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Joe Grimm of the Detroit Free Press tackles journalism's toughest recruiting questions.

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Thursday, December 8, 2005


Applications never die

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito twists and shimmies in response to questions about opinions he stated on a job application 20 years ago.

Journalists start wondering what happened to their 20-year-old applications -- and then remember that they probably didn't state many opinions in them, anyway.

That's probably a good thing.


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