledge. Only the highly educated will be positioned to succeed," explains Brian Glasser, a Rhodes Scholar and founding partner of the law firm of Bailey & Glasser LLP. All four of his children attended Mountaineer Montessori. "The Montessori method gives children the intellectual discipline to understand how learning is a personal responsibility."
Sarah Halstead, the mother of a primary student, agrees. "Our son has learned so much in his first year and he's so excited about learning. We appreciate the focus on personal responsibility and accountability and the emphasis on caring for others. The nature of the lessons in different topical areas offer Chace and other kids amazing opportunities to ask questions, to work independently, and together to explore and experiment and master information and skills that are so important to life. We can't imagine a better, more loving and intellectually stimulating place for our child."
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What do teachers say?
Montessori schools create a space that allows educators to be the teachers they wanted to be in the first place.
The focus is much more on "leading children toward independence, with more freedom to go where they need to go rather than where the testing goes," says an MMS lead teacher with previous public school experience.
"Instead of just checking boxes for a list of standards, a Montessori education guides children to discover and become who they were meant to be."
The history of Montessori education
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Association Montessori Internationale
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"The Absorbent Mind," by Maria Montessori
"Together with Montessori" by Cam Gordon
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Frank Malabe was born on November 28, 1940, to Luis, a merchant seaman, and Frances, a housewife. Of his mother, Frank has said, "She's only seen me play, at most, six times. But if she hears a recording I'm in, she can instantly tell it's me." Raised in East Harlem, the neighborhood universally known to Latinos as "El Barrio", Frank's youth was spent playing stickball, fishing for catfish in Central Park and hanging out with "homies" like Willie Bobo.
When he was eight, Frank became inspired by a neighborhood musician known as "Don Pulli," who whistled tunes and used a cheese grater as a guiro and a box for a conga. By the time he was ten, Frankie had saved enough money from working at a bodega and a dry cleaners to buy his first conga drum for $35.00. Veteran player Ray Armando, knowing of Frankie's interest in percussion, gave him some pointers, as did bongocero Bobby Flash. The legendary Cuban guitarist Arsenio Rodriguez would offer encouragement, as would his brother, percussionist Quique.
For the next five years Frank practiced seven hours a day and jammed in impromptu rumbas on 110th street and Fifth Avenue with such players as "Little Ray" Romero, Tommy Lopez Sr., Changuito, Kako, and José "Buyu" Mangual. Frank once recalled, "Mangual would carry his bongos in a paper bag, since we didn't have things like cases in those days." Many of the city's greatest Latin drummers would leave their congas at Frankie's home, a first-floor apartment.
Inspired by congueros Candido, Mongo Santamaría, and his greatest influence, Carlos "Patato" Valdez, Frank began working with multiple drums. His first professional experience was with another youngblood from El Barrio, timbalero Angel Rene. He then went to work with two vibraharpist/bandleaders, Harvey Averne and Dr. Pete Terrace, with whom he would make his first recordings.
In 1958, Frank became one of the first congueros to experiment with a fiberglass conga drum built by an instrument-maker known as Mesa. By this point, he had fully refined his multiple-conga technique, largely inspired by virtuoso conguero Gene Blackwell who, according to Frank, "would do incredible things with five drums." Another important influence was the trumpeter/arranger/composer Marty Sheller, who introduced Frank to jazz and the coordinated independence then being developed by Latin drummers such as Willie "Wee Ya" Rodriguez and Jimmy "La Vaca" Santiago. By the age of twenty, he was recording and performing with Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, and the famed Alegre All-Stars.
In his long and influential career, Frank had worked with such diverse groups as the Munich Symphony and the La Playa Sextette, and Latin and Latin jazz pioneers and innovators such as Celia Cruz, Jorge Dalto, Charlie and Eddie Palmieri, Johnny Pacheco, Dave Valentin, Jon Lucien, Randy Carlos, Bob Mintzer, and the ensemble Frank is most often associated with, the Larry Harlow Orchestra.
Frank was always interested in passing along his knowledge of the Latin musical tradition. In 1977, he joined the teaching staff of Drummers Collective, a world-renowned learning center for drumset and percussion, and The Harbor Performing Arts Center, a repository of the history and culture of Latin music that provides low-cost musical instruction to the community. At both of these schools, Frank delved into traditional Latin-American rhythms as well as the creative possibilities of applying these to the drumset. Among those who have benefitted from Frank's instruction are such word-class drummers as Peter Erskine, Gregg Bissonette, Michael Shrieve and Kim Plainfield.
In 1990, Frank co-authored the groundbreaking study guide Afro-Cuban Rhythms For The Drumset with Bob Weiner, a drummer/percussionist well-versed in various ethnic styles and a music historian. This book has received widespread critical acclaim and is quickly becoming the standard drummer's sourcebook for these important styles.
Frank Malabe was not only an ambassador for Latin music but also a messenger of creativity, self-expression and acceptance. In many ways his life had come full circle. He began as a self-taught musician, rose to the top of his field as a player, and devoted much of his later life to teaching. His message will live on in his book, his students, his numerous recordings, and in each of us who knew him.
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Wednesday night's rivalry game between No. 8 Duke and North Carolina has been postponed due to a storm that brought enough snow and ice to paralyze many area roads.
A makeup date hasn't been set yet. The decision came about 3½ hours before the teams were scheduled to tip at 9:10 p.m.
UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham said in a statement that Duke's bus wasn't able to make it to the Durham campus to pick up the Blue Devils for the 11-mile drive to Chapel Hill. He called the postponement "the best decision to make at this time" due to safety concerns.
Atlantic Coast Conference policy states that games will go in during bad weather if teams, officials and operations staffers can make it to the venue.
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Cal has added women's sand volleyball as an intercollegiate sport, to make its debut March 9 when the Bears visit Pacific. Cal's first home match will be March 14 against San Jose State.
The Bears will play seven dual matches and participate in two tournaments during the season. The competition format features five doubles matches per event, and each match consists of a best 2-out-of-3 sets.
The Bears will play their home matches at the Clark Kerr sand volleyball facility. The roster will be made up of players from Cal's current indoor volleyball team as well as non-scholarship athletes who play sand volleyball. Women's indoor volleyball coach Rich Feller will oversee the program.
Cal is one of eight Pac-12 schools to add the program, joining Stanford, USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon and Washington.


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On the biggest stage he was masterful, completing 20-of-28 passes for 264 yards and 4 TDs in Bama's dominating BCS Championship Bowl win over Notre Dame.
After all was said and done, his TD/INT ratio was 10:1 (30 touchdowns, 3 interceptions).
His completion percentage and yards per attempt were exceptional last year at 67.2-percent and 9.3 YPA, respectively.
McCarron has re-branded himself to NFL scouts from the "Greg McElroy-game-manager" type to a legit starting QB prospect at the next level.
3) Jake Matthews, LT, Texas A&M – Grade: 28.8 (9.5 T / 9.5 Prod / 9.8 Proj)
Matthews comes from one of the greatest football families in history. His dad is Hall of Fame tackle Bruce Matthews. His brother, Kevin, also played at A&M. His uncle Clay Matthews, like his dad, played 19 NFL seasons and went to four Pro Bowls. He also has two cousins currently in the NFL. Clay Matthews III is one of the best pass rushers in the game, and his other cousin Casey is on the Philadelphia Eagles roster.
Jake will be the next to join the list, and he'll likely do so as one of the top three picks in the 2014 NFL Draft.
Last season, Matthews manned the right tackle spot because Luke Joeckel – the No. 2 overall pick in the 2013 draft – was the incumbent at left tackle.
Even with Joeckel at the left spot, many scouts and coaches think Matthews was, is, and will be the superior player.
His gene pool would suggest that's probably a wise assumption.
2) Johnny Manziel, QB, Texas A&M – Grade: 29.0 (10.0 T/ 10.0 Prod/ 9.0 Proj)
One more time, just so they sink in: 3,706 passing yards, 26 TD, 9 INT
1,409 rushing yards, 21 TD
1 Heisman Trophy
The only thing holding Johnny Football back is how his talent translates to the next level.
He's already established himself as one of the greatest college football players of all-time, and I don't think that's hyperbole.
No one has ever had a freshman season in the same stratosphere as Manziel's in 2012.
But at just 6-feet-1 and with unspectacular arm strength, will his magic run out at the next level, or is he the next Russell Wilson? Judging by his tweets this offseason, we may find out in 2014…
1) Jadaveon Clowney, DE, S. Carolina – Grade: 30.0 (10.0 T / 10.0 Prod / 10.0 Proj)
He's a full point better than the Johnny Football.
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The recent Tribeca Film Festival in New York unveiled two brilliant new Irish films (both about Irish cops, as it happens). Writer and director John Michael McDonagh's The Guard, starring Brendan Gleeson, will be released in July. And in a nice bit of symmetry, Gleeson also plays a guard in Noreen, an atmospheric short film written and directed by his Harry Potter starring son Domhnall. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to the two talented directors currently making waves in Irish film.
Brendan Gleeson is the most accomplished Irish actor of his generation. Let's just get out of the way.
If you still have any lingering doubts about it they'll be dispelled when you catch his lovely, understated performance as a tough on the surface Garda inspector (Irish police officer) in writer and director John Michael McDonagh's entertaining new Irish film The Guard.
McDonagh (who's the older, wiser brother of playwright Martin McDonagh) obviously agrees that Gleeson is something special, because he's cast him in every one of his projects past (The Guard) and future (Calvary, where Gleeson will play a priest grappling with the contempt of his local Irish community).
The Guard received an ovation at the Tribeca Festival because McDonagh has managed to craft one of the smartest scripts in years. The film tells the story of Galway-based smalltime cop Gerry Boyle, the little policeman with the biggest attitude in the west.
On the surface Boyle's a crass, thoughtless, tactless and frequently unbelievably insulting oaf -- ah, but underneath he may well be the smartest guy ever to wear the uniform.
When an FBI agent (Don Cheadle) arrives in town tracking a billion dollar drugs shipment, an unlikely friendship forms between the straight arrow U.S. agent and the loose cannon Irish cop.
But McDonagh explodes this clichéd storyline with some genuinely dark and unsettling developments (it's an anarchic impulse that he shares with his playwright brother).
If Ireland could produce a punk rock version of the Coen brothers' Fargo, this is probably the closest thing to seeing what it would look like. By turns heartwarming and surprisingly nasty, The Guard is a hilarious and deeply unsettling film that has given Gleeson his most ambitious role in years.
So was McDonagh satisfied with the cheering from the audience when the film premiered at Tribeca?
"It was good," he tells the Irish Voice, with typical understatement.
"Different audiences laugh at different jokes. The only thing I was really worried about in New York was how the anti-PC humor in the film would play. At Sundance it's a Middle America audience, but they seemed to go along with it too.
"I saw a lot of dropped jaws. The presence of Don Cheadle helps with that kind of comedy (Cheadle is the target of Gleeson's racist barbs in the film). If he wasn't there there'd be a different edge to it."
Like his brother Martin, McDonagh was raised in London and speaks with an inner city accent, but he also knows the Irish-speaking Connemara district his parents were raised in like the back of his hand.
In fact, few films in recent years have captured rural Ireland the way it actually is like The Guard.
McDonagh shows it in all its rainy, grey, bog covered brilliance, a landscape that's a million miles from the kind of epic Lord of the Rings grandeur that's usually seen in the films made for tourists.
When McDonagh introduced The Guard during the royal wedding week he joked that the horses in Buckingham Palace have more sense than the people whose golden carriages they're pulling. This statement drew shocked gasps from the American audience, which McDonagh enjoyed.
"They assume everyone in Britain loves the royal family," says McDonagh with a big grin. "The concept that there could be an anti-monarchist political movement is just kind of anathema to them."
McDonagh has filled The Guard with good jokes.
"I sometimes get criticisms that I write films with too many witty characters. But I don't believe that working class people can never say something intelligent, and also I do it to keep it interesting as I'm writing it. I like throwing in all those references to the Russian novelists," he says.
Villains in thrillers aren't usually bored, but McDonagh enjoys giving audiences the opposite of what they expect.
"We never see a villain who doesn't get along with the people he's with, who doesn't want to be there anymore. It's just his job and he has to follow it through. In a way my villain is sort of relieved to be killed, because it puts him out of his boredom," he offers.
The big anti-PC gags get big laughs, too. Speaking about the black FBI agent played by Cheadle, Boyle says, "He probably hasn't had this much fun since he killed all those kids at Waco."


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Why Am I Hopeless At Remembering?
Posted 07 June 2004 - 10:06 AM
Maybe this sounds like a really stupid question, I don't know, but I have been studying history since the beginning of this year and am finding it really difficult! I spend ages reading and re-reading all my notes and when it come to the exam I remember nothing! and I end up failing each time! Even in class I feel lost when others seem to be graspin it, I feel like I spend enough time revising, but why do I not remember anything?? In fact it is like this for me in all my subjects, even though I consider myself to be a dedicated student. What can I do? I am really worried about my exams later in the year. I am currently in sixth form and studying The Weimar republic and Nazi Germany. ANY help or advice would be sooooooo gratefully recieved, I'm desperate to be like all the other people in my classes My dad thinks that straight up, i have ineffective ways of studying, but I really don't know, HELP!
Many Thanks
Posted 07 June 2004 - 11:54 AM
Hello Tiger Lily. Welcome to the Forum.
....... I spend ages reading and re-reading all my notes and when it come to the exam I remember nothing! and I end up failing each time! .........
My dad thinks that straight up, i have ineffective ways of studying, but I really don't know, HELP!
It sounds to me as if your Dad is right and that your study methods are indeed ineffective - and also that your confidence in your abiity to "be like all the other students" has been badly shaken. Yet you are clearly quite an able girl; you must be if you have got this far in the education system.
I suspect that your study methods are completely wrong for your own preferred Learning Style (more on that in a moment) and in any case if what you really do is just read and re-read through your notes then they are certainly very passive. ie You are not doing anything active with the information to make it 'stick.'
You may also being taught in a way which is not at all sympathetic to your preferred learning style
Learning Styles
Briefly - people have different ways of learning.
Some absorb and remember info well by listening to it. They are aural learners. For them reading their notes out loud and recording them on an audio cassette or one of those little dictaphone machines can work well. You can then play the tape over and over again when every you like - just like you might with your favourite music. If, say, you find dates/main events difficult to learn you can record a list of these leaving a gap on the tape after each date/event allowing you the time to mutter the answer under your breath.
Other people are good visual learners. They learn well by converting information into 'picture' form. For them Mind Maps or spider diagrams work well because they can see the connection between things more clearly. Colour coding your notes works well too eg if you make a Mind Map of the factors explaining Hitler's Rise to Power not only can you draw little pictures alongside the brief notes on your diagram (eg a little graph for the impact of rising unemployment) and group all the 'economic factors' together, you can also colour all the economic factors (say) green. You can also colour code written notes in a similar sort of way.
Other people are kinesthetic learners. They learn best when they can associate information with a particular place and when their learning involves physical movement. So ... a simple example of this is to put cards with summaries of information that you are trying to learn stuck (with Blutac!) in different parts of a room. One on the door, one on a wall, one on the TV etc. You then actually move round the room and read the info. out loud/test your self. Later when you recall the info. you associate it with where you were in the room.
If you find it hard to remember basic info like names and dates. Get a stack of Index cards and write one date on one side of the card and the event on the other, or the person's name on one side and the key facts about them on the other. You can carry these round with you and go through a few at any time (eg on the school bus?) and even use them to play simple testing 'games' with your friends. You can stick a few (not too many) at a time on the back of your bedroom door and play a game with yourself: "I can't leave the room til I can remember these"
Do you see how everything Ihave said above actually involves you doing something active with the information? What ever sort of learner you are you need to do something with what you are trying to learn. Even making note-form summaries of each main topic wil help because things always 'stick' better when your brain, your hand and your eyes are all involved at once. The method you said you used is totally passive and that is almost certainly why you are not studying effectively.
How do you know what sort of Learner you are?
A very simple 'test':
Are you a musician? Can you pick up and 'hold' a tune very quickly? If so you are likely to be an aural learner.
Do you love colour, shapes and patterns? Are you an artist/artistic? if so you are likely to be a visual learner.
Do you love sport and physical activity? Are you bored by sitting still for very long? If so you are likely to be a kinesthetic learner.
Many people are a combination of these learning types (I know I am) so you may ffind that a combination of different study methods will work best for you.
I hope that has helped?
You could also read the following previous messages on the Forum here:
and follow up the links given by Mr Clare in his message in that thread.
Do post again if you have further questions as I am sure that others reading this thread will be facing similar problems.
Posted 07 June 2004 - 06:55 PM
How do I learn best?
The Help Sheets on the same site are useful too for help with Study Skills that suit your own Learning Style.
Posted 08 June 2004 - 09:58 AM
Many thanks for your help! I did the questionnaire on one of the links you posted and my score was:
Visual: 4
Aural: 4
Read/Write: 7
Kinesthetic: 1
As you said it must be a matter of actually doing something more active whilst studying, so I'm going to try a few different methods and see if that helps!
Thanks again!
Posted 08 June 2004 - 11:18 AM
If you haven't already looked at the relevant 'Help' sheets on the site where you did the Questionnaire, then I suggest you do.
It would be great to hear how you get on.
Good Luck!
Posted 22 June 2004 - 03:02 PM
Visual: 2
Aural: 10
Read/Write: 8
Kinesthetic: 11
The conclusion was Multimodal learner. So, I'm confused.
Posted 22 June 2004 - 03:12 PM
No need to be confused. It just means that you do not have any one clear preference so the methods suggested in that site's Help Sheets for your 3 higher scoring results will all help you to learn effectively. It'll be a matter of experimenting to see what works best for you.
The conclusion was Multimodal learner. So, I'm confused.
The low score for Visual (2) suggests that Mind Mapping and other such methods will not work so well for you.
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Seib & Co.: What We're Reading Monday
Blame Polarization for Tepid Economic Growth?
By David Wessel
Chalk up another reason to worry about intensifying political polarization.
There has been a running argument among economists on the extent to which uncertainty over U.S. government policy –taxes, spending and regulation – is a big reason the economy has been so distressingly sluggish.
In a skirmish over the weekend at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, Harvard's Larry Summers challenged the case that uncertainty is a big problem: Do I want my doctor to be "consistently predictable or responsive to" a particular health emergency, he asked. Better, he answered, to have a doctor "evaluating my condition and responding appropriately."
Stanford's John Taylor responded: "It's great to have the all-knowing doctor," but history bears out that the economy does better when policy is "predictable…and rules-based."
Now the leading advocates of the case that uncertainty over policy is hurting the economy – a band of academics from Stanford, and the University of Chicago – have come up with a new hypothesis: Political polarization is adding to the uncertainty that is hurting the economy.
The partisan divide, they argue in a paper presented at the AEA meetings, leads consumers, businesses and investors to expect "more extreme policies, less policy stability and less capacity of policy makers to address pressing problems."
An index of policy uncertainty that these economists created from surveys of newspaper articles shows an increase in uncertainty over economic policy in recent decades that parallels the increase in various measures of political polarization, both in Congress and among voters.
While the American system of checks and balances has long been seen as a way to produce stability because it tends to preserve the status quo, that isn't always true – especially when something like a looming debt ceiling or an unsustainable budget deficit requires a change in the status quo.
This creates "tension that leads to high-stakes bargaining scenarios in which players face political incentives for brinksmanship that in turn generate high levels of uncertainty," the economists say.
That is obvious to anyone who has been paying attention to Washington lately, but there's more:
The economists also argue that presidents of both parties have politicized the bureaucracy by appointing partisan loyalists and shifting key decisions to White House staff not subject to confirmation. That means that regulatory policy tends to swing sharply whenever the presidency changes parties.
There are various explanations for the well-documented polarization trend: the way congressional districts are drawn, the changing political geography of the U.S. in which Democrats tend to represent the post-industrial urban core and inner suburbs while Republicans represent outer suburbs and rural areas, the proliferation of media outlets with well-defined and opposing political viewpoints (Fox News vs. MSNBC) and the widening of income inequality.
The economists don't have a firm view on why there's more polarization – and they caution that while they find polarization and uncertainty are rising at the same time, they can't prove one causes the other.
The latest uncertainty research was done by Stanford's Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Jonathan Rodden; Princeton's Brandice Canes-Wrone, and Steven Davis of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
David Wessel is a contributing correspondent to The Wall Street Journal and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
Recommended reading from around the Web:
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers (@LHSummers) explores options to restore sustainable economic growth and concludes that the wisest one is to pursue government policies explicitly designed to raise demand: "To start, this means ending the disastrous trends toward ever less government spending and employment each year and taking advantage of the current period of economic slack to renew and build out our infrastructure." [Washington Post]
Amy Davidson (@tnyCloseRead) explores whether Edward Snowden should be denied amnesty because, as some claim, he took an oath to protect American secrets. She notes that Snowden says he didn't—that he merely signed an employment agreement acknowledging he understood American laws—and that those who raise the oath argument actually have broader reasons to oppose forgiving Snowden. [New Yorker]
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has surprised American officials with the extent of his support for the proposal for peace with Palestinians offered by Secretary of State John Kerry; Lieberman said over the weekend that Israel must accept Kerry's proposal for a framework agreement because "any other proposal from the international community won't be as good." [Haaretz]
Forbes revives its 1991 profile of Jordan Belfort, the then-young man who is the subject of the new movie "The Wolf of Wall Street." It noted, before Belfort was deep into legal problems, that he had created a firm that "specializes in pushing dicey stocks on gullible investors." [Forbes]
Maggie Haberman (@maggiepolitico) details Hillary Clinton's shadow campaign and the controversies already brewing within. With super PACs clashing on how best to prepare for her campaign and some of her closest advisers advising her not to run, Clinton faces a difficult decision. "No one around her is under any illusions," one Clinton insider said. [Politico]
Midterm elections will likely signify a return to an early-20th-century trend in which Americans almost always voted for the Senate candidate in the same party as their presidential choice, Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) predicts. That trend brings with it fewer Senate deal makers and more frequent switches in majority control, resulting in even more Senate polarization, he writes. [National Journal]
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