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Part I: William Desmond, a graduate of Loyola High School in Baltimore, recently bragged in a "Voice of the New Generation" piece on the New York Times Op-Ed page, that he had been accepted to Harvard, Yale and Princeton, but decided to attend Loyola College in Baltimore, which impressed him more...
Students gone wild? Students who only care about partying? Professors who aren't experts? Young Mr. Desmond, are you sure that you conducted your research at Harvard University? The one in Cambridge? If that's the most accurate research you can conduct, the Harvard admissions office--whose offer you most gleefully scorn--might want to reconsider its decision...
Part II: The very next day, in a front-page article about colleges ending financial aid collaboration, the Times shed some light on Mr. Desmond's bizzare opinions, but in doing so committed one of the most obvious and egregious errors of lazy reporting. Out of all the parents of college students in the entire country, whom did the Times reporter choose to present as a supposed representative of "some students and their parents"? "Maria G. Desmond of Baltimore, whose 17-year-old son William was accepted by Harvard, Princeton and Yale this spring...
...Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: Robert T. Zintl Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan, David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...
...Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: Robert T. Zintl Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan, David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...