I’ll never forget an interview I heard with the current Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Here in the mean streets of Chicago several years ago there was a horrific murder of a young black man on the Southside. What made this more terrible than the other hundreds of murders that happen in the city each year is that it wasn’t with a gun, and it was caught on video:
Manti Te'o is in for a world of embarrassment, to be sure, in light of the revelation that his "late" girlfriend was a fiction. But there's more to the story, as Notre Dame's actions in this and other incidents throughout the past year bring its integrity into question and another major American institution shows clay feet. Corruption among a nation's authorities can undermine public confidence rapidly.
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