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...Europe? Or how about spending the year after you graduate working to preserve the rainforests in Costa Rica or writing speeches for a member of Parliament in London? Would you like a teaching job a short bus ride from the Acropolis, or perhaps the chance to be a journalist in India...
Curious, I slunk into Revolution Books armed with my reporter's notebook, my power pen and my stoic journalist expression, prepared for a smooth and meaningless statement from a slick, faceless spokesperson. I waited nervously in line behind some clean-cut first-years buying Expos books and an Eliot House resident buying Maoist literature to talk to Rachael Adler, a senior staff member of Revolution Books...
None of which means that Thomas or any other black who disagrees with racial preferences and hiring quotas is suffering from a mental disorder. No responsible therapist would make such a diagnosis without extensive personal contact with a patient, and certainly no journalist is qualified to do so. Moreover, many of the nation's leading black thinkers are expressing growing doubts about the ability of affirmative action to help the underclass...
...only black student in his class at Savannah's St. John Vianney Minor Seminary, a Catholic boarding school, Thomas was the subject of cruel racial taunts. "Smile, Clarence, so we can see you," a white classmate yelled after lights out. In a long series of interviews with Washington Post journalist Juan Williams, Thomas acknowledged going through a period of "self-hate," during which he tried to fit in by avoiding every form of stereotypically black behavior. But his effort failed and left him with the conviction there is nothing a black can do to be accepted by whites...
...extreme case that captured headlines last week, a journalist's sources were stripped bare without the reporter even being notified of the search. In Hamilton County, Ohio, a prosecutor ordered a secret electronic snoop through the records of 35 million telephone calls made between March 1 and June 15 from 655,000 southwestern Ohio lines to find any potential corporate leakers who had called the home or office of Wall Street Journal Pittsburgh bureau reporter Alecia Swasy while she was researching stories that embarrassed Procter & Gamble, a major Cincinnati area employer...