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Call this a post-mortem on the Gina Grant affair. Assuming that there are no more startling revelations, the issue appears to be on its way out, the inevitable TV movie notwithstanding...
What I've found most ironic throughout the whole affair is the huge gap between the two Gina Grants who were put forth by both sides. There is little room for agreement because they're really not really speaking about the same girl. And that gap exists because, despite the headlines, no one really knows who Gina is anyway...
...other side there's the pro-Harvard group, arguing that Grant is a manipulative, and probably evil, honors student who brutally murdered her drunken mother in an argument over her boyfriend. Gina first tried to avoid arrest through clumsy lies, but when this failed, she used Alan Dershowitz's "Abuse Excuse" to sail her way through the juvenile justice system. When it came time to applying to Harvard, she lied about the killing and tried to capitalize on her status as an orphan...
Standing on the sidelines through the debate is the real Gina Grant. Despite an occasional press release, the girl has stood apart from the storm, watching her self-proclaimed defenders on campus and in the media protest against the reticent Harvard administration. With both Grant and Harvard remaining mute, both sides are left to rely on rumor and second- hand sources to assess the case. And we find debaters eliciting the image of Gina Grant that most agrees with their gut prejudices about the American judicial system...
Relying primarily on the statements of the friends and attorneys(and a psychologist hired by her attorney to exonerate her in court), the "pro-reform" elements see a Gina Grant who has been reformed into a model citizen. On the other side stand the "law-and-order" people who look at the brutality of the case and the lack of documented physical abuse. They see not a self-made honors student but a self-made orphan...