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...upshot of this will, I think, be healthy for the CRIMSON's news coverage. The paper will still, of course, try its best to present an objective version of the news. But reporters who know that objectivity is basically a sham may spend more time looking for more perceptive ways to report. A writer who has been burned time and again for his "balanced" stories will have fewer inhibitions about presenting very openly his own interpretation. As long as there is still room on the page for a bare factual account, I think the more interpretive coverage will go farther...
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...upshot of it all was that no councillor ever received more than three of the five votes needed for election as mayor. Some City Hall observers believe that this deadlock may last for some weeks of balloting to come...
...taking their places-not only for lack of money, but also because young Negroes commonly distrust the law in practice. Many see it in terms of white police and white judges using white law against blacks. The upshot is that only 2% of U.S. lawyers are black. They number about 3,000, and most of them work in Northern cities. In Mississippi, for example, where Negroes represent more than 42% of the state's population, there are only 17 black lawyers...
...also informed that in the upshot "development policy is consistently biased... against revolution as a means." Among the principal revolutions of current interest are those of a communist sort, and Western economists no doubt do tend to be unenthusiastic about such revolutions...