Word: columnists
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Last month, Crimson columnist Jason L. Lurie ’05 slammed the BSA as well as other racial and ethnic groups for encouraging “self-segregation” among the student body. In response, the BSA organized a campus-wide forum, with participants rallying to the defense of multiculturalism...
...Times columnist Maureen Dowd excoriated Summers in four separate columns between January and March, at one point comparing him to steroid-popping slugger Jose Canseco. “The ‘different socialization’ Dr. Summers talks about may be getting worse, thanks to goofballs like him,” Dowd wrote in that column. “How did he get to be head of Harvard anyway...
...Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist at the Boston Globe, rallied to Summers’ defense during the University president’s spat with Cornel R. West ’74. (Summers had criticized West, then a star member of the school’s Afro-American studies team, for devoting too much time toward non-academic pursuits, including several prominent left-wing political causes.) And Jacoby commended the University president for his opposition to the Israel divestment movement, which Summers suggested was “anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent...
...become a serial apologizer and accomplished groveler,” lamented George F. Will, the Washington Post’s conservative columnist, in late January...
Schanberg later spent six years as a foreign correspondent for the Times, first in India and then in Southeast Asia. He was a Times columnist before leaving the paper for the now-defunct New York Newsday. Schanberg is currently a columnist on media issues for the Village Voice...