When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, he knew he needed Chris Woodhead on board to protect the government from criticism in the rightwing media that Labour was going soft on teachers. David Blunkett, the education secretary, had been warn…

DANBURY -- Steven Timur Lang can fashion wrought iron into roses, and hammer dense rectangles of layered stainless steel into beautiful Damacus knives, the kind his Hungarian ancestors could have carried on a wild boar hunt.But his dream n…