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...fact that there are people in this world who work harder than me, who are smarter than me, who have accomplished more than me, but were never offered a place in the Harvard Class of 2008. Most never even applied. I like to joke that I am a white Michiganian accepted on affirmative action—at Harvard just because I was born and raised in Guatemala...
...Scripps interests became the Scripps-McRae league in 1895, 13 years after Publisher Scripps availed himself of the services of a dynamic young Michiganian named Milton A. McRae, who re tired in another 13 years. They became the Scripps-Howard papers in 1922 after a conversation in which small Roy Howard, then of the United Press, told large Pub lisher Scripps that he did not believe in those newspapers. They had, he said, lost sight of the best social interest of the times and instead of People's Champions had become chronic growlers...
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