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Journalist Shields shares civility award

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 22, 2012

Journalist Mark Shields, a Weymouth native, is the co-recipient of a Pennsylvania college’s first prize for civility in public life. Allegheny College today gave its inaugural award to both Shields and columnist David Brooks of The New York Times. The program is the brainchild of Allegheny President James H. Mullen Jr., a former executive vice president at Middlesex Community College in Lowell and senior vice president at Trinity College, who said he is worried incivility will deter public service.

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