Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

