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Article: COLUMN: Former editor says USC Daily Trojan disorganized
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- March 22, 2007
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Zach Fox
University Wire
03-22-2007
(Daily Trojan) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- It hit me like a Joey Porter uppercut; I was immobile. I couldn't stop reading the one line over and over. And each time I read it, I felt as though Joey found a new place to hurt.
It was a simple idea in the middle of a Los Angeles Times opinion piece in defense of Niccolo Machiavelli's views, which are often oversimplified as glorifying violence.
"Wishful thinking and good intentions, (Machiavelli) understood, often lead to failure and tragedy."
And I'm down for the count. The sentence questioned the cornerstone of my college career. I came to USC eight semesters ago and vowed to help push the newspaper from good to ...