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Clay Risen is an editor at the New York Times, and is the author of A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination. His work has appeared in The New Republic, Smithsonian, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Conventional wisdom says the East German economy is lagging. But its cities may be poised to outpace the west.
MICHELLE RHEE CHARGED IN as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools wielding BlackBerrys and data—and a giant axe. She has made a city with possibly the country’s worst public schools ground zero for education reform, and attracted a cadre of young zealots some critics call “Rhee-bots.” Now the changes that she insists schoolchildren need are colliding head-on with the political wants of adults.
