Back in the late 1960s, California native Steve Harris was a
journalism student at the University of Southern California, working
toward a career in newspapers. But as graduation neared, he heard about
a two-year program at General Motors that would allow him to travel the
world. Two years of being paid to see the sights sounded good, so he
took the job thinking he’d save enough money to buy a small-town
newspaper and pursue his reporting dreams. That’s not quite the way it
worked out.
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