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...Volunteer Slavery, Nelson tries to cling to her ideals about journalism and the truth. She tries to discuss the important issues of who gets to define the news and of how it is represented, raising important questions regarding how the news room should be made more representative of its target community...
...youngest of six and a high school dropout, Johnson drifted into gangs for support and identity. Asked why he was shot, he says, "It's a long story," which means someone was out for revenge. Recalling the streets, he tries to cling to some of his former toughness. "I guess I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," he says. "It could happen to anyone." But that's not enough. "Sometimes it's so hard," he whispers. "I get high temperatures and real sweaty, and I get these pains." He breathes on his own through a hole...
Harvard has a message to send today, a message to General Powell and others who cling irrationally to an antiquated, discriminatory stance...
Perhaps five or six year ago--and certainly 20 years ago--The Crimson would not have endorsed Bill Clinton cling his approval of the death penalty and refusal to endorse widespread redistribution, among other things, as the sources of his inadequacy. But if economic growth and the expansion of cultural freedom made our predecessors more idealistic, economic stagnation and the divisive politics of Reaganism have made the current generation of college-age stdends less...
Environmentalists cling to the idea of sustainable development because it enables them to present themselves as advocates of economic progress and, as Robinson puts it, "the concept allows them to play with the big boys and have an impact on huge development projects." If sustainable development proves illusory, environmentalists will be left with a huge problem: there is no big idea ready to fill the void. With human numbers expected to double in the next 60 years, policymakers must now find some new trail map that will enable humanity to walk the ledge between rising material expectations and the wholesale...