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...Ronnie Dugger, founder and onetime publisher and owner of the Texas Observer, will be spending the upcoming academic year at the Joan Shorenstein-Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Shorenstein Center, which names six fellows each semester, has invited Dugger to be an associate for the fall semester in addition to his term as a fellow next spring, according to Edie Holway, administrator for programs fellows at the Shorenstein Center...
...Dugger is] a prominent journalist and the thinks a lot about issues that we're interested in," she added...
...sustain or improve their life-styles, they had to borrow, and the environment favored borrowing," says Robert Dugger, chief economist of the American Bankers Association. That environment was fostered by aggressive financial institutions that hyped both credit cards and personal loans. As the debt burden has increased, so have personal bankruptcies, which have more than doubled since 1985, to more than 700,000 in the 12 months ending in June. Credit Counseling Centers of Novi, Mich., which advises troubled debtors, describes its typical client as a 44-year-old male with a monthly income of $2,208 who owes...
...Ronnie Dugger, publisher of the liberal Texas Observer, says the U.S. needs more John Silbers, flaws and all. "What we have here is a valuable citizen," he says, because of Silber's energy and commitment. No way, counters James H. Sledd, a former English professor at the University of Texas who taught under | Silber. "We don't need any more people who know they're right. They are the most dangerous people going." Both men have a point...