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While one would hope that a newspaper's content would be more important than the identity of the writers, The Crimson's current president, Matthew W. Granade '99, has nevertheless argued that it is important for The Crimson to be more diverse. According to Granade, diversity is important in order to interest readers and because of a responsibility to the community. To be Harvard's paper of record, The Crimson must reflect the College...
...then was a "Jewish problem" discussed at all? Why were the editors so concerned about the number of Jewish columnists? Perhaps, one might think, because the content of the editorial page had been too Jewish. I searched through the entire Crimson archive from July 1, 1997, to April 2, 1998, and counted how many pieces appeared on the editorial page that were written about Israel, Hillel or other Jewish issues. Only pieces in which a substantial part of the subject matter was on a Jewish topic were included, not those that made passing Jewish references such as "My Bar-Mitzvah...
More serious than this, however, is the conclusion that must be drawn from these statistics. Given the extremely minimal specifically Jewish content of The Crimson's editorial page, the "problem," in the eyes of several Crimson executives, cannot be that the content of The Crimson's editorial page is too Jewish, unless the editors have a misperception of their own paper's content...
...alliance with AOL created one of the largest online services in Europe. The company also plans to start an online bookstore to compete with Amazon.com It recently developed and will test a voice-over Internet service in several European countries, giving Bertelsmann the means to deliver all its own content...
Thernstrom says he discussed the content of his newly published book on racial relations,America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible...