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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] [ HuffingtonPost.com ] Recommendation: Dumb and Dumber: The Gateses on Parade
The Huffington Post gbracey1@verizon.net has just sent you a piece from HuffingtonPost.com My take on Melinda's Saturday Washington Post op-ed. Gerald Bracey: Dumb and Dumber: The Gateses on Parade Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-bracey/dumb-and-dumber-the-gate_b_67648.html In my entry of September 24, I mentioned that I had written "Yo Bill Gates, If You're So Rich How Come You Ain't Smart" after his 2005 speech to the National Governors Association and that he was at it again in Parade magazine Now, as if to say "Anything you can do I can do worser," comes wifey Melinda on the October 6 op-ed page of The Washington Post Her essay, which would not get a passing mark in a ninth grade writing class opens like so: "Number of students who dropped out of high school last year: 1.1 million Difference between the lifetime earnings of a high school dropout and a college graduate: $1.5 million ... Read the rest at HuffingtonPost.com � 2007 HuffingtonPost.com, LLC
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