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...deeply appreciative of the article about the Department of Afro-American Studies and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute that appeared in The Crimson ("One Man's Dream," September 18, 1996). It is always gratifying to recieve news coverage that is so well researched and well written. I would like to correct one impression, however, that your readers might have gotten about claims for the success we've enjoyed these last five years...
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...accept the notion that others have given up on the larger community, why wouldn't we be more likely to give up too? For our democracy to flourish, journalists must widen the news lens to include a fuller picture of who we are. FRANCES MOORE LAPPE, Editor PAUL MARTIN DU BOIS, Publisher American News Service Brattleboro, Vermont...
Thus, in the name of electoral politics, the misuse of the term reform continues. Few care enough to really understand what reform means; the rest throw the term around because it is the issue du jour. The term becomes yet another casualty in the increasingly long list of words debased. Of course, debasement of language is just symptomatic of an even greater problem. Deterioration of language is synonymous with the degradation of sensibilities as well. For decades, a deterioration has taken place in compassion, in caring for others in the name of self-interest; look at downsizing, an increase...