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Illinois paper will not run editorials

September 25, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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The Daily Illini says it will stop running editorials. Several semesters full of inaccuracies and bad judgments should not be repeated, the paper said. Last year, two Illini editors were suspended after they published Danish cartoons blamed for provoking riots in parts of the Muslim world. But the final straw was a story about something called "Midnight Madness."

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