Gene Sperling may not have benefitted from the split screen comparisons with Brad Pitt, but he seemed just thrilled later in the afternoon session on education to be sharing a stage with Columbian superstar and sexy songstress Shakira, of “Hips Don’t Lie” fame.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.