Oprah Will Fix Mess at Her School

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I CAN'T summon any schadenfreude for Oprah Winfrey, just sympathy - both for her good intentions and her determination to live up to them. And I pity anyone foolish enough to stand in her way.

I did wince Monday when she called allegations of sexual and physical abuse at the girls' school she founded in South Africa "one of the most devastating, if not the most devastating experience of my life" - seeming to make it all about her, not the alleged victims. Still, my heart refused to harden.

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Oprah Will Fix Mess at Her School

I recalled that when Winfrey opened the $40 million school in January, I criticized her dismissal of inner-city kids here in the United States as only interested in "an iPod or some sneakers." I thou...

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