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...aspiring journalists who continue to work from day to day on The Crimson, perhaps the greatest source of inspiration is former Crimson editors who have won journalism's highest award, the Pulitzer Prize. It is an the Pulitzer Prizes that journalists see recognition of the skills they so painstakingly strive to master: accurate reporting, attention to detail, and a healthy advocacy of right against wrong...
...grows emphatic. "But it's a broader question. American blacks have been cheated: society owes them recognition, owes it to them to ameliorate conditions, enlarge their opportunities for fulfillment on personal and social levels. It's wrong to let this became a parochial question, limited to literature. We must strive to make the world decent, You can't live for yourself and produce a healthy society...
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...contempt for bureaucracy. "In the bureaucratic societies," Kissinger once wrote, "policy emerges from a compromise which often produces the least common denominator, and is implemented by individuals whose reputation is made by administering the status quo." Both tend toward perfectionism. Kissinger drives his National Security Council staff to strive for that state of refinement in their position papers and memos that he likes to define as "meticulous" ? a favorite adjective of approval...
...free schools for middle-class white children, which Kozol found usually operated by "liberal and genteel men and women" who strive to keep their schools nonpolitical. Despite their diverse resources, Kozol says that many of them offer children only "unimportant options," such as a choice between working with "bright and whimsical gadgets" like a packaged science game, or doing "their own thing" at the weaver's loom and potter's kiln. To Kozol, these choices are not really free, at least not in any way that genuinely matters. Instead of confronting their students with moral dilemmas and social...