The commencement speaker at Washington's Evergreen State College this year was convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, who spoke on an audio tape sent from his death row cell in Pennsylvania.

In a new book called 250 Ways to Make America Better, a collection of suggestions made by a wide range of prominent Americans and compiled by the editors of George magazine, Abu-Jamal is identified simply as "author/journalist." Larry Flynt is likewise credited as a "magazine publisher."

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