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...lunch. Thus was Cooke's story chosen. The Pulitzer Prize remains the highest honor in newspaper journalism, but its selection process is badly in need of repair. One reform is suggested by Osborn Elliott, dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism: Let no editor "get off the hook by oversubmitting" let editors narrow their own entries, "and face their own internal politics more directly." For the Washington Post, Ombudsman Green had a harsher recommendation: "The scramble for journalistic prizes is poisonous . . .Maybe the Post should consider not entering contests...
...older I grow," Philosopher Sidney Hook wrote a few years ago, "the more impressed I am with the role of luck or chance in life." The world's distribution of wealth, he pointed out, depends almost as much on luck as on energy, foresight and skill. It is only the luck of the world if one is born in the country club district of Kansas City instead of the Sahel or Bangladesh. It is the sad luck of things for a Colorado oil millionaire if his youngest child, by mishaps of the psyche, turns out to harbor some fetid...
Surely the ultimate purpose of luck, if there is one at all, is to offer such a spectacle that men and women, besides being vastly entertained, come to recognize their common vulnerability to luck's weird and endlessly inventive impulses. Hook thinks that chastening drama might make people more charitable toward one another. Well-if we are lucky. But perhaps luck, good and bad, also has a deeper physiological purpose, programmed into the human animal in the first dawn of his intelligence: to keep the adrenaline flowing, maybe, and the brain alert to the world's epic...
Outraged congressional critics considered it the most shocking Executive pardon since Richard Nixon was let off the Watergate hook. Under the budget that President Reagan sent to Capitol Hill last week, the Department of Energy division charged with prosecuting oil companies for past violations of price-control regulations would have its annual allocation slashed from $35 million to $6 million. Fumed Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan: "This adds up to amnesty for the oil companies and the public be damned...
...information office wanted to hold the new release until the discovery was published in a medical journal, but Robert Graham, director of information services, said the story was hanging a hook marked "cleared for release" rather than the hook marked "hold...