Rise and fall of a master

Reason: Stand and Deliver Revisited: The untold story behind the famous rise -- and shameful fall -- of Jaime Escalante, America�s master math teacher.

If any of you are familiar with the movie, or perhaps have heard of Escalante's fabulous work, read this.

'Long war' is breaking down into tedium

'Long war' is breaking down into tedium: "Europeans -- if not yet their political class -- are fed up with switching on the TV and seeing Muslim men jumping up and down and threatening death followed by commentators patiently explaining that the 'vast majority' of Muslims are, of course, impeccably 'moderate.' So what? There were millions of 'moderate' Germans in the 1930s, and a fat lot of good they did us or them."