I've been of mixed mines about Bob Herbert. It's great that he's on his beat, but I generally don't enjoy columnists (well a couple), so I don't know what to say. Anyway this is sad. Gawker finds Herbert plagarizing himself. The Essence:
We may have Two Americas, but Bob Herbert has only one stock description of the crappy public schools.
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
