Opinion: AOL Searches, Boston Schools and Minor League Baseball: Thursday’s Page

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Thursday’s musings:

T. Christian Miller:Marshall Plan, Minus the Plan
$30 billion later, Iraq’s reconstruction is more distant than ever, a Times reporter says.

Jonah Goldberg: The Last Hawkish Democrat Leaves the Building
Democrats trade the 21st-century Scoop Jackson for the ghost of McGovernism past.

Mark Kendall: L.A.’s Landlocked Minor League
Angels-Dodgers rivalry divides the Inland Empire. Low-stakes baseball unites us.

Editorials

Learning From Boston: A Bad School Made Good
Richard J. Murphy School shows how mayoral control and accountability can get results.
Fourth of four parts

No Such Thing as a Free Search
AOL fiasco shows that online privacy remains elusive.