Moral Dilemmas: First Drafts &  Commentaries

Moral Dilemmas: First Drafts & Commentaries

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I read it in the Obituaries

I read it in the Obituaries

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David Crosby, Daniel Ellsberg, Paul Reubens, Jim Brown from the New York Times

My first newspaper job was on my hometown newspaper’s obituary desk. Every night I took phone calls from the local funeral homes and they would dictate the notices to me for the next day’s morning paper. (Those were the days before fax machines, so don’t ask me about the Internet. The year was roughly 1975.)

I immediately gained the highest esteem for ob…

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