If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

Our goal is to get to see them. We're like the Detroit Pistons when they had to beat the Boston Celtics. Our championship would be to beat them.

Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.

It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.

This guy is out there, wherever he is. He has to be stopped.

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.