1.Training T-Shirt - I have plenty of race shirts, but this NYC Marathon shirt that arrived in the mail yesterday is the first time I’ve ever seen a “training shirt.”
2. How Law Schools Completely Misrepresent Their Job Numbers - Paul Campos, a Law Professor at the University of Colorado, has written a very depressing article in The New Republic on the job opportunities for young lawyers…
Many law schools all but explicitly promise that, within a few months of graduation, practically all their graduates will obtain jobs as lawyers, by trumpeting employment figures of 95 percent, 97 percent, and even 99.8 percent. The truth is that less than half will…
When we take temporary employment into account, it appears that approximately 45 percent of 2010 graduates of this particular top-50 law school had real legal jobs nine months after graduation. And the overall number is likely lower, since it seems probable that the temporary employment figures for the graduates of almost any top 50 school would be better than the average outcome for the graduates of the 198 ABA-accredited law schools as a whole. (Served)
Lets just hope three years from now these numbers have improved.
3. The Lincoln Lawyer - I hope being a lawyer in real life is as much fun as Matthew McConaughey makes it look in this movie.
4. A Murder Foretold – David Grann’s New Yorker article on Rodrigo Rosenberg’s murder in Guatemala is one of the best articles I’ve read in 2011. It’s an amazing story and you don’t even need to be a subscriber to read it online. Check it out: (A Murder Foretold)
5. Angry - Check out what happens when the GOP meets main street…
It’s getting ugly out there…
“I’ve come to New Hampshire today because I’m very concerned. I want to see the original long-form certificate of Donald Trump’s Republican registration.”
Rep. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky
white house correspondent’s dinner
obama and seth meyers were hilarious
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Live-Coverage-2011-White-House-Correspondents-Association-Dinner/10737421177-3/
Dave Eggers has an interesting piece in the Week in Review section today , “The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries,” which is worth reading.
“McKinsey polled 900 top-tier American college students and found that 68 percent would consider teaching if salaries started at $65,000 and rose to a minimum of $150,000. Could we do this? If we’re committed to “winning the future,” we should. If any administration is capable of tackling this , it’s the current one. President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan understand the centrality of teachers and have said that improving our education system begins and ends with great teachers. But world-class education costs money.
For those who say, “How do we pay for this?”–well, how are we paying for three concurrent wars? How did we pay for the interstate highway system? Or the bailout of the savings and loans in 1989 and that of the investment banks in 2008? How did we pay for the equally ambitious project of sending Americans to the moon? We had the vision and we had the will and we found a way.”
Hope the wedding was fun and that Jenna got some sleep!
xo
You said it Lisa! XO