It may be tempting to conclude that the poor are marginalising themselves, and there is not much that can be done about it.

ECONOMIST: American politics is both too rigid and too flexible

When the yet-to-be-hired Knight-sponsored fellows have wrapped up their investigations and sit down to draw up those best practices, will they conclude that most of what the Tribune has accomplished can be exported, or is it a flower that can only thrive in the soil of the Lone Star state?

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