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Philosophy lessons

By Kevin Cullen

 |  Globe Columnist  

  April 17, 2012

Howard Ziff grew up poor in Holyoke and got rich reading books. Not rich in a monetary sense, but in the sense of learning. He made his name in the newsrooms of Chicago and the classrooms of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he built a journalism program from scratch and made generations of kids believe that there is a nobility in afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted.

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