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...course, debates that are played out on the opinion pages often reverberate in the newsroom. Within the Crimson, I have tried to speak to policies and politics that are right (no pun intended) for this campus and for the world. To have kept to myself would have been to maintain the collegial backslapping for which we as an organization lambast others. For this internal criticism, certainly, I have paid somewhat of a price...
Through The Crimson I have managed to anger more than a few of my peers, as well as a handful of Harvard elders. Such is the fate of the editorialist. To have kept to myself would have prevented their social rebukes, stinging letters, nasty telephone calls and physical threats. Nevertheless, I charged forward with pen in fist, asserting the good as I have seen...
...Crimson, I have changed my ideological stance from conservative to liberal and back again, with a "neo-" added. This variation in political allegiance, while from a distance it might be interpreted as a bildungsroman, at the instant has led to charges of disloyalty and hypocrisy. To have kept to myself would have prevented my morphing political persuasion from being open to public criticism. Nevertheless, I have continually played the partisan...
Outside The Crimson, on the other hand, I have defended my newspaper against charges from the left and the right, supporting a headline choice or espousing the editorial board position. This organization-identification (criticism within, defense outside) is the other side of loyalty's coin. To have kept to myself would have given the forces of anti-media outrage a bit of leverage. The Crimson deserves continual credit for being an honest paper...
Clients of e-brokers have run afoul of computer glitches that delay the execution of trades for minutes or hours--while prices shift. Such problems caused anguish last October when jammed lines kept e-traders from bailing out as the market plunged 554 points...