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This last effort ties in with another major drive at The Crimson--the Diversity Task Force, first started in 1992, is an internal committee of newspaper executives responsible for efforts to make The Crimson more representative ethnically, socio-economically and intellectually. There has been noticeable success: Demographically, The Crimson is much more diverse today than six years ago. I counted at least 30 minority students among the 82 Crimson executives, including a female Asian-American vice president, an Asian-American managing editor and an African-American business manager...
...first stipulate some common truths. By any Western standard, Mozambique, Eritrea, Mali and Ghana are countries in awful straits. Their statistics still show an abysmal record of poverty, illiteracy, early mortality. While all four have achieved a dose of national economic success, with higher growth rates, lower inflation and more stable currencies that flow from obedience to stringent International Monetary Fund reform programs, they have yet to see their growing wealth trickle down very far. For ordinary citizens, daily hardships are intense: few jobs, few schools, few hospitals, poor diets, rising prices, no money. For the majorities of these populations...
...prefer to face our problems ourselves. If you teach someone to fish, instead of giving him fish, then he has a sustainable future." He turns his nearly impassive face toward the reporter. "This is difficult for people; it takes a long time," he says. "But in the long term, success can only come from inside...
What explains Jerry Springer's success? No doubt someone has a Theory of All Squalor stating that as politics becomes entertainment, and entertainment becomes reality, and reality becomes politics, then the leap from Monica Lewinsky to Jerry Springer is, well, something or other. Less ambitiously, we can offer this explanation: the fights. At the end of 1996, Multimedia, the company that syndicated the Springer Show, was sold and became part of the company now called USA Networks Studios. The USA executives were more liberal about what went on the air. Fights had often occurred but had been edited...
...enthusiasm. "To this day, when our heads are getting a little big," Stone says, "if we go and put on an old Flying Circus or something, you just watch that and you're like, 'What the hell are we doing?'" The two take an appealingly humorous view of their success. In Hollywood, executives sometimes actually pay to be the first to hear a hot writer's ideas, and Parker and Stone joke that they're going to charge $40,000 and then just go in and improvise...