Apparently, Idaho’s senator Larry Craig was attempting to do a little unauthorized “exit polling” in a public restroom recently:
Sen. Larry Craig said that he “overreacted and made a poor decision” in pleading guilty to disorderly conduct after his June arrest following an incident in a Minneapolis airport bathroom.
Tuesday, in his first public statement on the arrest, the Idaho Republican said (more…)
This is some troubling news: Reading skills among U.S. students graduating from high school this year fell to the lowest since 1994 as measured by the most widely taken college-entrance exam.
Reading scores on the SAT declined 1 point to 502 after a 5- point drop last year, the test’s operator, the College Board, reported today. The decline in 2006 had been the largest in three decades. Average (more…)
Robert Amsterdam and Sean’s Russia Blog link to Novaya Gazeta’s recently launched English-language site featuring translations of some of their investigative stories. Sean wrote in a reply to a reader: “The more Russian media accessible to English readers the better.”
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The Romanian edition of Esquire is to be launched next week. Owlspotting writes: “Esquire will be a novelty on the Romanian magazine market, and the first outlet to promote long-form writing and narrative journalism. These forms are almost inexistent in Romania.”
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