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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 23
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  4.     DIED. Kirk Scharfenberg, 48, editor at the Boston Globe who
  5. shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for a series on racism; of
  6. cancer; in Boston. Scharfenberg was the author of what he called
  7. "maybe the most notable gaffe in recent newspaper history." As
  8. an in-house joke, he sent through a 1980 editorial about
  9. President Carter's economic plan with the headline MUSH FROM THE
  10. WIMP, thinking it would be removed. Instead, the headline
  11. appeared in 161,000 copies of the Globe.
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