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Steve’s Weekly Blog: Do “Great Writer” and “Nice” Have to Be at Odds?

      Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ― Mark Twain  Years ago as a young reporter in Southern California, I ran into various absurd delays on my way to a campus visit by the great Toni Morrison, some of which were not even my fault, and found myself in the odd predicament …

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