Michelle Wie…
Friday, January 16, 2004 ·
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shot a 2-under 68 Friday and finished 36 holes at even par. Unfortunately she missed the cut — by one stroke — but so did Appleby.
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Gettysburg
Friday, January 16, 2004 ·
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NewMexiKen today finished Stephen W. Sears’ history of the Gettysburg campaign. Nice piece of work; thorough yet readable for the most part. Surely the best one-volume study of the battle.
Sears has an altogether appropriate bias for the Union Army. Meade did well, especially considering it was his first few days as head of the Army of the Potomac. Hancock and artillery commander Hunt were particularly invaluable. Lee was careless and probably arrogant; Ewell and, particularly, Hill worthless; cavalry commander Stuart fatally absent until too late.
As an aside, this reader did end up, however, wondering if the term “fog of war” doesn’t apply more to battlefield history than it does to the original confusion of battle. There’s just too many 147th New Yorks and 23rd North Carolinas and General Goodoldboys and Colonel Whosits. Not sure how to untangle this morass other than reading battle histories with a lap full of charts and maps and orders of battle.
The New York Times Rage-O-Meter
Friday, January 16, 2004 ·
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New York blogger Aaron Bailey has launched a Times Rage-O-Meter to record how angry people are toward the Times.
The Quiz
Friday, January 16, 2004 ·
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NewMexiKen stumbled and scored just 7 correct out of 10. Take The Week Quiz.
Teacher faces firing for hitting children
Friday, January 16, 2004 ·
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From The Arizona Republic
The Scottsdale School Board moved Thursday to fire a teacher who it said hit students for speaking Spanish in class instead of English.
Kim Youngblood, who teaches English Language Learner students, told district investigators in a report released Thursday that she was enforcing the district’s English immersion program and did not intend to injure the children.
Youngblood, who taught seventh-graders at Ingleside Middle School, described the physical contact as “a gentle touch on the shoulders or a tap on the wrist.”
The Scottsdale Unified School District investigation said Youngblood hit eight students at the east Phoenix school. The district said the hits ranged from slaps on the forearm to strikes with a pen. Some children said they were hit multiple times.
NewMexiKen can remember a particular nun he ran across in the 6th grade who should have been fired.
Bush Lightyear
Friday, January 16, 2004 ·
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Paul Krugman has a “Money-saving suggestion: let’s cut directly to the scene where Mr. Bush dresses up as an astronaut, and skip the rest of his expensive, pointless — but optimistic! — Moon-base program.”
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