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Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:00 AM

What Oprah can't forget

Critics of her sanctuary for South African girls be damned -- the media mogul's generosity is beyond reproach. But her PR gaffes around the school's opening revealed the scars of her own impoverished past.
By Rebecca Traister

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  • Saturday, January 13, 2007 03:04 AM

    grand great Oprah

    She is quite a gal fighting to make a difference against violence deprivation and humiliation.

    However exporting the only lifestyle she knows, Americanism, might prove as much a threat to the freedom of the girls as the misery they come from.

    —chaumont Read chaumont's other letters

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