Cleaning my plate: (1) Introduction written (2) Column written (below) (3) Paperwork going in today. Keep your fingers crossed. (4) Debate won. (5) Several good leads on the apartment, a couple in the basements of fellow Cato people’s buildings. I move in two days. Freaky.

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Tangled Up in Blue Last week, a Virginia school suspended a sixth grader because he was colored. Blue. The student, Jesse Doyle, had earned straight As and Bs the previous semester, and so his mother fulfilled a promise to allow him to dye his hair electric blue. The school, on the pretext that blue hair […]

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On my plate: (1) Cobble together an introduction for John Stossel, who’s speaking at the Cato anniversary shindig next week. This is my first “staff writing” assignment, so I’m mildly nervous about it. (2) Write this week’s LFB column. (3) Put in paperwork with the deans at NYU to retro-register for the honors thesis, make […]

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